/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>11573672
No. I value my privacy. The only way to maintain some semblance of it without being bitcoin or gamestop rich is simply to be a nobody.

That, and it's not like anyone would even watch me do reps, try to become a Japanese vending machine, or attempt to build a cult/army of vacuum cleaner anime enthusiasts for the sole purpose of aspiring to get into a giant crossover gacha game so that a handful of fans can ascend into speaking roles during an extended cinematic.

Not every dream is worth pursuing. Not every person is the right one to pursue a given dream. Not everyone has lived a life fit for becoming a virtual idol. At the end of the day, vtubing is for youngbloods and women. And yet, that's also why it tends to be so dissatiafying to watch most of the time. Oh well.

Do your best, /asp/ies.

>>10913083
>Bunch of senile fucks going on and on about the good old days on a Twitter board
Desperation is unsightly. You know nothing, and will likely never know more than that.

>>10746750
As a man who constantly gets accosted by angry trannies and jannies on /vt/, I can hard confirm. With that said, pseudo-anonymous shitposting is the extent I'm willing to entertain you all with my schizo ramblings.

I will never become a vtuber.

I will never have a memorable signature design that's absolutely unmistakable.

I will never make you cringe with my unapologetic boomer attitude.

I will never refuse to apologize for my tiny cult of fans harassing people online in my name.

I will never hard negotiate my way into a favorable profit sharing agreement with an agency that entails a 50% cut, the freedom to use payment and streaming platforms of my choice, and a model designed from scratch for either my exclusive use or as a legacy character passed down from one male vtuber to the next.

I will never shill unhealthy food to my audience of impressionable 18 to 60 year old manchildren.

I will never hold my own streams hostage until enough people join whatever game I'm playing, up to and including the point where I sleep on stream and force people who do join to wait 8 to 10 hours before I finish waking up, having breakfast, checking my email and monitoring my investments.

I will never openly talk about my investments and turn my crushing losses into an ongoing meme, which will only make it more hype when one of my investments pays off.

I will never singlehandedly lift a western male-only vtubing agency off the ground and onto the map with the herculean retard strength only a legitimate unironic autist can muster.

All because sites like CWCwiki, lolcow and kiwifarms are allowed to exist in perpetual spite of the world's lax approach to private citizens' privacy rights, and I don't feel like ever running the risk of replacing Chris-chan as the internet's communal toilet. Now really is a great time to not be in the public eye given that creep culture (digging through people's literal or proverbial trash, cyberstalking them, going to their real homes and harassing them, threatening people with violence for offending your sensibilities, etc) has been normalized by the regressive effects of unrestricted online speech.

Good luck to male vtubers who take the plunge though. Hope you fags never get doxxed or harrased by online sociopaths. They may have driven Lulu straight out of vtubing, but I'm sure you'll all have much better luck. Probably. Or not. Just to be safe, be sure to self identify as non-binary trans-women to make criticizing you a hate crime.

With all that said, the most successful male vtuber will probably be a nonbinary trans who self identifies as a man. I'm sure he'll do us all proud, even if I'll misgebder him until the day I die. Which might come sooner rather than later if hate speech laws get ramped up and misgenderingg fictional characters becomes a capital crime. Oh well.

>>10378183
This thread reeks of women, so let me turn on a fan and pull up a chair.

>HoloEN
Poor logistical infrastructure. Can't and won't pay to smuggle their talents into the country for 3D streams they literally will only ever do once in a blue moon, and won't pay for home 3D because small multinational company please understand.
>NijiEN
The artists and sweatshops are already overworked and underpaid. They didn't foresee the western vtubing boom and haven't adapted their workforce to it over the past year and a half. Now they're playing catch up after having effectively flooded the market and outgrown the limits of their resources by taking on more mouths than they can feed 3D to.
>Tsunderia
Trying to be hololive lite, but can't beat them on talent because whores will either go indie or go big brand. Letting them keep the models is a nice gesture, but it only truly inspires confidence and loyalty among the takented who'd want to build a brand up with their bear hands (aka men). The lack of talent would require resources and capital to make up for it through superior production values...but that capital doesn't seem to exist.
>Prism
The actual small Japanese company that has some talent but not the resources, marketing or permissions freedom needed to run circles around Hololive.
>Phaseconnect
An absolute shitshow with poor management and ill behaved chubas that lacks proper professionalism. Also appears to have gone into it without properly amassing the capital to tout superior production values.
>Kawaii
Literal who agency that lacks marketing, talent and capital. Still trying to be Hololive lite, as if bootlegging is supposed to be a model for success when the original product is already free.
>and more in EN
Vshoujo has 3d. Others don't it's ultimately a matter of money. Either it has to come from the revenue stream, or it has to come from investors. Barring that, the resources just aren't there to compete on production values.

tldr Chubas aren't facecammers. They can't just stand up and do 3d things. Anime and CG effects are an expensive creative production classically manifested through crowdsourcing via committee, where various industries contribute their expertise and share in both losses as well as profits. As a matter of course, small companies not backed by big investors will have inferior chuba assets than chubas who rake in the money and have larger investors backing them.

Cyberlive is apparently the only agency who thought this through prior to setting up shop and came to the realization that if you can't beat hololive by being more talented or marketable than them, there's always dumping fucktons of money into objective improvements like 3D, goods, services, animations, manga, and all sorts of other projects utilizing their IP. It's not unreasonable to think that if the IP was developed on its own, that would in turn buff and carry the character's voice actress. That's how anime production committees do it. They don't just rely on voice actors to carry anime. Instead, they work on developing and expanding the intellectual property so as to make that character and the person voicing them relevant.

That's not to say it will work. Throwing good money after bad is also riskier. But in the end, risk is the only way to find opportunities that haven't yet presented themselves, and the companies that find those opportunities may get a leg up. Fortune always favors the wealthy, because the wealthy usually have both the means and preparations to take advantage of market inefficiencies.