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Luce gets better art and a more sincere following as a mascot than she would from a vtuber playacting as her. As a 2D girl and a meme, she points upwards to higher realities and concepts, which artists subconsciously latch onto when they draw her. If she were a vtuber, however, she would be more like an idol in a technical sense (the Japanese latched onto that word to describe a certain kind of celebrity for a reason) than an image, and her fanart would be more like-
Actually, shit. This needs a bit more thought. A clearer idea of what an idol is as opposed to an image or the protestant misunderstanding of idols might help me put my finger on something that bugs me about a lot of vtuber and gacha fanart.