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I love that vtuber fans raise so much shit when some content moderation comes in because they want to feel more comfortable on their own stream so people lose their shit and harass them until they have to fucking leave. It's so fucking bizarre to see so many people so confidently fucking wrong about the damn slur. It's a shame that she seems to have backpedaled on it and unbanned the word now but goddamn shit is bad.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, I wouldn't call the vtubers in question vile pedophile chuds or anything, it's just so baked in to the nerd culture there.

    Kind of surprised it hasn't been talked about more in Western media considering how big Hololive has become though

    • scraeming [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Anime, for as big as its gotten in the last decade, is still a pretty self-contained community/niche in the West, and talking about the pedophilia problem in the anime industry is a motherfucker of a third rail to piss on in that community, so nobody with both the platform and the credentials to speak with authority on the issue can do so without committing career suicide.

      It's really resembling of the "Nazi walks into a punk bar" parable, in a sense.

        • scraeming [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Oh, for sure, they could talk about it. I just get the impression that, for people with an audience within the anime community, there's a nervous radio silence out of a fear of becoming a target if they say anything too inflammatory.

          I would like to see some investigative journalism about the whole thing from a publication like Kotaku or Polygon, though, definitely.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      2 years ago

      I definitely don't think Suisei or Fubuki would ever actually do something to a young boy given the chance, but it's always worrying to see. I'm also not as sure Matsuri could be trusted around a young girl, she has violated people's boundaries repeatedly and often.(I'm fighting my inclination to say there's nothing wrong with the idols, vtubers sure are a powerful drug).

      I do genuinely think it's because it is so hard to make heads or tails of what's going on in hololive unless you are into it. Like, are you gonna write an expose on several popular vtubers to an audience of boomers that won't get it, or just make another article about Japanese shota porn being sold everywhere? Most people won't bother to research it because they'll be sick of vtuber clips, or they are into it and don't want people to know about the worse aspects of it.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Idk, I wouldn't speculate on whether the Japanese lady playing an anime girl on stream is a potential pedo because she horseys around with her coperformers on stream

        They're playing that stuff up for the viewers