I wouldn't say GunRun doesn't care at all, because from the way that their current talents talk about GunRun, and the reason that for example, K9Kuro went from being Mysta Rias to K9Kuro to begin with is because GunRun actually cares. For example, Nijisanji was refusing to pay the withholding part of Kuro s income tax and I forgot how, but he moved to Indonesia during this chaos and GunRun helped him renegotiate and pay off his tax debt.

Kizuna or the Game Club Project.

Speaking of those, I actually brought them up in this post here, I'm not sure if you've seen it before, but as things have developed, there's both now, where there are vtubers who do lean a lot more into the character than others, ala Fuwamoco, and there are others who do the 'streamer behind an avatar'.

I don't think it's a failure in gatekeeping at all, as for example you'd have to say Mori Calliope existing is a failure in gatekeeping because she used to shit on idol culture constantly as DemonDice and now look at her, she's even made a good four or five songs about that journey from hating it to doing what she does now.

I specifically remember Amalee for instance making fun of Vtubers and the people who watched them right before they blew up in the west, then she magically changed her opinion on them and said she was always a fan. Even then she still just does it ironically though.

If you happen to have a link I'd love to see this, mostly because diving through Youtube Shorts and clip channels is time consuming, but I think the difference with her is moreso that a bunch of her IRL friends became vtubers, like I was looking through this history a while back, but LilyPichu was running a group of cover artists back in the day and a lot of those cover artists are now vtubers, including Amalee and now Nerissa Ravencroft. It's very understandable to change your stance when a bunch of your friends are now vtubers as well.

I also think that the termination of Selen Tatsuki made the EN scene value who the person behind the screen is way more than previously, because now there's motivation to know that so that things such as both of Dokibird's suicide attempts never happen again, and that vtubers know that their fanbases will follow them over towards their PLs, ala what happened with Dokibird and Mint. VShojo is literally a refugee camp for ex-corpo vtubers at this point, and I don't blame them either, Nijisanji doesn't deserve the talents that have left, and those talents deserve to keep their fanbases.

Meh, all a vtuber is, is a streamer that uses an anime avatar instead of facecam.

There a lot of indie vtubers (mostly voice actors) where the explicit point of their channels is that they are who they are behind the screen, for example, Cy Yu being Alejandro Saab/KaggyFilms and Monarch being Amanda Lee/AmaLee

To be fair, she explicitly said immediately afterwards that she was more or less expecting that and she was fine with it, just don’t be an idiot and spam it or Amelia in chat.

To keep on topic with this, I think if other nations in history had committed atrocities akin to what Unit 731 did, we would have heard about it already, especially if they were in white nations. I’m not going to hate Japan over it at all, but that’s just my opinion.

Oh, I forgot the symptoms for monkeypox, nevermind lol

Wasn't the AIDS epidemic back in the 80s only an epidemic because there was a way larger amount of women having sex with bisexual men than there was with monkeypox when that happened?

That's the pedo pajeet troll, just block and move on.

FYI, DiMaggio played for the Yankees.

Unless the guys at Hanna-Barbara were intentionally getting the teams wrong, in that case it’s whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbSWjb3tlJg

BDE is the goat of baseball Youtube.

Unless you're almost 90 years old, you have to be kidding, the Dodgers moved to LA in 1958.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGm6l_9j_dY

The TL;DR of this video is that the current Yankees just suck compared to the days of the Core Four, which isn't helped by the fact that Hal is way worse as an owner than George was.

The Yankees are the worst baserunning team in baseball, and are almost entirely built around the Three True Outcomes, so it makes sense, but that shouldn’t be happening as much, but we need to fire our infield coach and get a new one if we have this many errors.

You misread the Wikipedia article. He has no biological kids with his second wife, he does with his first wife

edit: didn't see the first wife was black

I’m about to go to bed, but I’ll make a main post explaining why the umpires for this WS suck, but I swear MLB is mainly doing this to force the issue with the Umpire union

The home plate umpire is a literal diversity hire that was hired through a ‘minority opportunity program’, and the balls and strikes are so bad that the broadcast on Fox turned off the strike zone rectangle until a few innings after.

I assume with that attitude you hate livestreamers as well.

In the World Series, I'm actually not sure. Because of how baseball works, the only time for 'propaganda' would be the choice of who throws out the ceremonial first pitches, but as the first game of the World Series is on Friday (in the US, might be Saturday if you're from Europe), no one knows who is going to be throwing out the first pitch.

Within the broadcasts themselves, they keep it on the game itself, unless the home team is running a special promotion at the stadium, in which case the local home broadcast will show off that promotion, but since this is the postseason, it's nationally televised and those special promotions don't happen in the postseason, so it should be relatively politics free, unless they have Kamala come out as she is from California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUxvW-wpyzg

Probably the most comprehensive video on the history of baseball salaries and the relationship between players, the players’ union and owners to date, but a TL;DR on specifically the salary cap aspects are that the owners refuse to entertain the idea of the salary floor without a cap, but their floor is way lower than what the NBA and NFL has, so for the MLBPA, a salary cap is a non-starter.

The last time the owners tried to force a cap, the World Series got cancelled and the only reason that scabs didn’t get used was because Sonia Sotomayor put an injunction on the owners trying to use scabs and their unilateral version of the CBA that had a salary cap.

I understand why people like Hellsbells doesn’t like athletes, but the guys at the end of the bench/people who bounce between the majors and minors are WAY closer to me, you and him than they are to the owners.

to play devil’s advocate, is this not talking about the parts of the rocket that get jettisoned after launch?

https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/1994kCXymm/pretty-wild-tenet-media-owned-by/c/

I already have hobbies, in fighting games and outside of games, I watch baseball, soccer and work out, I just chose a while ago that because I cannot change who the rest of my family votes for that I would check out of most of this election cycle and simply vote when I do, rather than obsess over all the bullshit the Dems are doing.

Vtubers are anime adjacent, and as long as Yagoo wants to keep doing things to insert Hololive into mainstream events ala hololive night at Dodger Stadium (which I wonder what Vin Scully would have thought of it), normies will continue to be exposed to it. I don’t think anime is at its peak in the West yet, as Western media hasn’t completely collapsed, but if/when it does, that’ll be its peak.

Maybe it’s just me because I don’t watch that many indie vtubers, but I’m not sure there’s that many MTF vtubers out there, but maybe with all the various sub-100k YouTube channels, there’s plenty of MTF vtubers there

Ah, I didn’t even know that

They also recently banned non-compete agreements.

The main reason the FTC is moving so fast is because Biden put in a 35 year old woman whose main focus as a lawyer was antitrust law to lead the FTC