>>10306290Hololive changed the direction of Vshojo for the better, and I like what I'm seeing. A re-focus on what content should be, the expectations from fans, and a slight reframing on their role as content creators. Vshojo may not be idols, and for some, they never will be, but they have slowly inched towards a model more similar to Japanese agencies. We may have joked about "the black ships" a year ago with the advent of HoloMyth, but right now we're feeling the effects of japanese v-tubing changing the west's perception of it.
Compare the western lewdtubers of 2020 that drew their inspiration from Vshojo, and the newly minted small corpos and indies of 2021. There is a clear cultural difference between both, even if those two DO intersect from time to time. Puritans of JP fans and coomers of EN fans might complain about this emerging synthesis, but the Purification of the West is through the idolification of your e-thots. You WILL wear the dress and you WILL sing on stage.