Here’s What Virtual YouTubers Teach Us About Community

Sam Young
9 min readOct 2, 2020

“I feel like we need communities bound by enthusiasm more than ever to combat what Vonnegut called ‘the terrible disease of loneliness’” — John Green

Inugami Korone, a VTuber from Japan

So there’s this shark. Her name’s Gawr Gura, and she comes from the lost city of Atlantis. She’s a talented singer, great at rhythm games, and her favorite food is salmon. This apex predator has been around longer than she…

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