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Obsessed
Obsessed
um.. your job is a youtuber? Your character could have any personality and history, his job is a youtuber... you could use his interests like if he likes books, then he could talk about books and so, if he likes games, then games and so. .. it's nothing hard? 


it's just like any other job?? 
Cold Ramen Noodles
Cold Ramen Noodles
Do you mean playing as someone like Markiplier or something like that? Regardless of what you mean, I think that anybody can role play whatever they like. We all have different likes and dislikes and the same goes for when we role play. It might be confusing or sound odd to you, but for someone else it's probably like Christmas if they get to do a role play like that. 
tane5naoki
tane5naoki
But to have a roleplay surrounding around this one concept of this one particular job, I Don't understand the appeal is what I'm saying. and to rp out existing youtubers, whats the draw!
tane5naoki
tane5naoki
I'm not trying to RP Shame anyone out there, I just want to understand!!!
Cold Ramen Noodles
Cold Ramen Noodles
You might consider making a thread in the general discussions page. You would probably be able to find some people that do those sorts of role plays. But really, I think it does just come down to liking one thing or another. It's like if you hate Star Wars, then you're not going to understand the appeal in watching the movies. 
Obsessed
Obsessed
OH. Yea same... but I'm probably being biased since I hate youtubers. 


And I didn't know they are a thing. Probably like any other fandom roleplays, they seek to be like that, pretend that they are like that and so on... those people that plays that kind of roleplay probably also watches them so it'll definitely interest the players to do such kind of rps, like one would make a certain anime rp or a kpop rp, etc. 
tane5naoki
tane5naoki
I guess it just boils down to Wish fulfilment, we RP in order to escape our everyday lives, and some people just want to be popular like those guys.


Perhaps I just can't quite grasp it because all I can imagine in the Life of a Youtuber is constantly coming up with content and the endless hours of research at the behest of the fickle masses on YouTube.
Cold Ramen Noodles
Cold Ramen Noodles
It might also be that they just like that particular character. For instance, I play a lot of rude character from shows and movies that could be considered jerks but in reality I don't want to act like that at all. I feel bad for killing flies. But I LOVE those characters. I don't think that a lot of those youtuber role plays actually focus on the youtube part all that much and instead might just focus on the characters and put them in different situations. I do that a lot for some of the characters that I play. 
Idea
Idea
I can litterally ask this question of 50% of fandoms out there. Some people just take it that fandom= shipping , a notion I find a bit preposterous, but then again, I didn't get into fandoms myself until recently. The thing , though, is that a lot of people just don't seem to think it through, this type of RP or any other, and just make it up as they go. So maybe they're just so used coming up with stuff on the go that it doesn't really matter if an idea makes sense or has any potential to begin with.
Cold Ramen Noodles
Cold Ramen Noodles
That's actually how I role play. I make everything up as I go. If I know what is going to happen, then I find the role play borung regardless of how good my partner is. 
Idea
Idea
I won't begrudge you for that. And it's not like I don't like surprises. But making up everything as one goes is almost a crime in a written medium to me. Making up contrived rules, trying to make a flow in a vacuum, exponentially increasing the odds of plot and world holes...so much to say about it, not enough time or energy to type it here...
Cold Ramen Noodles
Cold Ramen Noodles
I hold true to my previous words about how I think it's different for everybody based on what we like and don't like. I've had a role play going for more than a year and NOTHING in it was planned out before hand. But that's the great thing about role playing; everybody has their own way of doing it. :)  
Idea
Idea
Well, I won't argue further and just agree to disagree. The kind of answer you're giving seems a little hypocritical to me, but hey, it's not like I'm gonna get through to you either way.
Cold Ramen Noodles
Cold Ramen Noodles
I don't mean to argue and I didn't even realize that that was happening. We have two different ways to role play and I don't see anything wrong with that. I apolpgize if I managed to insult you in some way as I really didn't mean to. 
Idea
Idea
I know you didn't mean harm, I just despise that "everyone has their own" answer in general. 
Cold Ramen Noodles
Cold Ramen Noodles
May I ask why? Does it mean something else to you? To me it just means that everyone can do it their own way. 
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