>>434705You are missing the point. Exposure by itself doesn't mean success, it's only a part of the equation just like idolfaggotry is. One doesn't work without the other. Homos had loads of r*ddit exposure for months now, doesn't seem to help them much relatively speaking. All this constant shilling because bad idolfags killed Aloe and we wholesome bros need to support the stars, big event participation, voice destroying endurance streams, English only meme streams, influx of Western normalfags who are supposedly here for the entertainment and still, for every one of them except bar Robel it will take until like 2025 to catch up to Rikka who just quietly does his thing.
People don't need to come looking for the parasocial relationship. They come for memes and the ones who are vulnerable to that kind of thing stay, the rest mostly get filtered and eventually move on, aware that Hololive exists but not contributing to it in any way. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if a random underage spic from Argentina who doesn't speak a lick of Japanese knows Fox Burger King, yubi yubi DOOG or Pekora the crazy rabbit comedian. What matters is how many people who had seen a clip then started watching streams and got invested enough to start spending their time creating fan content (yes, including more clips, who do you think watches every stream fishing out interesting moments?) and showering holos in money. That's where idolfaggotry comes into play in Hololive's case. It's an environment optimized to turn potential idolfags into long time supporters when they come to check out the streams. It doesn't have to be idolfaggotry, as is the case for most Nijisanji chuubas, but Hololive specializes in idolfaggotry.
I've noticed you talk about "even" Fubuki. She was by far the biggest funny holo this time last year including the number of members. What happened, dog? Did Friend stop being twitter's meme fox?
