>>79456211nta but I think it's less about the talents and more the crowd anyway, being a mascot and being very involved with the girls publicly is great optics. Especially in this field of entertainment where black corpo's are so common it's the default assumption most people will make.
The Marine fan cosplaying at Offkai got asked so many times if he had come across Sakana yet that he eventually had someone bring him to Sakana just to say he did. People love the silly little jackass and whether that's good for the girls or not can be debated, but it's objectively great for business.