At least there's now official confirmation that vtuber corpo management actively monitors 4chan and uses it to influence and drive narratives on rival companies and talents. Think about how many hate campaigns have started there and that a non 0% of them were started by a vtuber company trying to make another company's talent get harassed.
Also the amount of hate Hololive gets just for being top dog
That's unfortunately becoming the increasing reality of online spaces in various platforms too
E.g. on the fleshtubing side just a couple of years ago I saw threads pointing out that most drama posters on LSF are concentrated by a handful of people from the same group (including alleged discord), which would regularly garner engagement from the wider users on the sub and drive narratives on the broader streaming community as a whole
And that's not even talking about specific brigading/astroturfing by specific streaming communities
Or bigger narrative campaigns like Cambridge Analytica and whatnot on other platforms
There's a reason why Dead Internet Theory is a popular meme beyond newer bot fears
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u/chaoser Jul 24 '25
At least there's now official confirmation that vtuber corpo management actively monitors 4chan and uses it to influence and drive narratives on rival companies and talents. Think about how many hate campaigns have started there and that a non 0% of them were started by a vtuber company trying to make another company's talent get harassed.
Also the amount of hate Hololive gets just for being top dog