>>24552603This 'acceptance' is about acceptance of male-female collabs. It's completely beside the point.
The reason hololive fans don't watch holostars is for a different reason - they have no attachment to the streamer. At all. Attachment is everything in entertainment. You become a constant viewer of a streamer to follow a story - 'what happens next?'
But people are biased. For girls, cuteness/sexiness is enough to give the story of their journey enough weight to have people stick around. Every holo has essentially the same story arc of wanting to become an idol, collab with senpais, produce music, yada yada but people will (initially, at least) be more invested, the cuter the voice and model is. After that it's about audience retention and personality to get them invested in YOUR story. What're you going to play next, how do you feel about it, what's your unique quirky view on life.
But fundamentally, for guys, you don't have those huges crutches of cute/sexy unless you one in a million to have a voice like Vox's. No one will stick around to hear you make dog noises like Korone even if they can't understand what you're saying. So what do you have? Of course, your base story. Your goals, your aspirations. Which is another issue. 'A cute girl wants to become good enough to perform to me?' is compelling to see through. 'A guy wants to become good enough to perform to me?' is not. It might be to female viewers. But to the audience that is repeatedly the target of attempts to rope in? No.
So you're forced to get your audience attached to you the hard way. Sometimes you get a break like Roberu with the whole 'winning son' stuff, where new blood comes in to see 'hey what's the funny meme man gonna do next'?' and stays on for other wacky shit like doodling an entire visual novel in Paint. Or it can be Astel's predator climb, and then you tune in to see 'hey what's the only predator in holo doing' during one of the karaokes and get blown away.
But regardless, the base premise is not compelling at all for normal male viewers. And that won't change no matter how many collabs you do, not least because in collabs you have to split your attention between your partner and the activity. Until they figure out how to fix it so that a male viewer tuning into a holostar works out exactly WHY he should invest his time and emotional energy into following this dude, you're not going to get your large male audience numbers.
