myrmepropagandist*whispers*
uh... guys? what are "vtubers" ? They seem nice enough, I think like a whole bunch just showed up around here.
OkazuYuri@futurebird They are people who talk with their YT audiences, using avatars of anime-style girls (mostly), with some movement to heighten the feel of engagement with a real anime style girl. They become really popular.
Overall, I don't really get them, but I'm not into celebrity.
Guy LeCharles Gonzalez (MOVED)@EricaFriedman @futurebird Imaginary Worlds has a good episode on them, was the first time I'd heard of it. https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/generation-vtube
Episode 209: Generation VTube — Imaginary Worlds
There is a booming culture of VTubers – people who create content online, but their fans rarely see their real faces or know their names. VTubers use motion-capture technology to appear as animated characters they designed, and many of these characters are otherworldly from robots to aliens to demon
@glecharles They are relatively popular in the anime/manga world I inhabit. I find them kind of uninteresting myself.