>>44743714>ugh, this wouldn't have happened if HoloEN just caved to the leeches who had more to gain than them from a collab!Holy retard, assuming you're not just a fan of these fleshstreamers who got ghosted by Hololive, you have no idea how this works, do you? The way these established EN fleshstreamers work is that they jump on a new trend or rising content creator and use them as props. They try to paint it as mutually beneficial, but it is really just a one-sided transaction that they will cut off when it outlives its usefulness.
It's the exact same tactic that musicians like Drake do: an established artist finds a burgeoning new genre/artist and collabs with them as they blow up. The established artist gets renewed interest in their work and can only benefit from the arrangement. The new artist experiences explosive growth but eventually the hype dies down. The moment this happens, the established artist drops them and moves onto the next trend, leaving them high and dry while on the decline.
A great example of this is what happened to Tenma from Phase Connect. Early in her career she collabed frequently with OfflineTV, one of the major Twitch fleshstreamer organizations (and the one who pestered Gura the most for a collab after debut). She got a pretty hefty boost from this at first, became a 3view for the first time, and it seemed like things were going well. But the problem is that the new viewers she got weren't there for her, they were a borrowed audience from OTV. She was merely a prop for OTV to parade around to benefit from the vtuber trend. Then they stopped getting growth from her and her numbers stalled out, they abruptly stopped collabing and began ghosting her when she tried to contact them again.
>but Gura was (is) bigger than themIt doesn't matter how big the newcomer is, the leeches have been established for years and their advantage is that they will only benefit from a collab arragement. The ONLY way for the newcomer to permanently benefit is to ingratiate yourself within their clique or join their organization somehow. Look at Vshojo, they had to marry into Twitch royalty for a lot of their audience and are conjoined at the hip with their boyfriends. And even within that company, there is a massive gap between those who are part of Twitch royalty and everyone else.
