- Joined
- May 3, 2015
Vtubing has been diluted to basically become normal streaming but with an avatar. People shit on the idol- and kayfabe-aspects of vtubing, but that's what made it stand out from normal streaming as far as I'm concerned. Now those aspects are more or less dying out while we've gotten used to the avatars, so the novelty has worn off almost completely. That's why Salome feels refreshing imo. She's very clearly playing a character and sticking to it, and I think people miss that to some degree. I don't care about how much fun Nina had at a club with the boys or about Finana's sex toys. The vtubing magic isn't there at all with these people. Salome brings me back to the golden days.
Basically why I stopped watching Chloe almost instantly. She was interesting with the mask. With it off she's just another average cute girl saying slightly lewd things every so often. It really feels these days like a lot of vtubers are in a rush to stop playing their characters and just become 'them but an avatar'.