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Zeus posted...

That's a garbage-in, garbage-out kind of argument that minimalizes the value of art and artistic expression in general.

I think it very much counters some of your points. You were talking about stuff like news segments eventually not mattering and stuff like that but if you want to watch that type of content, there is always a new version of it. People don't say something like a nightly talk show is useless even though it's episodes effectively expire, because theres always new content that isn't currently expired that you can watch instead.

The supposition is that you like vtuber content to begin with. If you do, the fact that some of it "expires" is meaningless, because theres always fresh new content of the same type, and almost certainly more than you could possibly consume.
Zeus posted...

Probably why so much of what they do isn't terribly entertaining.

Thats just like,your opinion, man.

Zeus posted...

And do all of them really stream 8 hours a day?

I said 2-8 and it depends. A lot of the times when you see a 2-3 hour stream, thats not the only stream they are doing that day. Sometimes they might even have 3-4 streams in a single day. Sometimes, they don't stream as much and sometimes you get crazy long streams that basically go on all day if not a downright 24 hour stream.

It's hard stressful work, at least if you want to be good enough to retain viewership and make a living.

Zeus posted...

There's the potential for very high money in a lot of artistic endeavors which gets people into them and keeps them going.

This just isn't the case with a majority of mangaka. Being a mangaka, especially for a weekly series, is stupidly hard work and most of them don't make a ton of money. I really don't think most of them are in it for the chance at a lot of money. It's really hard to work on an artistic project for potentially 60+ hours a week if you don't really care about it for it's own sake.

Zeus posted...

Well, the problem there is that they're often the mentor archetype and death is a large part of the mentor trope.

I fully understand the problem. They are too big of an impediment to the bad guys. Most shonen want to maximize stakes for the main character so the main character needs to be the last line of defense. It just really hurts the story for me when I see a character early on and think "oh, he's too good, there's no way they let him keep being this good". Anything that obvious and that in advance takes tension out of the story.

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