>>10782914Well, they could say you're wrong if they ask to look at your portfolio and you have maybe fifty pieces of work with no internet presence. Both of them, on the other hand, left doxxtrails a mile wide of their past stuff because there was so much of it.
The point is that they demonstrated long-term interest and putting work into aspects relevant to hololive before Cover even existed. There is a good market for subpar dancing and singing with good marketing and branding. There is no good market for subpar drawing by itself. Not that it wouldn't be a plus factor as a side aspect.
You say it's half-assed - maybe in results, but the quality of the results is far less relevant than the quantity and the duration of it, signalling that it was not just a fad or something they gave up on when they found out it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. They still moved to Japan and worked crap jobs to sustain those gigs.
You seem to be under the illusion that ability is very important to Cover in choosing talent. You forget that the primary goal is success of the company, and high skill does not necessarily serve that goal. It is likely more of a detriment the better you get - if you were really so good at something, what stops people from poaching you away from the company once they've given you publicity? Unless they find another lever to use to keep such people, they won't hire them.
What they want more is stability, no doubt buoyed by the traditional Japanese company loyalty mentality.
Besides, do you think Cover really wants all of their talent to be high-skilled performers off the bat even if they could get them? How would they sell the 'watch your oshi grow' experience if they're all already good?
