>>22478269if it is intentional, I suppose the end goal would be to establish a group of highly merchandisable, well sought after IPs/industry superstars like Mori and Suisei that are well ingratiated into Japanese normalfag pop culture
while at the same time having a cycle of coming-and-going gens of idols with short-lived lifespans akin to actual idol groups as
>>22477282 described where talents are forced out and replaced with new blood every 3 or 4 years - this cycle would serve as the bottom level latent pool of money-making and continued renewed interest while the top-level established stars/brand ambassadors would be the golden cows bringing in the most money and brand awareness among broader pop culture.
Essentially, the new talents are hired to see if a singular diamond can be mined from them with the rest being seen as excess fat and slowly cycled out by deliberately giving them the cold shoulder and bureaucratic waffling (while the prospect of 'you could get these things if you just graduate' looms in the back of their mind) until they snap
The problem is, holos are not old school idols/pop stars but livestreamers and content creators who don't just want to fuck off when their time is up, they want to keep streaming and have sololives etc just like the top-dogs do but everything about the system they are in tells them that graduating is far more beneficial and I suspect it's done deliberately for the aforementioned reasons.
Maybe this sounds schizo and it's not even being done deliberately but this is functionally how hololive currently operates when you step back and just look at what it's doing.
