>>16050675It's not that they're openly racist or homophobic, but yes, part of their success in the west is definitely due to their carelessness towards those topics. Twitch culture especially made it pretty much impossible for streamers to express certain thoughts or use certain words, so when Hololive stormed the scene in 2020 it was pretty refreshing hearing streamers with that level of freedom, despite coming from a corporate world, ironically enough.