>>18189959>Then how come NijiEN as a whole is inclining while HoloEN as a whole is reclining?Fujoshi are driving that growth. If you check out solo streams from the Niji girls you'll see that they remained the same or even declined. Since HoloEN doesn't have males, thank God, what you're seeing is people gradually checking out of vtubing as a whole, because no matter how much reddit and twatter crowds like to pretend it isn't true, the sole driving force behind vtubing is gachikoi and unicorns. And Horrorlive shat on them from two sides - Mori and Rushia. We're now at a tipping point after which vtubing will most likely die an inglorious death. My guess is the twatter/reddit crowd will continue to bullshit and Horrorlive will continue dismantling the appeal of vtubing through inaction (this shields them from criticism). Vtubing will then become more and more like "general streaming" and will fade away into that normalfaggot background, where it will either linger or just go extinct. Western "fans" do not understand vtubing and are incapable of understanding it because of their conditioning, and through their actions the actual appeal of vtubers grows dimmer and dimmer by the day. By removing what made vtubing special in order to "save it" the reddit/twatter crowd will kill it, just like they killed every other form of Western entertainment. Smaller western corpos won't do shit or matter at all since they never even had the notion of having idols or putting in any effort. Their girls are "general streamers" by design, and they'll just crash and burn the moment Holo keels over.
It's not even theoretical for me. I was membered to six girls. Now only one (Gura). Vtubing is obviously nearing its expiration date, and in a strange twist of fate it's not just the imbecility of fake Western fans that is pushing it over the edge but the company itself and its retarded decisions and lack of decisive action. The best possible thing that could somehow happen would be for Gura to be her own thing as an indie again or something of that sort, but it's cruel to expect her to do that up until the very end. And even then it wouldn't be the same. I have no trust and confidence in any of this anymore to be frank. And you can see that I am half-out already and it started to happen before even Mori fucked up. It's clear that Hololive and vtubing are rotting from the inside and that the hyenas (fake Western fans) are already feasting on the carcass. I'm now desperately trying to muster up the mental fortitude and steel myself for the collapse. I'm effectively trying to extinguish the warmth that I gained from all of this, because it's clear its foundation is on a lie.
I hope Gura doesn't stream on Valentines. I hope she feigns illness (if she has to feign it) because at this moment I just won't be able to enjoy any form of emotional content. Everything sounds and feels like lies now. She isn't to blame for that, but it is what it is.
