Tl;dr - vtubers are like wwe superstars in that it's 70% themselves, 20% pandering, 10% character concept. Risu is only partially right.
She's probably right that most of them are giving it their all and their lives probably now revolve around streaming. That actually jives with the pro wrestling comparison because those guys are also giving it their all and training, performing, and filling their role. Like, you look at Hulk Hogan and you know that he probably doesn't get called Hulk at home, that's just a character, but you do know he's busting his ass and his pride and behavior and all that are really part of who he is. Maybe some others are more conceptual (Dustin Rhodes is a far cry from Goldust) but the person playing it is putting much of themselves into it.
At the same time, Risu is telling us that she's giving her "true self" while streaming as a squirrel doing a high voice and avoiding all personally identifying information because it would break her character and end with her suspension if that stuff (i.e., her actual self) ever became widely known. That's much less like pro wrestling; virtually every character has a real name and personal/professional history associated with them. It's why someone like Chris Jericho can be some blustering aging newbie on AEW but everyone knows he's fucking Chris Jericho and has been everywhere and done everything for decades, meanwhile someone like Botan, who has been doing FPS streams for a Jericho-esque length of time, is a 5th gen kouhai.
Rate me autistic if you like, it's just fun to think bout this sort of stuff.
