>>34678788I don't think that's the reason for it, it's mostly her leaving the Box, the sudden VShojo move and well the Super3D meme.
But in general I think most people /here/ have Cover and their relatively modern approach as the "baseline" for VTubing in their head, so much so that they never realized just how many black company practices existed and were commonplace before Hololive came into the scene (pic related).