>>106634554Proportional to the size of the internet, bronies were 100x bigger than chuubas are now. Almost every tumblrette or deviantart user, and a huge contingent of 4chan users, were bronies, or knew a brony, and moot had to make a dedicated containment board cause the horsefuckers were too big to tame with a generic "no pony allowed" ban.
On one to one numbers? Yeah, chuubas are way bigger than ponies are, but they have claimed less of the cultural zeitgeist than bronies did in their time.
Ask a bunch of randos on the streets, most of them will know what mlp is, or know about bronies, or even name a pony.
This is not a thing with vtubers. The average joe does not know about vtubers aside from the occasional culture breach such as the dodgers hololive collabs.
Horsefuckers were a genuine force to be reckoned with online (and to a lesser extent, IRL) at the time, the same cannot be said about /vt/ards, it's just tribal shitflinging about this or that corpo, numberfagging, or rratposting.
