>>82408302From a reddit loremastertomo:
I'm an avid Sora fan so I'll give some clarification.
Before the announcement she was involved in quite a bit of different entertainment related videos. More of a host role for projects really unrelated to music and her initial goal. She was playing with her mascot Ankimo a lot and did stuff like Halloween specials, Christmas specials, Quiz shows. But as she continues mentioning, her goal is to be an idol and sing at Yokohama arena.
In the announcement, she says that the frequency of these entertainment/comedy programs and some future regular streams will be cancelled. And that she will focus on music with dance lessons, song lessons, etc. Sora mentions how the Tokino Sora that everyone wants is not the Sora she wants to become. She will still stream but her personality might be a bit different than what viewers are used to. But Tokino Sora will continue to be Tokino Sora, both in the past and future. It was a huge deal for her and hololive, as Sora was their flag ship everyone loved. But hololive decided to accept Sora's decision and support her all the way. Probably the reason why hololive vaguely pushes it's members as idols.
Since then she held solo lives, released albums, and her personality did change a bit. But she is still Tokino Sora at heart. Mentioned in most recent stream that if she didn't change how she did things, she wouldn't be here today.
