>>69969924I was a day 1 (by EN standard, though I was a clipwatcher for JP) nijifag. I was watching holoEN at the time but some factors such as the content getting stale and the members starting to fall off in activity made me slide further into Nijisanji until several events got me shaken.
>Be excited for nijiEN because I was enticed by the ruckus and looseness of nijiJP>Lazulight comes, love Elira and Pomu but kinda iffy on Finana. She might have been the earliest writing on the wall, but i just think to myself maybe some misses in scouting are okay and she will get better eventually.>Obsydia comes, love them all. Golden wave, made me swallow the nijipill whole. >Ethyria comes. Enna is very talented and shows herself as one of the best singers in all of EN vtubing, Millie is funny, Reimu is whatever but fairly inoffensive. Nina I get the same iffy feeling I had with Finana, but little did I know she was going to eventually not only be the best, but also the only dignified member of the wave. (At this point, Finana still doesn't impress me.)>Luxiem comes, be excited because nijiEN is finally turning co-ed and maybe they can start becoming like JP. Firmly remember Vox and Luca being brotubers and having great Souls/Civ/Runescape streams... >Only one month in however, notice their community becoming very female-ridden. Whatever, continue.>Noctyx comes, maybe the first wave I don't care about. Increasingly notice the male livers are starting to orient themselves to female audiences, starting with Vox's shift to ASMR content, Mysta's homosexual humor and Uki's entire existence. Whatever, continue.>Discord leak. Something about Fulgur and Vox insulting Council felt real wrong. Get slightly shaken, but remind myself the root of the discussion was about Holo copycatting Niji's idea of males so whatever, continue.>First conga line of yabs. Reimu stirs shit with Vox's gachikois, Vox goes balls deep pandering to chinks, Finana dunks on her own fans on PARASOCIAL FUCKS and EDUCATE YOURSELF. Uki openly tweets about POLITICS on the Roe v Wade ruling. Yeah, something went real wrong. Start retreating from male content.>Iluna comes, first wave that openly fucking sucks. (Also Tempus comes, but I started smelling the same Luxiem taint from them). By that point I no longer care for waves past Ethyria. >...or Obsydia. Enna and Kyo start making weird advances toward each other, starting with the blacked jokes on Enna's outfit reveal, culminating with more thinly veiled cuck jokes on their offcollab. Millie starts showing signs of "owning le haters" syndrome which made her uncomfortable to watch.>Xsoleil comes... the girls were enjoyable. Actually contemplated on oshi-ing either Zaion or Kotoka...>Then Zaion is suspended.>Then Millie does the Secret GC stream.>Then the AR live is cancelled.>Then Zaion is terminated.>Then Kotoka spits on her grave.>Yep, I'm done. Near the end of it I was reduced to watching Selen, Pomu, Rosemi and Elira(LOL!), and by the end of it I was watching none, at least until they started leaving. I'm glad I can watch Doki again without a guilty conscience over supporting Niji's metrics, but it's a fucking shame what she had to go through to break free. Here's to hoping Pomu redebuts to somewhere that isn't Vshojo, hopefully becoming indie at least. Here's to also hoping for Rosemi to break free, and for Elira to enjoy herself being thoroughly gangbanged by the suits at Anycolor HQ.
When I started out I was excited for male vtubers, now I completely understood why CGDCTfags and unicorns call for total homo death. I also no longer looked forward to collab content because of how spammed to death they were, and in hindsight they also seemed to be covering up just how dysfunctional they were as a "family".
I almost quit watching vtubers altogether, telling myself only Holo had the one last chance to capture me again (2022 was also a bad year for them that made me almost drop HoloEN, but at least it wasn't due to endless drama). And they did it with Advent.
I know many holofags won't welcome me back and tell me to fuck off and that's fine. That's my permanent karma for dabbling into nijishit in the first place.
