>>63624033It was good but not for the reasons you listed, which are too ambiguous.
It's pretty obvious that Coco was pushing Cover - and Hololive in general - to be more westernized. In some aspects this actually helped, e.g. talents like Suisei and Pekora (and Hololive in general) are completely unaffected by shit said to them by random people masquerading as fans (false flagging used to be a HUGE issue in the chuuba field). The Holo blacklisting during the chinkout also built bonds forged in fire, meaning a lot of holomem are EXTREMELY close to each other and will try to lift up their colleagues rather than compete or try to bring them down.
But in other aspects, this was also a bad thing. Members doing whorish dance poses, 3D twerking and shit like that are very far from the "idol" image that most of the company wants to push. Some of them still indulge in tomfoolery from time to time, it's often more with the vibes of "girls' locker room" rather than the Black rap MV style shit that Coco was pushing.
She talked a lot about how management told her not to do certain moments and how she completely ignored them, because it was Live and they couldn't stop her. That level of independance from management would have caused a lot of problems down the line, as Rushia's case clearly shows.
Other holos have also heavily have moved away from Coco's branding (while still acknowledging that she helped them get here). The western pandering has died down for the most part (some of them try and make it easy for any EN viewers to watch certain streams, but it's no longer as full throated as it was before).
The "idol" and "family friendly" image also opened them up to a SHIT TON of sponsors, all of whom wouldn't have ever gone anywhere NEAR hololive if Hololive's brand was still driven by Coco.
Western meme connectivity has also completely evaporated. This is good for the most part because we can meme in peace without fear of the talent finding out, but it also results in situations like Pekora's Monkey incident, where she thought foreign viewers were insulting Jill - while it was actually a condensed part of a long meme ("Don't let this distract you from the fact that Pekora bought a fucking MONKEY" --> "A fucking MONKEY"), or her not knowing about the whole "ogey" thing.
What all of this has done is filter the "ironic" crowd from HoloJP, which is what a lot of the oldfags wanted. JP's EN audience is now left with people who watch streams and a minority of clipfags.
HoloJP's focus has completely moved to the domestic arena, and they've found a lot of success there, while still being the same Hololive that brought all of us here in the first place.
I don't think it would've grown as big as it has if Coco was still around.
