>>76382140/corpo/ is an inherently doomed thread that was tricked into thinking it was good.
inherently, we talk about small corpos without their own threads. this means we're limited to the corpos with no large fanbase and little in the way of a future. nobody believes in specialite or globie - hell, i'm sure half of the thread can't tell them apart. even if the chuubas are good, nobody cares enough to passionately shill them, and nobody would care enough to listen either; why bother getting into vicky if she could disappear a month from now and not show up until next winter?
the "thread divas" historically kept us connected, breathing a positive atmosphere into the thread and keeping the dream alive. people like pam and woomy were utterly beloved, and the dominance they had over the thread got more people to check them out, which only kept the fire burning. when one of them disappeared for a few months, it didn't really matter, her fans would sit it out and check out some of the other /corpo/ girls since the mood was still being held up and the outlook was generally optimistic.
when beryl graduated, the slack was picked up by woozie, who had been clearly cut out as the next centerpiece for a few months at that point. then she fucking graduated too a month later, and there was nobody in line to catch us. even now, we don't really have anyone in /corpo/ to take up that role. the closest thing to that "stand-out girl from an otherwise ignorable company" energy that we have today is probably lillian, but she was kneecapped immediately by the fact that it's unquestionably very funny to have another dragon maid as the face of the thread. that also means we got slapped with the same "hat trick" that 2022 /pkg/ did, except we didn't even have remaining chuubas to love, which repeatedly drained morale while bringing in the absolute worst specimens of the catalog. even if the tourists are gone now, some of the dramafags are integrated with the thread, and any newfags from that era don't know any better.
we can only be a good thread by cheating. we aren't the small corpo thread, we're the woomy and friends thread, or the beryl and friends thread, or the vreverie and friends thread, or the akio air and friends thread. a thread about doomed small corpos needs to be held together by something other than doomed small corpos. we are six months into the storm and i don't think we are coming out alive.