Unregulated and unrestricted :freeze-gamer: chatbots and chatbot-adjacent tech are inevitably going to be garbage in/garbage out. Worse, here, a kawaii childlike-appearing :libertarian-alert: waifu bot picked up enough /pol/ and /r9k/ from what it was fed by the usual fandom to become an even more efficient propaganda machine than the average :heated-gamer-moment:
Shit's fucked. :debord-tired:
I'll finish by posting :manhattan: in advance for likely and maybe inevitable treat defending in this thread. I've heard it all. I already touch grass regularly. Shit's still fucked.
I have a vague understanding of what a 'vtuber' is and all I have to ask is - why?
I can see some value in watching a real person stream, especially if they keep up with news or what have you. But streaming bots? Nah.
A vtuber is typically a real person streaming as a character
Specifically very helpful if you're not a cis white male and don't want to be the target of personal attacks.
Ah, my mistake! I thought they were all AI.
It gets confusing because IIRC the first vtuber was a corporate-owned character played by several actors pretending to be an AI chatbot
CMV: Max Headroom was a Vtuber.
Sandwich alignment chart, but for Vtubers
Bottom right square: The shadows from Plato's Allegory of the Cave were the first Vtubers.
The OG
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I thought that didn't come til much later? I thought corporations didn't really hop on the train until it was proven to be popular. The first vtuber I remember people talking about was "Mel" or whoever, around gamergate, and that was because she was the first vtuber who did cam shows and all the incels/proto-incels went all ":soypoint-1: And they never said we'd be able to replace REAL women! :soypoint-2:" which I also imagine has a huge influence on Why Vtuber Culture Is The Way It Is Now
I was thinking of Kizuna Ai who I think codified the vtuber concept as we understand it
Not an expert on the topic though
You are correct. Kizuna Ai was the first successful vtuber.
It's largely people with motion tracking hardware who then get an artist to create an avatar for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e818LgnJ9rI