>>89688126I don't see the point in going that far when Sakuna and others have proved that you really don't need to do that.
For indies or smaller chubas it's a very different thing since a lot of their popularity does depend on their name and design, but the holos are on a completely different level and they can land the transition from Holo to indie without issue, now what they do after, that's up to them, and most of have fucked it up, but that's up to them.
Patra is a very different case because not only has she been Patra for longer than Hololive has been around, but also Patra is her SECOND successful persona, sticking the transition from denpa queen to early vtuber success was a big gamble for her and I'm not sure if she could have pulled another one from corpo to indie with a new persona. plus the whole bankrupt thing is greatly exaggerated when she had you know who, to support her financially regardless.
The only case I can see this being is maybe Mori or Suisei, but Mori is never going to graduate, I can only see it happening in the context of UMG or whoever is going to be winning the bidding war to sign them post graduation wanting to keep their OG branding and buying it off from Cover for them, Everyone else can just get a new model by their mama and return indie to the same success until they fuck up or burn down like Kson/Miko/Dooby
