I came back from 72 straight hours of consciousness and was checking my favorite agriculture forum while beating my meat to Hoshikawa and Rion sama twitcast then came across
this topic in Q&A that led me to an important question: What does the crime and punishment guy think about vtuber?
So I sat down and finally watch the fake ojou with purple drill hair and annoying voice debut that totally didn't get boosted because her parent company is gonna go public soon. And then an epiphany hit me, like revelation from fucking God. The secret to popularity for all vtubers. It's chuunibiyou. The more chuuni you act, the faster your sub count grow. Okay, this might sound insane, but bear with me here.
I've been watching vtubers since the day people pay attention to Kizuna Ai because she was a technological novelty and there's not a single vtuber that is able to completely play their character ever since the format had moved on from short skit to streaming. No matter how strong your mental fortitude is, playing a character day in and day out for hours would drive anyone insane. Not the first time someone do a flip over reality tv in Japan anyways. That led to the situation that there's more and more "normal woman with one or two over exaggerated quirky aspect streaming behind a 2D avatar" instead of a virtual youtuber as a whole package.
That's where chuuni comes into play. The central conflict of chuunibiyou is self denial and craving for self affirmation at the same time. For those who can pull it off convincingly, Vtubers provided a perfect way to satisfied both end of the conflict. And then people latched onto a vtuber that are able to play a character for escapism despite knowing it's just a character. They joined Noel membership because Noel is an interesting character, not because she shows her cleavage and makes blowjob noise into a microphone.
TLDR: Who is the greatest chuuni in all of human history? Don Quixote, which Dostoevsky considered the most tragic book ever conceived by the genius of man. Would Dostoevsky be into vtuber? He would eat that shit up.
And then I realize this whole shitpost that spawn from another shitpost had gone too far for my sleep deprived brain to follow and to end it here make me feel kinda bad so...
If there is an oldfag from page 1 that still following / posting in this thread, here's something from me to you.
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