>>94361000I do agree that it's pretty dumb to keep pushing Japanese terms for western vtubers, it's most certainly something that it's on the way out, as you can see by people increasingly pushing back on the use of terms like graduation. I expect a complete break up between the Japanese and Western vtuber scenes in the coming years where only the turbo weeb indies (Mint) and Japanese corpos with Japanese entertainment values (Hololive) will keep using Japanese terms, while more westernized corpos (Brave, Vshojo) and western indies (Doki, Nimi, Dooby) will slowly move away from using them, instead simply using normal entertainment speech. At the core of it, they're just borrowing the culture because that's how it started, most of them are not particually into otaku culture, even less wota culture as a whole, it was just as "When in Rome do as Romans do" thing, but as western vtubers and their groups continue to grow there will be less and less incentives to follow along, specially when Japanese vtubers have completely rejected western (mostly American) streaming culture, in the really long term it probaly means the death of the western vtuber as we know it, but short-ish term, it means the de-japanisation of vtubers in the west, as they present less and less Japanese. Because honestly, a lot of western vtubers aren't even all that much into anime, idols, Japanese games outside of nintendo, VNs, manga LN. They're at best follwers of the HOT seasonal anime and random Shonen, certainly not the type of people to plan out elaborate call and response chants for their own self produced music
I don't know where will Nimi fall, but she's pretty casual with her enjoyment of Japanese media, and most certainly looks up to western streamers more than she did the Japanese Hololive girls, so I can see her slowly ditching the Japanese aspects of he characterization in favor of a more western flavor
