Draft:Virtual Youtuber
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A Virtual YouTuber (Also known as a VTuber or VStreamer[note 1]) is a type of content creator that uses motion tracking to animate a 2D or 3D avatar in real time rather than using a traditional webcam, to make videos or stream on either Youtube or Twitch. They also like singing, playing video games (Mostly MMOs like Valorant
, Dead By Daylight
& Minecraft or Gacha games
like Genshin Impact
& Granblue Fantasy
), posting on Twitter (mostly stupid shit[note 2]) or do other things like spreading weird conspiracy theories[1] for example.
Virtual YouTubers have their origins in Japan and the hostile, misogynistic streaming culture that exists there. So naturally, when this was introduced to the wider world during the pandemic after two of the main leading companies in this business, Hololive & Nijisanji
, opened their English divisions around the end of 2020, it has been plagued with controversies. On one hand, many of them have bad sleeping and eating habits due to them being required to stream for a lot of hours (Japan Timezone, in most cases) for these companies. On the other hand, these people aren't saints either. Most notably the Corporate Virtual YouTubers (or Corpos for short) and the bigger indie ones that want to be on good footings with them, are a bunch of edgelords.
It should not come as a surprise that they also attract the worst type of fans imaginable. With the majority of them being either weeaboos[note 3], frog posters or other very fun groups who like to look up what their "Oshi" did before becoming a Virtual YouTuber or posting private information, such as r/VirtualYoutubers on Reddit & /vt/ on 4chan. Both the fanbase as well as the bigger names in the industry also like to spew out hateful stuff like kink shaming, slut shaming, furry bashing, transphobia, homophobia, queerphobia, racism, anti-Semitism, ableism, sexism & various slurs. Only to say that they were "only joking", after getting criticism.
YouTube seems to be perfectly okay with this since they have bigger fish to fry[2], while Twitch has banned some of them but only for a short time and either for something that goes against their ToS[3] or for other reasons[4].
But remember, it's all about wholesomeness! And normalizing Incel speech, degeneracy[note 4], stuff from this list and horniness. Dear goat, are these people horny.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Those that, mostly or exclusively, stream on Twitch, prefer to be called "Virtual Streamers" since they hardly or never use Youtube in the first place.
- ↑ There's a group of Virtual YouTubers, named "VTweeters", that do nothing else than posting on Twitter for no fucking reason.
- ↑ A weeaboo is pretty much the incel version of an anime fan + that they are completely deranged from their own culture, obsessed with the "land of the rising sun", and hate the LGBTQ+ community & feminists (for some reason)...
- ↑ Both VTubers AND their fans seem to see this as a compliment for some weird reason.
References[edit]
- ↑ Yes, it's THAT one..
- ↑ YouTube’s Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls of Ad Blockers by Paresh Dave (03 November 2023) Wired.
- ↑ Twitch's zero-explanation bans continue to baffle streamers, this time a popular VTuber by Tyler Colp (18 August 2022) PC Gamer.
- ↑ Viral VTuber Marina gets banned from Twitch after adult policy change by Anushka Patronia (16 December 2023) Sportskeeda.