/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>43819221
This part is subjective, but same here with both Moona and Kiara. It is a combination of investment in them and general preferences between 2D and 3D, but I think it also highly depends on their initial approach for everything related to 3DPD.
The similar problem happens to voice actors. Watching 100 roles of one actress leads to attachment to their voice on its own. Seeing their photos and listening to out of character interviews always disconnects abstract voice and name from imagination and attaches it to real figure. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if the impression is "looks ugly but professional" or "absolutely my type and pure angel": it will be inferior to their counterparts in 2D world. Ignorance and time helps to erase this association, but being invested in voice actor implies watching concerts or interviews, making the contamination unavoidable.
As a side note about other holomembers: unlike 3D actors, voice actors and fleshstreamers, VTubers have a lot of room to balance between their real and virtual parts. From viewer perspective, we also have freedom to choose the most suitable streamers. However, many different things may happen on a long run, and in worst case scenario many fans can feel betrayed from sudden move in different direction (again, I don't apply this to Reine: she never gave such promises in the first place).
In terms of handcam compatibility, fanbases of Reine or Marine must be drastically different from Kobo or Luna. This segregation is vital for Hololive, and I believe that people projecting their experience with particular VTuber on others are fundamentally wrong. For example, there is an obvious intersection between Reine's viewers and Kiara's viewers. I saw multiple streams from Kiara where she asked chat for literally every single move in a game, blindly following what they say and thanking them for basically playing the game for her. Nothing good happens when this behavior affects Reine's chat. Same for many other cases, such as FPS addiction with Ollie. It doesn't mean that these people have bad taste and of course it doesn't mean that Reine is bad, it's just wrong to bring context of other VTubers to Reine or directly compare them.
Of course this doesn't mean that natural growth or changes over time are bad either, it's just idea of "X did Y so I must, too" is destructive. Reine used this logic on durian, and it wasn't wise. Time is finite, and trying everything other holomembers do means less of parts that are best and unique for her. Even if she is able to do anything, and even if her setup quality was objectively much higher than most of holo handcams.
>What are you on about?
For avatars, do their looks or voices not appear automatically in mind? If so, generalizing this was my mistake. For nicknames, I'm definitely wrong. It's fully applicable in very specific areas like professional gaming subcultures but this analogy was stupid.