Everyone's talking about the Selen/Dokibird situation being the end of Nijisanji, but from the looks of it Nijisanji died in Oct 22 and have only been continuing on momentum.
2022 Full Year:
https://i.warosu.org/data/vt/img/0416/99/1674673975023229.png2023 Full Year:
https://i.warosu.org/data/vt/img/0657/65/1704126725790108.pngJan 2024:
https://i.warosu.org/data/vt/img/0681/83/1707060077604833.pngIn 2022 Nijisanji was competitive with Hololive. They still lost, but they were competitive. For 2023 they fell down hard. Starting in 2024 their best isn't even breaking 3k without the graduation buff. This paints the picture of a continuous and hard decline over time, which no single incident can cause. So what happened, why did Nijisanji die, and why does it continue to die even harder? It's not the industry, we see more indies becoming massive all the time, each Hololive generation performs just fine, older Hololive talent maintains the same numbers. So what happened?