>>11064774I'm extremely late, and some of these ideas have probably been tread over, and I doubt this is Kronii or the management fishing for answers, but what the hell.
1. Remember the first and only rule. People are here for YOU
People do not what you Kronii because of the games, or because they are fans of Cover. They are here, for YOU. During your first Minecraft stream, you had almost 20,000 people watching sort the storage boxes of Amelia and the number barely dipped throughout. Or how you joked about doing a stream of watching paint dry. I guarantee if you did that, you'd still have thousands of people still show up to watch the paint try with you because again, people are there for you.
That being said.
2. Work on your Zatsudan skills.
This is still probably your biggest weakness at the point. It doesn't mean you have to open up and reveal your personal demons to the public. Just try and work on speaking about stuff that happens to you during the day within reason or stuff you have interest in, or don't hesitate to just go off on wild tangents. You've actually done this during the last two super chat catch ups, and it greatly improved those videos.
3. Focus on your strengths and areas you're confident in.
This goes for both playing games that you like and your personal skill sets. Using your voice acting skills during Hollow Knight is a great example of how you can make your playthroughs unique to yourself and can expand upon that. Like when you eventually play Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (Assuming you have a WiiU) you can just let wild if your voice acting for all the characters
4. If you have to make a choice between focusing on the game and chat, always focus on the game.
Otherwise you create a situation where if you try and juggle to much, you'll end up dropping everything. You did apologize for doing this in the Hollow Knight stream. And the last Hades video was a perfect example of trying to juggle both and it blowing up in your face.
5. Play games that no one in Hololive has, or rarely has.
You mentioned playing Star Craft and wanting to try Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Go for them and be a trail blazer. You already did it with Frostpunk, you should try and play games that you enjoy that no one else in hololive have played yet as opposed to doing what's the fad of the week or following the popular trends.
6. Don't let chat intimidate you.
There's always a fine line between being a doormat, and being a tyrant. But if chat is doing something to annoy you, be willing to put your foot down. You've done it a few times already when people were acting like masochists and wanting you to call them dogs during the first minecraft stream. Or making jokes about your breasts during Hollow Knight, and for the most part, things have been restrained. But if they do something wrong, call them out and reprimand them. Or take a page from Korone, who famously doesn't have chat rules in her description and just works off 'talk shit, get hit'.
Personally, the issues with chat are way overblown because everyone still assumes it's nothing but people screaming memes 24/7, when that was wrangled after the Super Chat opening when you created rule 9. Plus we didn't know better for the Fauna raid. And as for Bae, the people Super Chatting you and trash talking her were almost all her members or randoms.
7. Be open with chat about your thinking process for why you do and don't do certain things.
The big reason why people were going nuts over you playing Minecraft off stream. Whenever chat asked why you didn't stream more and then said yes they'd watch it, the response was 'I'll think about it.' 3 times.
If you just came out saying 'I don't want to stream because I need empty thought time and I would pay zero attention to the stream' you'd get some complaints, but a lot more people would accept it.
As for why people are nuts over Minecraft, it's because you did so much work off stream and we just say the end results, when a lot of streaming is the journey. It really hurts to think of all the stuff we didn't see in game. Like you and Mumei trying to get white foxes, or you and Polka trying to transport animals and killing Gwakfield. Or your expedition to the Nether where you died. People don't like missing out of stuff like that as opposed to you branch mining and general resource gathering. It got so crazy, people here just started to actively monitor other hololive members to see if you'd show up. I know you're trying to rework it. (Assuming management bust your chops over sleeping in for the Fauna collab) But think of it this way, resource gathering? Off stream is fine. Building and adventures? Stream it.
8. Try and relax and have fun.
Streaming is work, but it doesn't have to be a totally miserable experience. Just play the games you like and work from there. Just BEE yourself.
BTW, if you can do games with your members, that would be great. I'd love to play Monster Hunter with you.
