>>81751177I really think for some of the less mentally stable girls this might actually be a problem. Especially the ones who play a character,
I think some of the girls who actually go for the kayfabe, at least in theory, treat it as a roleplay persona, and the ones who can manage to put on and take off that mask effectively while letting hints of your true self bleed through that filter to make that persona authentic. Like Fuwamoco are a perfect example of playing a role while being themselves,
Thing is what about the girls who think they cannot live up to the mask they put on, that's when the Impostor syndrome kicks in, can they live up to the avatar they are, or worse, is their avatar now more 'real' than they are. And if you act like something long enough eventually you become the mask you wear, Can a girl go schizo for streaming as their persona too hard? With some of the girls it could be a risk.
I could see it being especially hard for introverts like Gura, if "Gura" is having all this wild success, popularity and fame, who is she, the person playing Gura? If she was living a rather empty introverted life before Gura, then the Gura life becomes more real, it becomes a more legitimate personality than her own.
The social life and presence of their persona becomes more real than they themselves are, I think that's another reason a lot of the big vtubers aren't likely to graduate only take long breaks, because in some way they don't want to "Kill" that person, because people are counting on them, their fans want them, need them, I think Mumei and Ame have that problem, it's clear that they have partly checked out, but they don't want to quit and kill their characters.
