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Chiming in the discussion of graduations: I think the issues aren't really about graduations or corpo restrictions/freedom. Rather, people just change over time, and their style of content will change alongside it.
Mint for example has obviously grown more used to the professional side of content creation and has a lot more experience managing her image, picking business deals, and balancing content that she enjoys and that people find entertaining. In that sense she is way more similar today to Pomu than the Mint of 4 years ago, while at the same time being different from the Pomu of 3 years ago.
Sometimes people have just grown tired of what they used to do, and the graduation is more of a chance to free themselves from some of the expectations that kept them producing a certain type of content. A lot of people are very attached to a specific kind of content and want it to stay, but my personal opinion is that if the personal wants and personality of someone changes, if they try to stick to doing the same thing that content will inevitably grow stale and lose the soul it once had. I think bemoaning that a creator wants to change is ultimately counterproductive.
(That said, most of the discussion in the catalog and larger threads is just bafflingly bad. I can't understand people who keep throwing "leeching" or "move on already" around as an accusation any time someone even acknowledges their past work history when it comes up.)
