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The facial expressions are fantastic. And of course it would be Pinkie.
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Do I wanna know what a tulpa is ?
Imaginary friend, basically
Plus ritualistically induced psychosis, banger combo must say
psychosis and being plural are two entirely different things. they're not even in the same ballpark. saying this as someone who has experienced both
Tulpas are created through rituals. If you are a plural person (assuming that means what some call multiple personality disorder), they arent necessarily created through intention, thus Im not referring to plural people at all.
Additionally, the use of βpsychosisβ is not clinical, its everyday language slang. Im not actually calling people psychotic, id be calling myself that, as i do practice ritual magick every once in a while
I know plurality and things like DID are real. But is tulpamancy a thing? The description sounds like a meme
Unironically, yes. The brain is really weird about a lot of shit. It's not that difficult to make it believe something if you're committed.
I got involved in this around a decade ago learning a bunch of "brain hacking" stuff. Can confirm, it is real. Can't say it's something I'd recommend to the average person, though. It's a fast track to some major instability if you aren't used to playing around with your own thought processes in detail.
You're more likely to end up with a malevolent trickster entity masquerading as your Tulpa.
Buddhist spirit that ancient monks would summon along the path to enlightenment
As small as one third of an egregore.
The first vtuber (I am aware of) debuted in 2016, making vtubers closer to 2012 than 2026.
I'm old...
My first exposure to VTubers was the tool bear, who would tell you things about cheap tools.
I was always curious because why did this guy need to use a digital bear skin to talk about tools? And then he quit using the V-Tuber skin and he's just a regular guy, so it doesn't make any sense to me.
Looking at graduation video at the start bear was easier than IRL camera/studio/background for a starting youtuber. But problems with vtubing software killed the bear. Boils to: Not having full rights to bears likeness, new versions not adding more features for expert user, old version that wouldn't activate on new pc and new version of software costing more $, or even worse be a monthly subscription.
He must have been upset a bunch of weebs stole his idea
The concept is much older, but just didn't have much popularity
Vtubers have always made me uncomfortable in a way I can't fully describe. Fans talk about them as if the vtuber characters are real, and they all seem to lust after them in a very unhealthy way.
I mean, the people controlling those characters are real. You can interact with them and are genuine people.
You can compare it to characters in a tv show. People talk about Water White as if they are real. And the actor playing that character is real.
The lust has more to do with the weebs lusting after anything that looks anime. But the majority of vtubers aren't even anime girls. For the vtuber it is also more to do with privacy and not having to look presentable every time they want to stream.
Vtuber characters
They are people, not characters. I cannot fathom how this dissonance began, but its so odd.
Edit: after about 45 minutes of thought, I think this person's only knowledge of vtubers comes from hololive. Hololive really is much of the time characters, I think that's why Gura was so big, because she really was genuinely a goober. But I digress. I would look at some indies like Ironmouse, Crelly, or someone on the smaller view count that aligns with your personal interests.
Actually dont watch crelly. Your soul wont survive.
Crelly would ask them if they ever ate mold. It would only further confuse them about Vtubers
And probably wont shut up about Koko
From what I can tell it seems like it's sort of up to them how much they want to play a character vs streaming as themselves, with the possible exception of the ones whose vtuber identities are the intellectual property of a company that employs them. There's a spectrum of things like how much they lean into their character lore, do a voice/mannerisms, or how much they use the avatar as a privacy shield and avoid revealing personal details.
Not that there's anything wrong with it either way, it's basically similar to pseudonymous internet identities, but for live streamers. Anyway if we're shilling vtubers I want to shoutout my favorite chicken themed vtuber, Henemimi
I expect it's the same way people treat regular streamers, they're just a bit less careful about how they talk about their favorite vtuber in public than they way would a regular streamer.
When I'm watching something I don't need to a head cam blocking the screen.
This feels like an even bigger fuck you to me where they just put a picture up to block the screen.
Vtubing, like wrestling, blurs the line between reality and fiction, but I'd argue Vtubing leans closer to reality and wrestling leans closer to fiction.
Kayfabe is a concept in both, but most Vtubers are looser with it and many don't have it at all, just use avatars for varying reasons.
Oh, so like imaginary friends for adults!
Yes, but where the imaginer has invested so much energy into it that they lose control of it, usually tinged with some sort of mild to moderate mental illness, which may either be a cause or a consequence of creating a tulpa.
plurality isn't a mental illness, it's just a nonstandard way of brains working. like being autistic or ADHD
I'm friends with My partner's parogen, he's a cool guy. His name is Anthony and he's imaginary-British.
My computer mommy could beat up your sky daddy.
The word tulpa has been removed from its original cultural context in a way many people aren't okay with. So the plural community now calls them parogens.
I'm friends with someone else's parogen
Parogen is just as fucking stupid as the use of tulpa.
It means intentionally created. In the context of plurality, it makes perfect sense, because it distinguishes parogens from traumagenic, walk-in, and other kinds of system members.
I work in tech, and one of the things that we learn early on is to not use tech jargon around people who are not also in the tech field because it can alienate them and make them feel stupid.
So while you may have a fully fluent and valid mental construct of parogens and all of the assorted lore attached to that, talking about them as if it were common knowledge to people who have not been exposed to the same information is at best off-putting.
tbf half the point of these communities is to be sheltered and insular. being told off by the wider population only drives people deeper within them.
Yeah, this is true. But I feel like tech is esoteric, whereas metal health and psychology aren't. Plus the stigmas are different.
Any word we come up with for parogenenis is gonna confuse normies, because the act itself is fundamentally alien to most people's experiences. The only way to explain it is to start with the science.
It wouldn't cost much to phrase that in a nicer way
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