>>35576957Then you’re a fucking retard if you think the whole professional live streaming world is about 1000, 1500 people.
You are also underestimating heavily the number of people outranking vtubers in revenue.
Companies spare no money to try to enter the North American market
>pic related they know making it big there is a better value proposition than anywhere else in the world and it’s free money anyway, courtesy of venture capital and the Fed printing it and lending at zero rates.
Any organized “influencer” in the North American market makes a lot more money than their counterparts in Japan, but that means fuck all in terms of what you called “soft power”.
Soft power doesn’t come from revenue but from knowing the right people in the right positions, like the ones you mentioned.