>>90786360>and taking a portion of your audience with you would theoretically allow you to still have a free money job while arguably LESS work and corporate bullshit like permsThe thing is, that "portion of your audience" likes you because you're a corpo vtuber and benefit from everything that comes with that: outfits, promotions, events, merch, collabs, a steady community... You can take a break for months, and it hardly matters. In a way, you're just another part of the machine, and as long as the company and your genmates are still active, you'll still be remembered. Look at Sana, she graduated years ago, barely streamed, and people still treat her like the second coming of Christ
Going indie means everything rests on you. Sure, some people love to point out how often the holomem complain about the endless work and boring paperwork they have to deal with, but they completely underestimate all the effort that goes on behind the scenes to keep the machine running. It’s the kind of work that often gets taken for granted. If you go indie and want to maintain the same level of professional output that your fans were used to, it’s an insane amount of work
The only way it becomes "free money" or "less work" is if you do the bare minimum and hope people stick around out of loyalty, hoping they'll never check out other content creators. That might work for a while, but even the most insane whales will eventually get tired if they feel like you don’t care anymore
