>>80850308Vtubing won't exist in the west within the next 5 years, assuming Yagoo doesn't fucking kill it with his retarded ideas and Hololive is still around they will be better know as an idol group. Most of the more popular EN vtubers have just discovered that being a flesh streamer is not only far easier but has little to positive impact in their numbers, and the more vtubing exists the less it becomes an buff. Western creative culture is dead, 70% of it, it's just grifters looking for a way to make quick buck, the less appealing it is from a financial standpoint, the less popular it will become until it goes back to being an extreme niche again.
Meanwhile Vtubing in Japan, will become the de facto form of streaming, as people forgo the pressure to be "themselves" online and go back to they days of made up personas with anime avatars. Vtuber will make up the majority of streamers while flesh streamer will be mostly made up of either extremely egotistical people who think they're more attractive than an anime avatar, or esports people who have a "brand" to protect, everyone else will be larping with their made up names and characters, vtubing is the natural evolution of internet culture, the brief "Imma put my whole as real name and picture on twitter" was a mistake that's on it's way out. In Japan at least