>>95004965>can you explain to me why you think nimi is hurting hololive?Alright, so think about this:
>Fauna debuts in Hololive, builds up a reputation and fanbase on the strength of the brand and quality standard set by her genmates>Once her fanbase is established, she graduates and quickly re-debuts as an indie, allowing her to profit from merch/SCs/etc without COVER getting a cutThis seems all fine and good, right? Well, take this into account - without the efforts of COVER Corporation and the other Hololive girls, she wouldn't have any of the audience she brought with her. And now that she's not in Hololive anymore, she doesn't do collabs with HoloEN members, she doesn't raid HoloEN members, she doesn't support their continued viewership in any way. Instead, she raids (and likely intends to collaborate with) other ex-corpos like Mint, Dooby and Dokibird. But, none of them have any audience without their respective corpos. None of them can get to this position without the strength of the brand they're associated with.
It might seem like it's fine now, because HoloEN is still the most dominant vtuber group among english-speaking audiences. But think about the precedent they're setting - "just graduate from the brand that built you, and you can have your cake and eat it too!" Now, you have viewership and attention being funneled away from the girls who worked their ass off and are living their dream of being in Hololive, for these short term cashgrab indie vtuber "careers" that inevitably will fizzle out because there's nothing to support the kind of partnerships, adherence to advertiser-friendliness etc. that actually support longterm growth for any of them. If strong groups like HoloEN, built on staying within their own advertiser-friendly, longterm growth-oriented brand fracture because the key talents think the grass is greener on the other side of the pond... do you get what I'm getting at?
I could also get into the rabbithole of why women are more genuinely likeable under corpo restrictions, but this post is already getting long enough, so I'll refrain for nowTL;DR It might not seem like much, but this is how vtubing outright dies out in the west
