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On the topic of boyfriends, I want to take a moment to discuss this in a non-bait way.
Vtubing nowadays is nothing more than a niche section of the entertainment industry. Corporations are looking for profit and will go to great lengths to ensure they keep the money income flowing, but each corporation has it's own way of doing it.
Nijisanji tries to sell the image of a group of streamers, but the interactions between them aren't enforced. That's why friend cliques and the such end up happening and why fans of a certain vtuber don't give a shit what others do. That's why you have an idol that sells the pure maiden image and then a whore that's talked many times what's her favorite position for fucking, both in the same company but as long as they don't interact nobody bats an eye.
Hololive, however, has gone out of it's way to sell their talents as idols. If you've followed the "irl" idol industry you'll realize most of them don't classify as idols, but let's call them that anyways. For the japanese market, the expectations are perfectly defined since that phenomenon has always existed there, but the situation changes when they sell the same image in the western world. Since 99% of people's idea of idols comes from LL im@s and the like, they believe of idols as this pure untainted goddesses that have never even heard the definition of boyfriend and that's where the problem resides.
For a company that calls all their talents "idols", they create an idealized image before the talent even debuts and this leads to the potential market being skewed into the lonely fucks that love this idealized idea.
This is why I think the people that say "you shouldn't care about them having bfs" "touch grass" "unicorn" are wrong. Sure, having these unrealistic expectations is unhealthy and almost impossible for a living woman nowadays, but that's exactly what the market for Hololive fans turned out and Cover isn't interested in changing that FOR THE MONEY. You think a guy in a stable relationship would donate money to some e-thot with a virtual avatar? Maybe, but not nearly as much as a lonely dude trying not get positive attention from a female.
Don't be an hypocrite and realize this is the fucked up situation vtubing is in. The client is always right, after all.
