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The alleged change from pure keyfabe vtubing to "skinwalking" doesn't stand to a certain degree. Yes, there are fake vtubers who are just e-girls and grifters in it for the clout and the money, but they mostly jumped on the bandwagon back in the explosion days of HoloEN since it seemed like a perfect grift. But they are now a minority or negligible reaction streamers/panderers. What happened to authentic vtubing was an organic change of sorts. Us guys became more and more interested in who these girls were, what were their stories and struggles and they naturally reacted to that, filling a delicate but comfortable balance between displaying their true selves (and their usually messy, scuffed lives) and maintaining a degree of characterization. This in turn supercharged our male protective instincts and was warmly received. It humanized them and showed a lot of guys (perhaps even the fabled incels/genuine misogynists who might've kept an eye on vtubing) that at the end of the day these aren't some calculating machines out to destroy you but very human and vulnerable girls who often came from disastrous circumstances. I also hold the belief that to a certain degree the girls become their characters and that it changes their personalities, like water taking the shape of a vessel that it fills. In other words the changes flow both ways, and may even be true for us, though our presence and identity is more shadowy and hidden.
The actual attempts at forceful changes to vtubing came from other women who weren't vtubers under the guise of SJW stuff, but the actual motive was their envy at vtubers seemingly monopolizing that most precious of commodities - male attention. And that attention soon became deep investment and borderline worship, adding salt to their wounded pride. The other attempt was corporate. Both Nijisanji and Hololive tried to force maletubers into the mix but this was violently rejected.
There is however a deeper topic to discuss. The girls. Specifically, do you remember how HoloEN started and how embarrassed the girls were? The tension and doubt of Myth was palpable. After all, was vtubing in English merely cringe, a fad at best or merely something to laugh at at worst? More importantly my actual question - has receiving all this worship, all this adoration, all this effort, art, emotional investment and so forth changed the chuubas perception of men? Did these girls as a whole see through a lot of feminist bullshit and general nonsense in the same way a theoretical misogynist might've changed his opinion on women based on the experience of women through vtubing? My theory is that this has become one of the rare examples of a subculture and place where men and women can genuinely like each other in the purest way, both emotionally and sexually. Vtubing might be one of the best things to have happened to a lot of people on a much grander scale than it seems at first. Vtubing might be one of those things that broke free from the left/right dichotomy of shit that has plagued male/female relationships in the West. It brought us greater understanding of each other, and the end result may even be called love. Disembodied, distant, unreachable, but it ennobles the soul nonetheless.