Autism ahead.
I've never understood the whole "keep it seeekreeeet." shit. If it's a 1 to 2 minute google search for "Coco's real face" then it's the same for Antis. the cat ripped open the bag and pissed all over it. Same with Holomyth and pretty much any Tuba not named Pippa.
Now as an eternally autistic fan of professional wrestling there is some bleed over here. It even manifests in shit like Holofightz. But the basic idea is you have Kayfabe. The idea that in pro wrestling, no matter what people actually know you need to act like Pro Wrestling is a real sport. And the undead zombie warlock man is absolutely coming to steal the soul of his half demon brother who miraculously recovered from being burned alive as a child and having his voice box destroyed to becoming IRL Mayor of Knoxville. You suspend your disbelief and watch what is in front of you. You enjoy it for what it is.
I'm bringing this up because a big problem in wrestling right now is that it's infested with wrestlers and fans who are redditors who think they're so smart because they don't follow Kayfabe. They constantly point out how fake and exceptional everything is and how you shouldn't take it seriously. It's frustrating enough when fans do it. But when wrestlers knowingly break character so they can do silly immersion breaking shit for their own ego it becomes aggravating. Can you imagine how shitty Game of Thrones season 1 would have been if after executing that one guy in the first episode Sean bean looked directly in the camera. Pulled the most soy of soy expressioned and exclaimed
"Hehe I really got that other actor good. Look at how good I, actor Sean Bean am at executing people on this dumb fantasy show."
We KNOW it's all a show. You don't need to remind us. And now I'm not immersed anymore ffs. Now imagine the same thing happening with V tubers.
We suspend our disbelief. We are not seeing Karen formerly known as Demondice play a cartoon character. We are seeing Caliope Mori. A reaper of souls who has now taken up V Tubing for our entertainment. Makes perfect sense to me. People got annoyed with Mori because she chased other You Tubers like the Trash Taste people and other E Celebs. It breaks that immersion. And Mori at the time seemed to care more about advancing her own career than actually BEING a V tuber. Then you have shit like Coco graduating and going back to Kson. But we can't ever talk about her being Coco ever again.
TL/DR: We KNOW it's a IRL woman playing a chinese cartoon character. Just let us be immersed. But also understand we are allowed to KNOW about publicly findable info. And talk about it amongst ourselves.