Okay, first draft of my Pippa shill post done. I think it needs some clip recommendations at the end, which I'll have a think about. Probably after more lore/interesting/fun than political or edgy.
Thanks for the suggestions so far, I think this is much better for it.
Most, if not everyone here is at least passingly familiar with Pipkin Pippa. She's the most-subscribed talent at Phase Connect, is quite well-regarded in the vtubing sphere, and you’ve no doubt seen memes of her.
I’m going to shill her anyway.
Leave behind any preconceptions you might have about Pippa. Memes and clips are fun, but they are often quite misleading. A casual viewer might have a vastly different impression of Pippa than what she’s actually like. While this is all part of the fun for her fans, non-viewers might form very different conclusions about Pippa, her thoughts and opinions than what she actually thinks or expresses.
The first thing to understand about Pippa is that she will bare her soul to you when she streams. Successes, failures, hopes and dreams, cringe-inducing stories, depressing moments, insecurities, and controversial and unpopular opinions, are all on the table. Pippa has only the most basic filter for her personal details and unspoken rules of vtuber etiquette, and even the last one is more a suggestion than an ironclad rule. While vtubing has many talents that share from their personal life, it’s extremely hard to find someone else that shares as much, or as deeply as Pippa does.
Pippa’s raw openness and authenticity about her thoughts and feelings means her audience becomes extremely invested in her personal and professional growth. Whether it’s overcoming her fears to travel overseas to Japan, fixing up years of bad dental care, or her improvement as a singer, we understand how and why Pippa behaves the way that she does, and what she has to overcome to succeed and grow. It’s a deeply-personal idol story arc, instead starting with a young recluse hiding in her messy bedroom, struggling to fit in, dreaming about becoming a YouTube content creator. You can relate to someone like that. You can root for someone like that.
All of this makes her endearing, but that isn’t the same as being fun or entertaining. Fortunately, Pippa succeeds here too. It’s interesting to hear Pippa ramble on about her autistic fixations like plush dolls or her favourite shows, growing up addicted to the internet and MMO gaming, or have her give her honest opinion on various topics, even if you can’t be sure whether you’ll agree or disagree with her, even in the span of minutes on the same stream. Here, Pippa manages a neat trick, in that she will have opinions that you’ll think are completely, wildly wrong, and want to argue with her over, but they’re not so wrong that you’ll quit being a Pippa fan over. She’s not afraid to express an opinion on a complex or touchy subject either, even if her stream-of-consciousness speaking style does her no favours. Still, I’d much rather Pippa’s authentic, off-the-cuff takes than something rehearsed and safe.
So that’s Pippa. Honest and open to a fault, always willing to give her thoughts, and slowly trying to fix her flaws. She’s the autistic internet-addled little sister you never had and I think you’ll love her if you give her a try.