>>86872621Nijisanji used to be number one back when vtubing itself started getting big around the world, so it basically became a schelling point that attracted all the partisan hacks in it for throwing feces at people rather than watching vtubers thanks to first mover effect. A critical mass that became a self-sustaining reaction as it were. I remember all kinds shitposting going back and forth when Kizuna Ai/Upd8 got passed up in market share by the organblob, while Hololive itself was just another small corpo at the time.
But since such kinds are also exactly the sort of people to live and breath sunk cost fallacy and cling to preconceived narratives/ego constructions come hell or high water by trying to rationalize away any feedback from the world that would devalidate them (rather than fit to the world), they got absolutely mindbroken when Nijisanji itself slipped in market share and got passed up by a competitor in turn; they simply didn't have the cognitive toolbox to deal with such vagaries of fate, a picture of self and the world and being-in-the-world capable of integrating them. Which derangement being sublimated into an almost monomaniacal fixiation on 'owning' hololive and or fans of hololive and generally trying to ruin things any way they can.
Echoes of the seethe reverberate to this day.
