Can anyone give a legitimate reason as to why 99% of vtubers absolutely refuse to play characters nowadays? Was the purpose of this entire hobby not to make it seem like you were watching an anime in real-time?

>unicorn seethe thread #190
Yawn

>>103355333 (OP)
>hololive made talentless women like Kiara and Bae popular
>now everyone thinks they can be the next Kiara

She's always in character

Watching a crazy girl with an anime avatar is more entertaining than any character.

>>103355333 (OP)
because streaming replaced videos as the main vtubing medium and playing a character on stream for hours on end is a lot of effort in more ways than one

>>103355333 (OP)
ERB but you hate her

women want to yap to you about their lives

>>103355333 (OP)
Because women are lazy?

>>103355333 (OP)
They are playing characters. The fact that you think most of them are "being themselves" is retarded in itself

>>103355333 (OP)
Because nobody watches or pays the ones who do. Next question.

>>103356086
is that why they all talk about sex

>>103355333 (OP)
When you stream hours a day, every day, for years, you eventually run out of ways to stop the person behind the avatar slipping through

>>103356421
There are two parts to this. First you have to put on a character but then you have to take care not to break it repeatedly to make it convincing.
Yes, streamers are more silly on stream but they never allow for the suspension of disbelief to manifest.

>>103355374
It is the exact opposite of unicorns. If vtubers were to put any effort into maintaining their character, I wouldn't care if the voice actress was a turbo slut in real life. The problem is that right now you can't separate character from actor.

>>103356479
This. I put all effort in giving my character lore, story, world building and even a short introduction to them but beyond that it prove to be fruitless to create a stream that constantly explores the world and narrative of said character so majority of people just play video games and appeal to sex addicts with sex jokes because that is the Meta Ironmouse made for lessor Vtubers these days.

because no one fucking cares and they don't care either, if you want someone who is in character 100% of the time watch anime

Hell, even the vtubers who keep kayfabe have a fanbase who is desperately watching to see it slip

>>103355333 (OP)
>EN was a mistake

>>103355333 (OP)
>Was the purpose of this entire hobby not to make it seem like you were watching an anime in real-time?
Anime is scripted and edited. So uh, no, not really.

just be grateful most of them they are not announcing their marriage or being pregnant

>>103355333 (OP)
Vtubers dial authenticity somewhere between IRL fleshtuber and anime character and that's what people watch and want to see.
They get too fleshy and they stop being a vtuber. They get too anime and people feel detached.

The point was anonymit. Instead of leaning into the character by playing RPGs, they all play game-of-the-day early access slop and do react content

>>103358275
This, but JP

>>103355333 (OP)
western vtubing culture finally seeped in as most anons have feared years ago. They don't care.

Western vtubing problem

>>103356669
they talk about sex
because coomers just want sex
coomers will throw money just to hear about sex

>>103355461
>His oshi is a talentless whore aka streamer only
>Got mogged singing/dancing by Kiara and Bae
>Seethe eternally on /vt/

the vtuber is as much as an escape for the viewer well as the streamer. it's not really about spending the entire time acting as the character.

western vtubers struggle to understand that or more likely don't care about that. when the stream is over, they go into meltdowns/fights over some streamer drama, leech off other vtubers/streamers posts using their X accounts etc., post about full on irl crap not even related to their content when the main focus should just be the audience.

that breaks the illusion. you just get the feeling popping onto a stream that half the time they not really paying attention because their mind is elsewhere on bullshit like i mentioned.

The 1%

>>103355333 (OP)
non-joke answer
because vtubing is now primarily an avenue for women to stream like men do safely without the risk of doxxing or harassment once they go offline. the themes and designs are a creative output and a way to express themselves how they want for fun (like makeup)

Wouldn't acting as a character be worse? They can't talk freely like a normal woman, it wouldn't be much more than a gimmick.

>>103361358
not the first post but the best post

>>103355333 (OP)
The Myth/Council and early Promise/Advent era was the last great kayfabe/lore period. Omega tried to make it stronger but unfortunately went about it all wrong which ironically lead to degradation of the Kayfabe. The fan content, art and official kayfabe merch of that era one of a kind and the girls themselves helped make it a unique experience that would be hard to capture again. Just cherish the fact you experienced it.

Because everyone knows that effort is pointless and theres no future so they kinda just go through the motions with their content kinda like everyone else does in theif daily lives

>>103356088
This and also because they don't have to try very hard anymore, the public accepts any little effort nowadays

>>103355333 (OP)
why are you watching shit vtubers?
My wife believes she's a fish through and through

>>103355333 (OP)
That kind of content is the easiest to reproduce with AI, and the market would get flooded with slop if there was any indication that it's popular. Be glad that this isn't a thing.

Too much ironic weebs

>>103355333 (OP)
Westoid twitch trannies think that playing a character is cringe and you should be an anime girl called "Misaki Yamamoto" but talk like a Valley girl and saying "Y'all" 10 times per sentence.
Ironic weeb normalfag trash ruins every hobby and they ruined this one too about a year after myth debuted.
>>103355374
This has absolutely nothing to do with unicorns. You are just another normalfag reddit hugbox tranny that got into vtubing not because of the fun factor, but because you , as a typical westoid tranny, just jump from one hobby to another, just to water it down, ruin it, and then move on to the next thing to do exactly the same. You are the biggest cancer in every community ever.

>>103361358
>without the risk of doxxing or harassment once they go offline
This is really funny because most of these whores have fansly, OF or were a part of some camwhore site. And more often than not, they just CANT STAND when a character is getting compliments instead of their real selves, so they eventually start leaking shit, posting selfies on their vtuber alt accounts, etc. And again, more often than not, they end up funneling their vtuber simps into their whore platforms just to keep grifting.

>>103363086
>and you should be an anime girl called "Misaki Yamamoto"
This is so hilarious because most of vtuber fans are twitter lefty SJW's that cried about "muh cultiral appropriation" during the peak of woke insanity era. But now they see no issues with exploiting other peoples culture and history for their own financial benefit.

>>103363130
wow, you must be one sad individual. seek help

>>103355374
GMS!!

>>103363171
>emotional tranny response without real counter arguments
This is posted by a fat whore femmoid.

>>103355600
For retards, yes

>>103363247
I don't need to post counter arguments for a schizo rant, that would be a waste of time. seek help immediately

>>103363130
>most
that word is doing some very VERY heavy lifting. your post reeks of jealousy, in your mind you have to categorize the majority of them as whores because you can't stand the idea of successful female entertainers. put it this way, can you even name five medium to large vtubers who do flesh nsfw content

>>103363276
>>103363286
You can pretend to be ignorant all you want, but a huge majority of small corpos girls were either OF thots or cosplay whores. Some of the really big ones were gravure whores in Japan.
But keep white knighting you pathetic simp trash. You always enable the worst of the worst in humanity.

>>103363316
concession accepted

>>103363316
I'm not enabling you, actually

>>103363336
>Speaks in buzzwords instead of providing arguments
You just learned how to talk like a complete brainlet on 4chan. That is what brainlets do. Its never an argument in good faith with them its always "UNICORN! SEA! BROWN! SCHIZO! CONCESSION ACCEPTED!"
I doubt that you even know what most of those buzzwords really mean. Stay retarded.
If I started listing all small corpo girls that whore out on the side where they can easily be doxxed, you would cry for jannies in a second.

>>103363366
>he's seething so hard
no no keep going

>>103363366
Small corpo and indie girls are /here/ non stop and run damage control for their grifty behavior. Just go into /wvt/, /corpo/, /asp/ or any of those threads with small corpo or indie girls and you will see how much dirt there is among them.
Hell. even one of the most "virtuous" big corpos like Vshojo, turned out to be rotten as hell, but these whores will try to convince you how everyone is morally righteous and whoever says anything against them is a "schizo".
I'm so glad that vtubing is dying in the west, because this means no more free money for talentless charisma free whores that only know how to play FOTM games to feed youtubes algo. They have NO other qualities other than that. Well...except posting feet pics and shit like that, and then do mental gymnastics to convince themselves how that is actually empowering, and not just trashy whore behavior.

>>103363366
>"most of these whores have fansly, OF"
>"can you even name five medium to large vtubers who do flesh nsfw content"
>unable to confirm his own claim which would be easy were it true, multi sentence angry reply instead whining about random shit
concession accepted

>>103363400
>More buzzword replies with no counter arguments
Yeah nice talking to you, you disingenuous simp tranny.

>>103363455
>another anon obsessed with trannies
many such cases

>>103363471
why are they like this, it's so weird. I swear the only guys who are constantly thinking about trans people are either trans or attracted to them, there's no other reason they'd live so rent free in their heads

>>103363444
>"can you even name five medium to large vtubers who do flesh nsfw content"
1.Melody did actual NSFW content and not just NSFW with her model
2. Ember from phase was a literal camwhore
3. Menace was a lewd posting whore that got into vtubing, and when vtubing started falling off, she returned to whore posting and funneled all her simps there
4. Noel
5. Haachama jerks off oily dildos on her alt accounts for some extra cash
6. Matsuri did something similar
7. Yozora Mel / Rica in her PL did lewd ASMR while grinding against the mic stand
8. Clara from phase was a gravure whore in Japan
9. Kiara was a gravure whore in Japan
10. Pomu posted nudes on /b/ back in the day

>>103363488
11. Shiina from phase said on stream that she was an "import model" meaning those girls in bikinis that pose next to cars
12. Ekko a small corpo girl switched to being a camwhore/OF posting girl to vtubing
13. Elia Stellaria was a cosplay whore, became a vtuber acted super pure, and then slowly started putting up feet and belly pics as donothong rewards
14. Neena Makurano former Kawaii girl had seethrough nightie with her nipples showing as a donothon reward
15. Nene Amano from kawaii was a massive cosplay whore having her full ass on display for thousands to see, but then makes an issue over showing her hands on a handcam stream

>>103363526
16. Pochi from idol was posting lewds before her vtubing career, and then made up how the management made her post pics of her legs and feet as donothon rewards
17. Kyoresu/Riro case is so well documented that I really shouldnt be saying anything
18. Koopa literally fucked her fan
19. Another former CyberLive girl Veera V fucked multiple fans

>>103355333 (OP)
I don't think /vt/ realizes how hard it is to play a character for more than a couple of hours.
The other thing is - people change, characters are supposed to remain the same.

>>103363550
>>103363526
>>103363488
obsession.txt

>>103363626
There's a happy medium to everything. Korone plays a character perfectly well, while balancing the act out with stories from her real life. A lot of other holo girls do it as well.

>>103363657
>buzzword tranny gets the reply he wanted and still replies with buzzwords
Heh. As expected.

>>103363678
im not the poster you replied to retard, go back to hunting for a girlfriend on /lgbt/

>>103355333 (OP)
Western women lack commitment to the job

>>103363488
>did
>was
>200ccv is not medium sized but I'll be nice, 1/5
>was
>flesh on camera, currently?
>did
>did, and not flesh
>was
>was
>back in the day
>was
>switched to vtubing
>below 200ccv is not medium sized but I'll be nice, 2/5
>former
>was
>before
>correct 3/5
>not flesh nsfw content
>not flesh nsfw content
try harder

>>103355333 (OP)
JP is fine but EN side woman oshi’s mori and Kiara and those two gave zero fucks I’d you knew what they looked like IRL

>>103355333 (OP)
I just want to watch a vtuber with a nice voice, nice model, and a personality I like. Her constantly rping as Froo Froo the half demon bunny from planet Xenomore would just detract from the experience.

>>103355374
FPBP
>>103355333 (OP)
Seethe unicuck, you lost

>frog thread up for 7 hours
>will probably hit bump limit with OP samefagging the shit out of it
/vt/ really is dead huh

>>103355333 (OP)
Because everyone takes pointers from the most popular vtubers. If they don't play a character, nobody does.

>>103363660
My oshi does this as well. She doesn’t even acknowledge any comments referring to her “model” and says it’s just her and that she uses a webcam.

>>103363130
>>103363316
>>103363366
>>103363488
>>103363526
>>103363550
Wow, eunuch much?

>>103355333 (OP)
Go back to Roleplaying on tumblr Unicuck

>>103355333 (OP)
>nowadays
99% of every vtuber ever, even before the term existed, has never played a character.
No, not even your previous dorito lovers are fully character-driven.
In fact, literally anyone that streams for any significant length of time is extremely unlikely to be playing any character role in any serious way.
Character heavy people are video creators almost exclusively, and that side of vtubing is niche as fuck. Calling it niche is an insult to the word niche, it's a niche of a niche.
Despite Kizuna bringing recognition to a huge industry of various types of content creation, her influence was minor overall.
Her only real legacy was the term virtual youtuber, and even that was killed off in favour of vtuber since it removed the "youtube" part of it - most vtubers were not on Youtube before then.

>>103365170
Actually I was interested to see exactly when it came around.
I only remember vtuber from around spring-summer 2018~
I decided to search when it started to pop up on Google Searches. (2017-2018, around end of the year it seems)
This seems wrong, right?
Why the fuck is Virtual Youtuber so slow?
It's never hitting double digits anywhere.
Youtube search is not much different.

>get a super chuuni weeb name
>pay a jp artist for a design
>pay a rigger for a complex model
>pay merryweather for a convoluted lore video
>still act like your irl self
>end up fleshposting on main anyways
Eh, women...

>>103355333 (OP)
Kayfabe is dead you mark, get over it.
Gameplay workrate is all that matters now.

>>103357260
That, or your content is incredibly dumbed down so that you don't have to think much about maintaining kayfabe, i.e. FWMC

>>103360156
Nobody watches vtubers for the dancing lmao. A vtuber lives and dies by the sound of their voice, and so it's rather funny that you picked the worse most earraping vtubers in Hololive as an example of talent after you shifted the goalposts over to dancing.

>>103355333 (OP)
>he thinks the hobby has a "purpose"
>he thinks hobbies can have a "purpose"

>>103355333 (OP)
It's only the EN side that dropped kayfabe and characters. Asian vtubers still play their characters.