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Caelthus posted...

Out of curiosity, why do people actively go out of their way to watch small vtuber/streamers? I don't get the appeal, personally.

I assume it's a combination between wanting to support those indie VTubers that were around before Hololive and Nijisanji became popular, and not wanting to watch mainstream content. Not sure if it's going out of their way but sometimes it just ends up that way, maybe like recommended clips on your homepage leads you down to wanting to watch the streamer. I watch Mirai Akari and I didn't go out of my way to watch her. I was handed a list of popular Japanese VTubers around NYE 2018, and they were all indies that wanted to become more popular and the communities were wanting to support their content. Miya Kimino was on that list too (followed her because it described her as being Japanese/English bilingual), as well as Nekomiya Hinata. No Hololive/Nijisanji livers were on that list despite some talents having already been debuted at the time.

I assume when you start out at Kizuna Ai, one of the roads follows you down to Kaguya Luna, then maybe HimeHina and Siro, and you just get stuck at indies. Some of these indies have surprisingly complicated software. It's very nice to see them grow when they're not in the big 2 companies.