Not a single vtuber is willing to play a character anymore. You guys said this whole thing was like watching and interacting with a real anime girl and it fucking isn't. In fact, most vtubers have explicit rules against all roleplay, because they think the mere notion of pretending to be a character instead of themselves is disgusting and that we're all perverted incel freaks for wanting that. Maybe I'm alone in this? But when I watch anyone, from Hololive to the indies, I don't see anything but an avatar. The voice changers do nothing, the 3D models do nothing, the "lore" is never stuck to post-debut.

What is happening? Why am I the only one noticing this? Watch any stream now, even event streams, and no one is embodying the very personality they advertise themselves as. They think it's weird to be an anime character, when that is literally their fucking job. You can actually hear how dejected and cynical corpo girls are inside when their managers ask them to pretend for even a second to not be some bitch at a computer, and play their part. Is this just an English vtubing problem? Is it better for Japanese people?

All this talk of unicorns, all this relentless gossip, words like "pickme" and "seiso" and I'm over here wondering why a hobby with thousands upon thousands of performers all collectively REFUSE to act in any way adjacent to the medium they virtually represent as.