General Discussion for Virtual Youtubers / Vtubers / Chuubas - it's okay to be a simp for 2D, just don't thirstpost.

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Post from October 2020
My guesses:
  • Through January vtubers continue to be popular and occasionally rocked by scandals. More big name streamers (mostly women) debut avatars and cliques start to form. "Virtual Youtubers" is acknowledged in American news media fluff pieces.
  • Spring 2021, saturation has been reached, new vtubers aren't drawing and older talent starts moving to greener pastures. Japanese companies have debuted more English, Spanish, even Korean-speaking vtubers to great acclaim but generally lower numbers than before. Most career-minded talent have springboarded into more artistically fulfilling careers. Some less aspirational vtubers take their audience and go back to fleshtubing.
  • (Meltdown) May 2021 - superscandal rocks English-speaking vtube world. Many retire for mental health reasons. Audiences for large vtubers have devolved into autistic slapfights. Japanese audiences are starting to move on in earnest now that fuckbots are a thing. Kizuna AI is retired around this time.
  • Summer 2021 - youtube cracks down on Harassment Campaigns and many end up on DLive or other less regulated platforms. More retirings; company talent rosters mostly full of part-time midcarders, indies are either in full gamergate/weebwar mode, are too hardcore to care and keep on keeping on, or have just retired as well. Major Japanese talent are coming up mysteriously pregnant/married and leaving the scene entirely, and are popping up on those celebrity talk shows that are fucking everywhere over there.
  • Fall 2021 - Cover corp goes into administration. Vtubers are now considered gauche by all but the most serious otakus.
  • Winter 2021 - Nijisanji is bought by a Taiwanese company and dissolved.
  • January 1, 2022 - Virtual Youtubers appear on Medium's Top 10 Worst Things About 2021 List. The comment section... is a mess.
Im so glad that nearly all of these guesses are wrong. The "many retire" part (sans those who "renincarnated to agency") is at best debatable. And the so called "most serious otakus" turns out to be the ones who are extremely elitist and vocal minority anyways, so I doubt their viewpoint will change no matter the VTubers fate. Have fun guys.
 
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Glad i'm not the only one that thought that. Glad to she she's branching out, wish she had more... common sense? social awareness? Lets just hope this doesn't lead to anything.
 
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So Gura had an unarchived member's karaoke today
1) Bad Guy - her rendition ain't that bad at all; she could've duet with Kronii if ever

2) Hajimete no Chuu - jazz, english version

3) I won't Give Up - lil janky

4) Stereo Hearts - shark can rap, albeit not as fast nor good as Calli

5) Somebody that I used to know - she's confused, but she got spirit

6) I See the Light

7) Dancing Queen, Houshou Marine lmao

8) When You wish upon a Star
 
Be prepared for Menya Botan EN branch(es)
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Kiara got away with saying 'Nigger' on stream despite not having the shield of being a cute JOP who doesn't know what she's saying. Saying 'Woke' tongue-in-cheek is hardly going to stop the presses.
based Kiara
(tbh the "nigga" comment was an accident, not that Twitter would care, and she was fine after that so yeah, nothing will happen)
 
So Gura had an unarchived member's karaoke today
1) Bad Guy - her rendition ain't that bad at all; she could've duet with Kronii if ever

2) Hajimete no Chuu - jazz, english version

3) I won't Give Up - lil janky

4) Stereo Hearts - shark can rap, albeit not as fast nor good as Calli

5) Somebody that I used to know - she's confused, but she got spirit

6) I See the Light

7) Dancing Queen, Houshou Marine lmao

8) When You wish upon a Star
Dynamite by Taio Cruz is also a impromptu minecraft version
 
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