/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>181796
>I feel like I need a definite all encompassing conclusion
You don't. Your feelings are shit.

>>181822
That's true, but it would be nice to just have a blanket way to feel about all v-tubers so I don't have to feel like a loser for liking them.

>>181796
It's both and that's why vtubers are special

>>182018
I guess that's a sufficient way to look at it.

>>181796
Depends. Some of them are significantly more "character" than others, some of them are essentially just the person with a gimmick they do sometimes, if even that.

It's impossible to keep an act up for so long, you'll lapse to yourself sometimes, it's best to play something that is close to what you truly are.

>>181822
I don't like you so I will rape you and that makes me based

>>181796
If we're talking about Twitch or Indy Vtubers: yes to both
Hololive and Nijisanji avatars are premade, and they are filled by the best slot. Case in point is Luna from Holo was something else entirely on Niji before she quit, so look to her as a method voice actor

>>181796
Idk I just come here for the AO shitposting and to stare at vtuber tits and arse.

>>181796
It's actually both.

>>181796
it's honestly not something you can blanket
like I guess you could say all of them are playing characters, but it wildly varies between them depending on if that character is completely unlike their real self, or if it's basically just themselves with a bit of makeup
I would wager that most of the girls are largely themselves though

>>181796
> A certain kind of behaviour is forced on them by the world, and professional people endeavour to come up to these expectations. Only, the danger is that they become identical with their personas—the professor with his text-book, the tenor with his voice. Then the damage is done; henceforth he lives exclusively against the background of his own biography. For by that time it is written: “… then he went to such and such a place and said this or that,” etc. The garment of Deianeira has grown fast to his skin, and a desperate decision like that of Heracles is needed if he is to tear this Nessus shirt from his body and step into the consuming fire of the flame of immortality, in order to transform himself into what he really is. One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is. In any case the temptation to be what one seems to be is great, because the persona is usually rewarded in cash.”

This happens to 'normal' people, and it'll happen to a vtuber ten times over. Understand this. For a more casual streamer who puts in an hour a day, this may not apply, but for bigger chuubas as they are now...

You don't need to travel to work, so you lack even the barest human contact of public transport. Every time you go out in public, you fear your voice being recognized, or falling sick in a way that damages it and risks the most valuable asset of your career, so you tend to order delivery. Furthermore, you likely have doxx circulating, and every time you go out in public is another chance for a schizo to get lucky. You endure the dangers of a smaller celebrity with no security to handle it.
You are tacitly and likely outright discouraged from intimate relationships due to the nature of your audience and the fear of breaking kayfabe. You work during the hours others relax, and your sleeping hours become strange and off-kilter if you want to be international, so your social circle of 'normal people' drifts away; even if you keep in contact, they can never give you any affirmation or critique for the activities you spend the vast majority of your waking hours doing, because you cannot trust most of them to keep it quiet or even understand fully. You come to identify with and befriend other streamers, but again you cannot disclose to the vast majority of them your 'real' identity, because there fundamentally is no reason to, it impedes both of your performances, and one slipup can torpedo careers.
Even if you started out intending the character to be simply a mask, you don't spend at least 4 hours a day in front of a camera, preparing topics, schedules, doing singing and dancing reps, interacting with your audience in that guise, reading and responding to all sorts of media treating you as that character, and not practically become that character. The chuuba life, it consumes you.

>>181796
They are meant to be characters played by a VA, this is undeniable.
There can be ways to game the system and make your character closer to a representation of yourself (so you don't have to work as hard to maintain the charade) but it's still a /character/

they are all employees so they are just doing what's told of their bosses

>>181796
its the same as how bmost youtubers/streamers put on an act or just exaggerate their actual personality for comedic effect

>>181796
>VA
what does the state of virginia have to do with anything vtubing?

>>182292
>It's impossible to keep an act up for so long
not if your sense of self is so weak that you become dependent on the famous and successful persona everyone likes.

>>181796
I feel they always debut with the intention of playing a certain kind of character. But as time goes on either A) their real personality comes through or B) they act as a persona for so long it becomes them and even offline they act the way their character does.

>>185303
That's every chuuba. Which is your 'real' self, the cheeky and witty on-screen person which everyone adores and talks to, or the aging sack of flesh that is practically only described by the brief hour where it has to crawl out of bed, pay bills and do laundry?