Teenagers are weirdos

You know that artist dude PiroPito(nana825763)? I know you do, I understand my target audience, you're like me most likely. If you somehow don't this is his channel. 

Anyway, as you probably know, he's very talented, and therefore pretty popular. He's been on YouTube for a very long time and has produced many niche horror internet classics such as Username 666, PokoPoko shopping, Cooking idol, and the like. Piro for most of his internet existence has been a mysterious figure who showed up to show his art and his ants. Faceless and nameless like many Japanese creators from a previous era.

However sometime during the pandemic he started playing Minecraft and posting that to his channel. Honestly it was fun seeing a casual new side to a person who had existed in mystery for like 10 years. His channel started growing fast and he even began making a horror game and streaming the BTS process.

The regular and open content from a person who used to be a total mystery to the American audience made him insanely popular over time and the pandemic probably had a lot to do with it.

I'm glad he's doing well online, but I can't ignore the type of people his content has attracted. There are way too many tiktok teenagers thinking this dude is a super artsy cool alt idol figure. The type of unstable kids who worship Kikuo and other "weirdcore" horror aesthetic shit. 

Like he's really good at art and atmosphere, but ultimately he's just an older Japanese guy with obscure media tastes and inspirations. An artist, not a tiktok star with a curated personality.

I worry about the American fans that linger in his livestreams asking annoying starry-eyed teenager questions, borderline interrogating him on all his quirky facts like he's some underground idol. It's gotten to a point where he has a huge FAQ thing in the description of all his live streams, because people asking him what kinds of music and movies he liked OVER and OVER. Let him breath!!! I'm writing as I watch his stream and there's a 3 minute slow mode enabled because people fangirl out so much.

And teenagers are painfully transparent even when they try not to be. You can plainly see that the media questions are just "PIROPITO SAN <33 DO YOU KNOW ABOUT (totally not my personal favorite metal band)??? LOVE YOUR WORK!!!" and fishing to see if he has similar esoteric alt not-like-the-other-girls anti-normie tastes.

the average black eye contact girl  

If it was questions about art and the techniques, asking lots would be calm, but it's all idol fansite questions. It's uncomfortable as viewer so as the target it has to suck.

My even bigger worry is that these sort of  mentally unstable audiences tend to be really fickle and vindictive. Think about how many internet horror creators had their fanbases blow up in their face because one of them got irrational and made up a strange rumor and the rest believed it because they're all 14? It makes me nervous.

edit: self fulfilling prophecy

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