NO
It was cool when it was Miku and it represented a fantastical ideal that bonds thousands of creators from musicians to digital and traditional artists and even 3D modelers, but this is a step further from that ideal with a regular idol/reaction streamer using an avatar. It's less magical!

>>82937
Sure, but tell me a single other country in the world where a 2D Idol could exist and not have the majority of people think it's 'weird'.

Vtubers are like gacha characters, you don't engage with the product but damn is the fanart okay.

You're probably just angry you can't pirate everything

>>82940
Well, I'm not sure that the average Japanese person doesn't find this weird. Most people are, well, normal. I'd assume there's tons of people out there thinking stuff like "you give your money to a streamer avatar playing Minecraft?"
Over here, though, hmm...
I could easily see this happening with furries or some other geeky subculture, but it would probably lack the same level of sincerity due to the cultural poison affecting the English internet.
Maybe a themed concert for one of those things the kids like on youtube, like that clown girl?

>>82947
A while ago I was looking into V tuber subscriber numbers and the biggest V Tuber was that American shark one with many other western V tubers having a lot of subscribers too. V tubers are actually bigger in the west than Japan if you look at the number of subscribers, even more so if you consider that many of the subscribers to Japanese V Tubers are western. Streaming culture in general is pretty big in the west, though it's in Japan too of course.

>>82956
the caveat is that you're not comparing japan vs the west, it's japan vs the rest of the entire world with its billions of people
the fact that the difference is only 30% or so between the second and biggest vtubers should not be surprising, but the picture also looks quite different when you factor in how gura has a two million sub gap between her and the next tuber, and there being several other jp tubers in that space
https://trackholo.live/en/
i'm actually not sure that even in absolute numbers it can be said that it's bigger in gaikokuland over japan, although it's hard to take any proper metrics as we're looking at sub counts and not the makeup of that following