/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>586052
I think you can understand it if you treat a Holo and her fanbase like a planet. The surface level, the crust, is where most normalfags are. They don't see them as anything other than entertainment.
From there, you have the Mantle, which is the fans who are deeper in, but still not very interested. This is where you'd see people who think they're deep in, but actually not very reactive at all, outside of the occasional shock of activity from deeper in that resonates out to the Mantle of fans. You get a bulk of active people in here, like artists, clipfags, the like that have an interest but little closeness.
Then, you have the liquid Outer Core. This is the most reactive, worrying group of the fanbase. These are the people who are deep in, but unsettled. They don't have any concept of what's acceptable or not acceptable, but they want to get closer. That's where you see people like the pastebin schizo or the guy who asked Ame about how he could greet a Vtuber in real life.
Then, at the very center, you have the solid Inner Core. They're the ones who understand the boundaries, and while they are hardcore, they're settled and accepting of what they get.
The composition of fanbases is different for every girl, but if you document their fans on this basis, it makes sense, with the understanding that the Inner Core's size doesn't matter for the general reactivity of the girl's fans:
>Ame: large Crust, little Mantle, little Outer Core, Inner Core
>Gura: large Crust, large Mantle, little Outer Core, Inner Core
>Ina: middle Crust, middle Mantle, little Outer Core, Inner Core
>Mori: middle Crust, large Mantle, medium Outer Core, Inner Core
>Kiara: middle Crust, middle Mantle, large Outer Core, Inner Core
That's how I think you can accurately describe it, and it's why I think Mori and Kiara get more of that than the ones you'd think would, like Ame and Gura. Mori and Kiara have a high chunk of Outer Core fans, who push deeper in, but don't have the understanding of boundaries between the Holo and the Fan. They get caught in the idol side of things but don't understand what the idol side requires as a mindset, so they fall for them in the traditional sense without understanding the idol sense. Ame, Ina and Gura have large fanbases, but they have a greater distance from the overt idol side of things, despite being idols at the core. The obfuscation prevents a highly active Outer Core from forming.