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>And if they're willing participants in the 'objectification' of that character, then it isn't really demeaning.
Indie vtubers who choose a highly sexualized design are making that choice but it can still be embarassing. Even if the vtuber was okay with coomers getting horny for their boob jiggling model that is still a different issue than wanting it since they do have to consider whether the design will attract viewers.
With corpo vtubers though you have the added fact that many of them had zero creative input on their design and they had to use whatever the company gave them. Shion got the worst pedobait design in Hololive, Ina got the skimpiest outfit in Hololive, and Kronii got what is now the most sexualized design in Hololive. Cover had a vested interest in selling merch to coomers and in 2025 it's obvious that certain talents were not give a choice on whether their Hololive design was cute or sexy.