/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

I did the complete trip from unknown to popular once with Miko and I don't necessarily want to experience that again.
It's good for streamers but then it becomes just entertainment and we disappear.
The fans who support vtubers get the short end of the stick every time.
It's better to treat it with that expectation from the start.

Y gets 1 million subs? Good, but it doesn't change my life and I will watch someone less popular in the future instead now that the fanbase degradation occurs and I don't matter anymore.
Z retires? I will watch V instead.

Vtubers are already mainstream and don't need to grow more.
Maybe they can still grow at a slower pace for a decade but they may have hit an initial glass ceiling.

This is a known technological adoption model by the way with an initial hype phase, followed by a facing reality phase (mini bear market) which lasts 20 months, then followed by the realization of potential over a decade.
Vtubers just like crypto had their last hype phase at the same time and are close to the end of a bear market.

We will see how it affects vtubers and we may get a new growth phase starting from the second half of this year, but I don't trade vtubers and it's easier to gamble with crypto.