>>31966600>timezone could be an issueOf course timezone is an issue for pull, anon.
JPs have an audience in one timezone. One schedule. They can pull that one audience all at once. They have international fans, of course, but that's a small slice compared to the big pie.
ENs have their fanbase, first off, sliced across four separate hours in the majority of it, NA. If an EN starts streaming in prime-time for the United States Capitol, let's say 7:00 PM EST, then around half of their fans are going to be in school or work over at 4:00 PM PST.
Now consider a good chunk of their fans are European, or at least British. Not as large as the NA segment, but a fair chunk. For that 7:00 PM EST stream, the Brits are watching at 12:00 AM GMT. Midnight. If you're a Continental, then it's even deeper into the AM.
Now consider the last large chunk of EN fans, in the Australian region. Aussies, Kiwis, English-speaking SEA peoples and other assorted Asian Islanders. Even in Japan. All taken together, it's a significant chunk of viewers. A 7:00 PM EST stream? That's anywhere from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM over there. Almost untenable for anyone except second-shifters.
That's the blessing and the curse of HoloEN, and to an extent, for NijiEN as well. Your base of potential audience members is vastly larger than anything Japan can offer. But that base is so widely distributed, that you can almost never call on them all at once. If you stream to cater for one region of your audience, two other regions will be either inconvenienced, or fucked out of viewing altogether.
This is why they only get their god-numbers during large events, that they hype up heavily. So when you get the current situation, where the girls who are celebrating things prefer to keep it low-key, or prefer to spring it on the audience as a surprise, they don't call on those god-numbers, fans don't have warning time to set their schedule up world-wide to catch it.
It's a truth that they'll never escape from, but on the positive side, it means that they have, and will probably always continue to, MASSIVELY prove themselves in real life events. Streaming to the world as a whole means Hololive EN can fill up venues to capacity in New York, LA, Vancouver, Boston, Germany, Seoul, and Sydney, with just a little bit of advanced notice.
