Kimi wa, Nina Janai - Vol. 4 Ch. 34 - You’re so serious

[warm_panties]

Why I got hit by a stray just by vaping

 

[BSPancake]

Hoping this builds up to his arrest.

 

[Scipo0419]

Whales will always be whales. Be supportive if you want, just don't get possessive over someone who doesn't know you exist.

Exactly. There's being a supportive fan, and then there's this "I'm the only who who can support and love you." cringe obsessiveness

 

[KingHarkin1an]

Bro is soon gonna end up like the guy screaming about Rushia's marriage.

 

[Nyaaa]

You can't see it on my face, but I cringed so hard it started to taste sour.

 

[ShayGuy]

Dude, run the numbers. Her streaming career would not be compromised without you.

Wouldn't a good chunk of the virtual idols' donations and merchandise sells come from such fans?

As Nosebleed said on the last chapter:

Any vtuber will tell you this is the type of person they want to avoid at all costs. Dude literally thinks he's doing Nina favors when she'd probably be weirded out like hell by his behavior.

Even streamers who do GFE content often times regret having fans like this because they're absolute freaks who will get crazy ideas in their head and start doing insane stuff outside of stream.

I know a vtuber who had a dude in chat who used to donate a LOT for attention. Just dropping massive wads of cash out of nowhere to get her attention, also changed his username to a very attention grabbing one. On stream this vtuber would try to act nice because obviously money is money, but she felt forced to change the kind of content she did, such as avoiding playing games this dude liked so he wouldn't come on the stream and beg to play with her (she let the audience participate in some games). She also started toning down her responses or not focusing too much on him, and the dude started openly complaining online (not in chat but in his social media) and saying he was sad he wasn't getting attention and wouldn't send more money as a result. It completely ruined her mood for a while because, up until then, she had always been super nice to her fans and interacted with them a lot online (we're talking a small time streamer here). She had to reshape how she dealt with donos and people like that in the future, it gave her a lot of stress because she felt she wasn't being as true to herself (she really wanted to interact with chat more but learned the hard way she couldn't do it the way she had so far). All this to say people like this dude are what ruin streaming for both streamers and fans.

 

[spiffinn]

Thanks for the update! As others have said, pretty boring and annoying that such a creep character has been introduced at this stage of the game.

 

[Kaarme]

As Nosebleed said on the last chapter:

Certainly no one would want to deal with creeps and psychos. But considering the nature of the idol business and especially a platform with direct interaction and direct donations, isn't it inevitable? You already need to be enticed by an idol to follow them regularly and then take a step further to personally send money to them. It's not like following a woodworking or car repairing channel, where the interest is largely, sometimes almost fully, on the technical skills and material presented, and where you can actually learn a whole lot by watching the videos. There's little idol about them, not even when the channel owner happens to have charisma, making the videos more pleasant to follow. For such a content creator, a creepy stalker like follower would be genuinely unfortunate and not something they ever asked for, even though it naturally could happen. Idol, vtuber and all the others, are, however, all about the character of the channel owner. It's basically a "love me" situation.

 

[nueee]

THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR HEAD

 

[lolipedofin]

This guy waving flag redder than my ex's pad after heavy period.

 

[xXPenisXx]

Wouldn't a good chunk of the virtual idols' donations and merchandise sells come from such fans?

One of the only things the most popular Western Vtubers do better is grind that mindset beneath their heels. The Rushia girlfriend experience has Mikeneko consequences.

 

[Kaarme]

One of the only things the most popular Western Vtubers do better is grind that mindset beneath their heels. The Rushia girlfriend experience has Mikeneko consequences.

To be fair, the whole "celebrities can't have romantic relationships" thing is only something I encountered when I started to read manga/watch anime and then read Japanese news in general. Here in the West, back in the day, it was the bread and butter of lower quality magazines and evening papers to reveal and speculate on the relationships of celebrities. Not once in my life have I witnessed a scene in the West of fans lamenting their favourite celeb isn't a single virgin anymore. Not that I'd have been deeply involved in that culture, but still. What I'm saying is that Western idols probably have it a bit easier.

 

[xXPenisXx]

To be fair, the whole "celebrities can't have romantic relationships" thing is only something I encountered when I started to read manga/watch anime and then read Japanese news in general. Here in the West, back in the day, it was the bread and butter of lower quality magazines and evening papers to reveal and speculate on the relationships of celebrities. Not once in my life have I witnessed a scene in the West of fans lamenting their favourite celeb isn't a single virgin anymore. Not that I'd have been deeply involved in that culture, but still. What I'm saying is that Western idols probably have it a bit easier.

More specifically, I meant encouraging and exploiting parasocial relationships for money.

 

[chusetto]

Please, don't 🤦🏻

 

[dbzclamp]

Are you watching the stream…? No, maybe he's actually sick.

He literally told you he was watching the stream

 

[Apep23]

Uhh, why vapes being considered as a bad guy?