• Techno-rat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            28 days ago

            Tulpas are created through rituals. If you are a plural person (assuming that means what some call multiple personality disorder), they arent necessarily created through intention, thus Im not referring to plural people at all.

            Additionally, the use of ‘psychosis’ is not clinical, its everyday language slang. Im not actually calling people psychotic, id be calling myself that, as i do practice ritual magick every once in a while

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        29 days ago

        I know plurality and things like DID are real. But is tulpamancy a thing? The description sounds like a meme

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          29 days ago

          Unironically, yes. The brain is really weird about a lot of shit. It’s not that difficult to make it believe something if you’re committed.

          I got involved in this around a decade ago learning a bunch of “brain hacking” stuff. Can confirm, it is real. Can’t say it’s something I’d recommend to the average person, though. It’s a fast track to some major instability if you aren’t used to playing around with your own thought processes in detail.

          • Agent641@lemmy.world
            1·
            28 days ago

            You’re more likely to end up with a malevolent trickster entity masquerading as your Tulpa.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 month ago

      My first exposure to VTubers was the tool bear, who would tell you things about cheap tools.

      I was always curious because why did this guy need to use a digital bear skin to talk about tools? And then he quit using the V-Tuber skin and he’s just a regular guy, so it doesn’t make any sense to me.

      • logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        30 days ago

        Looking at graduation video at the start bear was easier than IRL camera/studio/background for a starting youtuber. But problems with vtubing software killed the bear. Boils to: Not having full rights to bears likeness, new versions not adding more features for expert user, old version that wouldn’t activate on new pc and new version of software costing more $, or even worse be a monthly subscription.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 month ago

    Vtubers have always made me uncomfortable in a way I can’t fully describe. Fans talk about them as if the vtuber characters are real, and they all seem to lust after them in a very unhealthy way.

    • Harvey656@lemmy.worldM
      8·
      30 days ago

      Vtuber characters

      They are people, not characters. I cannot fathom how this dissonance began, but its so odd.

      Edit: after about 45 minutes of thought, I think this person’s only knowledge of vtubers comes from hololive. Hololive really is much of the time characters, I think that’s why Gura was so big, because she really was genuinely a goober. But I digress. I would look at some indies like Ironmouse, Crelly, or someone on the smaller view count that aligns with your personal interests.

      Actually dont watch crelly. Your soul wont survive.

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6·
        30 days ago

        From what I can tell it seems like it’s sort of up to them how much they want to play a character vs streaming as themselves, with the possible exception of the ones whose vtuber identities are the intellectual property of a company that employs them. There’s a spectrum of things like how much they lean into their character lore, do a voice/mannerisms, or how much they use the avatar as a privacy shield and avoid revealing personal details.

        Not that there’s anything wrong with it either way, it’s basically similar to pseudonymous internet identities, but for live streamers. Anyway if we’re shilling vtubers I want to shoutout my favorite chicken themed vtuber, Henemimi

    • DaGeek247@fedia.io
      6·
      1 month ago

      I expect it’s the same way people treat regular streamers, they’re just a bit less careful about how they talk about their favorite vtuber in public than they way would a regular streamer.

    • angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      29 days ago

      Vtubing, like wrestling, blurs the line between reality and fiction, but I’d argue Vtubing leans closer to reality and wrestling leans closer to fiction.

      Kayfabe is a concept in both, but most Vtubers are looser with it and many don’t have it at all, just use avatars for varying reasons.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      1·
      28 days ago

      When I’m watching something I don’t need to a head cam blocking the screen.

      This feels like an even bigger fuck you to me where they just put a picture up to block the screen.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
    5·
    1 month ago

    Sort of, but dumber. At least a tulpa is a display of a quirk of the human mind that it can create an imaginary friend that feels like a different person, and isn’t done for the titillation of strangers. Vtubers are just the laziest automation of a ventriloquist act.

    They don’t learn the subtle art of throwing their voice and looking like they’re paying attention, practicing a skill like a magician. They don’t even engage sincerely with an esoteric religious tradition like tulpamancers. They just run a software to control the digital dummy and do the exact same thing every other streamer does. Give it a few more years and they won’t be anime girls, it’ll all be AI Pokimane bodies with AI modulated voice changers played by the 50 dudes who sold their souls, their cars, and their neighborhood children to get ahold of the only 100 consumer graphics cards to leak out of the Nvidia pipeline.