It's annoying how obsessed some people here have gotten over that account and the weird shit she posts. As you said, if they hadn't gone out of their way to dig it up, they wouldn't even know she posts that stuff because she never brings her private life onto stream.The Clara thread is an interesting case study on how much a VTuber's roommate matters in the enjoyment of content.
In theory, Clara is doing things (mostly) right from a "purist" VTubing perspective (i.e. the pilot's off-stream activities shouldn't matter), since all the sperging happens on an account not linked to her VTubing persona in any way. In practice, you can't fully separate the on-stream persona from the person behind the model.
I still tune in to her sometimes, and I kind of agree, but that's why it's interesting. If you take the "traditional" view that the VTuber is a character first and foremost, then the off-stream politisperging shouldn't matter at all, since the character Clara isn't a hardcore lib and hasn't caused any issues for the company (that we know of). But as you say, it's a bit hard to get over what the roommate says. Still, if the RM account was never discovered, then things would be different, wouldn't it?
It's just interesting especially considering the supposed Lumi BF yab and "what is GFE" convo in the past few pages. VTubers are entitled to a private life, but it comes with a huge asterisk in practice. At this point, I've come to hand-wave it all with, "It depends".
But that just brings up the point that any other or even all the Phase girls could be just like Clara in real life and as long as they aren't found out they will never have any way of knowing (in the exact same way that boyfriend yabs work). They'll jerk off about how based the "good" vtuber is but they don't actually know any of these girls and they could all be playing a character just like Clara is.
Especially in how some of them seem to be genuinely hoping there is some kind of major fallout between her and the "good" talents, just to validate their hate for her opinions. But maybe it hasn't happened, because they actually agree with her? Or maybe the private Clara account is the fake one larping as a turbo leftist and the vtuber is the real one. Who the hell knows.
If you want to obsess over an entertainer's private life go watch vloggers or whatever modern equivalent to reality tv is.



