/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

Imagine, if you will, a world without unicorns. A world where Vtubing has fully abandoned it's japanese Idol heritage and it's rules; where the main target audience is no longer lonely men, but the general public, namely women, who nowadays all get their content from the internet and see anime aesthetics as normal anyway. Not only do vtubers collab with whoever they want without concern, but they even establish relationships with each other. Corpos push Vtuber couples as marketing stunts. Female collabs become discussions about their boyfriends. Yabs and rrats now revolve around their relationship, breakups, "cheating", gossip, talking behind the back; drama. Drama sells, drama generate clicks. And women love relatonship drama, they absolutely eat that shit up. Look at how deranged zoomers are over ships of fictional characters. Now imagine if that delulu can be fed even more. Clippers make bank with videos like "Vtuber X SHOCKS fans by breaking up with Maletuber Y. Can a Vtuber in relationship with a Fleshtuber?? Vtuber Z SHOCKING revelations about Vtuber I. Vtuber J CHEATED??? Vtuber K KEKS her boyfriend with Chat!". They're grocery store tabloids. Vtubing has become a your grandma's romantic soap opera. Kate and Harry with anime models. And it sells, big time. It rakes in huge fucking piles of clicks, views and money, so the corporations love it. Nobody buys tabloids or watches TV anymore, but there will always be that female need to gossip and stuff your nose into other people's lives out of curiosity and that market is not going away, ever. And you, the lonely man who just wants some GFE to pass the empty days of his meaningless life, where do you go? You go fuck yourself, of course. If you want a picture of the future, imagine the Invisible Hand of the Market turning every avenue of escape you have from the real world into mean girls boyfriends gossip for roastie clicks. This is the future.