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.
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
:disgost:
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.