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Holobronies, tonight, I will remind you.
Nijisanji EN was always extremely small compared to Hololive EN. About 1/5 or 1/6 the viewers. They were just ignored and weren't taken seriously whatsoever. Then Luxiem debuted, and received a massive, overwhelming response. They were getting streams with more viewers than HoloEN, and getting dramatically more donations than HoloEn has ever gotten. Vox and Luca became #1 and #2 most donated youtube channels in the world, and have occupied the top 10 rankings ever since.
2 weeks after they debuted and it was clear they were a success, Hololive announced new EN auditions. Very obvious to any thinking person that these were males intended to rip off the Luxiem boys. Nijisanji fans said as much, although Hololive fans created various copes and denials. "It's not males, it's just open auditions." A few months later, Hololive made it explicitly clear that they were seeking MALE talents. This caused a massive meltdown on /vt/. The Nijis chatted about it on discord, correctly observing that Hololive was probably trying males because the Council was a disappointment. The screenshot was leaked, and the hololive shills on this board managed to turn all the rage and ire bout males, into hatred for Nijisanji and the screenshot.
In typical hololive fashion, they hired a bunch of overpaid nepotism artists to produce the designs, and they produced complete shit. Terrible designs, terrible rigging. The designs were released 1 week before the debuts, and it became immediately clear that these would never appeal to females. So they changed all the marketing overnight to sell them as "brotubers". A term which most people had never heard about before, but which immediately became popularized through their relentless shilling efforts.
In the space of that 1 week between the models being annouced, and debut, they completely blanketed the entire board in propaganda promoting these vtubers. A relentless, incessant shilling campaign, just completely carpeting the entire board in posts promoting Tempus. The shilling was primarily concentrated on Vesper and Magni, as they were the ones with the incredibly fucked-up designs.
And despite having shit models, with shit rigging, and hiring shitty low-tier streamers to fill them, they managed to get quite a few viewers. Proving that quality doesn't really matter, the only thing that matters is promoton. Its especially evident because of how much more successful Magni and Vesper became, the two guys who got the most shilling because of their fucked up designs.
This is part of a deeper phenomenon that is not often discussed on this board. The fact that this board is completely ruled by shills and advertising professionals from Hololive. They are running a little cult operation. They make posts telling you what to think about the streams, what to think about the vtubers, what to think about this or that company. They have a very large and sophisticated advertising operation that is totally controlling how and what their fans think about the streams.
Their fans don't seem to have any mind of their own, but rather obediently repeat the narratives they absorb here. That's why this entire board is completely dominated by hololive vtubers, and anyone outside of hololive is mocked, shit on, and basically run out of town. It's because this board is their little promotional operation to promote their corporation. And the mods are in on it.
