/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Speaking about the japanese and their autism, anyone willing to compare their discussions with ours?

Here's their 2ch threads for Virtual Youtubers, I find it nice that they actually have better archives than us, the first link is the most recent thread and the rest are all previous threads: https://may.2chin.net/b/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%ABYouTuber
Maybe their opinions aren't that different from ours after all

>>18171697
Three.

>>18048025
Except seiyuus get paid way more than your average youtuber, especially if it's a big, popular series. It's not just the anime, it's also complimentary stuff like charasongs, doing promotions, interviews, etc. Plus you're already riding on whatever fame you have as a seiyuu.
Also the audience for anime is enormous, and we all know otaku are fond of spending money for their hobbies, it's an already established market that's been growing pretty fast for the past decades.

On the other hand, being a youtuber is not only completely tedious as you have to count on only making profits in the long run, Jewgle has been notoriously tightening restrictions on monetizing, you're also essentially starting from the ground up like some new idol, the market for youtubers isn't that great and accessible to native Japanese compared to the anime industry. Success depends entirely on getting views, whereas for anime the primary profit is from selling merchandise.

It's complete bullshit, even if you were some "third rate seiyuu" there's no reason to take something as risky and indefinite like starting a youtube channel over voice work in anime.

Though all this DOES raise a good question: Why are these companies trying to push into the YT market? Do they think they can be the next pewdiepie/twitch streamer that gets donations like crazy?