This here is a Smithosian article that kind of makes fun of the music union mafia of 1930, at the advent of sound film. They made ads (as you can see in the illustrations) using some rather lame "scare tactics" about how "robots" (a new term/concept at the time as well) would be making "soulless music". Hilarious, right? Because we're talking recorded music, not robot-made music as we understand it:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-against-evil-robots-92702721/
Oo, that's some scary robot there, makin' musical mince-meat with his grinder ...
Now fast forward a bit.
Not to mention them holographic whatchamacllits .. vocaloids ...
This could actually be a recurring series. "We Were Warned".
Thank you.
Not sure if you'll find any of 'em good, but the ones I linked I like. I had something typed up here more thinking aloud about why I can watch Vtubers no prob but can't with actual flesh-and-blood ones but it got too long and wouldn't be directly related.
actually, this ended up getting too long and OT as well but I need to just get something out so here it is below after the tldr
TL;DR Koopa ch Trigger warning: Possibility of catching feels
So I guess, it probably wouldn't be an issue with the Japanese ones, but it's very possible anyone can be affected by a vtuber that speaks your native language. I'd honestly put a warning up for Koopa, just look at how obsessed a lot of her viewers are. She actually is a Southern US residing oldfag who actually plays vidya (including classics like Deus Ex) and shoots and own guns and watches lots of anime and reads VNs and wants kids--it's not like she hides any of this. If you're a longtimer degenerate channer, that is a very lethal combo. It's cringe af but I swear to god it hit me like a truck. I try to approach watching a vtuber as being watching a fake character or seeing an entertainer do the job of entertaining but I still got hit hard. I guess you could say I fell for a vtuber (I got over it) but for me it was less 'attraction' to her/the character specifically and more just complete shock at first--all of those interests/wants I listed are mutually exclusive in my non-NEET experience--followed by despair at now knowing women with such a rare diverse set of interests were out there (and thus how ungodly rare that would, of course, be, accented by my own prior experience just going out and about irl). I got over it but Christ even if you go in with no delusions you can get hit, especially with these smaller indie streamers because they'll actually interact with the chat and will start to recognize you if end up a regular viewer. That can and definitely does affect some guys. An example, one small streamer with say, 50 viewers I watched rake in $900 USD in one hour. It's crazy. It wasn't out of so much baiting for superchats, but just 2 or 4 guys get really attached to a streamer for whatever reason and they'll just throw good money after bad. It would appear everyone's hit by the effects of parasocial relationships