just gonna post this again because its all my thoughts on it
I'm someone who got into vtubers just about a year before Coco left. I actually felt pretty sad about it. Definitely a lot sadder than I felt about subsequent Holomem graduations. For one thing, even though the other anon is doing a really bad job of defending his point, Kson's crusade for vtubers keeping their models is not only completely impracticeable from a business standpoint, I have to agree it's an incredibly unreasonable expectation for a vtuber to have. And she completely misrepresents the situation, saying vtubers "lose all their hard work" as if she wasn't a complete literal who before Hololive who now has over a million subs. The way she presents the situation so one sidedly and has the gall to act like she's "just giving her point of view" reminds me a lot of that image of Hitler going "hey that's just my opinion man."
It'd be like Flo from Progressive finishing her stint there and suddenly being allowed to carry her character around. It's really fucking stupid, and honestly I really don't have any respect for people who don't remember where they came from. Kson's holier-than-thou attitude, almost acting like Nazuna didn't deserve what she got, like she isn't actively provoking Cover herself, like they did her dirty... all of it really pisses me off. It makes it really obvious that she isn't a kind soul looking to help vtubers so much as she is an extreme opportunist masquerading as a savior. It leaves an extremely bad taste in the mouth, and the words that come to mind are "selfish," "westoid," and "fake." Kson is fake as fuck. Faker than Rushia. Faker than vtubers with boyfriends. Faker than pretty much any kayfabe, because her entire kayfabe is that she's standing up for the little guy. She's not. She's sucker punching the nice guy at the gym who spots your bench press and living off the high fives she gets from everyone for showing up a bully. She's eating a free meal from someone rich and then immediately spitting on their hand when they offer a handshake. People don't like Kson because she's a clout chaser in a space that they love because it used to be free from that kind of race-to-the-bottom behavior. That's why people don't fucking like Vshojo, despite Ironmouse herself being a great success story and an overall really likeable person. The company itself chases the lowest common denominator of vtubing under the pretense of "talent freedom" and has the gall to act like it's about worker rights instead of simple branding. It makes the entire space worse.
Anyway, that's my two cents. In short, fuck Kson.
