>>107319839Hololive itself wasn't the same 5 years ago and further back when I first started watching after seeing touhousniper talk about Hololive while doing FGO content. I know people want to make out this fantasy that things were perfect, but the great burst we saw was a mix of a lot of factors.
Where people had no where near the same success from their start as they do now, demographics shifted, hell, not just vtubers but a lot of content creators have changed this past decade. I know there are a lot of dishonest actors that want Hololive to die out, but I don't see that happening. Some former fans who can't see the bigger picture and are just lost, some who just want to see the world burn for the fuck of it, and others who just want to enjoy what they enjoy in the middle.
What I do see dying out is this "making a non-corpo corpo" that wanted to be so indie adjacent like Niji did, then VShojo and Phase tried, one is gone and one is going. The ones who survive know that having solidarity (with the talents, in case someone is stupid enough to think I meant blind loyalty to the company) amongst talents under a thriving cohesive collective will remain. If the landscape can break this cycle of wanting to make a corpo of indies, we'll get a Hololive competitor that comes out. Niji will be like EA, forever gaining money but the traction just goes nowhere, like a whale carcass on the beach.
