Some Tips For Supporting Smaller/Independent VTubers

Hey there everyone! I have been very happy to see that people are actively promoting smaller and independent VTubers here. This is something which I try to do as well, so I just want to say that I appreciate your work. As someone who has been on this subreddit for just over a year, I would just like to share some of the information I learned along the way. I do not claim to be an expert, as I am relatively new to Reddit, but I hope that I can be of help to those who are still figuring things out. Here’s some of my tips.

1. Name your VTubers I often see post with titles such as “please support this VTuber” and no name is given in the description. This isn’t necessarily bad, but it would be better if you could provide a name. It would make the VTuber more recognizable and helps normalize their presence here, especially if you plan to post about them multiple times. I know that I am more likely to click on a post if the name is provided. If you need help, here’s how you can figure out their name:

• Check their channel - It might be in the banner image or in the channel description

• Check their Twitter - Most VTubers have a Twitter account (link usually found in the “about” section of their channel) and the handle is usually their name spelled out in English

• Google their name - Just copy and paste and you might find a Wiki article that provides their name

• Watch their self-introduction video - They will usually pronounce their name here - you can find it by going to the “videos” section in their channel and sorting by “old to new”, as it is usually the first video they upload

• If all of these don’t work, then don’t sweat it. At least you tried.

2. Appeal While it is great to encourage your fellow Redditors to support your VTuber of choice, it is also important to give them a reason to do so. Ask yourself - why do you like this VTuber? The chances are that a video, stream, or Twitter post of theirs got your attention and made you their fan. The simplest way to share a VTuber’s appeal to others is to let their content speak for itself. Just share a video or clip of their that you enjoyed and hopefully people viewing the post will enjoy the content as well.

3. Visibility There can be a lot of posts here and you should try to make sure that your posts get seen. Having a visual element can help your post stand out more as images can be more attention-grabbing than text. In this case, posting a video link is easy because the video thumbnail image acts as the visual. But I have noticed that the thumbnail image does not always load full size and instead appears as a small image to the side with text overlayed. I often use Reddit on my mobile phone and found that links copied from the mobile site often have this problem. The mobile version of a site has a “m.” between the “http://“ and the rest of the link. For example the YouTube homepage “ https://m.youtube.com ”. If you remove the “m.” portion of the link (make it just “ https://youtube.com ”), the thumbnail images load full size and help make your content more noticeable.

4. Timestamp You can easily timestamp videos! Just add &t =(number of seconds)s to the end of a link. For example if I want to post a link to a stream and have it start at 4 min 10 sec, I could just add &t=250s to the end of the video link. This makes it easier to a share a specific moment from a longer video or stream.

5. Embedding links You can easily embed links to make your posts look cleaner. There is an embed link button which looks like two overlapping circles. You can press it to insert a link and give it a “name” (how it appears in the text). If for some reason that doesn’t work, you can manually enter it in this format [Name] (link) and it will automatically embed the link.

These are some of the lessons I learned and I hope that it provided some useful information to help your posts (if you needed the help). We want to support our favorite VTubers and our posts are essentially to making them more visible in this community. Thank you.