/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

I made this post for /vtwbg/ because the thread was down during the time. Some anons told me that I should write about stuff going on in the local scene and whatnot, so here it is:

Basically, there's on ongoing schism in the local KR vtubing scene about how vtubers should be culturally, this roughly divides to:
>Isegye and orbiters
>Smaller corpos
>Converts
>Those that want more of a "KR" style of vtubing
>Those that advocate for more of a "JP" style of vtubing.

First two are simple. Isegye is massive in Korea. However, they have their own self-contained sphere of influence and they keep within that group mostly. Additionally, they have a few orbiters (similar to VShojo) that they regularly share viewers with. Along with that, there are other smaller corpos trying to make it big. These are many, and currently it's emulating the response the EN market had when Hololive initially got popular. Their success is mixed, but generally they hover around 200~50 viewers.

Converts are self explanatory. But one notable thing to mention is that there was a significantly strong faction of pngtubers that had been around since 2017. But with Hololive's rise their influence is waning and some of them are being pushed to vtubing.

It's the last two groups that are the most interesting. In that they fundamentally disagree with each other about the direction vtubing should take in Korea. To explain, the more KR-styled group comes from the traditional Korean streamer audience, who have little knowledge about vtubers in general. On the flipside, you have the JP-styled group, a lot of whom descend from former NijiKR fans. These two groups especially despise each other. In fact, it's so bad that they avoid using each other's terminology when talking about streams.

So to summarize there's basically a low intensity conflict going on in the KR vtuber streamer space to define what vtubing in Korea will become. So I think this cultural clash could yield interesting new results.