> > But then hating them won't bring us to anywhere, nor we are able to do anything
> > at all to change their attitude.
> > Our best option is ignoring their whole presence, and searching fun in things they
> > "ruined" at this point (´ー`)
> I only get passionately despair'd about the current state of virtual
> youtubers cuz for a couple of years it was my main interest/hobby that
> I spent every waking hour following - it was one of the most awesome
> and beautiful thing I had ever seen online (and I've seen a lot of
> internets!), but then it all (or at least mostly) went to shit thanks
> to the worst faggots of the nu-web piling in and changing the whole
> definition of "virtual youtuber" to something way worse (;´Д`)
> And since it was so niche back when I lieked it, nobody even cares what
> I have to say about it anymore - once again I've been made an outcast
> in something that I used to love and joyously proselytize about (;´Д`)
> There's still a lot of the old guard around of course, but they're slow-
> ly disappearing, and their "we're all in this together no matter what"
> and "let's support each other against black company bullshit" mentality
> that kept things positive and beautiful is almost completely gone from
> the newer "generations". The whole thing is so much more corporate and
> shallow thanks to "The Big Company" being 1. SHIT, and 2. bringing mil-
> lions of Western eyes to the whole thing and filtering them all through
> their turd lens instead of introducing them to the wider buichuuba
> scene. It's just not the same anymore... (;´Д`)
> I die inside every time I see that godawful idol/corporate terminology
> being applied to virtual youtubers, especially since one of the biggest
> boons of the buichuuba scene was how all that crap was mostly absent.
> Even seeing kuz talking about "talent" and their "struggle" (struggle
> to be some boring fucking fulltime youtubers/streamers pretending to be
> internet girlfriends WHICH WAS PART THE OVERARCHING "MONETIZATION" AND
> "PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIP" AIDS THAT KILLED MY INTERNETS TO BEGIN WITH)
> makes me sad (;´Д`)
> Dear internet kamisama,
> Pls, just once - let us have nice things (;´Д`)
The exploitation of dying things is a famous art
Reference: 2022/02/24(Thu) 18:08:07