>>34923010>Did Ollie get hit the hardest from Kobo's popularity?That's a very reductive way to put things.
Ollie was the oen hit the hardest by her poor choice of initial growth strategy. Here are the four things she did wrong from the start that came to bite her in the ass right now
1) She went balls to the wall in courting the EN speaking audience. Of course in the start it looked like a winning ticket, she was pretty much the reason HoloID ended up with the "HoloEN-lite" moniker back then.
Then came Council debut and Bae is just a better Ollie, except better looking, less spastic and native speaking (but just as loud, sadly).
2) She went balls to the wall in courting the outside the box crowd.
It TRULY looked like a winning ticket, ingratiating herself with the anituber crowd, the ironic weeb crowd, the ironic geek crowd and she got a HUGE exposure outside the box at the expense of her box building.
The thing is: all of those crowds, specially the "anituber" crowd (which is seasonal by design burning through one waifu per anime season)
3) She went balls to the wall with the "unity" thing and became one and the same with the rest of the vtuber community.
But the Hololive audience is immensely insular and will definitely opt out of excessive interaction outside the box so they just avoided Ollie for the most part while she was adventuring across the vtuber field.
Pic related has Ollie median of peaks and true average, annotated in some points.
Every single move Ollie has done was short lived and entirely dependent on a "touristic" audience, but she did very little to gather an audience of her own and that is putting a HUGE gravity on her numbers, pulling them to the 1k range whenever she runs out of novelty.
