welcome to good old class you know i'm i'm sure at least one person saw the title of
the stream and asked themselves the question when is ray was gonna shut up about png tubing
and the answer is not today hope you're having a great fantastic day i was gonna set up pngs for
this but then i realized that when i swapped hard drives i didn't reinstall vadotube mini
so i didn't have that ready for tonight but we're gonna have a lot of stuff to talk about tonight
and uh it's gonna be uh it's gonna be a good time well let's cut into the main topic of tonight
which i am affectionately calling the way of the png tuber and we're also gonna discuss the whole
pay to win fiasco but mostly just png honestly my respect for png's and just png tubers in general
has been growing and growing and growing and seeing the stuff that has been going on and a few
new revelations that i hadn't really thought about until honestly last night i'm curious to get all
your thoughts on this as well because i very much think that we're gonna come across some new things
but before we move on if you enjoy this type of content like and subscribe it helps me out so much
and i really appreciate it let's get into things so i've broken this up into like three sections
section one we're gonna just be talking about the pros we're gonna be talking about the cons and x
and then finally we're gonna be talking about should you become one slash pay to win let's
dive into the pros a lot of these are gonna be lumped in with the standard benefits of v tubing
but i do have let's see how many do i have here i have i have six written down that i think will be
resonating with people so the first one is identity protection by not showing your face
you have a little bit of that personal space you know maybe you don't feel comfortable just being
out there maybe you don't want people to know your face don't want people to know your name i totally
get it with how crazy the internet is with how crazy fans and or haters can be i totally get not
wanting to show your face i used to think that that was kind of silly until i really saw what
was going on and i'm like you know what not showing your face feels pretty freaking good
number two which is also you know general benefit of v tubing i call it a self-confidence boost
a lot of people just aren't comfortable with showing themselves on stream outside of the
identity protection it just gives them that little boost of self-confidence and that's what lets them
start streaming start creating content and that's a huge benefit i was gonna make this its own point
but i think i feel better just kind of leaving it as a subsection of number one things like
this are super empowering to those that might have some you know medical conditions disabilities and
you know what sure well we're gonna we're gonna add on there you can play a character
playing a character is something that some people can really get into really helps them like get
into the flow of content creation so that's a totally valid way of doing it but number three is
it's pretty cheap being a png tuber it's not hard to get into there's a bunch of free sites where
you can make an avatar you can pay an artist to make one for you for relatively small amounts
of money especially compared to the other types of v tubing and to go along with number three
it's easy to customize or change and number four it's just overall a nice thing to look
at when things are happening it's a little bit of animation when you speak it just looks nice
there's not too much to cover here now we're gonna move on to a few things that i thought
of that i haven't actually heard anyone say i view png tubers and using pngs as a costume
for your voice and this kind of ties in a little bit to number four you could have a small png for
when you're just doing chill stuff you could have one that you occasionally swap to for like angry
moments there's just a lot of little things that you can do with them that can add a lot of variety
to your stream that i don't think a lot of people think about you just have the power to change
things so fast and it's so convenient now for the last points they have out of all of v tubing they
have the most proven track record let me just fix that last word that looks terrible i don't think
that people really think about this too much pngs are the most successful form of v tubing content
period and let me qualify that this is gonna tie into why has the term png tuber gotten so popular
this is something i haven't heard other people talk about which makes me excited that like maybe
i thought of this i probably didn't but someone probably said it before i did but there are a ton
of forms of content especially on youtube that were not qualified as v tubing before but they
are now think about that what would you call story time youtubers two years ago people that
just have pictures on screen you wouldn't have called them v tubers two years ago and yet that's
what people are starting to call them that's what people are starting to quantify them as i've just
kind of noticed this uptick in vtuber terminology being applied to a whole bunch of other things
you know i'm gonna pull up a good example i love this guy's channel i watch him all the time this
is a video of sabrespark notice what he's doing he's just using a set of images to make a video
this is super common on youtube right what would you guys call this specific thing going on i think
increasingly what we're seeing is the term png tuber being applied to content in this style
that's my own personal tinfoil hat theory i don't think we're actually seeing a bunch of new people
join the png tubing sphere i just think it has a common name that people can use for it now
it's not actually new it just has a new name so let's talk about some of these uh some of
these here cons the biggest con i think is that it requires more vocal i don't want to say training
but requires more vocal skill your voice is what lets everyone know how you really feel hydra
really doing 2d and 3d you kind of get to get away with doing a little bit less in terms of vocal
quality because with 2d you know it's following your head around your eyes you're blinking all
those shenanigans occasionally it's picking up a smile and 3d can get even crazier you know
you can have your hands going out there but with pngs really it's just your voice and some people
who talk in a monotone and don't really try to do any inflections or add any energy to how they're
talking it can get really hard to watch something like this you gotta be more animated with your
voice we'll just make that our next point to show a range of emotions requires multiple pngs because
you know some people are happy with only having one to two different expressions maybe three or
four but some people want as many as you could make with an actual face and so you're gonna need
a lot of them which could in turn lead into number three it can be expensive because you can be so
fast to adapt and come up with new ideas you could spend a ton of money on pngs and just keep cycling
out old ones and adding new ones that could get really expensive but if you're your own artist
this is basically a non-issue uh one other con is if you do want this to be on the cheaper side of
things pngs can look pretty generic that's a minor con but it is a con and i do feel like i would be
remiss if i didn't mention it if you're using free pngs like off of png generator sites and things
like that they are gonna look a lot like all the other ones that appear off of those sites like
pit crew pit crew is the one that i'm thinking of i've seen so many people use it and it's great
but you can always spot a pit crew avatar from basically anywhere not saying there's anything
wrong with that you should never feel shame for using something that's free especially
when you're getting started but some people do view it as a negative so i feel like i have to
mention it all right so we got some pros we got some cons let's talk about should you become one
do you really need an image to help you start creating content if the answer to that question
is yes then yes you should the next question you should immediately ask is why or how will
this help you know if it's that it gives you the self-confidence it lets you have the end
and if it lets you have the on anonymity there we go i think that's how you say it man i'm having
trouble talking tonight if it's letting you put that costume on your voice if it's letting you get
started yes you should become one but only if it helps you if you just want to do it because it's
the hot new thing try using a webcam or just not even using an avatar why do you need an avatar
you should always be able to answer the question of why do you need something in order to use it