I can tell I'm getting old because I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything by not having a clue what this post is about. I'm actually kind of proud of the fact that this all reads like a foreign language to me.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Hannah Montana was a Disney show where a girl was a popstar under a different name and wig so she could be a normal person when she wasn't performing. VTubers, like Ironmouse that op referenced, are streamers that essentially play characters rather than stream as themselves in order to preserve their anonymity. They have cameras that track their movement, but rather than just stream the feed of the camera, they map that movement onto an avatar, usually a 3d anime girl.
Thank you, I was super confused.
We also have hand youtubers! Or animators abimate their avatars.
A few like legit musicians also hide their face while performing to make it hard to be recognized, but don't go full Hannah Montana and their real names are known.
Last part: Ado does it.
Live performance on stage but the lighting is set up so the face isnt revealed.
https://youtu.be/khplMpm4ctc
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And she absolutely kills it.
Sia also comes to mind
Slow Magic does it a lot. He wears LED masks and keeps his identity secret
usually a 3d anime girl
Why are they always very young girls?
Because people are fucked up in the head.
You really have to ask?
Hanna Montana is a 2006 show. Most of it's fan base would all be approaching 30 by this point.
Oof calling my 29 yo butt out
I'm afraid it weirdly impacts everyone.
With how many celebs are getting harassed, more and more are probably going to hide their identities. Hannah Montana was just an early 2000s show about a pop star who put on a wig and fake name to perform and no one knew who she was.
Here are like even some more main stream hidden identities. They seem to leak eventually, but it gets them a lot less attention on the streets.
https://brightside.me/articles/what-8-famous-people-whove-been-hiding-their-faces-look-like-634910/
Vtubers are just youtubers who have an avatar instead of showing their face, and some refuse to even give their real name.
We also have hand youtubers like Lock picking lawyer, who hide his identity to avoid harassment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJrSWXFXvlE&ab_channel=LockPickingLawyer
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Ya but like, who cares?
People that view others as human.
I don't think celebrities and actual humans are quite the same. Celebrities have been putting on personas since the very first celebrities began. A celebrity is literally a public image, that's what it is. This stretches to politicians as well. Hannah Montana was not an original idea, it was a commentary on the lives a lot of celebrities live. Tosh.0? A shy introvert.
The only thing you mentioned that was new is the invention of digital avatars. Everything else is business as usual. Who cares?
As for the people harassing people? Well they should stop. Online harassment isn't cool, regardless of celebrity status.
I didn't mention anything other than people that view others as humans would care that other humans are being harassed.
Being doxxed and getting death threats? Oh yeah that's not cool but who cares?
Also, a more minor point relative to your stance that celebs aren't human, but how on earth did you manage to equate a public persona with completely obfuscating ones identity or even creating a totally new identity?
Ok we're talking about different parts of the original post.
Also I literally don't care about this anymore. Enjoy hitting downvote and crying about YouTubers getting caught up in their own choices in pursuit of fame.
Enjoy being proud about being indifferent to human suffering.
Enjoy assuming things about strangers to make yourself feel morally superior.
Your only reply to the whole of the original post was who cares. The doxxing death threats and sexual harassment, who cares. You wanted to say that you were talking about a different part but you gave no context or indication for that when you just said who cares. How is that not indifference to human suffering? It really doesn't seem like much of an assumption.
Get over it.
Yes indifference makes you cool. Caring about things is for losers. Any more grade school wisdom you'd like to impart?
Enjoy assuming things about strangers to make yourself feel morally superior.
Well we already established it's much of an assumption.
I've never understood people that feel the need to brag about not knowing about things. If you dont care about it why waste the time to be smug about it. Who is the performative ignorance for?
You're in a community dedicated to sharing random thoughts. I shared mine. The logic isn't hard to follow despite how much you seem to want to be the gatekeeper of acceptable speech.
I, too, am proud of my own ignorance.
Good for you, oldie
Are these all Linux distros? I'm confused.
I knew someone was gonna show up making fun of the fact that Hannah Montana is a distro.
the fact that Hannah Montana is a distro.
Holy shit, I thought you were joking.
Wait until you hear about Biebian
The magic of open source, it only takes one determined trolly nerd to make anything happen.
But isn't it the best distro?
Only if you're a heathen us God fearing men use Temple OS
Besides HM, I have no clue who the people you're talking about are or what niche they fall into, but sounds bad
Vtubers are streamers who assume a persona and don't show their face. Usually a computer generated model will be used instead of a regular face camera. They use tracking tech to make the model mimic their movements. Ironmouse is a popular vtuber.
Dream is a minecraft youtuber who hid behind a persona too, though they didn't have a vtuber model - they just didn't show their face. He had a ton of fans being enamoured with him, up to the point of obsession. He then decided to do a face reveal, which wasn't really met positively.
And now allegations are being made against Dream, and every dude on Twitter wants him burnt alive.
Dolly Parton knows what's up