>>22121043The whole hobby as a whole has been trending between becoming painfully corporate on one end (fucking label deals, million dollar merch runs, chats so fast even the girls who still care can't treat it as more than an ATM) and wild sex-sells-and-scandal-sells-more reality TV on the other. You can see it play out in the community as well - /vt/ is mostly numberfags on one end and people discussing the daily lives of rich streamers on the other.
NijiEN is in a really, really weird spot somewhere on the scale, where they've adopted the Twitch-style model while being part of a JP company that's overall just as or more corporate than Hololive.
