>>18054386Hololive is an enormous boost. While I agree that a good holo will become more popular than her peers eventually there's no denying it that some talents are underrated simply because they don't amass that much 'hype'. Look no further than the difference between top ten subs and top ten SCs. It is absolutely unfair to say that someone doesn't work hard if they're less popular simply because we know like 25% of what they do in Hololive.
>do we actually like the vtuber or do we just like it because it was by hololive?Depends from person to person. Sometimes I see people creaming themselves over things I've already seen elsewhere, sometimes there's nothing quite like it and Hololive is the reason it exists. Either way Hololive is a prestige brand by this point. Anything any popular holo does will be treated as premium content. People usually don't care about everything else that happens here though.