Digital divas: Can Japan's virtual YouTuber craze crack America?

Imagine overweight men becoming a vtuber to get the approval of other overweight men.

Who cares!

I guess anyone who comments cares to some extent.

All good until you find your supposed idol in real life is of the opposite sex to what you to though they were, and out of shape NEETS living in their grandma's basement. No wonder most are anonymous. Then you realise you're single, about to hit 50, and half your life has whizzed by and your feeling empty, alone and washed up.

Oh dear!

Japan's handicapped in this area of 'influence'. The Galapagos culture is hard to 'appeal' outside of rapidly depopulating and aging Japan but it's worth a try!

Trump’ll slap a tariff on it

Can it? I’d say it already has for the last several years. While it may not have the mass merchandising of the Japan side the money is definitely there and the popularity of doing it rather than putting your own face out there is popular too.

I don’t get it myself but I’m comfortable putting my face to my content. Learning that the biggest English vtuber was wheelchair bound really put it into perspective though for me.

Pretty low bar for entertainment.

After avoiding the vocaloid genre for a long time, I found an older Miku Hatsune track that is good blast of retro 8 bit techno: the PaniX BoX Remix by Sasakure.UK of I m ALIVE.

Not really my thing, but anime is popular so why not?

Loki g at the pic of the fan I’d say the police would have a field day after examining their devices.

This comment section pretty much confirms there's nothing but ancient people commenting on this website. All the younger people I know love this stuff, I enjoy it, and concert tickets are booming. If you visit any stream on youtube or twitch people are throwing money at these people at a rate several times that of "normal" streamers. It's about streaming personality rather than image. The streaming rigs match one-to-one movement, so the people doing the actions are actually doing these things, or did at least one time. Warner Brothers (The huge US movie company that owns DC comic movies) signed literally the streamer pictured at the top of this article - Mori Calliope. She had the top single for an anime based on the US suicide squad property. It has somewhere around 100 million combined youtube views.

If you're worried about people who are the "wrong" gender then you're kinda missing the point. And if you're worried about the supposed age of the models, apparently you've never been to japan, seen an anime, or are projecting.