// Disciplines
Identity Studies
6 topics
- Fujoshi Culture
Where Does the Passion for Creation Come From Within Oneself?
In fujoshi culture, many people pour passion into creative activities such as secondary creation, writing impressions, or drawing. This ques…
- Authenticity of Emotional Expression and Empathy in VTubers
Are Virtual Tears and Real Tears the Same Weight?
This question deeply explores how much weight the 'virtual tears' shed by a VTuber during a stream (expressed as acting through the avatar's…
- VTuber Identity and Self-Presentation
Swaying Between Character Setting and One's True Self
This question deeply explores the sway, conflict, or harmony that arises between a VTuber's 'character setting' (the fictional personality, …
- VTuber Streams and the Sensation of Loneliness/Empathy
When You Sense a Lonely Person Behind the Stream
Sensing a lonely person behind the stream refers to the experience during a VTuber live stream of imagining the human loneliness, fatigue, o…
- VTubers and the Imagination of Non-Embodied Identity
How Do We Imagine an Existence Without a Body?
This question deeply explores how we construct mental images of, direct emotions toward, and form relationships with existences that lack ph…
- Fujoshi Culture
When Your Favorite Coupling Changes, Does That Mean You Yourself Are Changing?
When your 'favorite coupling' changes refers to the phenomenon where the relationship you particularly ship in fiction shifts. When moving f…