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Chysamere
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I was about to do a thread on vtubers, but all the above stuff almost covers it.
To be near the top in streamland you need to be attractive, entertaining, skilled, confident, and maybe be a little bit quirky or fun in your personality.
VTubers are typically people that have no confidence in their appearance or can't handle criticism about their looks, or maybe they look good they are just lazy and don't want to spend an hour a day on it. Alot of them crawl out of bed at degen hours and just fire up their stream in their pajamas. You can only really tell when they play something active like ring fit
Skillwise I've yet to see one near the top of any game. Some are absolutely terrible at anything they play and half the fun is watching them fail and make angry anime noises. The only impressive thing I've seen is Gura doing some pretty amazing speedrun stuff in a 2D game.
The "companies" that own alot of these girls are all very different. They often form relationships with developers and get permission before streaming. Probably some money changes hands since a really huge amount of eyes are on them, but also some publishers are really cunty about streaming like rockstar / nintendo.
The japanese orgs mostly want their girls to be "idols". This goes beyond being able to sing and draw, there's a really strange set of rules they have to follow. Idol culture is one bit I can't even begin to understand, but again hiding behind an anime character helps them alot with some of this. They can go out with friends on the weekends and not get followed by the paps.
The non Japanese orgs like vshojo seem to be more wild west whatever. Vei can get super foul and dirty and has often laughed at the idol side of things, even taking aim at hololive and the way they control and own all the characters and such. As a result collabs between the two sides are rare. There was one recently with Kiara of Hololive and Nyanners of vshojo.
The more successful ones just have a nonstop torrent, buckets filled with cash raining down on them at all times. They can't even stop to notice the donators or that would be all they ever do. Typically they will do a several hour show on sunday where they go back over the week's donations and thank them all as rapidly as possible.
There's a couple high-tier gamers. Suisei come to mind, she's a high-level tetris player.
Botan is also extremelly good at FPS, had a viral clip recently showing that off.
Big Phoenix
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I wonder how many of these are cheating or just having a third party play for them.
Very few. You would be surprised at the amount of autism that goes into verifying high score records and speedruns are legit and not tool-assisted. example:
Gavinmad
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Big difference between someone trying to pass off splices/TAS vs a Vtuber handing the controller to someone else. Nobody is spending that kind of effort trying to police vtubers.
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Aaron
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I only found out about this "vtuber" thing like a week ago. I can understand it if the chick has a nice voice but is fat or ugly, but what I don't get is when the vtuber is resonably attractive. The only one I know about is PeachyMilk, an Irish chick living in Tokyo. Yet she almost entirely streams as a vtuber. Hell, I even caught a stream of her where she was sleeping ... and her vtube anime chick was sleeping. I don't get it.
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It's the next logical step after simping for real thots: You are already putting the idea of an idealized woman on a pedestal and worship her, so why even pretend that she is a real woman? A 2D cartoon has even less flaws than someone like Alinity, and she doesn't even age as badly as her.
Araxen
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I'm sure not having to spend two hours on makeup before starting a streaming is more than enough reason to do it. That would be my reason for doing it at least. lol
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Chysamere
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I'd say it's pretty much impossible. This isn't a once-off thing, those two in particular play those games regularly, for hours at a time. Quite often unplanned, they'll just pick up and start playing. Not to mention they do it in front of other vtubers and their managers. It's possible that other girls might do it though, the ones who aren't really gamer-inclined.
They aren't god-tier players, they are just really good.
Being a vtuber comes with all kinds of benefits. Not only does being a cute anime girl appeal more to a lot of people than a real woman (myself included) but you don't need to worry about having a bad hair day, or makeup. Don't even need to clean your room or make sure you have a nice setup behind your cam. A lot of these girls literally roll out of bed and start streaming. It puts a barrier between their RL and their career as well so they can't be stalked or tracked down.
Not to mention I imagine it's quite nice not to be literally on camera for 8 hours a day.
Most of the Hololive girls are hot irl. They come from Japanese idol culture and are scouted. I'll put a few examples for you. It's considered very bad form to pry into the Vtubers private life or try to expose them though. You'll notice a lot of them hide their faces, a Vtuber is a great way to continue that.
This is Kiryu Coco who just retired from Hololive with the 500k concurrent stream
This is Noel's channel from before she joined Hololive. She's always done the ASMR thing. I suggest you wear headphones.
My personal favourite Pekora.
This last one isn't Hololive but she's part of the English group Vshojo. One of the best voices I've ever heard.
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Kaines
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If it's not soft/hardcore porn, there are no women on the internet. The rule still applies.
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Kiki
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Anime girl virtual YouTuber unmasked as middle-age male otaku, loses some fans, gains others【Vid】
Technical glitch during live stream may turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
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