>>66072530>3D was the issueYou catalog subhumans are too hung up on your tribal groupthink to really consider if there's a bigger picture behind all this. You may have touched on something here, even though you didn't mean to.
No one on this godforsaken board actually knows for sure what's happened behind the scenes, but we do now know that Pomu wanted to do 3D streams, and she didn't get nearly enough opportunities to do so at Niji. Thing is, 3D is both the past and the future of vtubing as mocap tech gradually improves, miniaturizes and becomes more affordable. The big corpos use expensive studio equipment to record impressive 3D performances, but 3D streams are hardly common content for any single corpo vtuber due to the cost, staff, scheduling and effort involved. The tech is generally reserved for special events.
Meanwhile, you see Vshojos and larger indies doing 3D streams with home studio rigs, wearable trackers, VRChat etc. and while the quality of the models and the tracking isn't consistently amazing, the content tends to be far more dynamic than what a stiff Live2D model can provide. They're able to deliver these types of streams on the regular, treating them as their weekly bread and butter content. Maybe Pomu wanted that, sensing it's where vtubing is ultimately headed. She's a natural showman and likely wants to put on bigger, better shows. A strong, multifaceted career may not be something the top-heavy Live2D-reliant corpos can continue to offer in this young and shifting industry.
No matter what prompted Pomu to leave, the timing's not bad. If she could squeeze a 3D model out of Vshojo (or just commission one as an indie) and work it the way she once worked that little VRChat chibi of hers, she could go big and stay big, outlive a lot of current fan favorites.
