Ok here's some actual criticism for Gura.
I don't think anyone sane denies that Gura is lazy and a procrastinator, but I disagree with the points of her content you people often bring up that are actually affected by it. Stream quality is as good as ever in my opinion. Papers please, Terraria, great duo collabs, some of her best karaoke performance-wise, Gura being as good as talking to chat as she's ever been in the debut reaction, sc readings and the cake stream, all of these were really entertaining streams and I can tell there's a will to improve. For me Gura's procrastination habits mainly affect:
>her ability to continue what she starts and to put ideas into actionBetween taking 5 months to deliver streams that were marked as a reward for Members since day 1, waiting until the last second to make new badges, not planning properly for the RFA challenge, the short videos, the stream highlights and building atlantis, we have plenty of examples of unifnished / Not even started / half assed projects from Gura... and the worst part is that she rarely brings some of these things up again, which ties into the next point.
>communicationIt was never her strong suit. Although I do see improvement in her interaction with fans during streams and outside (casual tweets that she didnt used to do for example that generate content, fan art and keep the interest on the vtuber) she's still has a long way to go in terms of keeping us informed. Some examples are: Gura taking an extra day off despite not even implying she would do that during the prior stream (minecraft); Gura not informing the members she fell asleep and that was the reason she didn't stream Terraria that one day; Gura not informing us about what happened to the EU hours streams; Not using the community tab to post her schedules and notices about postponing streams (there were 1k+ people in the waiting room of the duolingo stream, which she only tweeted about the change of date); Not updating us in the progress of aforementioned projects and finally, the two cases of unnotificated stream cancellations that actually made me so mad I still have a bit of a grugde for: the OFGODFG OH NO incident and the canceled Q&A from January. We still have no clue of what happened to these and I can't fathom why Gura didn't just tweet something about them.
Even though I think it is important to take into account the source of these behaviors, which in her case seems to be insecurity, fear, pressure, a dislike for herself, letting this affect her work for this long is highly unprofessional and more people should try to get some criticism across to her. Even here I don't see enough people criticising the right things. There's a genuine will to improve on her part but I believe Gura would benefit from a reality check. She's still cute, entertaining, charming, an adorable goofball and loves us tho
https://youtu.be/olbw96FIQN4?t=1747 