I’m still not sure why. For the corporate ones, like Hololive, I’m quite sure it’s just management driving it for audience engagement, at least on most of them. Lesbians are very fetishized by male audiences, so it appeals to them, while also keeping parasocial behaviour alive, as those men can imagine a relationship with the vtuber since there’s no boyfriend in the picture. Nonetheless, there’s a couple where I’m sure they’re pretty gay, Ollie and Kiara come to mind, and OkaKoro as a relationship seems genuine enough as well.

For more indie vtubers I do not know what’s going on with the queerness. It’s either faked like how I assume it is with most corpos or there’s some sort of selection bias. Maybe the type of woman likely to become a vtuber is also the type to have grown up in male online spaces, and assimilated some of the attraction to women during their puberty? That rough idea would track with male vtubers seeming pretty hetero overall, at least to me.

I’m just taking random guesses here, might just be talking absolute bs, I’m not sure.

Reminds me of this is she into you video where he just mentions that “she’s been with me for 15 years, we’re married and have kids, but i can’t tell whether she’s into me; she’s probably canadian and just being nice”

Apparently this isn’t the case anymore (according to my younger siblings) but only ~⅓ of my grad class at a Canadian high school was cishet.

Like straight up, most of us were some flavour of gay to the point that I knew people who had to come out as straight due to others assuming they were just bi.

Eh!

weirdly, more of them are canadian than the other two combined

The sheer audacity of suggesting that any of the Canadian vtubers aren’t also gay or bi.

And TheBurntPeanut is definitely not Canadian

Haruka. Checks out lmao