note: at the time of this writeup hyperlinks still are the same color as text, so I changed them to green.
You've probably heard them or maybe seen them, but Virutal YouTuber's are basically anime become real. Wikipedia describes them as: A virtual YouTuber, or VTuber, is an online entertainer that uses a (usually anime-inspired) computer graphics-generated avatar.
To keep it simple they use a face tracking software and cover it up with this anime avatar that can be moved around (sometimes called L2D or Live 2D) and that's how you get the avatar to move with the person behind it. (A company called Nijisanji calls them Livers [live-ers])
The Virtual YouTuber trend was popularized by the YouTuber named Kizuna AI in late 2016 never gaining much traction until around the year of 2018. Ever since then Vtubers have been a slight rise with two main companies being in the limelight of the VTuber sphere; Hololive and Nijisanji. Nijisanji hasn't had so many issues due to their large sum of "fuck you money" they have to fight things like DMCA's and copyright claims. Except Hololive has had it's fair share of drama and other issues such as the time when china threw a fit when one of their talents said the word "taiwan"(a) that I believe is still going on to this day, having to slim down the games their talents can play due to copyright strikes and DMCA claims and the one time when one of their talents got doxed and harassed moments after being introduced. (a)
Of course here's the clip people want to see of Anime girls saying the gamer word:
Even with the drama going on within the VTuber world I find them very entertaining to watch in an agency or independent. I'd also would put a list of VTubers here, but there's too many and it'll just take up too much space so instead if you want to find a list of them I suggest checking out the fandom(a) for a list of VTubers.
You've probably heard them or maybe seen them, but Virutal YouTuber's are basically anime become real. Wikipedia describes them as: A virtual YouTuber, or VTuber, is an online entertainer that uses a (usually anime-inspired) computer graphics-generated avatar.
The Virtual YouTuber trend was popularized by the YouTuber named Kizuna AI in late 2016 never gaining much traction until around the year of 2018. Ever since then Vtubers have been a slight rise with two main companies being in the limelight of the VTuber sphere; Hololive and Nijisanji. Nijisanji hasn't had so many issues due to their large sum of "fuck you money" they have to fight things like DMCA's and copyright claims. Except Hololive has had it's fair share of drama and other issues such as the time when china threw a fit when one of their talents said the word "taiwan"(a) that I believe is still going on to this day, having to slim down the games their talents can play due to copyright strikes and DMCA claims and the one time when one of their talents got doxed and harassed moments after being introduced. (a)
Of course here's the clip people want to see of Anime girls saying the gamer word:
Even with the drama going on within the VTuber world I find them very entertaining to watch in an agency or independent. I'd also would put a list of VTubers here, but there's too many and it'll just take up too much space so instead if you want to find a list of them I suggest checking out the fandom(a) for a list of VTubers.
