Lord Aethelstan claims VTubers shouldn\u2019t be stuck to \u201ctraditional standard\u201d in face reveal Twitch: Lord AethelstanVTuber Lord Aethelstan\u2019s face reveal turned heads in the community \u2014 and not just for his looks. The popular Twitch star used his unmasking as a statement, saying \u201cthere\u2019s no rules\u201d and creators shouldn\u2019t be stuck to \u201ctraditional standard of VTubing\u201d. Lord Aethelstan is one of Twitch\u2019s most popular male VTubers, going from just a static PNG to a fully-fledged 2D model on his rise up the platform. Now he\u2019s shown off his fleshy 3D form during an October 12 face reveal that was as dramatic as it could have been. Of course, the castle-dwelling vampire had to come out wearing a thick suit of armor, clunking around his room and knocking down green screens like nobody\u2019s business. But once the helmet came off and his face shown off, he was surprised by the reaction: \u201cI thought most of you guys already knew what I looked like,\u201d he laughed. However he used the hype around his face reveal to show the VTubing world that there\u2019s more than the \u201ctraditional standard\u201d of schedules, karaoke, and faceless content creation. VTubers should be able to do whatever they want because \u201cthere\u2019s no f**king rules\u201d. Aethel highlighed VShojo star Kson as an inspiration for switching between her human and VTuber forms, and that\u2019s something that should be celebrated if creators want to do so. \u201cThe only reason I became a VTuber was because it\u2019s really fun. I like being on camera too \u2014 it\u2019s good fun both ways. There\u2019s so much stuff you can\u2019t do when you\u2019re just a flesh streamer. There\u2019s so much stuff you can\u2019t do when you\u2019re a VTuber. \u201cI don\u2019t think VTubing should be kept as this sacred thing where you\u2019ve got to have a schedule written out and do the idol [stuff] and karaoke all the time. I think, for someone like me, I couldn\u2019t live up to the traditional standard of what VTubing is. Not to say there\u2019s anything wrong with it, but I think you don\u2019t have to if you don\u2019t want to. Aethel also believes VTubing as a medium can grow if the community \u2014 not just the creators, but fans \u2014 embrace ingenuity. Streamers like Onigiri have pushed the limits with immersive cooking streams with their VTuber model. But if someone just wants to log onto Twitch and YouTube and play some games with their face in the bottom right rather than an anime avatar, that\u2019s fine too. \u201cDo one day of face cam, one day of VTubing \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter. You don\u2019t have to fit into a cookie cutter idea of what a VTuber should be. \u201cI don\u2019t want to make it seem like anyone who follows the traditional VTubing [model] \u2014 there\u2019s nothing wrong with that either. Do whatever you want. That\u2019s the main point of it. Show the face if you feel like it.\u201d Ultimately, VTubing should be an inclusive environment. If streamers are confident, they should be able to show off their face without fear of retribution without the whole \u201cimmersion-breaking thing\u201d some bring up. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of VTubers who went to TwitchCon and a lot of people who do face reveals, and that should be celebrated. If they feel confident and happy enough in their own skin to show off what they look like, it should be celebrated for sure. \u201cI was pretty nervous to show my face as a VTuber. I don\u2019t really care about what I look like \u2014 I\u2019m confident in whatever is going on with me \u2014 but I was worried like what if my guys in the castle\u2026 were freaked out by having a face on screen. I wasn\u2019t sure. But I knew in my heart of hearts that I\u2019m going to do both. \u201cI know everyone in the castle is so chill and I think as long as I think it\u2019s going to be fun and it\u2019s going to be enjoyable and a good time for everybody\u2026 they\u2019d be down for whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lord Aethelstan claims VTubers shouldn\u2019t be stuck to \u201ctraditional standard\u201d in face reveal Twitch: Lord AethelstanVTuber Lord Aethelstan\u2019s face reveal turned heads in the community \u2014 and not just for his looks. The popular Twitch star used his unmasking as a statement, saying \u201cthere\u2019s no rules\u201d and creators shouldn\u2019t be stuck to \u201ctraditional standard of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}