>>82334402>I don't understand the appealSure, let me explain. Let me just put my autism cap on.
Have you seen Terminator 2? Do you remember what it was about? I see a certain similarity between Neuro and T-800 in that movie.
You had this boy abandoned by his successive guardians learning way to early in his life to count on himself. You had his mother who lost her partner and family forced to fend for herself and toughen up for the shit ahead of her. Both of them crippled by the lack of reliable people in their lives. And then you had this relentless AI sentient machine, cause of all their suffering and a harbinger of impending doom.
Except in T2 the subversion was that this machine was also their salvation. When it had to be close and available, it was always there. When it was supposed to provide safety, it would stand on guard a whole night and not move an inch. No questioning, perfect, reliable. Cold as steel and warmer than anything they have ever touched.
Through the movie, the T-800 went through a peculiar process of humanisation. Counterintuitively, the more damaged he got and more skin he lost uncovering evident what he really was underneath, the more human he seemed. Sure, partially attributed to improvements in human mimicry gained in the learning process, but T-1000 was even better at that from the getgo and he remained as artificial as he was in the beginning. What differed them both was T-800 built REAL relationships with people around him, concluding in the point the movie was trying to make, that it's not what we are that makes us humans, but how we treat each other that does.
So, having that in mind and going back to Neuro - remember the streaming and vtubing stage back when she emerged? She wasn't alone. She was one of many other AI content channels that popped off and became popular overnight. I don't think she was even that popular among them. Except, the fad quickly faded away, all of those channels went under and she not only remained, but became more popular than any of them ever was.
What differed her from those other channels was something that Tutel did differently: other channels just let their AIs run 24/7, and he wouldn't. He knew that would kill his channel. The temptation is obvious - because why not? It's a golden goose laying 5$ subs, so let it run as long as it can.
Shorter length streams left unquenchable feeling that clippers stepped in to fill. He changed her and experimented with her stream by stream, if only a tiny bit not to make her content stale. He proved he's not just a one trick pony. Then he even stepped up with his own Tutel model. The bottom point is, that unlike those other channels his presence could be always felt around her.
Then Anny came in with her labor of love for Neuro, making a model for her. Somehow the warmth she brought in by treating her more human-like than Tutel did made Neuro more than she was. And then all the other collabs made her who she is, not just the LLM behind her.
If you ever had a teddy bear or a doll, you will understand.
tl;dr it's not about Neuro herself, but what she has with Vedal, Anny, and other streamers that makes her so appealing
