Zinnaha
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- Joined
- Jul 29, 2020
As much as I like shitting on vtweeters (who doesn't?) They do occasionally have a point, and this is one of them in a way, because given just how much trash has flooded the Vtubing scene since it blew up out west a lot of people do expect a quality model (read: Coomerbait) before they even give a chubba a chance lately, and if you're a png tuber? Gl being considered a "vtuber" lol. We went through a whole arc of people using those "$22 models" where there were literal boycotts of vtubers using them. I agree it's not too expensive blah blah, but I honestly can't really take a now corp (whether big or small) backed person's opinion seriously, since it's a different climate than when even she started out. Back when she got her start you normally didn't have people shit on pngtubers or even "low quality" models, it was fresh enough. Nowadays it's like you have actual vtubers and aliexpress vtubers, and we all know what reputation aliexpress has lmao. I still agree vtweeters normally just sit around doing fuck all, but there's some merit that if you want to get out of 0-3 view land, the first thing people are attracted to is what they see and that can't be denied. It can't carry you fully but we've all been to a point in browsing indies the most interesting model caught our eye.Pippa comes down from her pain meds and immediately decides to weigh in on another round of vtweeters seething, this time about being a vtuber is expensive and fuck capitalism because these vtweeters literally feel entitled to the work of artists/riggers and the highest quality models to make up for their lack of personality and success.
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A few of them will probably seethe at her again and try another flaccid attempt to cancel her.
Since another "Case study" would be how people immediately shit on or outright refuse to watch men using female avatars, e.g "this is such a great model but it's wasted on male behind it" or "this is such a sexy model but it's wasted on a female behind the male avatar." It's a no win scenario now that the market is just over-saturated and as great of a content creator you are, you need to either have a great model to catch intitial interest, people don't consider you "clout chasing" if you network or get blessed by the algorithm gods and people choose to give you a chance rather than outright blocking some "who?" popping up on their feeds out the blue.
Honestly, even the piracy didn't kill him. Just him having literally nothing going for him other than: "Oh hey btw I'm gay *disconnects from discord call*" being his literal personality. Even Zen using his TTS shit he at least has something going for him. A big bonus was Artemis got in early too but he's less obnoxious with inserting himself than people like Shoto or FeFe.A large part of Artemis' initial numbers was because of a very extensive campaign of pre-debut shilling on SNS, often by accounts using very similar wording. The same applies to the first wave of posts trying to downplay the poor entertainment value of his after the first streams happened too. It's obvious that he networked hard and had a significant backing beforehand - probably a dedicated Discord clique.
The model did carry him quite a lot though but I think what definitively killed his momentum was the holopiracy case and the obnoxious way he'd try to insert himself into other streamers' chat.
Eggslut is fucking fantastic though lol.