/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

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I can only speak for myself but while I'm no puritan and won't condemn it(within reason), I don't see any appeal to it as any kind of mainstay.
Important to point out that the drug and the reasons for it factor heavily into this, though. It's never been psychedelics tiers, but it's not like drugs and vtubing haven't crossed in the past though. Off the top of my head...
>Drinking streams are common in vtubing, though 1) most chuubas(smartly) don't push themselves much farther than tipsy and use the reduced inhibition to simply crank up the silliness manually and 2) while they're common in vtubing overall, on an individual basis they are very sporadic; this formula is the way it is for a reason, and it is strongly advised that you keep them as infrequent as the rest. There are a multitude of reasons for this, and I'm sure almost anybody could guess at least a few.
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>Coco(of Reddit Dragon fame) early-ish on in her Hololive career ended up being prescribed sleeping pills. Anybody who has been prescribed "sleeping pills" knows that there is no such thing as medication that actually puts somebody naturally to sleep; "sleeping pills" are more like "sleep encouragement pills". And sometimes they aren't encouraging enough, so the insomnia keeps you awake but the medication proceeds to temporarily shut down most of your brain anyway, which is how we had streams of Coco playing Ark without the capacity to form complete sentences.
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>IronMouse is another famous one, I'm sure you can simply pop open an archive site and find anons in a Vshojo thread getting excited about something Mouse is doing by just searching for the term "zooted". I actually don't know exactly what drug it is, and by that i mean that I have not heard Mouse state it explicitly with my own ears. However that thread has mentioned it fairly often and IIRC it seemed to be some sort of painkiller. Presumably the harder kind. It essentially makes her extremely energetic, lowers her inhibitions, and increases how often she initiates things dramatically. Based on my brief observations and the details provided by the fans over a prolonged period of time.
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>Riro Rons "Silly Pills". I'm not gonna touch this one at all because I refuse to make judgements about people I know very little about. But her fans themselves, including the ones that defend her even now, don't deny that they were in fact sleeping pills. But she didn't take them during stream time, apparently she was going to go to bed once she hit that donation goal in the infamous screenshot.
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>This is kind of a free space for "drugs" that you can use without really needing to worry about psychoactive effects strong enough to alter your behaviour in ways that are impossible to miss. A lot of prescription medication falls into this category, as long as you take it as prescribed. God knows how many vtubers use adderall, for example. Same thing for anxiety medication.
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>That one indie I watched a year and a half ago out of sheer whim, along with 13 other viewers, who made sure to let us all know that he vapes constantly by enthusiastically blasting the sound of him trying to satisfy his debilitating addiction into the mic every 15 fucking seconds. Even though he was often incomprehensible when he talked, he somehow made sure that the audio of him hitting his fucking vape was always high definition, crisp, and full-bodied. I don't even know if he was a girl or a guy, I literally could not hear their voice, and their model was super androgynous and so was their name. Tons of the examples I used above involved abusing or misusing controlled substances, or at least drinking which definitively influences a person more than nicotine, and yet that indie is the only person who deserves to be illegal.
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>I also think one EN vtuber streamed while high? I have a vague memory of that. And no I don't mean Kronii, I mean for real. It wasn't a vtuber I cared about at all at the time so I could be misremembering of way off the mark. I'm fairly certain it wasn't merely a shitpost though.
There are actually other examples of vtubers who have mentioned drug use before, both in terms of illegal narcotics and heavy abuse and misuse of prescription narcotics, but because they are not common knowledge among more casual audiences unlike the ones I listed, I will omit them for their sake. I will however say that it makes me uncomfortable to hear about it. Especially if they're semi-bragging and laughing about it. Especially especially if they're semi-bragging and laughing about it AND the medical consequences that they have to live with now because of their previous drug use. It makes me sad when people I like get hurt, it makes me even sadder to know that they hurt themselves, but it makes me truly depressed when somebody I like boasts about their self-destruction as if it was just another thing that happens

TL;DR Sporadic/Unintentional, Small Doses, Weaker Stuff