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What are the chances Hololive is overtaken as the most popular vtuber group in the west, sometime in the future?
Sounds like schizobabble I know, but hear me out. Though not entirely through their own fault, HoloEN doesn't have near the same audience they did a year ago. IRyS lacks momentum and struggled to get 600k. The subscriber cuts from Susan have impacted EN2 even worse. If a hypothetical EN3 is made in the future, I think it's a safe guess to say that they'll get even less attention.
A lot of people say "you never forget your first", but big vtuber companies have fallen to irrelevancy in the past. Upd8, .Live, if you aren't familiar with them there's a reason.
Thanks to Hololive, many EN vtuber fans have also branched out and indies and other corporate vtubers have been able to find an audience in them. Uto, that one goblin chick on Twitch, Selen, it's safe to say that the Hololive idols are no longer the only vtubers that are able to appeal to EOPs.
Not to mention the fact that even Redditors are voicing dissatisfaction with Hololive's recent controversial decisions. Coco's graduation, IRyS and EN2's character designs, the incessant hyperfocusing on lore nobody cares about, and now pronoun-speak on Twitter have left a lot of former fans feeling anxious about what's to come.
With that being said, do you think there's a chance for Hololive to be dethroned in the west, should a promising vtuber company/group come around to do the job?
