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Osanai Nazuna: A VTuber based on the mascot, Nazuna from browser & mobile port: Flower Knight Girl.
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A VTuber(also known as a Virtual Youtuber or Virtual Streamer[note 1]) is someone who uses a 3D avatar of an Anime character to make videos or stream on either Youtube or Twitch. Originally starting in Japan, but became popular in the west during the pandemic around the end of 2020 when 2 of the main leading companies in this business, Hololive ProductionsWikipedia & NijisanjiWikipedia, opened their English divisions. Since then, this industry has been plagued with controversies. On one hand, these companies do some fucked up stuff occasionally. On the other hand, the VTubers themselfs aren't saints either. Most notably the Corporate VTubers (or Corpos for short) and the big indie ones that want to be on good footings with them, are all a bunch of stupid edgelords.

They also like singing, playing video games, posting on New Parler (mostly stupid shit[note 2]) or do other things like spreading weird conspiracy theories[1] for example. It should come to no surprise that the majority of their fanbase are either weeaboos, edgelords, frog posters or other very fun groups who like to look up what they did before becoming a VTuber or posting private information, such as r/VirtualYoutubers on Reddit & /vt/ on 4chan. Both the fans and the bigger names in the VTuber industry are also quilty of spewing out hateful stuff like kink shaming, slut shaming, furry bashing, transphobia, homophobia, queerphobia, racism, anti-semitism, ableism, sexism & slurs.

YouTube seems to be perfectly okay with this since they have bigger fish to fry[2], while Twitch has banned some of them but only for a short time and either for something that goes against their ToS[3] or for other reasons[4].

But remember, it's all about wholesomeness! And normalizing Incel speech, degeneracy[note 3] & stuff from this list.

Origin[edit]

Its origins go all the way back to the 1980s with something called "Virtual IdolsWikipedia". A Virtual Idol is an anime character who's an idol singer in said anime they're in. Examples of such characters would be Lynn MinmayWikipedia, EVEWikipedia (a Virtual AI), Sharon Apple (an incomplete program whose appearance is projected as a hologram via a blackbox with a build-in red sensor) & Fire BomberWikipedia (a rock band) from the anime series MacrossWikipedia.

In 1995, Japanese Talent Agency HoriproWikipedia created Kyoko DateWikipedia; the first CGIWikipedia idol with many advanced computer graphics. She was largely inspired by the success of aforementioned anime and several dating sim gamesWikipedia[5]. Unfortunately, due to technical limitations like her movements (also known as uncanny valleyWikipedia) would result in her completely vanishing from the scene. Kyoto would reappear in 1999 under the name "DiKi", releasing her album Between in South Korea. She would eventually vanish again, after gaining no mainstream success from this album.

Audio manufacturer YamahaWikipedia would release a voice software program called "Vocaloid 2Wikipedia" in 2007. One month later, this would be used by Crypton Future MediaWikipedia to create a software voicebank and its own virtual idol mascot who would end up becoming very popular in the years to come, namely...

Hatsune Miku[edit]

Hatsune Miku after her update to the Vocaloid 4Wikipedia software in 2017.

On the 31st of August 2007, Crypton Future Media creates a mascot called Hatsune MikuWikipedia. A 16 year old virtual 3D pop idol build with the Vocaloid 2 software, who would have her first Virtual live concert in 2009[6].

Kizuna AI[edit]

Then COVID happened[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. Those that, mostly or exclusively, stream on Twitch, prefer to be called "Virtual Streamers" since they hardly or never use Youtube in the first place.
  2. There's a group of VTubers, named "VTweeters", that do nothing else than posting on Twitter for no fucking reason.
  3. Both the VTubers AND the fans seem to see this as a compliment for some weird reason.