The Golden age was fun while it lasted.
And it's still sorta fun... Right?

Don't we live in the third or fourth age?
0) Annoying orange
1) Kizuna and Heavenly kings
2/3) Streaming boom and then pandemic boom
3/4) Now

How is each age called?

>>102099897 (OP)
Vtubing has always been shit but at least it had the novelty going for it. Now it's pure shit.

>>102099897 (OP)
Silver Age came before Golden Age, retardchama

>>102099897 (OP)
>half the reincarnations are blonde
If anything this is the real golden age

Kiara is actually an annoying orange

>>102100368
It's not about the chronological order, but the quality of the era.

>>102101216

>>102101406
Silver Age: Beginning of VTubing in Japan
Content is primarily scripted and released in a controlled video form. Four Heavenly Kings&Oyabun, Rise of Anycolor&Cover
Golden Age: COVID boost, also called "The Corpo Age".
Bronze Age: You are here

>>102101399
Silver age is most commonly used to refer to a period of advancement that is related to a previous golden age without judgement of quality.
If anything we are neither in a golden nor silver age right now. Vtubing is pretty much stagnating.

You could call the scripted content era the golden age and the hololive era the silver age.
Alternatively the hololive era was the golden age and the silver age is yet to come.

>>102101299
main characters in the middle

Based on the Romans, and part history
>Stone Age: Pre-VTubers, FaceRig, Annoying Orange, Ami Yamato. (-2016)
>Golden Age: The Four Heavenly Kings, the establishment of the companies that would dominate the industry, the switch from video format to Live2D and streaming with Nijisanji and their "livers". (2016-2019), in-house technology.
>Silver Age: COVID boom, westernization, establishment of various other companies, Coco's Graduation, Twitch VTubers rise, VTubeStudio, VBridger, focus mainstream media appeal (2020-2022)
>Bronze Age (2023 - Current): Mass audience appeal, Reincarnations slowly taking over the market (both Niji and Holo), Warudo, Selen and the Nijifiasco, Ironmouse wins and Pekora is nominated at the Game Awards, Dodgers collab, Pekora featured in a major mainstream game, Gura's Graduation and Saba's debut.

>>102101977
>most commonly
Where!??!

>>102102044
I forgot Mythmania for the Silver Age
And Aqua's graduation for the Bronze Age.

Shit market like EN is collapsing. This is the golden age.

>>102102050
NTA but I've seen it in mediums like comic books.

>>102099897 (OP)
Like the Cycles of Magic in Shadowrun, vtubing goes through various "eras" where the magic and wonder of the medium waxes and wanes.

>First World
Earliest era and one of formless nothingness. The technology is there in its protoform, like facial tracking and real-time motion capture, but without guiding animus.
>Second World
Magic emerges for the first time in the form of Kizuna and the Four Heavenly Kings. Kizuna coins the term 'virtual YouTuber' speaking into existence the fundamental grammar of the reality to come. The future is built upon her foundational arcana.
>Third World
Magic pushes against established constraints as practitioners grow. Premade and preedited videos transition to more free form live streams. Reduction in barriers of entry increase the number of vtubers. Corporations are founded, in the case of Anycolor, or existing corporations in the case of Cover change direction to embrace the vtubing medium.
>Fourth World
Magic grows at an explosive rate. Anycolor and Cover establish themselves as the principal New Traditions of magic, while smaller schools emerge constantly and vie for influence. Independent practitioners, either inspired by the ancient precepts of the Second World or the more modern New Traditions, step forward and pursue their ambitions on a global scale.
>Fifth World
Magic remains pervasive thanks to the self-sustaining momentum of the Fourth World's growth but it begins to wane in potency and wonder. The New Traditions face their own trials: Anycolor begins to self-destruct from its own internal upheavals and Cover's schools of magic begin to see their curricula calcify into unwieldy dogma. Minor schools dramatically destroy themselves, wither away without fanfare or merge in order to survive. Independent practitioners band together into groups for power but inevitably tear themselves apart out of greed, envy or ambition.

The Fifth World is our world, today. It is an age of strife, uncertainty and fundamental entropy. The Chromatic Bridge has shattered. The Silver Tower trembles. Atlantis has disappeared beneath the sea. We persevere and await the Sixth World, in whatever form it shall take.

Whatever age this is, I think the oversaturation of vtubers is ultimately a good thing.
People actually have to be entertaining now, they can't just rely on having an expensive model to bring people in.

So many EN vtubers who are huge now are only popular because they had hot/cute models debuted in 2020-2022. Vtubers doing what Shylily was doing when she blew up are a dime a dozen, but that new model reveal hype propelled her with that subathon. I like her a lot but that shit wouldn't fly now unless she was propped up by multiple big vtubers already.

Growth for vtubers who aren't already 4views is stagnant. People have to work 1000x harder than they would've had to 4 years ago for the same or less result.

>>102103203
I can see that viewers are more spread out but I didn't notice the increase in quality. Who is the most recent vtuber to become a 4view?

>>102100368
We’re currently in the Zinc age of vtubing

>>102104316
we're in the lead age. no matter how hard so many people try it will never become gold again

>>102099897 (OP)
We need a vtuber attitude era. Where whores and seiso idol vtubers are called out and the only way to make it is to be entertaining and cutting edge.