>>107723485>Why is it when something niche gets more popular you have all these faggots trying to invade it and ruin it for the people that were there first.This is something that ends up happening in any hobby, niche, industry, you name it.
>Exploration vs OptimizationIn the exploration phase, you have no idea what to do so you experiment, you pioneer you try different approaches. Because you're not sure if they land or not you have to give an earnest attempt, you literally have to genuinely try your best.
Whilst in the optimization phase, you just efficiently copy what works and what doesn't. Even if you give your all, you already have a blueprint, a template and a backup which in turn means it's way less genuine that venturing without a clue if it's gonna work or not but might as well give it your all. Funnily enough optimizing and recycling what works leads to stalling, which might mean less "soul". I don't mean the quotation marks as demeaning, soul is very important, where there's soul, there's care.
A really good example is the gaming industry since you can easily see where developers and companies had to try and innovate, improve and give it their all in order to gather players before they began to focus only on cashgrab-nostalgiabait remakes and remasters, player retention and subtle behavior to encourage player spending with maybe some safe sequels.
With vtubing this was the same early on, everything that's the standard now was something new in the beginning and people were curious what would happen next. Nowadays it's mostly carried by the personalities of the talent, or their past merit, in more uncommon cases because of the game of the week type-o-deals.
