There's a fair number of folk in this thread essentially saying they'd be ok with racist oppression so long as white supremists are like polite about it
@cyberspacecat: To build on this, I think the distance provided by a virtual avatar also attracts different kinds of performers than the usual face cam streaming. A decent number of prominent vtubers have either implied or outright stated that they are quite introverted in real life, and if it wasn’t for the virtual avatar acting as a facade, they might never have streamed at all.
Also, it’s an unfortunate fact that basically any female streamer in nerd spaces is going to have creeps openly lusting for her online. At least this way, they’re lusting over an avatar rather than the real person behind it
Just listened to @jeff outline his Dark Vtuber Future, and that actually happened with Kizuna Ai, who was the first vtuber to break into the mainstream in a big way. The company behind her completely misread their market, and tried to replace the original voice actress with several additional actors, and was met with major rejection from their fanbase.
The way I think about it, vtbuers are basically like wrestlers. They are real human beings performing a corporate owned character, but are also so intrinsically tied with the character that you can't disassociate it from the performer. Just like you can't have someone other than Mark Calaway be the Undertaker, you can't have another performer be Fubuki
Pretty much, I can't imagine them doing anything but retiring the character if the VA bails for one reason or another. I don't think anyone cares about the avatars themselves, it's all about what the performer has been bringing to the table. Even a soundalike would probably get sussed out very quickly if a swap was done in secret.
Yeah, since that Kizuna Ai situation I don't think any agency is willing to pull another fast one by switching the actor behind the character - Kizuna Ai never recovered from all that fall out.
That being said though, the actors will sometimes "reincarnate" because their character might be bound to an agency or group, but they as the actors might want to move on for one reason or another. Other times they reincarnate because they're joining a group or agency and often want to start fresh. Korone and Okyayu for example had their own characters that were semi well known before retiring them to join Hololive.
I'd note however that the Korone & Okayu thing is a fan rumour, and while it's plausible, it hasn't and likely never will be confirmed by the performers themselves. You have very rare situations like Suisei bringing her character along with her when she joined Hololive, but as a whole, the industry is just too young to have seen much movement of performers outside of the indie vtuber -> Hololive/Nijisanji pipeline.
Should the industry survive long enough to mature, my suspicion is that it's going to follow a similar track with pro wrestling where when a performer moves from one big organisation to another, even if the character is owned by the previous company, it'll be an open secret (or maybe even officially recognised) that the new vtuber was formerly X from company Y
Just listened to @jeff outline his Dark Vtuber Future, and that actually happened with Kizuna Ai, who was the first vtuber to break into the mainstream in a big way. The company behind her completely misread their market, and tried to replace the original voice actress with several additional actors, and was met with major rejection from their fanbase.
The way I think about it, vtbuers are basically like wrestlers. They are real human beings performing a corporate owned character, but are also so intrinsically tied with the character that you can't disassociate it from the performer. Just like you can't have someone other than Mark Calaway be the Undertaker, you can't have another performer be Fubuki
@jacksukeru: If you don't want to wait, or find the PS4 version at a good price, you can get a free upgrade to the PS5 version if you own the PS4 version.
To be honest, I thought Abby would chose to remain quiet during the Disco Elysium bit, considering how much shit she got for the quick look...yet still she seems to persist in her preconceived notions about the game. Alex seemed to be surprisingly quiet on the other hand.
And it’s good that she did! I didn’t agree with her on the Quick Look, but I absolutely do not want her or the other staff silenced due to angry nerds throwing a hissy fit
On topic, bummed but not surprised that Shadowbringers got less than a minute. It’s a shame given it’s one of, and arguably the best Final Fantasy games ever made
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