/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>40973112
Yes. There's a huge streamer in KR called Gangzi. Part of the old guard pngtuber cabal that's been around for a decade. The 11k vtuber is a part of her own vtuber company StelLive.

>>40730381
It's KR-specific terminology for pngtubers. The culture goes far back before even vtubers was a thing, all the way back around 2010~2011. They hold a massive amount of power in the streaming scene, and at one point had a stranglehold on both Twitch and Youtube, until very recently when the vtubing meta basically broke them.
If you've ever wondered why Baelz has a large KR audience, she's very similar to those streamers, at least in my opinion.

>>38316016
Specifically, Gangzhi and many like her were part of a group of people known as "dullahans". Basically they are pngtubers.
They were called dullahans because "they don't stream their face thus, they are headless". Specifically they exploded in popularity during the original Overwatch boom. Their streaming format is basically buying multiple illustrations of their 'character' and putting that on the screen instead of a reaction cam.

For the longest time the dullahans were reclining in popularity (mostly because they were coasting off their popularity with lazy content, and becoming more and more insular). When vtubing first exploded in popularity across the world, the dullahans took too long to respond and had a huge amount of their viewership destroyed/taken away by the big two (Holo/Niji). This caused them to panic and try multiple different things to stop the recline, such as getting Live2D models, 3D models, and hosting big events. YUME PERCENT is one of those responses to the changing times. And the reason it eventually shut down was because the people running it (mainly dullahans and related people) didn't really know how to effectively run a vtuber corporation.