Nyana Banyana posted a selfie as a subathon goal!
Spoilered incase you don't want your immersion broken.
Edit: Raora drew her fellow artist
She is amazing, in general. @reinigen has superb taste.Haven't really been too plugged in for the new Holo chuuba gen and wasn't aware Raora was this good of an artist.
Honestly I can understand thinking that's how you say that word if you only ever read it and hadn't ever heard it. But that's English for you, the mugger of any passing language that's holding something that English likes the look of.
I'd bet there's a whole spectrum of weird brainworms that go along with being a chuuba that we've just scratched the surface of, and I don't think it's as simple as "girls who do this tend to become v-tubers." There's too many people from different walks of life getting into the hobby now, multiple countries and cultures, hell male v-tubers are having weird mental issues related to their v-tuber status as well. The parasociality of the medium goes both ways, for one thing. There are girls who started out uncomfortable with stuff like sexualized models or ASMR and now they're gaga for it because they want their viewers to be attracted to them. Remember when Okayu started out and she was a gamer girl tomboy, and now she's a pervert to surpassAn interesting take I've seen about this is that at some point, a VTuber begins to view their own model as competition for their flesh selves. They want the kind of affection and (let's be real here) lust that the fans give, but at some point they think that it's not really "them" that the fans love, but their persona (probably not unjustified).
Then the brainworms start. With time their thought process may start running along these lines:
"Yeah, my fans love me, but only because I'm an anime girl who's curvy/stacked/got legs for days"
"My fanbase is growing, but I'm not sure if they will really stick around for 'me'."
"If they ever find out I'm just some average or homely girl, they won't love me anymore"
"I can't take these thoughts anymore, I might as well post and see how it goes. At least I know that the ones who stay are really here for me. Just once can't hurt."
Of course, each girl will have a different attitude toward this, but you see this happen more with indies, because there's no corpo rules that can make them second-guess fleshposting. And yeah, there are those unscrupulous e-girls who really just do it to farm simps (looking at you, Froot), but I imagine many other chuubas who fleshpost do it for the reasons above.
My take: It's probably inevitable for many of the kinds of girls who become VTubers, but I don't like them doing it on main. Tonya and Yuuna's approach of having a semi-open alt with fair warning is a better (if imperfect) approach, since people who don't care for it can just avoid it:
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Worth noting that this is different from a Mint and Kiara situation where they had to deal with a large influx of fans who just showed up one day on their RL accounts, not a designated alter ego for when they want to immersion break.
TL;DR: VTubers often want to be loved beyond the model. Understandable, but immersion breaking shouldn't be taken lightly.
She's really not taking her aging and loss of popularity with much grace. If she puts any more filters on these pics I'd expect to see them on an SCP article.I could be late, bit mikeneko might delete her photo, so this is archive purpose.
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If she puts any more filters on, she is gonna fry her phone!I could be late, bit mikeneko might delete her photo, so this is archive purpose.
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I could be late, bit mikeneko might delete her photo, so this is archive purpose.
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