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... I know this is gonna rile some feathers, but Bae's problem isn't a lack of talent or energy or motivation; it's that she doesn't really 'connect' with her fans the same ways as others.
You watch the other girls' streams and there's rapport. Kronii's probably the best hologirl at handling flirting and teases her kronies when they get weird, who tease her back showcasing masochism. It's a weird love/hate line they're straddling, but it 'is' mutual. The quality of Kiara's content is all over the goddamn place, but she's consistent in letting her chat know she sees them as friends; she always wants to be doing SOMETHING with them. Mumei and her hoomans are Evangelion-levels of fucked up and trauma-bonded over feelings of degradation, emptiness, and loneliness. For it, they're basically the definition of parasocial in their emotional codependency on each other.
With Bae, though, there's not the same kind of back-and-forth. You can tell she doesn't 100% understand how to internally quantify her brats. She likes performing, but you're not her friends; she doesn't really 'rely' on you for anything. How would you say you consider her? Probably call her your daughterwife or the like? 'She' definitely wouldn't approve of that label. A lot of her fans are always citing she's not really worth 'knowing' because she's too young to have outlooks that matter. (At its most obvious watching the build up to her life advice stream.) Similarly, you might feel anything she decides to call you would be reductionist. See the problem? There're no mutually-shared concepts. No connectivity. She's talented, but she's at a disadvantage running on talent alone.
I didn't mean for this to be an essay but thanks for coming to my TED talk.
