I don't know why, but every time I see someone streaming with an avatar moving, emoting, and talking rather than either a person or nothing, it's really uncanny valley to me. I don't know why, but it creeps me out and I can't watch it.
Anon watches a vtuber
Submitted 11 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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tiredofsametab@kbin.run 11 months ago
dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Me too, I hate it! Not in a “let’s ban it” way, just in the skin-crawly way that lots of people can’t stand to see pictures of spiders, or like body horror.
tiredofsametab@kbin.run 11 months ago
Oh yeah, I wouldn't want to ban it or anything; people should enjoy what they enjoy. I was just wondering if it had the same effect on anyone else.
GTG3000@programming.dev 11 months ago
Yeah, same. I think it’s because avatar will have some level of desync with the audio.
…or blink one eye after another or wink randomly.
BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Shit I didn’t even know that was an option until literally now. I’ve never watched any game play vids, except when I’m looking to see what the game is like before I buy it - bring back playable demos!!!
I’ve been told by several people that they would watch me play a game for background noise, due to not having time to do it themselves and apparently I have decent technical skills (single player games), but the idea of being filmed doesn’t sit well with me. I did allow someone to remote play to watch the story of horizon zero dawn, but it was just the game itself.
muse@fedia.io 11 months ago
That's rough, buddy.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People who watch vtubers are sad, sad people.
I genuinely feel sorry for them.
Wolfram@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Save your sympathy or apply it to the rest of people watching normal streamers. They’re no different.
Maalus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Save your sympathy or apply it to the rest of the people typing stupid comments on Lemmy. They’re no different.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People who watch standup comedians or go to music shows are sad, sad people.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 months ago
I don’t see how it’s any worse than watching any other streamer. At least they can bow out when they want to retire and not have a bunch of idiots stalking them for the rest of their lives because their real face has been plastered all over the internet (assuming they haven’t been doxxed by some creep). I don’t understand why anyone watches streamers of any sort personally but if it makes people happy why give a shit about it?
Manzas@lemdro.id 11 months ago
[deleted]Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t real?
heavy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I think there’s space for artifical company, and I don’t think it’s a bad idea, but I think it best to lead toward getting grounded in reality. We’re social creatures and have a habit of humanizing almost anything.
OsaErisXero@kbin.run 11 months ago
Least lonely /vt/ poster
MisterNeon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Living in the future is weird.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Very easy rule to follow, see vtuber, go to another stream
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Here’s a deep pull: Nessus dancing in holodeck with other Puppeteers, before the word “holodeck” had been coined.
nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
At least the vtuber is a real person playing a role. Y’know. Currently.
Give it time.
rockerface@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Neuro-sama has entered the chat
brb@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Meet Neuro-sama
(picked a random vod and timestamp)
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
We’ve been past that point since at least last year.
nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
TIL. Hadn’t realized we were already there, I’m not a vtuber guy. I retract my statement.
rtxn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sometimes you know there’s a human behind the mask. For example, an AI would have known that you have to steer a Warthog with the mouse.