Let's not head down this direction of madness please.
I've followed Japanese vtubers for some time and that is CERTAINLY not the case. Vtubers are just aliases for the real person. And each person picks and chooses how much they blend their real lives into that alias.
There are even some vtubers that will have a camera facing on themselves while they stream as a vtuber (for example stream their body, but not their face) or will alternate streams between a vtuber persona and a real live camera or vtubers who stream as a vtuber but the real person behind the vtuber is an open secret (i.e. artists who engage in vtubing but sell artwork at comic conventions attending as a real person). There's a huge range and spectrum of ways people choose to do vtubing.
(Note: A lot of the latter cases are more possible in Japan because of the general social/legal concept there that taking pictures of people without their permission is at least extremely rude and sometimes also illegal if you don't blur their face when publishing it. This is helped by the fact that it's a legal requirement that all devices capable of taking photographs must make a photographing noise when doing so. For example on iPhone in Japan it is impossible to silence the shutter sound effect without modifying the device hardware.)
> This is helped by the fact that it's a legal requirement that all devices capable of taking photographs must make a photographing noise when doing so.
That's not a legal requirement, it's a carrier request.
> For example on iPhone in Japan it is impossible to silence the shutter sound effect without modifying the device hardware.
That now turns off once you take them out of the country though.
Things must have changed in recent years, as it must have absolutely started out as a mandatory legal requirement. From my understanding it dates to some of the earliest digital cameras that didn't have shutter noises built-in and has nothing to do with carriers.
That goes against everything I've ever heard on the subject and I don't recognize this site. Also if it was a carrier reason, wouldn't the sound appear if you were roaming in Japan? It doesn't.
You haven't heard of Buzzfeed Japan? You're welcome to try to find the law though.
> Also if it was a carrier reason, wouldn't the sound appear if you were roaming in Japan? It doesn't.
If it was geofenced you could disable it by putting it in airplane mode, so it's by purchase country instead. (On recent phones it does turn off if you leave Japan though.)
I've followed Japanese vtubers for some time and that is CERTAINLY not the case. Vtubers are just aliases for the real person. And each person picks and chooses how much they blend their real lives into that alias.
There are even some vtubers that will have a camera facing on themselves while they stream as a vtuber (for example stream their body, but not their face) or will alternate streams between a vtuber persona and a real live camera or vtubers who stream as a vtuber but the real person behind the vtuber is an open secret (i.e. artists who engage in vtubing but sell artwork at comic conventions attending as a real person). There's a huge range and spectrum of ways people choose to do vtubing.
(Note: A lot of the latter cases are more possible in Japan because of the general social/legal concept there that taking pictures of people without their permission is at least extremely rude and sometimes also illegal if you don't blur their face when publishing it. This is helped by the fact that it's a legal requirement that all devices capable of taking photographs must make a photographing noise when doing so. For example on iPhone in Japan it is impossible to silence the shutter sound effect without modifying the device hardware.)