>>28559769In a strong economy, everyone is a genius. In a weak economy, those kinds of people go broke.
Omega got lucky to get hired as a manager because he has a university degree from burgerland and spoke fluent Japanese at a time when Hololive was desperate for a kaigai nikki to help manage their upcoming english branch. Omega got lucky because Coco paved the way by being retarded and appealing to redditors and 4channers to make EN vtubing popular outside the little /jp/ thread. Omega got lucky with covid, got lucky with the government cheese handed out to neets and zoomers, got lucky with essentially no competition for the english market from the West itself and got lucky getting first pick of big western streamers/vtubers that already existed on a smaller scale and most likely got lucky enough to hire friends (possibly ina) into hololive as well. All of this luck made this fucking idiot think he was a genius, that everything he touches turns to gold. It turns out now that EN has competition that poor scouting choices for EN2 lead to a weak generation, having IRyS debut a month before instead of 3 months before hurt her own growth and ability to stand out as a vsinger (Council.... AND IRyS!), poor management of said talents (Kronii and Mumei being confused for several months after debut and not streaming for long periods, people who did stream like Sana suddenly being allowed to go total radio silence for a month while using her other account freely, Bae being retarded) and the stupid fucking lore he apparently had a direct hand in writing did not thematically mesh with the 'myth' of the first generation and put the talents into a weird place where they were expected to play to their lore but also banned from doing it. Like how Mumei was le heckin civilization but couldn't play any games with real world civilizations and couldn't talk about about even mundane topics like "how irish people are retarded and can't into potato" because otherwise some people would be upset (irish aren't people). And of course inserting himself as a god and wasting company resources on paying for concept art for a model that will never exist when he doesn't really do anything to warrant it (ID and JP branch managers didn't need it, A-chan is special like the Ritsuko character from classic IM@S). And now that there is massive competition he wants to pivot away from what set holoen apart to chase chinese fujo bucks with homoen which appears to be a clone of Luxiem, but Luxiem worked because of first mover advantage- if Cover was going to do stuff with the Stars they should have done it in 2020. They are late to the game. They can't even figure out if they want to make HoloKR or launch an EN3. There's no direction here and it shows. Just thinking "stuff worked out before, so it must work out again!" with no thought or plan.
