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There shouldn& #39;t be any issue with Pokimane using an animated avatar, but calling her a vtuber is a bit disingenuous since the whole point of a vtuber is it& #39;s a persona without any connection to the real face of a person.
Vtubers have the luxury of communicating with an audience without having any baggage that comes from their irl identity. They don& #39;t have to be Joe Schmoe who works at Kmart who also streams on the side. They can be a grim reaper who puts out sick beats or cool Bartender.
Of course it goes without saying vtubers put themselves into their designed avatar and they tell stories about irl selves but they choose to tell those stories on their terms.
Even though there are scum who find out their real identities and shout it out on both vtuber and irl streams, the community at large does respect the vtubers wishes to separate their irl persona and vtuber persona.
