>>12662445Rikka is talented and competing against one or two stars including Afro.
Flare is competing against the entirely heavily flooded market of female chubas and still prints comparable numbers.
She unironically has it rough as a regular friendly female gamer coffee elf, but only if you compare her to the top half percent of male vtubers. In other words, Flare does well despite not being one of the absolute most god tier female chubas, while Rikka has the voice of a thotslayer and still only gets slightly higher numbers than one of Hololive's average performers.
This is actually a #MenMostAffected moment that highlights just how much easier it is to get by as a talentless hack if you're a woman. A man can drop angel voiced bars and still get dunked on by a Niji spamming Apex every day. Men who hone their talents see diminished returns, while the guys who do succeed wind up selling their lives and souls to a highly repetitive FPS where every match is the same thing over and over and over again.
Meanwhile Flare can boot up minecraft and play casually while still doing well for herself, all without breaking a sweat, being exceptional or spending 12 hours a day streaming the same game for months in end. This is a privilege only female streamers enjoy, and it's why any lack of success can in fact primarily be blamed on their own individual failings.
