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The fact that most of the comments here are complaining about the imprecise etymology of terms like "vtuber" and "pngtuber" like old men yelling about kids thes
by krapp 2y ago
The fact that most of the comments here are complaining about the imprecise etymology of terms like "vtuber" and "pngtuber" like old men yelling about kids these days with their hip-hop bebops and bad is good... is kind of hilarious. Absolutely no interesting conversation of any technical merit is to be found because people are using words wrong. This from a community that considers "enshittification" a precise and technical term of art.
Please no one tell this lot about "fleshtubers," they'll throw their soup in a rage.
- ziddoap 2y agoIt is as if some people hit a certain age and just want the entire world to stop evolving around them so that they can remain comfortable. "Those damn kids and their newfangled words with context/nuance I don't understand!"
- kbelder 2y agoI'm old, and hate the bastardization of language when it's done out of ignorance, and particularly when it's done with some sort of manipulative agenda. But this is a perfectly reasonable new term, describing an interesting subset of 'avatar' that has its own unique traits, and that is useful to distinguish from other types of avatar. Getting upset at that is like getting upset that somebody used the term 'recliner' instead of a 'chair'.