>>66866324This is the question most streamers streamers come face-to-face with, especially ones that dedicated themselves to their craft at an early age and forwent learning any applicable "real world" skills. Obviously the end goal is to stream for their entire career until they can comfortably retire, but for many that isn't a realistic goal. The demand for older content creators is much smaller than ones that are younger, much like with the rest of the entertainment industry.
The girls that got into this after having lived real world experiences, as well as those that are thinking about long-term employability, are better off than those without the foresight. The others that are either banking on this industry carrying them into retirement, or the ones that simply have never given it a serious thought, are swimming in unknown waters. The online entertainment industry mirrors the real world one in many ways, but we as a collective of both creators and consumers are still venturing into largely unknown territory.
You can actually see the different approach to this question in EN alone. Kiara has talked about investment and real estate. Though I don't look forward to the day I have to kill her in the proletariat uprising, those are real and safe considerations for future employment considering her lack of schooling and experience outside of the entertainment industry. Meanwhile you have people like Ame, who has admitted to wanting to stream for the rest of her life, and even scoffs at the idea of having a real world job. That's not to say hers is a wrong decision, but it is largely a gamble on an industry that's less than 2 decades old.
A girl like Mel realistically would try to do content creation for as long as possible. Considering Japan loves employing people with no real jobs just to fill desks and headcounts, her getting a survivable office job as a secretary or being a mindless paper pusher is probably a realistic endgame, or marrying someone and becoming a housewife.