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I’ve personally never understood facecam game streaming in the first place. I don’t care about your expressions. Then vtubing became popular and it was the same complaint, but more.
I don’t really watch streamers except for Jerma. But if you watch Jerma, you’re not really watching for competitive gameplay as much as him just always being a comedian like this
https://youtu.be/bZMWDxy2mpw
I imagine people watching vtubers it’s the same idea, where it’s less about the gameplay and more about comedy (and probably much more horny)
I can say with all of my being that I am not the target audience for this sort of content. It’s fine for others to enjoy it but I never will. Vocal jokes and overreactions are interesting, but I’ve never been a fan of funny faces and whatnot.
I was mostly positing my reason for avoiding facecam streamers to add my perspective, but I phrased it poorly. But I appreciate yours as well!
Totally makes sense. Everyone has what they enjoy. I think as long as nobody’s hurting someone then “don’t yuck someone’s yum” is a good rule of thumb.
Personally what I like about live streamers is, it's someone giving you an opportunity to pay attention to them, see them having fun, get to know things about them, and root for them. But the streamers I watch are vtubers because looking at real people's faces is uncomfortable and unpleasant to me, and I really like animation.
my conspiracy theory is that there are actually no vtuber fans and it's actually all gooners
I have a feeling it's about copyrighting content. If you don't show your own face/voice, you're just streaming game footage which belongs to the publisher.
see, i don't get vtubers because the whole point is the expressions, i'm there to see the person get stomped by a massive skeleton and make a funny face