Plenty of great content on there, I wouldn't throw all the good creators out with the bathwater.
Guess it depends on how you define a hobby but, okay, fair enough.
I just watch the occasional Vtuber video that gets recommended to me, you couldn't pay me to engage with the broader fan community
really am going to love to see a 60 year cold war because of anime models playing games thank you everyone
Waifu World War.
Fuck me that'd actually be entertaining to watch. Weebs, shut-in dweebs, and deathbots with vtubers on the screens versus the world.
i am imagining at the end of trump's second term they elect VTUBER DONALD TRUMP which is just donald trump again but now he is a hot anime boy
you remember that post a few days back where somebody used the anime filter on all the dnc ghouls? Imagine if all politicians start using vtuber personalities everywhere to cover up the fact they're all old as fuck.
for real that actually sounds fucking terrifying. If all of the ravening hordes of liberals were fucking insufferable now, imagine if they get infected with the Vtuber weaboo virus.
i think the full nightmare route is the following ecological collapse makes quarantine a constant thing like due to the bad air that happened in california and all your politicians start using v tube masking that they are just almost dying or dead
oh yeah that's even better. Lets add onto that with something extra shit. Lets say a ghoul dies but then is resurrected as a vtuber puppet but with that extra hologram shit they use to make dead celebs still alive, and using technology to take words and sentences from their past speeches to create a vocabulary word bank they can be puppeteered with.
Like imagine Herman Cain's twitter account, but as a Vtuber lmao
herman cain twitter as a vtuber would be outsider art i am just feeling the urge to learn how to do a vtuber model for herman cain just by reading this pure brain poison
We have no choice but to support Mr. Xi in his righteous war against anime youtubers.
Wouldn't now be a real good time to maybe radicalize some of these people by pointing out that it was the capitalists who own all these cute anime girls that did this and not the CPC?
As much as it was still reddit, the hololive sub had been pretty sweet the last few months, with japanese fans coming and making shitty memes, english speaking fans badly translating their memes into broken japanese and whatnot. But literally the second this happened, the sub and all english speaking vtuber areas online were just full of horrendous anti-chinese racism and people being very brave to take a stand against the evil CCP.
What I did find interesting is that when I looked at one of the announcement tweets, all the english comments were frothing mad at China, but the 200 or so japanese tweets I read didn't mention it at all and were just "We'll be waiting" kind of stuff.
Yeah, I really liked the hololive sub. People even praised bibili memes, and it really felt like a positive sub to bridge international fans together. This whole thing put a serious damper on everything.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the appeal of vtubers? Is it any different than watching a normal streamer?
I guess that makes sense. What I've seen of the culture surrounding them on twitter seems a bit sus.
The streamers themselves seem pretty innocuous. The fan culture is pretty rotten, though what could you expect when anime, games and Japan collide
Yeah, I like a lot of anime/japanese video game type stuff, I just wish the fans were less repulsive.
I dunno, the more I see of it I loathe to agree with the Chapo hosts: fandoms suck
It's pretty much the same as watching a twitch stream but with a cute anime character. There is some token kayfabe nods to their character's "backstory", like being a dragon or a robot or from Atlantis, but other than that there's no real difference between them and other streamers besides cuteness.
Can someone give me a rundown on what exactly Hololive and Vtubers are? Are they basically just streamers operating behind an anime girl avatars? And all the avatars are created by the same group, right?
"Vtuber" is a term for youtubers/streamers/etc. who stream not with their real face, but with a face-rig software to give them an anime girl avatar. There are literally thousands of people doing this because of how easy the software is to get. The biggest VTubers join a company to get publicity and marketing and whatever. One of the biggest VTuber companies is Cover, who runs a group of VTubers called Hololive, a couple dozen VTubers who get a massive amount of views and fans. The company gives them their avatars and backstories and stuff.
In short, Hololive is one big group of VTubers.
Gotcha, thanks! I've been seeing a ton of them in my recommended videos section but since I don't really watch streamers of any sort I've never bothered to check em out.
Why what? If you mean the China thing, check my other reply. If you mean the VTuber thing in general, I'd say it's just a popular meeting of anime characters and video game streams. Game streamer + cute anime girl = profit, I guess.
Recently, one of the most popular members of Hololive was banned for three weeks by her own company for reading off viewer statistics. One of the countries listed was Taiwan, and apparently just reading that fact was enough for Chinese fans to start harassing her and a couple other members of Hololive who defended her. The parent company, Cover, has a foot in the Chinese streaming market, and to protect their profits and VTubers there they decided to just ban the offenders.
Obviously the blame lies on Cover for instantly throwing their own employee under the bus for saying "Taiwan." However, all the dumbasses on Reddit think that it's a big Chinese conspiracy, and that the CCP will assassinate the members of Hololive China, or something stupid like that. Typical Reddit Sinophobia.
A vtuber mentioned Taiwan on her stream in the context of viewership analytics which enraged her Chinese fans, resulting in a mass harassment campaign and her parent company suspending her for 3 weeks.
Weebs have decided that this is the Chinese government's fault
