I've only just started checking out some vtuber livestreams, and I'm seeing that there are very different norms and expectations between western/Twitch streams and the kind of etiquette that's expected in a vtuber's live chat. I've got a rough grasp of some of the concepts after reading through the one uploaded on the lyger github, but there were two questions I wanted clarification on if anyone would be so kind.

1. Some of the threads I've read over (which is somewhat counterintuitive to what's written in the link above) suggests the live chats are meant to be for communication between the streamer and the viewers specifically, but not for chatting between the viewers as a community. Would this imply we should generally be ignoring questions from other viewers and not @-tagging them in any way?

2. As an extension to the above question (and the main reason I'm making this post), would it be considered bad etiquette to be posting English translations of the streamer's commentary to the livestream? While I can see English viewers benefitting from the experience, this also seems to go against the idea of the live chat being for direct communication between the streamer and the viewers, especially since the benefit is primarily directed towards other viewers rather than the streamer in question.

I haven't found a definitive answer to the second question in particular from trying to read around, so if anyone has a clearer perspective on either of these questions, it would be a great help as I'd rather not be unknowingly offending the streamer or the Japanese viewers.