yeah, the social dynamics of streaming are vastly different at scale and i was mainly talking about the biggest vtubers, though i think it is fair to generalize to them because that's where the vast majority of viewer-hours are spent.

i think the main problem is that the same word (streaming/vtubing) is used to refer to what might as well be two completely different means of social interaction, depending on the audience size

a stream with a very small audience is similar to hanging out on the couch with the fellas while one person plays a video game on the tv, a stream with a very large audience is more like attending a concert or sports game

i recall seeing a lot of techy people dunking on js... especially the "Internet Privacy Guys" always had some vague complaints about privacy or security issues or something... there were also memes people made about wacky javascript equality operator ('==' and '===') behavior. overall i think it gets a bad rep among tech people because it's associated with web dev, the lowest status development work.

thanks, i put way too much effort into writing on here... i hope that with enough practice i'll one day be able to write somewhere more prestigious, like at a substack or in "nonstop life", the allegiant airlines inflight magazine

I've actually always thought that your writing was vaguely Substackesque

it's the place for long-form independent writing on the internet now... and i do go there a lot... according to a "substack summer" graphic they emailed me i read 792k words in 345 posts there this summer...

but unfortunately they do not support sidenotes

even if this site glitch doesnt get resolved for me, i think finding your site is worth it haha

it wouldn't really be "suboptimalism" if it wasn't hosted on a platform with occasional glitches...