

For others it's nothing more than the image they wanna be represented by. Whether you enjoy it or not, I find it quite amusing how people try to rack their brains over something that really doesn't require a lot of thought.īeing a Vtuber is quite literally the video and streaming equivalent of posting a comment in a video games article under the picture of an avatar you like instead of a photo of you yourself.įor some it's a character they wanna play. Vtubers are playing a character and people like to watch this character play games, almost like an interactive cartoon or anime. I digress though, my main point is that you're not supposed to sit there and take it seriously. She has to pretend she's a dog girl, being the most important thing there. In a similar way Korone is playing a dog girl and while it might be organic and unscripted, there are some lines they just can't cross. When James does AVGN he's not playing James, he's playing "The Nerd". They're entertainers like any other streamer out the point I was trying to make was that they're playing a character. Personally I only watch translated clips of the Japanese girls but I very much enjoy watching their English counterparts. Pekora was ranked in the top 5 most viewed female streamers in the world, so while you may not understand it, or even outright despise it, this is what people want to watch. Korone is nearing 2 million subscribers and regularly has 10-20k people watching her streams live.

It's all because she wasn't able to use a GBA to stream, so she just plugged in a "whole console" instead. Japanese VTuber ' Korone' - who has 1.7 million subscribers on YouTube - recently broadcast a gaming stream where she apparently used a GameCube instead of a Game Boy Advance to play the gyro-enabled GBA classic, WarioWare Twisted!. While we're used to seeing these digital characters voiced by real people playing video games, it's not every day we see something this weird.

VTubers (known in full as Virtual YouTubers) have become incredibly popular over the past decade.
