/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>28084861
The prevalence of mascots (cute girl representing a franchise, product or location) and humanization of objects/concepts (such as OS-tans, mecha musume, moemons) are a carry over to Japan's shinto animism and their folk belief that there is a kami for everything. Now, since vtubers themselves ARE anime mascots representing concepts from bakery dogs to death itself, but are puppeteered by real flesh-and-blood people in a daily(ideally) basis and spend hours and hours as that persona, you can say they are imbued by a fragment of the divine and changed by the experience.