‘Have you heard of a Vtuber before?’

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    Streamers who use an animated model (or 2D PNG for the latter) instead of an IRL face camera.

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      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.

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        There’s a certain fascinating aspect to it. They use some sort of facial monitoring tech to observe their faces so the animated avatar can replicate them in real time with a variety of pre-programmed animations.

        This is a pretty well-known one:

        https://youtube.com/shorts/JvuGCJtl53c

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          don’t the face mod things on cell phones pretty much do the same? I mean tech wise. I mean I get the naming but seems like its just an option to me. Its the content to me but I don’t really watch youtube or any other tube really for titillating content so much and I guess that just makes it all meh for me.

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            Similar tech, sure, but the point is how they use this technology to play a character onstream.

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            No clue, I’m not too familiar with the ins and outs of filters and avatars and stuff. But yeah, I don’t think it’s anything super new.

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        Some of them have a certain… element that makes them different. That element is usually jiggle physics on the 3D model…

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          I always assumed that avatars with big jiggly boobs have them to cover up their oversized bodies.

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            Couldn’t tell you personally. I just do 3D modeling as a hobby but some folks I know from the hobby space do commission work, and apparently jiggle physics on anime boobs is a commonly requested feature.

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              So you might be able to tell me that vtuber boobs jiggle differently than your models.

              It looks more like a mask than a 3D model to me.

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                Well the only time I ever messed with jiggle physics was to animate a bunch of jello cubes falling from the ceiling, so yeah I’d say that’s pretty different than boobs.

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        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.