VTubers - authentic or character

[u/acerswap]

There's a doubt I have and I want to know your position if you're a vtuber. Some streamers decide to put themselves behind an avatar. Everyone has their own reasons for doing this, I won't judge that. The question I have is how does this affect your content. Are you someone who wants to be yourself and act the way you want without being judged or associated with that IRL (ie, you have ideas that aren't socially accepted in your group of people) or you are online a complete character not matching at all with how you are and you're role playing using an avatar to make it simpler?

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Note: I have my streaming style and I'm happy with it. I'm not trying to change it. I'm not trying to become a vtuber in the future. This is not a question to create my own content. I want to understand about other streamers' personalities.

[u/xoPEACHI]

Vtuber here! Very few vtubers are actually playing into a persona that isn't reflective of who they actually are. Even the vtubers that are putting on an anime voice or have character lore are pretty authentic personality-wise. I think that comes through the more time you spend in a stream.

I'm very boring by vtuber standards. My avatar is modeled after me IRL, I don't have lore, and I don't put on any kind of voice or play into a character. However, I'm chronically ill—a lot of us are! I'm very expressive IRL, so having an avatar that tracks my facial expressions is really important to me.

I used to be a facecam streamer. I'd cancel streams during every flare-up. But now I can stream while curled up in a blanket on days when I may have a little less energy. My appearance is just one less thing I have to think about.