How do ultra vsimps do it?

How do people get the ability to have vtubers be the only thing you wake up and get out of bed in the morning for? I'm honestly jealous.

>>101804945 (OP)
Escapism is a hell of a drug

>>101804986
Are most vsimps young? When I was like 20 I LOVED the idea of wasting my life on Overwatch and WoW, it genuinely enthralled me to nolife and waste my life on something

>>101805038
No, actually. They're mostly late 20-30+ people who've lost control of their lives, or people with fulfilling lives but not a lot of time to actually do much of anything hobby-wise. Streams are very low commitment and easy to put on in the background while working, etc. It's not JUST lonely people, since it's common for couples to both follow a chuuba (or chuuba pair. Dokibird and Mint is a common one where the husbands like Doki and the wives like Mint)

Think of it like a bunch of tiny religions. The chuuba ends up giving people a sense of community and something to rally around. It gives them a constant supply of things to talk about, and for many of them it also works as a muse for creative projects like art or other things.

For my case, Dokibird, the community heavily revolves around artists and everyone uses her as a topic to help get better at drawing, crafting, sculpting, whatever, and/or they use her as inspiration to grind high on competitive rankings to try to match her, as she's a very, very skilled fps player and a very hard worker, constantly organizing tournaments and other community-wide events for people to participate in. She even heads the occasional video game development. Here's her latest project, a version of Horse Race Test custom made using assets of herself, her fans, and even her dog.
https://dokibirdo.itch.io/dragoon-race

In the Wisp's case, the fans for Mint, Doki's best friend, they focus HARD on idol culture. Not the whole "no boyfriends!" thing, but shit like coordinated dances during concerts and flailing light sticks around, etc. They're an absolute riot at live events.
https://x.com/nanoplasm/status/1868532465817850152?lang=en

>>101805038
I for some stupid reason lost the original vod I had, but if you can see soundposts this is the kind of nonsense Mint's fanbase gets up to at concerts.
They're amazing.

And for an example of Doki's large creative projects, Doki spent tens of thousands of dollars for this one massive trailer to reveal her new model. She had to coordinate around 40 artists, musicians, animators, 3D modelers, etc. to get this out. She even hired a live orchestra to play some of the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjX-CAVloyk

Last year she also organized a massive global Apex customs series that brought people in from all over the world to play a bunch of silly games for prizes. She has enough clout to rope in a bunch of actual esports pros too, which helped entice a bunch of big names to join. It was rough, but she, along with two others organized the whole ass event with something like 60 participants.

>>101805038
And for an example of Doki's large creative projects, Doki spent tens of thousands of dollars for this one massive trailer to reveal her new model. She had to coordinate around 40 artists, musicians, animators, 3D modelers, etc. over like 4-5 months to get this out. She even hired a live orchestra to play some of the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjX-CAVloyk (embed)

Last year she also organized a massive global Apex customs series that brought people in from all over the world to play a bunch of silly games for prizes. She has enough clout to rope in a bunch of actual esports pros too, which helped entice a bunch of big names to join. It was rough, but she, along with two others organized the whole ass event with something like 60 participants.

>>101804945 (OP)
>How do people get the ability to have vtubers be the only thing you wake up and get out of bed in the morning for? I'm honestly jealous.
Do you have this same thought for turning on the TV and watching an episode of Seinfeld or some shit? lol

>>101805038
nah I'm 44, my oshi simply makes me laugh and brightens my day when I have to spend the rest of my time dealing with actual adult depressing shit

>>101806075
do you think she enjoys making her fans like you happy or do you think she only enjoys it because of money

>>101805406
I can respect this kind of weirdo

>>101806091
Vtuber models are extremely expensive. A good one costs over 10k easily. In some cases 10k can barely cover just the rigging and not the art. Then you need an expensive iphone usually for the camera and software, microphones, assets, stream overlays, etc. etc.
There are FAR easier ways to get money that doesn't involve such a large starting investment.

>>101806091
money

>>101805038
I feel like it's evenly split between bored college students and ojisans who have given up on life and just want to chill

>>101804945 (OP)
if you actually read some of the posts by those people, they're clearly severely mentally ill. not something to be jealous of.

>>101805038
I still want to play vidya but I work from home as a senior dev and spend most of my time on code, sometimes I put a tuber on another screen as background noise and kind of check out what they're playing as I work.