>>80908114This connects to another point: this "arrangement" is not to be taken for granted and Lui is quickly figuring that out.
When she made her
>I no longer want to "be an idol", I want to be "an artist"what she actually said or, better yet, what her audience actually heard was
>I am no longer wiling to continue this arrangement with the current audience>I want to cater to the needs of the mainstream general audience, like every non Holo out thereHer numbers reflect just that. When she's catering to the needs of the audience that makes for the HUGE Holo box she gets Holo numbers.
When she does content to cater to the general audience, she gets the numbers for what the rest of the vtubers outside the box get, being judged not "with the eyes of love" but with the cold reality of whether or not she's capable of attracting that audience.