>>156150The trend began with a certain shark, who was a Debut TBA as well, gained a large following during the HoloEN honeymoon period via both leeching off the wave the EN girls had created, directly and indirectly, and going on a social media promotion blitzkrieg that may or may not have included paid shills and extensive money spent on commissions to make it seem like there was a naturally occurring fanbase coalescing around said shark. The problem is these new clout chasers only seem to have taken away from that example "If I go on twitter and say I am a vtuber, and make funny "I'm gay" tweets 23 times a day, I will obtain a huge following and be famous", which ignores a lot of factors that led to that popularity spike in the example case.
Its even funnier now that we have a lot of examples of TBAs debuting after running the twitter gauntlet, and the breakdown goes like this:
>2000+ Twitter followers>100~ show up for your debut>10 or less average regular viewers for subsequent streamsTwitter promotion does not work if you cant hold peoples attention, and has vastly lower impact than people seem to think it does on your streaming numbers, but people still waste countless hours trying to network and be funny on twitter instead of just, ynow, producing real content.
