>>15516488>Just feels bad because she has no way of monitoring how she's doing.I mean, in a cold corporate sense you can pretty much boil down any "number to monitor how well you're doing" in one single metric - money. At the end of the day, unless you're doing it just as a hobby for the fun of it with no profit motive, if you're doing this for a living as a job to pay your bills it's certainly the most or only important performance indicator. Everything else is just incidental and subsumed by this, any other metric is just a proxy for money in the end. For example, all that fretting about the number of views, why do they matter? Beneath using them as a crude yardstick for "popularity" (and shitposting against others with it, as if that were a competition), it's not that views itself directly pay money, but just that views only matter insofar as higher views are correlated with higher potential to make more money in the end (through ad impressions, donations, memberships, sponsorships, etc.).
Of course that's a cynical way to look at it, but it's probably what makes the most sense of things because in the end this is all a business, so even if the vtubers themselves don't look at it from such a cold perspective, and honestly believe in all the "I just want to entertain people and bring joy to their lives, uwu.." idol fluff, the company behind them certainly does, because it would go bankrupt if it didn't, and it has investors who put money into them not for any naive feelgood idol dream but because they want to see a return and profit on their money.
