>>104263535>I don't think they can double their live viewership, their live viewership has mostly been going down outside big eventsThat's nonsense and I'll put a chart to demonstrate how false that statement is. Her is the
>THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE (365) DAYS TRUE AVERAGE, PER BRANCHchart for the Hololive branches.
Notice that this long range (365 days) was chosen exactly because it "smoothes" everything out: localised trends, special dates and events (birthdays, anniversaries, end of year festivities) and the fact it is the true average also smoothes out outlying peaks.
Nothing is left but the trend and the YEAR LONG trend, not any particular day trend,
>The JP girls just hit their all time high. >The EN girls are in a steep ascent having reversed all of the losses during the "GRIM era". >The ID girls grew out of two years of stagnation>The DEV_IS girls made for some of the 2024 lossesAll in all they're all growing and some are growing very significantly.
And in the EN and DEV_IS girls case, they're growing their average while pretty much doubling their cast which indicates an increase in actual audience, not just the average viewership.
>There is absolutely no reason to think western normies will ever like vtubers, that is peak delusion, even if they overcome the anime weirdness the bottom line is they provide pretend girlfriend experiences, this will only ever appeal to a small demographicIf you think the only thing Hololive provides is "pretend girlfriend experience" I'll make a bold assumption and say your only contact with Hololive is through what people that HATES Hololive talks about them.
Here is another datapoint: Marine's "Kumarine" short
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nckkVBZ6ULwjust beat 112M views. This can't possibly be explained by simply only having reach the Hololive audience, that would be preposterous.
Same with her songs, same with Suisei songs, same with many of the girls songs and shorts and TikTok content.
If you think the only content being provided by Hololive is "pretend girlfriend experience" you're taking the word of people who hate Hololive at face value instead of properly paying attention on what Hololive really is
>pretend girlfriend experience too>a whole lot more than just that 
