/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EZTOYhlruk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvAQKD48D4I
https://youtu.be/2kapupCA_7g?t=77

TL;DR Why is Noel calling viewers her boyfriend and redefining her ship to be more vague? GFE doesn't benefit her

Unironically, what is going on with Noel's approach to her fans nowadays? Not even a rrat about her relationship with Flare, but this just feels like she is deliberately trying to shift the relationship she has with her audience.
Last link in particular is timestamped because she quite literally says that she want her chat to pretend to be her boyfriend, and don't give me the "lmao bad TL" excuse either because that sentence is crisp and you can quite clearly hear the words for stream and boyfriend as well as all the basic surrounding bits to TL the sentence yourself fairly easily.

And yeah, I also know sankisei has always been the GFE/cabaret generation, but Noel always felt like the sexual one in the group, not the romantic one. She's nice and soothing and all, but especially with regards to her audience, she almost always seemed to go out of her way to give extra attention to female viewers, and it's not been too long since she would reject marriage proposals and shit by leaning onto her ship, calling Flare her husband, which apparently now she wants to stop.
It makes no sense for me for Noel to lean into GFE, like really no fucking sense at all. She has three houses, she makes tons of money, she's great with both views/subs/memberships, she has an even more profitable side-gig, she's shown to actually be able to make great/innovative content. There is literally no material benefit for her in pursuing GFE more deeply, so I just don't get why it feels like this given her talking like this more recently.