A Male Vtuber's Guide to Male Vtubers (Numbers)

Описание: Lotta people have a lot of hard q's about male vtubers and whether their growth is automatically stymied by their gender. I contend that there are a number of complicating factors that give us that impression, but it isn't necessarily so!

Using the infamous number disparity of Hololive vs. Holostars as a case study, I talk about some of my theories and observations on why some channels seems to do 'better' than others out of the gate. tl;dr: it's complicated!

I suspect the impression that male vtuber characters tend to grow more slowly on the whole is due to how many of them come from vtubers' fanbases, and how the disparity in numbers is largely predicated on a disparity in experience! Especially among new indie vtubers.


In addition, the way in which Hololive blew up so much- especially in the West- set a lot of the precedent for how audiences conceive of vtubers! Holostars, lacking as many viral breakout hits as Hololive, tends to be discovered less in isolation and more along with the myriad agencies and indie vtubers that one is likely to encounter upon getting a bit deeper into their Rabbit Hole Journey.


Hope I succeeded in conveying my points! Bonus points if I was intentionally funnee boi. If I seem like an idjit keep in mind I am an idjit! Thanks for watching my 10 minute exegesis on male vtubers and do give a like if you... liked... it..!

Extremely Expressive and nice thumbnail art by Hanako Self Care Fox:
  / hanakovt  

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00:00 Intro
01:24 Why the Disparity?
04:16 The Rabbit Hole
05:55 The Rabbit Hole, Explained
07:55 The Holostars Plight
09:05 Some Good Old Fashioned Moralizing



=== Socials! ===
Twitter!
twitter.com/OkasCoyote


I have a Ko-fi!
https://ko-fi.com/ochusfurifura


Also I have a Twitch that I rarely stream on, but you never know..?
twitch.tv/okas_vt


OkAs is a male coyote vtuber who does live streams of games, travelogue and sometimes music. He also makes video highlights somewhat similar in style to JShay Translations or Yumiru Ch.; and video essays somewhat like Randon and Depressed Nousagi.




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Below are the indie vtuber boys I mentioned!


PAPI
  / papi  


Randon
   / @randonneuring  


Issei Kai
   / @isseikaich  


Kabhaal
  / kabhaalvt  


WooHooLad
   / @woohooladttv  


NuxTaku
   / @nuxtaku  


Also be sure to check out Oren-chan the Orange fairy, she is learning English and is getting better at it all the time!
   / @orench.1061  


My new favorite clip of Aruran screaming came from his fatefull Blue Axolotl stream:
   • 【Minecraft 1.17】この流れで青ウーパーを出すということ【アルランディス...  



=== Credits ===


Ochus design by TVM Team


Some stock images via pexels:
Brain Mart Productions
Anna Kester
Gelgas Airlangga


Galaxy Footage from Sloane Digital Sky Survey


Lots of Vtuber and AKB48 footage used Fair Use style, baybeeeeeee!


There are scores of indie vtuber pfp in that diagram too WHO DO YOU RECOGNIZE??


Music and SFX are mostly from the Apple Loops Library, though "Fun Power" is one I made.

#envtuber #vtuberEN #holostars