• doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Pretty sure there are Vtuber avatars covering every single anime waifu subcategory including "oneesan"

    You'd would probably have a really hard time finding black or brown avatars though

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      Almost all of the popular ones are clearly, clearly coded as schoolgirls. Easily the most popular one was Pikamee and she was quite nearly a loli.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        The target audience of the vast majority of anime are schoolboys so this shouldn't exactly be that surprising?

        Of course there's a significant 20-40 incel audience as well which is pandered to. But given the largest market for anime is "shonen" (literally meaning young boys) I don't think it's a huge stretch to say this is probably the largest audience of vtubers as well.

        The Disney channel isn't making shows with adults as the lead characters either. They're always teens because the target audience is teens.

        • Mike_Penis [any]
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          1 year ago

          Yeah I was teasing some people on reddit but realized that they're actually like 14-16 years old so it's not actually that weird for them to be watching a similar aged anime grill.

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          Disney generally isn't in the business of sexualising their underage protagonists with panty shots, revealing outfits and jiggle physics though

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            This'll be a merch thing. Disney's target is parents when it comes to merch sales, whereas the anime industry's merch sales come from the 20+ audience who spend a ridiculous amount on collectibles.

            If Disney's merch sales were primarily coming not from parents but from oversexed incels things would change.

          • Quizzes [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            I'm still not used to the current thing where Disney are the good guys and get defended for not being harmful to society.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          These are vtubers we're talking about. Evaluating serial shonen manga or whatever is a little bit different.

          I think the biggest anime is technically Hello Kitty, but that's a little off topic.

          Disney isn't selling figurines of schoolgirls with highly-detailed upskirts.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            Don't get me wrong I'm not saying that the industry doesn't also knowingly pander to pedophiles. Just that the majority target audience actually is teen boys and that's the main reason that every character in every anime is also a teen.

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              These are vtubers we’re talking about. Evaluating serial shonen manga or whatever is a little bit different.

              And, like, that still doesn't really justify the gratuitous sexualization of minors. Like, is getting teenage boys horny really such a deep societal need that it makes it more okay to depict teenage girls in such a sexualized way? I don't think those boys need the help, they'll get horny just fine on their own, and that has the added benefit of not flooding popular media with scantily-clad cartoon schoolgirls.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Not to dispute your general point, but I never got the impression she was anywhere near the most popular. Pretty well-known, sure (not an expert on vtubers though)

        I'm just saying that every type of anime woman an otaku could have a boner for is represented somewhere

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          It was my understanding that she was, but maybe it was just that she was so much bigger than the other people within the company she was signed to. She's not the worst, there are others like Kurone or the shark girl or . . . well, genuinely most of the ones with any audience are schoolgirl coded. I've only seen a handful that aren't.

          • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            I like Korone, at least from the clips I've seen. It's very clearly an exaggerated goofy cartoon performance and she's not going for a horny angle. Wouldn't watch for like 8 hours at a time but it makes for fun clips and animations

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              and she’s not going for a horny angle

              Have you not seen her model?

              • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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                1 year ago

                A lot of them just have huge comically wobbly boobs as a starting point, but past that... :biden-rember:

                spoiler

                It's all very silly

                  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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                    1 year ago

                    If the performance is fun and not wildly uncomfortable I can look past a certain amount of the stuff that you just kind of have to accept as ambient background radiation when you get as deep into anime shit territory as anime character streamers, such as questionably rigged models

                    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                      1 year ago

                      You're allowed to like whatever, I don't give a shit, I'm just saying call a spade a spade

                      • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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                        1 year ago

                        "if you like laughing at an adult woman puppeteer a generic anime girl while she acts like a cross between someones oba-chan and one of those late 2010s lets players while failing at sonic the hedgehog, that means you are a pedophile"

                          • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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                            1 year ago

                            Bro I don't even watch vtubers, streams are too long I'd rather watch anime or tv. You on the other hand are implying that it's pedo shit based on muh vibes as if flat chested women with less than 2 brain cells don't exist irl.

                            Edit: just checked a Korone stream and would like to report she isn't flat chested, my bad, point still stands

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Korone’s not really that horny at all

              Her model is

              nor a school girl.

              Do adults look like that in your experience, minus the dog ears? Or do you think someone's only a schoolgirl if they're in a pleated skirt?

              • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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                1 year ago

                Her breasts are not abnormally large, she's showing a normal amount of skin, and neither the way she moves or is dressed is overtly sexual.

                Her face looks youthful, but not like a 5 year old. I definitely know people with that kind of wide eyed expression in real life. Her clothes are also pretty normal, it's a dress and a sweater with some colorful decorations.

                You had your slam dunk with Gura, and you could extend to Laplus if you wanted, but korone is just not that weird and isn't pedophilic.

                • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  You think gawr gura is sexualized? She could put some pants on but by animu standards she's a nun. Like she wears a giant shapeless shark hoody.

                  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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                    1 year ago

                    If someone's going for a pedophilia angle she would be, and her bikini outfit could make someone uncomfortable. But in general I agree with you.

              • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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                1 year ago

                Her model is

                "if i get aroused at something that means everyone else gets aroused at it too"

                • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  I hate this bad faith bullshit that people immediately resort to. She has fucking jiggle physics!

                  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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                    1 year ago

                    "the anime girl wearing comfy nonsexual clothes, who has adult body proportions and significant sized bobs which jiggle in the wind, is clearly a schoolgirl because I've only watched highschool anime"

          • AernaLingus [any]
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            1 year ago

            Pikamee is/was in the middle tier of VTubers who have made it (it remains to be seen where she'll stabilize with her new form). Looking at her YouTube stats, she pulled in the range of 1-2K concurrent viewers---most streamers would kill for that, of course, but it's still a far cry from the 10K+ concurrent viewers and crazy merch sales you see in the elite tier. There are hundreds of VTubers with her raw stats. I think it's more that she had one super viral clip near the beginning of the VTuber boom in 2020 and was one of the first big Japanese VTubers proficient in English, making her a "bridge" between the two communities and giving her outsize brand recognition.

              • AernaLingus [any]
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                1 year ago

                No worries, the VTuber community is pretty isolated so it can be confusing if you're not already immersed (and even then my knowledge of the JP/corporate side of things is relatively shallow)

      • Mike_Penis [any]
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        1 year ago

        She had several models. Only one of them looked like a child as far as I could tell.

          • Mike_Penis [any]
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            1 year ago

            She wasn't sexualized. None of her models were. Also the person behind the voice, a woman, decided she was ok with it. Some weeb girls are ok with lolis and think they are cute in the way that people think puppies are cute and do not want to fuck them. But I still stay away from that shit.

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Probably worth making a distinction between "moe", the hypercute smol animu girls, and loli which usually has a sexual connotation, coming explicitly from "Lolita"

              • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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                1 year ago

                In Japan Lolita is also the name of a fashion style ( very frilly dresses) so I think loli came from that and not the book. In English though it's probably referring to different things

                Like in the anime Oshi No Ko there is one girl who is a bit taller than her senior at school, who she teasingly refers to as Loli-senpai

      • AernaLingus [any]
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        1 year ago

        Off of the top of my head, the only VTubers with brown avatars I can think of are Ironmouse (Puerto Rican) who has a few models with tan toggles, Sylphy (German voice actress who is (half-something?)), and Scarle (half-Mexican, half-Filipino). Unless there's some super popular Nigerian VTuber or something that I just wouldn't have crossed paths with, I genuinely don't think there is a single prominent VTuber with a black avatar, although obviously black VTubers exist. It's hard enough being black in the anime community (see: anime nerds flipping their shit whenever a black person dares post cosplay photos), but I'd guess it's even worse in the VTuber community. Plus there's the added difficulty of finding an artist who will actually make you a black avatar and not just a generic anime avatar with dark skin.