Anyone else get the vibe that VTubers is an aggressively millenial-coded hobby? I just can’t imagine some Gen Alpha kid tuning into the latest Fuwamoco stream or whatever, and I don’t think there have been very many new fans since the pandemic.
>>108903575I mean zoomers like Anime and they like streamers. Why wouldn't they like vtubers?
I mean, the whole streaming thing started getting popular when gen z weren't adults yet (almost all of them at least) and most popular streamers and vtubers are over 25.
Good. If your birth year starts with a 2, stay the fuck out of this hobby.
>>108903575From the communities I've been in it's mostly zoomers with a fair amount of millenials, and that range tends to follow the streamer's perceived age. Gen Alpha is probably sticking with edited clip compilations instead of streams.
>>108903575My schizo take. I think there's a two-fold thing with the vtuber hobby.1. Covid and the initial wave of vtubers felt really special and unique. People had a lot of free time and many of the early vtubers were grass roots, breaking new ground, trying to find their way, many people were developing tools and skills related to model creation... it had "soul", as much as I hate trying to describe things that way.2. After that huge rise the charm quickly plateaued as the barrier to entry fell and anyone could become a vtuber causing a massive influx of vtubers. Then there was a huge down turn in the last 2 years... hololive ramping up commercialization, graduation trains, hololive feeling "established and formulaic", micro corps constantly imploding, scams, fuck tons of drama, fleshie/OF pipeline vtubers, rise of normie streamers pushing anti-vtuber rhetoric, implosion of large corpos (nijien and vshojo), etc.I believe this created a bump in the timeline where it captured a generation and quickly fell off. The well feels a bit poisoned for newcomers. The space is not as appealing as it once was. If you watch vtubers and you're in it, it probably doesn't seem that way but from outsiders perspective this might seem like a waste of time and money.
>>108903575The vibe? The average viewer is 30+, this has been known for years. Zoomers are the odd ones out.
>>108903575gen alpa are too busy watching fags like ishowspeed and goats like BurntPeanut
>>108904701>this might seem like a waste of time and money.
>>108904701>Covid and the initial wave of vtubers felt really special and unique.The "initial wave of vtubers" and COVID era vtubing aren't even part of the same landscape. Streaming vtubers might as well be an entirely different category in your schizo take because vtuber content nowadays vs pre-streaming era is vastly different. Same goes for the audiences, really.
>>108903575Alphags are too brainrotted from consooming short form clips to be able to stay focused on a video for more than a minute. So yes, I doubt many of them watch Vtuber streams or even clips. That's too much for their literally retarded brains to handle.
>>108904701t. the guy who only watches Hololive
>>108907744Zoomers are the vtubers themselves. Most of these girls were born after 1997.
If they want to capture younger viewers, I think HoloEn needs some genuine gold star Zoomer talents in its next generation. And I don’t mean Zillenials like Biboo and Gigi, but actual Zoomers in the 18-24 age group.
>>108903921Zoomers like battleshonen and blacks/wiggers chimping out on camera. I feel like VTubing overall is a medium orthogonal to the former.
>>108910756Biboo is ~21, she's not a Zillenial.
>>108903575>gen alphadon't they only play roblox/fortnite and watch AI slop tiktoks
>>108903575I'm a zoomer (born in 2005) and I watch vtubers, however I only watch the JP ones and started watching for immersion learning a few years back.
>>10890357531-year-old here, Millennials are the biggest weebs because they got to witness Japan culture at its prime with their child-like curiosity when it was still relatively untouched and pure. I'm a bit of an ironic weeb these days, but I get it – Millennials had it pretty good.
>>108903575Most millennials don't even know what vtubers are, I'd say it's more for zoomers. And no, you being 40 isn't an indicator that most vtuber fans are 40!
>>108903575>>108913625If anything, 4chan is an aggressively millennial website so you spending time /here/ makes you think the entire hobby is filled with people like you
>>108903575gen alpha will watch gen alpha vtubers when they all grow out of being 5 years oldyou are biased because you use this elderly carehome forum, i found hololive in 2019 when i was a still a teenager getting bullied for being a weeaboo and now every normie teen watches chainsaw man and knows who ironmouse is from tiktok
>>108908179Dios mio
>>108903575Millennials and elder zoomers are the last holdouts who still care about privacy online and shit like hiding your power level, of course they’re drawn to vtubing
>>108903575Does gen alpha have any hobbies besides scrolling tiktok for 8 hours a day? I haven't even heard of them liking any video games
>>108911078Isn’t Biboo older than Nerissa?
>>108913498>born in 2005shouldn't u be in bed
>>108903575The oldest zoomer is almost 30 anon, you got your gens mixed up, most vtubers are zoomers but elder ones.
>>108916429Yes, she's a million+ years old. She's a rock. Nerissa is just a lowly demon girl
>>108903921Because it's girly and cringe and only the 4chan generation trained themselves to have no shame
>>108910817>battleshonenClearly, the market needs to adapt to this demand by tapping into the vtuber wrestling niche. I don't give a shit about live idol concerts, but I would happily pay to see Mint Foley fight Bret Haato in a motion-captured cage match for the fate of the world on a Monday night.
>>108903575I have no idea what young people are like nowadays
>>108903575vtubing is zoomer coded unc
>>108925752Name 5 zoomer-coded vtubers.Biboo and Gigi are failed impostor zoomers.Nerissa, Mori, Kiara (any of the white girls really) are spiritual millenials.IRyS and Bae are Kpopfags, Kpop is spiritually millenial.ERB is literally a boomer.
19 y/o zoomer and I don't watch anime or play Japanese video games anymore, just watch vtubers
nerds watch vtubers, normies watch twitch (which will never be vtubers btw)
>>108908616You would be surprised by the number of iPad kids who get vtubers in their recommended
Everyone in this thread is forgetting that gen Z starts in 1997.
