Get fascism out of Vtubing

A common phrase is "If there's a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you have a table of 11 Nazis." It's a good saying, because the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing, which is another good saying.

There's been a rise in "political vtubers" and it just brings home the fact that vtubers just shouldn't have anything to do with politics. At first it was only Kirsche, but her garbage politics have spread like a virus and now there's even more of them. What we are seeing here is far-right entryism, and it can happen to almost any space. No one talks about her obvious dogwhistling or her bigoted fans, they either ignore it, or tolerate it. She surrounds herself with content from racist twitter accounts like this one and accounts like this and no one cares. She just repeats right-wing, FOX/MAGA talking points and people endorse it, yet the same people that like and endorse her are the ones that always complain when anyone brings up politics that isn't right-wing. They would be eager to shit on anyone saying "free Palestine", speaking against Trump, or anything the right doesn't like. It should be easy enough to not watch any of her content, but now you have other non political vtubers endorsing her garbage views by collaborating with her. That's an endorsement.

When she rightfully got blacklisted from Offkai (one the biggest vtuber conventions), she would of course play the victim as she doesn't expect to face consequenses for the things she says. She was blacklisted after concerns of transphobia, and she of course cried about being a victim targeted for her political views and would ask "when was I ever transphobic? I just made a little joke about pronouns on Discord". However, it would be hard to deny this when this is her attitude towards trans people. Kirsche is also a POLITICAL streamer, what did they expect? Did no one think that not everyone would want to include divisive people with divisive views? If you're going to make your streaming career on contraversial topics mixed in with "edgy jokes", go ahead, but don't expect everyone to be onboard with that shit.

It should be easy enough to just not watch any of Kirsche's content, but now you have other non political vtubers endorsing her garbage views by collaborating with her. By doing this, they enable fascism. She's also best buddies with someone in an actual agency, Pippa Pipkin from Phase Connect who is basically Kirsche-lite. In fact, it was Pippa's fault why someone like Kirsche has been able to get an audience in the first place. She platformed a fascist which made her garbage views more acceptable in the space of vtubers, but I doubt she will ever truly be held accountable for this. The difference between them both is that Pippa isn't mask off about her politics like her friend Kirsche, she doesn't want to cause too much trouble for her co-workers, see? She then hides her true opinions by not holding strong convictions on anything like a coward. Her fans are as right-wing and bigoted as Kirsche fanbase and she knows it and tolerates it, I mean she even introduced them to her. She would also be more than happy to platform Elon Musk of all people, and if his "Roman salute" wasn't enough for you to denounce him, his desire to insert himself in global politics by backing far-right parties and giving white nationalists and far-right agitators a megaphone (by not only platforming, but retweeting them) should be. If she's trying to behave herself to make less trouble for her co-workers, she's doing a shit job of it.

She's also best buddies with someone in an actual agency, Pippa Pipkin from Phase Connect who is basically Kirsche-lite. In fact, it was Pippa's fault why someone like Kirsche has been able to get an audience in the first place. She platformed a fascist which made her garbage views more acceptable, but I doubt she will ever be held accountable for this. The difference between them both is that Pippa isn't mask off about her politics like her friend Kirsche, she doesn't want to cause too much trouble for her co-workers, see? She then hides her true opinions by not holding strong convictions on anything like a coward. Her fans are right-wing and bigoted and she knows it and tolerates it. She would also be more than happy to platform Elon Musk of all people, and if his "Roman salute" wasn't enough for you to denounce him, his desire to insert himself in global politics by backing far-right parties and giving white nationalists and far-right agitators a megaphone (by not only platforming, but retweeting them) should be. If she's trying to behave herself to make less trouble for her co-workers, she's doing a shit job of it.

Spaces and fandoms are fertile ground for fascists to insert themselves to radicalize, recruit and energize people into reactionary positions. They come in with their divisive opinions and will victimize themselves when they can't spout any bile they want and whine about their "free speech" being violated. They can't just be upfront with their views, so they hide it in coded language and references, a method some call "dogwhistling". A good tactic because it allows people to say what they mean without actually saying it, but other people will understand it through contextual uses, leading some people to use them without even understanding what they're doing, or the ideas they are implying.

When fascism enters, it usually starts with just a couple of them, and the next thing you know these parasites multiply and take over like a disease because people are too cowardly to say anything about it. They obviously can't say as much as they'd like to, but the audience they pander to can fill in the blanks of what they don't say. Whether or not you'd go as far to label the vtubers far-right, that's the audience they pander to and warrants calling out. They have made space for Nazis in vtubing where they can normalize far right BS. Not Nazis in the hyperbolic way where "everyone to the right of me is literally Hitler", but alt-right/lite filth. A de-nazification in any space is required, as they cannot be allowed to take over every space and tarnishing things with their filth.

When it comes to fandoms such as vtubing, there is much talk about gatekeeping and who to gatekeep. One group that should certainly be gatekept without question are fascists and their endorsers. Cowards, fence-sitters, endorsers and other fascists will make excuses and oppose this fierce opposition to fascists and say it's just punishing or discriminating against "right-wing voices". These fence-sitters are cowards, with their passive enabling through their "I don't agree with their views..." bullshit. These reactionary assholes cry about "politcal agendas from activists" when they're the activists that want to normalize things that should not be normalized in any shape or form. Should all political views be accepted and tolerated? Fuck no. Fascists don't deserve a safe space, and they don't deserve to feel comfortable. These people are entitled, because any pushback they get from their bullshit whether it's banning from a space, they'll just cry about "activists taking over" or whatever. No, lets not normalize bigoted views, let's not normalize alt-right politics, let's not normalize endorsing Trump. Fuck these people, and fuck this passivity of letting them do what the fuck they want. No, I will not cede ground to allow fascists to take root in things I like, whether it's vtubing, video games, or anime, they can get fucked. Make fascists afraid again and let them fuck off back to their corners.