>>80466412>>80466558I missed out on the whole drama going on, since I stayed out of Twitter and this place for the longest time (I only started coming here to find any talk about Vtubers outside of the more famous ones being talked about so that I could try watching them), so I’m adding my two cents to the convo as someone who’s surprised by how much arguing there has apparently been about the whole thing.
>>80458690I’m assuming this is the Twitter post in question? At most, I’d say it has slight “I’m sorry you feel that way” vibes at the end (same with the italics on the ‘really’), and the lol she inserted comes off across as strained levity. It comes off as trying to be neutral, but being unable to contain some of her frustration, which ends up leaking out as a little passive-aggressiveness.
It has the same energy as the people on this site trying to sound impartial while heatedly replying to someone who annoyed them. It’s far from a fucking meltdown, but I can see why it would aggravate the people already against her. This is the kind of reply a person should look back at after calming down, and rewrite entirely to be much shorter.
Vtubers make male collabs an issue by treating it as something they have to address, instead of just naturally letting it happen and accepting any hit to their popularity without comment. When they raise it up as an issue, it gives the image that they’re trying to make their audience accept it, and when they complain about people having issues with it after the fact, it makes it feel like they were trying to “make a point” by doing the collab in the first place without really having wanted it in the first place. They’d still upset some people by doing collabs with guys in the first place, but this behavior makes it look more performative rather than natural. Any statement that could have been made should have been an entirely neutral plea to not harass anybody, and only once at that, with any further action on the matter being done against severe breaches of good manners.
