>>80939424there are a couple of reasons why women join corpos despite not really being needed to be a vtuber and thrive
the main one i've heard is basically FOMO: they want to have the corpo experience, have a bunch of genmates, one day if they and their corpo is lucky they might even get 3d or a concert down the line.
other reasons include getting support that they may need, better access to artists (quite a few good/reputable vtuber mamas only take corpo commissions), and sometimes just to make friends/connections.
i agree that there isn't much incentive anymore success-wise to join a corpo when you CAN just do everything a corpo does as an indie, and make much more money. but it's the experience of a corpo that has become the main incentive now, you can't get that as an indie without joining some sort of organization/group, and even then it's just a limited imitation of a corpo