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>What shocks me is that i’ve learned that not every Indie on twitter is acutely aware of corpos. Some are oblivious, seeing vtubing in all it’s aspects as a hobby
Yep! This is how I saw it and why I was so surprised at the hololive stuff when I started streaming. When people asked me my favorite Holo, I would sort of freeze up because the only one I knew of was Ina from watching her gesture drawing streams, and I only watched those because I already watched a lot of art streaming/video content beforehand, not because she was in hololive. I scarcely knew what it was when I started, other than that the dog girl was annoying to hear and the red head girl yelled a lot.
Streaming has always been a hobby and that is why the existence of numberfriending has always been sort of strange. I have watched a 2-4 viewer no cam streamer for the last 4 years. He is not inclining, he is not gunning for the greats. He is just playing what he likes on stream, it is a hobby and fun to hang out and watch him. I found him while looking at a niche game category and have watched him since. That is how streaming has always felt to me and that is what I went into my own streaming with and why I sort of suck at advertising myself, at getting attention or "inclining", I think. I have mostly hovered around the same range for a while because I stream like a hobbyist, even if I wish I could wrap my head around being a better streamer.