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Part of why hololive dominates is that even aside from their status as the top dog, they offer the chuubas a base salary as a safety net. Small start ups will never achieve greatness when they put all the burden of cost on their chuubas. Even to audition they already need a good computer, microphone etc. Then they have to go without pay until superchats or whatever and then hope and cross their fingers that it'll get them money. Superior talent is going to be attracted to people who can guarantee them a secure living and have the ability to be choosey about it. No income is just going to create depressed and discouraged vtubers due to stress and lack of motivation to continue.
The chuuba can exist without the corpo, but the corpo needs the chuuba to be anything at all
