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A while back I had mentioned that Phase should avoid the "based" stuff. But I didn't elaborate why they should avoid that. I will in this post.

Because I view vtubers as entertainers, not as personal extensions of their opinions. Their purpose should be supporting each other and entertaining their fans rather than giving some profound opinions on society. As with wrestling getting too attached to a character is becoming a mark, and most wresters don't spend their personal lifes hitting people with chairs for piledriving people.

The other reason why people should avoid being "based" is because people are not naturally "based", they're cringe. Everyone has sides of themselves that don't line up with what people think is cool. So if you market yourself as "based" eventually you will have a cringe opinion or take that people or your fans don't like and that gets you into trouble. The average person can't understand that a vtuber is some form of a character that acts different online than their own personal life.

Like me I can say the nigger word or make inappropriate jokes about racial or sexist things but I don't do that normally in real life. I find a lot of the based takes online to be retarded propaganda that betrays their views on religion that they supposedly practice. I like rap music and have always liked rap music. I like normie stuff along with anime and video game stuff. A lot of the stuff I like lies contrary to most based takes online.

I'll say it right now: this insistence to mix themselves into the Jim/Ralph/Sargon sphere is super retarded. I've never watched a killstream, I've gotten a tweet from Ralph 1 time. I don't know how these guys can absorb themselves into hours of these retarded slap fights and allow their vtuber brands to get mixed in with that. And the thing about Ralph and Sargon is that they don't "get" vtubers and don't understand it. They're going to drag themselves down into these retarded Internet slap fights with people that don't give a shit. I'm not interested in it. :backfromgab: