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>less talents meant more consolidation of talent discussion overall, anons were usually watching the same streams at any given time
>no vtuber board meant everyone being forced to share the same two threads; /hlg/ was the de facto JP thread and /hlgg/ the EN/ID/stars thread (also /vyt/ and /niji/ but... lol)
>/hlgg/ was under relatively under the radar, the rest of the internet hadn't quite gotten to it yet meaning less tourists and crossposters stealing OC (remember niggermarking?)
>many anons were new to hololive, ENs had just debuted and having a hololive branch in the anglosphere was still very novel (especially after everyone feared they would be twitch ewhores), thread culture of the newly split /hlgg/ was still blooming, everyone except tatsunoko and haatons was optimistic about the future
>narratives were still called narratives and not rrats, schizos were still willing to be creative with their shitposting, KFP and deadbeats were hardened by shitposting very early on
>non-stop drama every week kept a lot of people engaged (china, artist plagiarism, doxxing, amepocalypse), and not in a good wayIt was better and worse in many ways. I suspect most people are just nostalgic for the old days when they first discovered hololive and the threads on 4chan, but overall it wasn't really better or worse, just a different atmosphere to reflect the happenings of the era. You had to have been there to understand
