• RedditRefugee69
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    This just in:

    Old man doesn’t know young people terms.

    More at 11.

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    One time, I accidentally said “pngtuber” in conversation with an elderly person. I decided to flee in embarrassment rather than try to explain what it meant.

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    I’m not even 30. What are vtubers and pngtubers and all this shit? Pretty sure they aren’t potatoes, and those are the only tubers I know.

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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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          Wait 'til you hear how many different names people have for things that can all be defined as “music.”

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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.