The facial expressions are fantastic. And of course it would be Pinkie.

FAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTHHHHEEEERRRRRR

My first exposure to VTubers was the tool bear, who would tell you things about cheap tools.

I was always curious because why did this guy need to use a digital bear skin to talk about tools? And then he quit using the V-Tuber skin and he's just a regular guy, so it doesn't make any sense to me.

The concept is much older, but just didn't have much popularity

Yes, but where the imaginer has invested so much energy into it that they lose control of it, usually tinged with some sort of mild to moderate mental illness, which may either be a cause or a consequence of creating a tulpa.

My computer mommy could beat up your sky daddy.

I expect it's the same way people treat regular streamers, they're just a bit less careful about how they talk about their favorite vtuber in public than they way would a regular streamer.

I mean, the people controlling those characters are real. You can interact with them and are genuine people.

You can compare it to characters in a tv show. People talk about Water White as if they are real. And the actor playing that character is real.

The lust has more to do with the weebs lusting after anything that looks anime. But the majority of vtubers aren't even anime girls. For the vtuber it is also more to do with privacy and not having to look presentable every time they want to stream.

Vtuber characters

They are people, not characters. I cannot fathom how this dissonance began, but its so odd.

Edit: after about 45 minutes of thought, I think this person's only knowledge of vtubers comes from hololive. Hololive really is much of the time characters, I think that's why Gura was so big, because she really was genuinely a goober. But I digress. I would look at some indies like Ironmouse, Crelly, or someone on the smaller view count that aligns with your personal interests.

Actually dont watch crelly. Your soul wont survive.

When I'm watching something I don't need to a head cam blocking the screen.

This feels like an even bigger fuck you to me where they just put a picture up to block the screen.

Vtubing, like wrestling, blurs the line between reality and fiction, but I'd argue Vtubing leans closer to reality and wrestling leans closer to fiction.

Kayfabe is a concept in both, but most Vtubers are looser with it and many don't have it at all, just use avatars for varying reasons.

further reading in case anyone is curious

https://pluralpedia.org/w/Parogenic

It’s a digital fursuit, it’s gonna be okay