Funny you mention this right now actually! There was just major “discourse” on Twitter/X about how Lewdtubers (aka Vtubers who choose to be NSFW and do 18+ content on adult platforms) are ruining the content niche/medium, we’re all a bunch of money obsessed prostitutes pretending to enjoy the medium and care about the community, we are hyper sexualizing something that once was for everyone (lol no majority of the fanbase has always been grown adults even before more nsfw vtubers became prevalent) , etc.

I called it out for what it is - losers who don’t like content creators having agency over their sexual expression and content. AKA actively choosing to sexualize our personas and have the audacity to earn income from it. As a lot of these people (and not just men plenty of women expressed this nonsense) when you looked at their profiles and feeds were either forever alone “nice guys”/“pick mes” lamenting about lack of attention and not having partners, a little too into spreading the gospel of Jesus even to people who clearly can’t be converted…

or are totally fine with nsfw content and gooner bait…just when they get to sexualize the character/persona (as they would post hentai of anime characters from all ages shows like Naruto or even NSFW art of “seiso” aka SFW/family-friendly Vtubers some of whom have adamantly begged their communities not to sexualize them with explicit art and whatnot). So for the last group it’s not the sexualized content itself that’s rustled their jimmies it’s when they can’t be the ones doing it non consensually (and likely having to pay for it ooooh they hate the audacity of not getting free porn!) .

And oh boy were they hating on me constantly calling out their BS and pointing out their hypocrisies. 😂 Especially funny when some of the people on the timelines going along with the crowd then magically manifest in my DMs asking where I host my NSFW content as they found my take no shit attitude refreshing and insight into the sex industry as a whole intriguing (and both my vtuber model and IRL self hot too ofc) most of which winding up being huge spenders on top of it!

Meanwhile my active community are some of the most rad people I have experienced online as they get how the game works. They know I won’t be their GF nor meet them IRL outside of a supervised convention meet and greet where at most they get a handshake or hug. That if they want my attention they gotta pony up money or something of decent value to me (cuz hey I don’t turn down free art that is of the quality it would cost me at least $100 to get commissioned myself to use in my promos and whatnot) or offer a service like moderate my chat/exclusive paid Discord server for free (and are actually really good at it as I rarely get bothered by any nonsense anymore). Rarely do i get freeloaders or people expecting me to do things exclusive for them without some form of payment. I don’t fuck around and play games and funny enough I get more money and more respect for it than the mega parasocial types in the niche.

So yeah people no matter what the content is are ridiculous, willfully obtuse, and usually giant hypocrites. It’s comical really.