Wait they don't own THEMSELVES?

Gods what the hell, it's just a VR chat avatar, what faustian deal do they sign where they give up their fursona bsky.app/profile/reposeful.bsky.social/post/3mj6ahshudc25

April 10, 2026 - 21:16 UTC

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imagining explaining this to an old rocker like "so basically, imagine if someone else decided what David Bowie could do with the character of Ziggie Stardust" and immediately getting slapped
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"also there's this new vtuber named Aladdin Sane who everyone knows is just Bowie again but it's uncouth to say it too loud"
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so your running into the difference between corporate and indi vtubing corporate vtubers work for an agency this agency runs the show marketing merch etc in exchange they own all the ip indies have none of that they run it all solo or with a small team they self employ but they get to own everything
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also what kind of faustian bargain? one worth about $10k at times, high end vtuber modeling and rigging is expensive
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Honestly this seems less grim than leaving a chunk of yourself behind

Kids, when the red gem on your Vtuber av's hand starts glowing, just run, get out of the city, they can't catch you if you get out of the city, go forth and live in the digital woods and meet old people- bsky.app/profile/boringkate.com/post/3mj6ai7wbrc2i
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Excellent reference to Logan’s Run
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Its like how youtubers would take a brand deal with machinima or whatever in 2014 for brand recognition, then when they went downhill fast all of the youtubers got their channels destroyed from being stuck either giving most of their revenue to a shit company or starting over from nothing.
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Except instead of just a channel name/ vague persona based on the youtuber as a person and the company collapsing, its an entire character distinct from the person behind it, and the company just deciding they dont want to feature yourself or the character you play anymore.
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Yeah I believe the term comes from the corporate entertainment culture of idol groups, where the group is a rotating cast of younger entertainers and they eventually "graduate" out of the group (in the best case to a solo career). It's pretty fucked up in both contexts.
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Another thing to remember is that this sort of thing is more normalized in the Japanese entertainment industry than it is in north america (and it USED to be more normalized in north america than it is now).
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It depends on the situation but yeah with the big companies you are basically an actor, it's very much like Idol culture where your management kinda owns everything about you untill you leave and keeps everything from when you were with them* *GENERALLY
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