>>23899744They're hiring a new manager for stars, as mentioned previously, so they may be far more lax with the collab policy than the holo en branch.
>>23889835You should also mention the growing reputation of vtubers in the streaming sphere, where they're rapidly becoming more and more known as low brow coomer shit for people who don't like actual streams. The best example of this is Vshojo setting the stage for twitch and causing the indies on that platform to mimic them incredibly hard and be more grating and shameful to a normal person, and Niji en now being insanely massive panderers to fujos and generally acting like sex offenders in the same vein as Vshojo. If someone who fits the description in your comment truly thought about being a vtuber, they'd probably have at least a modicum of pride or self respect due to those qualities and accomplishments.
Why would that person want to be associated with vtubers then? What if I got hired and my mother, father, siblings, friends etc found out? If they didn't know what a vtuber was, and googled it, what are the odds they'd see some twitch indie pour some god awful coomer shit from their mouth, a niji saying some weird shit bordering on an auditory sex offense, or god forbid they find about about Melody and think I'm a literal e-prostitute? Sure you could argue that Hololive is the biggest example of vtubers in the west, but there are only so many of them, especially with nijis approach of massively outpacing them in debuts, and just now searching "vtuber" for me shows the thing about Kusuriko accusing people of being pedophiles and a watch mojo video that includes Ironmouse of Vshojo. Should I risk my actual social life (because that kind of person would have a very active one, I'm sure) for a job being an anime boy on the internet when I could just take a slightly different approach and not risk being indirectly linked to something so shameful it could damage my reputation with the people I care about? I could just be a normal streamer as people have already said, or if I want to be a singer, actually go and show off my skills in those relevent areas, make music online, etc. The western vtubers have poisoned the whole thing, you'd have to further specify they not care about their image and are willing to risk it for the job. I'm half willing to bet that's why en gen 2 got dropped so hard compared to gen 1, the people with big talent ran for the hills and the viewers gravitated away from it the more the twitch indies and vshojo made people who watch vtuber look like freaks. Hell, on here every now and again you can see a thread of an anon who told someone he watched vtubers (even just the normal ones) and they get IMMEDIATELY creeped out from it and shunned, to the point anons have to have threads asking HOW they can bring it up to people, which you don't have to do at all with a normal streamer. Unironically (western)vtubers ruined vtubers, /jp/ was right.
