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>Cover debuts Holostars
>Hololive fans shit on them relentlessly
>Cover imposes a collab ban/tell viewers not to mention Holostars in Hololive chats
>This fosters the notion Holostars are taboo, not only amongst Hololisteners but outside vtuber fans as well
>On top of this Cover has no idea how to market male vtubers, thinking it'll work the same as with the girls
>What's more, Nijisanji has already long grabbed hold of the audience for male vtubers, and they're fiercely loyal to this day
>Holostars get no attention, no promotion, most people don't even know they exist
>Cover eventually lifts the collab ban, but the damage has been done, Yagoo has said he regrets it
>No amount of promotion or support helps because the main Holo audience had already been molded into something that will never be interested in male vtubers
>They can't even appeal to the male idol niche, because Nijisanji started having their already popular males do idol shit
To this day that notion that Holostars are taboo persists. Not just among Hololive fans, even outsiders think so (just 1-2 months ago Inami Rai said he wanted to hold an SF6 tourney with Holostars, he had people in his comments bitching about it because they were under the impression Holostars was a "bad" group). "Holostars were this interesting?" is a common reaction when they collab outside, so they need to work on getting rid of that taboo, but it's true tourists tend to not stick around, especially not for their idol activities. It's kind of a lose-lose situation they're in.
