>>15477840Not those anon but in my case it's an aversion of giving money to Youtube more than anything. Yeah, the argument still applies, they need to make money somehow to support the operation, but they are too anti-user for me to feel it's worth supporting.
For hololive though you can almost guarantee they all make plenty from the people who blindly give them money that it's fine for those of us who think a bit more to not send them any. Heck, they also have chances to make money from sponsorships, which is supposedly quite a lot. If we were talking some smaller tumor without such a guarantee, then I could see your point, but they'd also more than likely also have some other donation method such as streamlabs, which would take a much smaller cut and not support Youtube/Google itself.
Personally I do just go the route of merch, and only stuff that doesn't seem to awful. For instance, I generally don't buy the massively overpriced shirts/wearables, but am more willing to buy the overpriced collectable stuff if I like how it looks. Shipping makes it harder to justify certain smaller things on their own though.
