Leaflit 🍃 Angel's Sword

In another episode of "X isn't real life"... Looks like the vast majority of Ember's audience do not care at all about the surprise reveal. Many people seemed to have already known... which, if you are a viewer of his, I'm not sure how you could "NOT" have known. Others also don't care because they see VTubing as acting, or they are just there for the content, opinions, etc and not about their gender. One interesting thing about the X algorithm, ever since it's been changed to the transformer model, is that it often not only amplifies the most controversial take, even if it's factually wrong, but also creates a simulacrum of opinions that forms an echo chamber... so much so that it can cause genuine psychosis if you don't touch grass. Engagement-optimized systems create an addictive feedback loop where the strongest opinions, regardless of their truthfulness, create an atmosphere of consensus that is sometimes divorced from reality. His profile also has Babiniku, which is an overt admission that they are a guy... something that was added recently. Their controversial books were not hidden either, with an explicit link to their Amazon page displayed on their Twitch page... a past that was evidently not a secret. If you ever feel like you are going insane doomscrolling X, that's the reason. The algorithm keeps feeding on the takes that create the strongest emotional reaction. Then that information gets amplified with the game of telephone, with stronger, sometimes wrong takes overlaid on top until the real information is lost. Now at this point, I don't have a clue what is "real" and what isn't, or whether he is trans or not. At worst, he said, "I don't know," and that when he isn't streaming, he is just "normal"... or whether he was genuinely being deceptive/lying, or people just "assumed" and got out of control. I also received communication by DM from someone who claims that Ember said that they were a guy back in 2024. But I CANNOT find that tweet anywhere; either it's fabricated, or it was deleted before it was archived. There are also posts around where he claimed to be a woman, explicitly. So did he lie? Probably? And that's wrong. TLDR: the X algorithm is genuinely insane... and is a lesson here is that to do your due diligence OUTSIDE of X to get a reality check.