>>8074044They debuted them at a time where mixed gender collabs still happened. Debuting with a complete ban on anyone from the group interacting with the other (including members like Fubuki who wanted to help), pushing them to the side and only remembering about and rescinding the policy sometime after gen 3's growing popularity, .LIVE's collapse and NSS already caused a culture shift towards being unicorn friendly made the affiliation of being "Cover's male counterpart to Hololive" pretty worthless.
In the long run I think it's better that they've had to build up their fans and the culture around them by themselves though. As much as numberfags like to whine about them, they're not going poorly when you look at the other second tier agencies out there like Animare or Re:Act, they're stable and slowly growing.
