>>23481936>Does VTubing have a future?Yes? "Vtubing" is basically just streaming with an avatar and some (optional) roleplay. And just like it's kinda asinine to ask "uh bros, does streaming have a future? I feel there are too many streamers already..." (it was asinine already five years ago, and will be asinine in five years), "vtubing" as a concept is here to stay, and probably only get more prevalent (especially as technological barriers improve).
There will always be people who want to stream with an avatar, and there will always be people who want to watch these "vtubers". Now, of course there will also always be fluctuations, changes in trends, rises and falls of whoever are the current people/companies at the top (to illustrate, just a few years ago back in the 4kings era no one could've known that Hololive/Nijisanji would be currently on top, and in a few years from now on the landscape might look also different even), but "vtubing" in general is not simply going away once the genie is out of the bottle.
>it already feels like there's way too many VTubers out there, even in Hololive alone. The peak is obviously gone.Whether there are "already way too many vtubers in Hololive" is ultimately not a decision to be made by any individual viewer and his subjective gut feelings, but only for Cover itself to decide - as long as they think a new vtuber will continue to earn them more money than it costs to produce them, they will continue to pump them out. Even if diminishing returns eventually set in, as long as the profit is more than zero it's better than none.
>And what about the girls' futures afterwards? Maybe the JP ones can move onto singing or voice acting, but the EN ones are likely toast.What about it? The people who were already professionals in their field (for example Ina and Sana as illustrators) can just continue doing what they did before. Mori will probably try to continue to push her roommate music with the additional clout and fanbase she has siphoned off from Hololive. Maybe some other girls will similarly continue trying to be independent streamers, with various success, or drop out to become normie wagies or whatever they can do with their uncertain marketable skills. I guess you'll find one or two out of the bunch maybe even ascend to management eventually.
Ultimately, it's not Cover's responsibility, but the girls' own responsibility what they'll do with their "futures afterwards". If they're smart, they will have used their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and its massive earnings to save prudently and invest wisely, instead of blowing it all like a stupid lottery winner, so they're set for life and don't have to (forced) work ever again. If they're stupid and blew it all instead, that's their own fault and fuck 'em.
