>>35860665Not 100%. People forget how well Artemis played the vtweeter game, he practically wrote the playbook.
From playing clippers to astroturfing 4chan, he did everything right. The problem is that he didn't know how to stream and even so it didn't matter because he took advantage of the queer euphoria and certain groups would support him out of contrarianism.
Later on the man would systematically send superchats to Holos and tweet three times per day. Many would try to recreate his success f2p version without noticing how hard he went on the non streaming aspects of his persona.
You could say he was also in the right moment and in the right time but so was Kana, who managed to sabotage her early run in every possible way and sank Tsunderia chances of catching up. Artemis has been actually yab free despite everything.
It is perhaps a tragedy to the medium that someone whose talents lie else where can rise to the very top, but framing it as merely luck does not take into account how hard Artemis swindled everyone and how bad are other chuubas at marketing.
