/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

I've been thinking a lot about the nature of things lately.
When you see how she treats her drawings it makes sense. It isn't lines/colors on paper. It's a small window into another real world. Calling the person in the drawing cute is part of making it more real, and her drawings would be very different if she didn't bother or used different words.
What she did with Beatani was a much larger version of that. She didn't just draw the character, but gave her a voice and the ability to act with others online as a vtuber. The small window was a very large one for this project and it was open for us to pop our heads in and interact with it. And it was a window into an entire world, not just one character.
The thing that made this unique was that she invited us to be part of it directly rather than just interact with it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiK-2Ec8d2g&t=9115s).). That's just one example that always stuck out to me because becoming Risuna for a while helped me a lot. But there were many other, from the Minecraft server to the user submission streams to things like Momo. She made a point to mention those last stream too as some of her favorites. I think she genuinely enjoys seeing others create things, that the art comments on twitter aren't just her trying to be nice. So seeing what we create for this world was probably a lot of fun.
How much of the character was Chihiro and how much was made up we won't know. She shared a lot of herself in the VNs, and those thoughts were all ones Bea has shown us before just with a different context. And she outright admits that Bea is using her stories, though how much Bea embellishes them isn't clear. So I think she'd seem familiar if we met. They are sisters after all, it makes sense that they'd be a bit alike.
But it doesn't matter either. Beatani exists. Of course, she's not a real human being. But I think treating her as less than one is cruel.