/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>62014385

>>57766642
>the greatest and best vtuber kizuna ai makes her second youtube video and coins the phrase "virtual youtuber" because her larp is she's a VIRTUAL artificial intelligence, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NasyGUeNMTs
>everyone follows because virtual youtuber is synonymous with kizuna ai so they're pretty much saying they're "kizuna-like" youtubers
>vtubing gets big enough that male vtubers start appearing
>some vtubers have taken up long format content where it's a video of a raw feed of them talking/playing videogames
>the golden age of vtubing happens and everyone is trying out new shit - mess around with vr headsets/tech, create videogames as youtuber avatars, even branching out to adult content (AVtubing)
>live2d is a thing and programs like facerig are born from it
>cue /a/ experimenting and jerking off with it to record their orgasm face, pic related
>meanwhile in the west vrchat is blowing up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVJrJPDUa1k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXVR20Sa5Mc
>corpo vtubers like niji start forming and normalizes shitty/boring longform content with 2d avatars
>they also start doing youtuber concerts
>vtubers get big enough that eng vtubers happen but are a small group composed of mostly vrchat people like virtual deat plus otanashi rhythm and eilene crew
>blue dorito corpo collabs with azurlane and brings in tourists/cancer chinese audience and clipper channels blow up
>covid happens and brings in more tourists
>holoEN happens and brings in more cancer that thinks holo invented vtubing
>the formerly mentioned vrchat streamers catch wind of eng vtubing and start coopting the trend, opens the door for vshojo which are mostly a group of vrchat streamers
>2020-present is the dark age of vtubing, everything revolves around money and squeezing money out of desperate weebs
old indies like azuma lim and omega sis are still chugging along creating short form content

go watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zZwjRmMWcY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5dd4Z1wczI for reference

>>52423168
ACTUALLY 2015 is when facerig released thus they existed in some form
I remember how everyone used it for like a month and then it went forgotten

When I saw Nijisanji debut with livestreaming, using shitty live2D facerig models (which I thought were low effort trash compared to the 3D mocap suit models of that era), I thought of them as the Twitch of vtubing. As in, they were just a platform for "loud is funny" e-thots to stream without showing their faces. It wasn't until mid-covid when Hololive clips got my attention and changed my mind that streamer-type vtubers weren't all that bad.

It's kinda cringe now that whenever a normie asks what a vtuber is, the immediate default response is "a streamer who uses an anime avatar". Virtual Youtubers didn't start with streaming; in fact, streaming was such a new concept when Nijisanji debuted, that they coined the retarded term "liver" to try and stand out from edited video-form chuubas.

This /a/non is the OG vtuber

>>43348666
I have it.

>>30249067
I remember that thread.