>>23154878I have many thoughts, most of them I can't say here. Believe it or not, I think the company itself should be fine in the long run. You're seeing the worst of things right now, but there's good things in the background that they aren't talking about. Give it a couple weeks and if they're smart about things, there will be reason to believe they'll be okay again.
As far as the small corpo scene as a whole, it's still doing fine, really better than fine, even with the CL drama. If you read between the lines, this just further enforces that there are good agencies, bad agencies, and everything in between. If you still want to be in an agency, do your due diligence and READ YOUR FUCKING CONTRACTS. If you have questions about them, ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR FUCKING CONTRACTS. I wish more people didn't need to learn those lessons the hard way, but here we are.
>>23155132That is indeed vague. I would say you should devote as much time to it as you want to. Self-improvement is only possible if you buy into it, and that's what you're really talking about. It sounds like you have the commitment, so do it for yourself first. Give content creation a try when you're ready, and when you have a few months of actual content that you can be proud of, start sending out applications. You want the first impression to be a good one.
Reasonably, unless you get god-tier luck and somehow get 3view-tier numbers out of the gate, I'd focus on Tsunderia (as the only small corpo with males currently) or Phase Connect. No males there, but they're the only other startup I can reasonably see accepting them, even if the others say they're open to it. If you're feeling adventurous, you could try CyberLive or MyHoloTV, but to be honest I don't trust their management all that much.
I would say there is a place for non-BFE male chuubas, but you do need some angle to make yourself interesting to stand out from the crowd. Kazune of Tsunderia is a music producer and serious FPS gamer, Tomoya of Tsunderia is the gay best friend/choir kid experience, and Nen of Tsunderia is more like an excitable little brother. Whatever you choose, it needs to set you apart.
>>23155732Marketing from 0 is fucking rough. What I would do to start is to make a shitload of VTuber fanart and post to the appropriate tags on Twitter. Hope you get a like or RT from someone big and start getting a trickling of followers. Chroneco was tiny until their Takodachi art and animations caught on. Now they're one of the biggest emote artists in the scene. When you're that small, you always need a little luck.
