@Uberpenguin
It looks like Null's fucking around with the quoting feature again so pardon this ghetto-quote.
Dawg, anyone who accepts that some bizarre out of shape chicks with a tenuous relationship with hygiene who make their money talking in a high pitch voice and piloting little anime girls for a bunch of shut ins online are "straight up fuckin' dudes who aren't on [their] level" should probably just give up on life.
Right, I guess I was referring more to traditional celebrities with the last part; I'd love to give Rhianna a spin on my dick, but she is in a position to be able to meet and pick from scores of dudes more attractive and charismatic than me, so I have consneeded, without much particular anguish, that Rhianna will fuck many dudes but never me. Fine, whatever. Similarly, while I'm not romantically or sexually attracted to any particular vtuber or their character, I also have conceded that if I were, I am never going to fuck them. Whatever. Not something I or any other balanced human will spend much of my day worrying about. Typical celebrity/normie social barrier stuff.
But I think you're going too hard on disparaging the girls who do this. For all but maybe the top 5%, this is a second or part-time job to them, so they necessarily have to get out of the house and away from the computer to make a living and/or go to school. And from the girls that have been successfully doxxxxxxxxed, I can't think of any who are particularly hideous so far. From Hololive EN's first generation, Mori Calliope (the pink-haired reaper) is an artist and rap/electroswing producer who goes by Demondice and Karen and
looks like this and primarily worked as an ESL teacher when she started streaming (she kept that job for a couple months afterwards, as nobody foresaw that Hololive EN would be as wildly successful as it became), and Kiara (the orange-haired girl with an accent) is
Keekihime, who had very moderate success as an IRL pop idol in Japan. Normal people who had relatively normal lives that didn't involve sitting in front of a computer playing video games all day. Even now, they work maybe four hours a day, five to six days a week. Add in behind-the-scenes meetings and preparation and such and they're probably not chained to their computers more than your average full-time office employee.
I'd argue that a large portion of western men wouldn't even date one of these v-tuber girls. I'm confused as to why they would; is it their ability to consistently speak like a child? Their ability to use a program that replaces them with an anime girl? I don't really see why rich, handsome, fit men would be falling all over themselves to date some pale lass who spends too much time at her computer and who bears no resemblance to an anime girl in real life.
I mean, do you think that if you hit the bar with the guy who plays Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory, he'd act like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory all night? These are actors playing characters distinct from themselves. Due to the nature of streaming, sometimes the real personality comes out, but that's an anomaly. Yes, there are weirdoes who might want to date Karen because they think she literally acts like Mori all the time or something, but that's the minority who we'd be making fun of in this thread. The majority, the normies, know exactly what's going on here is all theater, even if we play along from time to time.
I think it's more likely that you keep consuming anime for the same reason people who eat sugar just want more sugar; it's cheap and unsatisfying in the long run but the temporary rush it provides makes you crave more anyways, where as those who are in the habit of avoiding sugar don't miss it and are usually better off.
You could say this about so much of entertainment, though. Replace "anime" with "sitcoms" or "The Fast and The Furious movies" or "violent video games" and the sentence still holds true, doesn't it? Shall we just force ourselves to abstain from all entertainment which doesn't meet some arbitrary level of brain-nourishment? Anyway, I don't really feel the need to apologize for enjoying having a shitposting rabbit playing Minecraft on in the background while I'm working or doing housework instead of PBS or NPR, ya know? I can't be "on" all the time. I've had some nasty addictions but fortunately meth has never been one of them.
tl;dr: Most vtubers aren't slovenly nerds and most fans aren't stupid about what's actually happening here.
