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>What is wrong with you disgusting freaks
>Why are you mean to me I was just asking questions out of genuine curiosity to understand your hobby
I don't understand this pattern. I can't even call it trolling because trolls shouldn't backtrack. Maybe there should be a FAQ of some sort for the extremely low hanging fruit questions. I don't blame people who come in here asking wtf is going on because it is a weird and new niche thing but still. I think the bad rep comes from mostly ENVtuber degeneracy on twitter that is adjacent to lolcow circles and not even close to representative of the industry as a whole, which is dominated by corporate vtubers who are a different beast all together. The type of literally-who vtweeter that kiwifarmers might know gets 0-100 live viewers compared to the 10k live viewers that corporate vtubers get every day.
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Here's some questions that get asked all the time:
>Are they all actually men with voice changers?
All the popular ones are the gender they portray themselves as. There are male and female vtubers. Female vtubers are generally more popular. Getting away with faking your gender is very difficult to achieve for long periods of time, even with an anime avatar. Viewers already knew the streamer known as Noracat was a fat dude before the infamous video "outed" him. Nobody was tricked.
Some men do use female avatars, but they don't try to hide anything. They're called babiniku.
>Are they all Japanese?
The biggest ones are Japanese but there are bilingual and exclusively English speaking ones too. There are also indonesian, russian, chinese speakers that have smaller audiences.
>Why are they all lolis
Most of the popular ones aren't.
>Are they all pretending to be your girlfriend?
Some are, some aren't. Parasocial relationships are just as common as normal streaming. Some companies implicitly maintain idol conventions like Hololive. Other companies don't care and let their streamers date openly. Independent streamers can do whatever they want.
>Why do they hide what they look like IRL?
It depends on the streamer. Maybe it's part of their brand. Maybe they're shy. Maybe they value their privacy. Maybe they have a face fit for radio. Some don't care at all whether people know what they look like IRL. Vtubing is just an intermediate step between streaming without a facecam and streaming with one.
>What do they actually do in streams?
Not that different from your average twitch streamer for most. Mainly talk to the viewers, play games, collab with each other. Many of the popular ones produce ancillary content like music videos, 3D streams (streams using 3d motion capture) and even live concerts. The most popular vtubers in Japan are basically celebrities at this point and do press releases, tv appearances and marketing promotions.
>Who watches this shit?
For the largest Japanese corporate vtubers, the viewer demographics are predominantly single men, 18-30. Some vtubers have a high proportion of female fans though. People watch this shit for a variety of reasons that are too long to list, but for the casual viewer, it's because vtubers put out long form content that can be consumed passively that is currently in demand thanks to the current pandemic accelerating the atomization of modern society. Either that, or "lol funni anime girl said the n word".
>Why are you mean to me I was just asking questions out of genuine curiosity to understand your hobby
I don't understand this pattern. I can't even call it trolling because trolls shouldn't backtrack. Maybe there should be a FAQ of some sort for the extremely low hanging fruit questions. I don't blame people who come in here asking wtf is going on because it is a weird and new niche thing but still. I think the bad rep comes from mostly ENVtuber degeneracy on twitter that is adjacent to lolcow circles and not even close to representative of the industry as a whole, which is dominated by corporate vtubers who are a different beast all together. The type of literally-who vtweeter that kiwifarmers might know gets 0-100 live viewers compared to the 10k live viewers that corporate vtubers get every day.
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Here's some questions that get asked all the time:
>Are they all actually men with voice changers?
All the popular ones are the gender they portray themselves as. There are male and female vtubers. Female vtubers are generally more popular. Getting away with faking your gender is very difficult to achieve for long periods of time, even with an anime avatar. Viewers already knew the streamer known as Noracat was a fat dude before the infamous video "outed" him. Nobody was tricked.
Some men do use female avatars, but they don't try to hide anything. They're called babiniku.
>Are they all Japanese?
The biggest ones are Japanese but there are bilingual and exclusively English speaking ones too. There are also indonesian, russian, chinese speakers that have smaller audiences.
>Why are they all lolis
Most of the popular ones aren't.
>Are they all pretending to be your girlfriend?
Some are, some aren't. Parasocial relationships are just as common as normal streaming. Some companies implicitly maintain idol conventions like Hololive. Other companies don't care and let their streamers date openly. Independent streamers can do whatever they want.
>Why do they hide what they look like IRL?
It depends on the streamer. Maybe it's part of their brand. Maybe they're shy. Maybe they value their privacy. Maybe they have a face fit for radio. Some don't care at all whether people know what they look like IRL. Vtubing is just an intermediate step between streaming without a facecam and streaming with one.
>What do they actually do in streams?
Not that different from your average twitch streamer for most. Mainly talk to the viewers, play games, collab with each other. Many of the popular ones produce ancillary content like music videos, 3D streams (streams using 3d motion capture) and even live concerts. The most popular vtubers in Japan are basically celebrities at this point and do press releases, tv appearances and marketing promotions.
>Who watches this shit?
For the largest Japanese corporate vtubers, the viewer demographics are predominantly single men, 18-30. Some vtubers have a high proportion of female fans though. People watch this shit for a variety of reasons that are too long to list, but for the casual viewer, it's because vtubers put out long form content that can be consumed passively that is currently in demand thanks to the current pandemic accelerating the atomization of modern society. Either that, or "lol funni anime girl said the n word".
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