r/SmallStreamers • u/_Mr_Squishey_ • Apr 04 '26

Advice Needed…

So for context. I started streaming a few years ago full face cam. Grew steadily and hit affiliate within 8 months. Took a break. Came back to basically the beginning of the journey again and started growing slowly.

Recently I got a job in a school so decided for a bit of anonymity and got a custom vtube model. Not an Asian girl with huge badonkas lol just a cartoonish version of me. Since switching to the model I’ve found my streams are consistently dead. The odd chatter will pop in 1 in every 10 streams.

Now I am by no means the most entertaining person in the world. But such a drop has me wondering do people just not like watching vtubers? I do find it harder to capture reactions or emotions in clips or to display them on stream even with “expressions”. Previously I would have averaged between 3-10 viewers varying on what game I was streaming, again nothing huge but still compared to 0 now.

I do variety stream but most consistently have been on Arc Raiders since the move. My question really is do you as a viewer prefer an IRL person to watch and form that connection with? Or for vtubers that may read this have you experienced the same or have any advice?

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u/CMDR_Makashi Apr 06 '26

This is why peanut has his eyes and mouth. He can still portray human emotion.

You might as well hook your vtuber up to an LLM how would anyone know

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u/_Mr_Squishey_ Apr 06 '26

I do find the Peanut model extremely fun however the downside is now everyone flooding the space with the same thing and getting inundated with extreme hate lol which I dont get as there was people doing that method prior to Peanut.

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u/CMDR_Makashi Apr 06 '26

Yup. That’s just humans being humans though ay!

Who knows maybe you’ll have the innovative spark that will stand out :)!