Rewatching the stream, paying a bit more attention. The fault was mostly monkey's. Call me a white knight gosling if you like.
The first half an hour was fine. The point degradation started: 25:30. Koa does not seem to like being called bad at vidya. Then Koa started to shut off, concentrating on the game probably. After that, next minute with a couple one line replies. Oh, and a comment about the game, which Pippa did well building on, and got more one line replies out of. Asking about her company got nothing, genmates nothing. Pippa notices she doesn't like NFT talk, gets another one line reply. 5 minutes of Pippa trying to get anything out of Koa with no results. At this point chat starts trying to come to the rescue in both streams. Next five minutes is much the same but now with two line replies from Koa. She finally gets some interaction out of starbucks! Pippa tried to build off of it but flubbed, missed opportunity. Hair problems, Pippa has hair, talk about hair, snatch from that topic to go to the next instead of starting a whole new one. It looks like she prepared some questions beforehand but you don't need to ask all of them, just try until one starts working and this one is one that could have.
Koa was just not willing to interact. What was she doing? This was her chance to shill herself to a larger audience, be interesting for fucks sake! "I post on twitter and I stream." Really? That's all you have to say? She asks the same question back, except Pippa actually talks about herself. What does she get back? One lines and sighing. They don't mesh, at all. They have nothing in common. But Pippa fucking tried man, through half an hour of nothing. She even starts getting somewhere with the glow talk. She got Koa interacting! Only everything she said was basic and uninteresting. Could she have tried better? Absolutely. There were things she could have done to draw Koa out more, if she was great at social interaction. We all know she isn't. My advice: She needs to chameleon in collabs. We love based menhera bunny but collabs are about the interaction between the streamers. Look up some more normalfag topics, just the basics of them is fine, and then ask the other person about specifics to get them talking. Sports probably would have worked in Koa's case. "What sort of training do you do?" for instance when basketball came up.
Then the numbers question comes. And you know what? It was absolutely deserved. Koa had brought absolutely nothing to the stream so far and would continue not to. Koa asks for banter, Pippa tries bantering, gets none in return.
After this Koa finally tries to start some topics, no wait. That's chat. Pippa's chat. In Koa's stream, desperately trying to make something work.
Not going to go over the rest with a fine comb right now. Pippa continues to try bantering, Koa seems to get genuinely upset and starts sniping. Pippa doesn't bite back, good on her. Koa really didn't show up with anything, even basically said she expected Pippa to do all the talking. They should have hashed out some topics before the stream, talked for an hour or two at least in the weeks before the collab and probably picked a different game. She needs to give more co-op games a try when she collabs. A puzzle game they could have bullied each other over would have been good.
Don't be too hard on yourself over this, bunny. Watch the stream back, try to pick up on things you could have done better, note them down and work on them.
