>>14815416corpo vtubing vs indie has its pros and cons
rigid rules and standards versus flexibility with doing whatever the fuck you want within limits and reason
having a manager, having your marketing and ads (exposure) as well as merch done for you and all that, but they get a significant cut of your revenue stream in exchange, and that's not only highly varied and unreliable but also being used as a metric of your performance despite it being at the complete mercy and whim of your viewers
versus
having to do everything yourself and not having as much exposure, ads, or even merch, but you keep all the income after platform cuts and taxes, and could even keep a plan B as either a wagie working a day job or better yet, reliable passive income
Then there's the thing with collabs, readily available in corpo but when it comes to indies its doable but limited
permissions, permissions, permissions... agencies have clout plus ad and sponsorship capability, versus some indie that is just one person and absolutely won't be contract bound to some soulless corp hence they have reason to ignore or simply refuse perms outright despite free advertisement opportunities (corpos and copyright is retarded)
At the very least, the viewers and fans are more attached to the VTuber - or rather, the person giving the character / avatar life - than the agency they work for, with some rare autismo/tribalfag exemptions so there's that
