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What is a v tuber?
it stands for virtual tuber.
you basically buy a potato online,
but instead of shipping it to your location,
you get sent a link to a picture of it.Nah, that's NFTs.
non fungible tubers
No tuber is fungible. Each potato is special in its own way
So, it's like sponsoring a kid from a third world country?
nah, your not sponsoring it,
you invest in it.its your potato after all,
you just cant actually eat itCan someone else eat my k̶i̶d̶ potato?
of course not, what would be the point of investing in it otherwise?
its YOUR potato after all
Can I donate my potato to a starving 3rd world kid?
you could send them your image,
but they also can't eat it.I'll still feel good for sending food to a starving kid, and that's all that counts.
A VTuber, or virtual YouTuber, is an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics. Real-time motion capture software or technology are often—but not always—used to capture movement.
Wow.
I figured out I was out of touch when snapchat filters became younger folks' identities.
I mean, it's a step up from my generation where everyone was xx_Drizzt_xx
Is it? I'll admit I've bounced off the one Drizzt book I tried reading...twice. But there are some damn good novels in the Forgotten Realms line.
And even if they are reading low-grade schlock, is that not at least equal to (and frankly probably better than) watching lazy overly-sexualised live streams?
What live streams are you watching?
Yeah, there's low-grade schlock of anything if you look for (or single out) it
Plus we were mainly talking about identities, not the streams themselves. Though I do want to point out that the cartoon itself is using the eekum bookum girl ...so...if that's sexualized then...okay?
I've never seen any vtubers. I was basing my impression of it on other comments from this thread, particularly the top comment by @qooqie.
Honestly their impression seems super biased based on their perception of one streamer they liked. Vtubers - just like other streamers/content creators - range from "primarily doing porn" to "guy that has been streaming for 10 years decides to get a cute anime girl vtuber avatar for fun".
There's a tendency for roleplaying a character, but it's not a necessity and definitely not always sexualized and plenty of vtubers are just regular streamers with an anime avatar.
There's of course some weird simp culture in many audiences, but that's no different from other female streamers either. From what streamers have said it's hard to prevent unless you stop anything close to it from happening, and few people want to do that when it also just factually brings in a significant amount of revenue.
Most also don't mind or even like people drawing porn of their avatars, but that's more due to humans being horny by default rather than particularly exploiting that for money.
Doesn't seem like a step up to me
The easiest way to understand is a streamer (think Markiplier or Pewdiepie) but instead of seeing their face, they use an animated avatar that follows their movements.
Extra layer of anonymity and makes people less focused on their day-to-day looks.
The latest fad.
A streamer who uses a virtual avatar instead of their face.
Some roleplay as their character and some just want to stream without showing their face.
