>>96117656Ah yes, the classic “give them an inch, take a mile” argument—wheeled out like some sacred mantra by people who are seemingly incapable of understanding that fandoms, communities, and yes, even parasocial relationships, are inherently dynamic and interactive. You sit here, fists clenched, veins bulging, because a few fans—God forbid—get noticed by their oshi and find a sense of belonging, community, or even mild influence in a hobby they care about. It’s as if you believe that merely engaging with something in a way that isn’t strictly passive consumption is tantamount to treason.
>These people are trying to become micro e-celebs and funnel the fanbase away.What you describe as a hostile takeover is, in reality, just natural community formation. Some fans are more vocal, more creative, more outgoing than others. That’s always been the case in every fandom, from music to anime to sports. These people make memes, write fanfiction, create art, and interact with others who share their enthusiasm. If a VTuber engages with them in return, it doesn’t mean they’re orchestrating some grand heist of the fanbase—it just means they’re participating in the culture surrounding the hobby.
>Worming their way into the hobby instead of just supporting the holos.What does “just supporting the holos” even mean in your rigid, joyless worldview? Watching silently with hands clasped? Never speaking, never making content, never engaging with the community in any way other than staring at the screen? Because guess what—that’s not how hobbies work. The second any form of entertainment leaves the creator’s hands, it belongs to the audience to interpret, engage with, and transform in their own ways. That’s what culture is. And that’s what you don’t seem to grasp: a hobby is not some unchanging sacred text; it evolves with the people involved.
>They are trying to terraform the purpose of the hobby away from the object (streams, songs, videos) and into themselves.This is possibly the most hilariously backward take of all. Have you ever looked at any fan-driven community? Do you think Star Wars would be what it is today if fans just sat on their hands instead of creating expanded lore, writing analyses, making fan films, cosplaying, and arguing endlessly about minor lore details? Do you think video game communities exist solely because of the game itself and not because of the people within them? Your problem isn’t that these fans are changing the hobby—it’s that they’re changing it in ways that personally annoy you because they aren’t doing it in a way that aligns with your vision of what the fandom "should" be.
Now, let’s switch things up a likkle bit, yeah? Because mi cyaan help but notice yuh sound real pressed over some ting dat don’t even concern yuh so heavy.
Mi nuh understand how yuh so vex 'cause some people a get notice an yuh nah. It bun yuh so much yuh haffi write one big ol’ essay 'bout how “dey a ruin di hobby” like a some sacred temple. Mi bredda, di fandom a big place. Everybody find dem own way fi enjoy it. Some people wah just watch, some people wah talk, some people wah create. Dat nuh mean say dem a destroy nuttin'. It just mean dem a interact wid di ting different dan you.
And mi see di likkle passive-aggressive salt in yuh words—di way yuh seet, if somebody a talk 'bout dem oshi too much, dem a narcissist. If dem mek content, dem a clout chaser. If dem get like from di oshi, dem a parasite. But mi ask yuh dis—if dem oshi demself nuh have no problem wid it, why you have di biggest headache?
Dis whole rant just sound like a man who cyaan deal wid di fact say him nuh in control of how odda people enjoy dem ting. But mi tell yuh dis—nobody nuh haffi follow yuh rules. If yuh nuh like it? Find yuh likkle corner, watch di stream in peace, and stop stress yuhself ova stranger pon di internet.
