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Gonna talk about live chat for a little bit. I wanna talk about live chat etiquette and respecting both the streamer and other viewers, as well as a little point on spammers/obnoxious commenters. (1/9)
Lyger's already posted a guide on VTuber stream etiquette that's largely been forgotten about, which I'll link at the end of this, but I also wanna talk about some issues concerning overseas viewer participation that doesn't pertain to spam. (2/9)
With hololive growing as fast as it has, we have a lot of live translators in the scene, like Harry Lin in Watame's streams and Des. P in Fubuki's streams, but I see a recurring problem of a lack of overseas engagement with the streams. (3/9)
The point of live-translation isn't just to help people understand the stream, since interpretation is never really accurate translation-wise, but also to help EN fans stay on topic with the stream and to engage with the streamer with comments that aren't off topic. (4/9)
These intentions are largely overshadowed by a vast majority of comments that opt to thank the translator, to make random meme references (which, no one finds funny), and to talk about how they don't know Japanese (No one cares, btw). (5/9)
I'm not here to point fingers, but imagine your favorite VTuber reading an English comment for once, and it being "I don't know Japanese" or "Where are the subs?!" We've even had the problem where Korone was freaked out by the "FBI!" meme, so please try to be civil. (6/9)
Other than being a mediator between you and the streamer, live chat has another key benefit, which is seeing other people's reactions. Reading other people's comments is a significant part of stream enjoyment, one that you can't really experience (7/9)
if you don't understand the language, or if the chat's filled with dead memes and obnoxious spam. A lot of EN fans tend to just close the chat because of that reason, since reading nothing is better than reading spam. (8/9)
Spam likely won't disappear, but we can all do our part to try to engage with the stream while staying on topic through the live-translator in order to drown out the spam comments instead of by counter-spamming "Don't spam" in the chat. (9/9)
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Links ↓
A nifty tool to filter youtube live-chat comments so that you can have the live-translation comments appear at the top. Filter by [EN] or whatever tag the translator's using to do that.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ytcfilter/mnldnbhgfocmkehnlkeanlhfmopepnko
Lyger's guide to VTuber stream etiquette
https://lyger.github.io/scripts/vtuber/etiquette.html
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ytcfilter/mnldnbhgfocmkehnlkeanlhfmopepnko
Lyger's guide to VTuber stream etiquette
https://lyger.github.io/scripts/vtuber/etiquette.html
