‘Have you heard of a Vtuber before?’
This just in:
Old man doesn’t know young people terms.
More at 11.
One time, I accidentally said “pngtuber” in conversation with an elderly person. I decided to flee in embarrassment rather than try to explain what it meant.
I frigging love him so much
I’m not even 30. What are vtubers and pngtubers and all this shit? Pretty sure they aren’t potatoes, and those are the only tubers I know.
Streamers who use an animated model (or 2D PNG for the latter) instead of an IRL face camera.
I don’t see how that makes them different per se. Its like having a word for people who use their real picture in their profile vs an image vs nothing.
Wait 'til you hear how many different names people have for things that can all be defined as “music.”
or media. yeah yeah.
You can consider it a subcategory of streamer. Livestreaming is all about your public face and persona, it’s a lot more front and center than just an icon off to the side here, so someone choosing to present themselves as a character matters a lot. And for many VTubers, they literally are playing a character onstream, there’s an entire subculture surrounding VTuber personas.
It’s just kinda cute to see Bernie learn about this whole subculture like this.
you know looking at it from the streamers perspective I can see it more. like larping or furry or such.
Ah yes, I could imagine watching that for hours
