>>126389262019 was peak hololive. There's only so much a corp can scale before it becomes a soulless hydra with too many talking heads to give a shit about.
Personally, I think there's just the right amount of indos after id3, just the right amount of EN's, and way too many JPs. Hololive is so JP heavy it both imbalances the branches and inflates the chuba roster beyond the limits of people's ability to give a fuck.
I uniornically prefer a loose assortment of small chuba companies interacting with one another over a giant centralized mega-roster where all chubas are relatively homogenous in terms of content and corporate culture. The Nijisanji model of just dumping every chuba under the same umbrella was a mistake. At the very least, they should be in completely different branches of no more than 10 or so chubas, all defined by a strong thematic synergy and focused around pandering to a specific niche.
I'm just so tired of the "lolsorandom grab bag of designs and themes" approach. Just give me some fancy gacha character designs with a unifying theme like the kind you'd normally find released together in the same banner. I kind of just want unironic anime characters now, with wholesome non-cringe kayfabe that's not too pretentious, and real method acting instead of just dank irony. If I have to sit and watch yet another slice of life "cute girl doing cute girl things" chuba, it'll be the last vtuber I ever watch.
