Here is an interview from a month ago where he talks about the future of Hololive post-Breaking Dimensions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUhYPvYGepE
This is an interview aimed at Japanese college students talking about what Hololive is and what to expect as part of Hololive's staff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pLPaeA3K5w
Here is an interview done with Anime News Network where he talks about Breaking Dimensions, talent-manager interactions and exposure of Hololive to normies/the mainstream audience: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2024-10-04/bringing-hololive-to-the-u.s-an-with-motoaki-tanigo-ceo-of-cover-corp/.215676
On a side note, outside of Hololive, VShojo's Matara Kan is now a member of a mainstream talent agency, William Morris Endeavor: https://x.com/MataraKan/status/1846340762495004849
This is the same Endeavor that owns WWE and UFC, so the mainstreamification of vtubing is all but inevitable in my opinion, it's up to the current audience to not allow tourists to ruin it.
Just think of it as a talk show with a live action anime character.
The reason why I watch Japanese content in the first place is I want to get away from western political shit every now and then. If I watch western channel, it's inevitable I have to listen to politics and also I like to hear contents that aren't filled with dirty language which Japanese vtubers seem to mostly fill the gap. With western e-celebs, it gets tiresome to listen to sometimes.
I stopped watching western tv shows and movies because I couldn't stand hearing same smug actors making tired old jokes, so I turned to western content creators, a lot of them seem to be largely the similar kind of smug people who hate hearing disagreements from their audience. Yes, I'm including Razorfist there. As good as his contents are, even he has that insufferable opinions he won't change no matter how petty they are and easily they could disproved. Lastly watching Japanese contents are great for multitasking for me.
Well yes, like I said it's basically legal pimping. I doubt they care about their customers so to speak, nor should they. Any value they have is based on what amusement you can derive from them if any, and what value you bring them is from income.
Personally I'd say they're among the less vile parasociality that I know of. And clown world certainly seems to hate them.
Funnily enough, Yagoo cares more about their male streamers (holostars), to the point he was their manager
Might as well listen to a chatbot talking. In fact AI/LLMs will be doing all of this soon and will become good at it.
Rip u/lethn who would chime in to tell me not to buy into the doomsday AI hype. :'(
Eh, the only cause AI will take over is that most of it is not any good. That and the increasing retardation of people ensure standards are low.
When I say "doing all this" I mean there will be AI versions in all fields: vtubers, streaming, ethots, etc. Not that AI will replace all vtubers. Sheesh.
Its streaming, but instead of a face cam its an anime girl.
That's it. If you don't watch streamers, you won't get into vtubers. If you don't like anime, you won't like vtubers. And if you like both, it double dips on your parasocial attachment.
Then it'll never really make a lot of sense to you, but you understand how that entire dynamic works.
You can get your waifu to react to your comments in real time while she plays your favorite game, its crack for lonely weebs.
My teenager daughter's perspective:
Some of them are hot irl, some of them are decent at videogames and some of them are actually pretty good comedians.
Besides that, it's either simping or else their own chats roasting them for various things. Sometimes they play collaborative games and troll each other, etc.
My perspective: this Yagoo guy has figured out how to make pimping legal. He's pulled a Deuce Bigallow, because it's not illegal to get lonely people to pay you to be their friend. I applaud him.
By that logic employment is slavery
That makes no sense whatsoever dude.
Yeah it does, if you consider soliciting parasocial relationships as prostitution than surely your definitions are expansive enough to consider working a job as slavery.