>>37186101Two things:
A.) Language barrier. It’s much easier to watch streams in your own language. Inertia is a powerful force. Individuals can overcome the path of least resistance, but in a large group, most people will take the easy path. People only watched JP because it was the only thing around. Now that there’s EN tubers, most will stick to that, even if anyone can switch to JP anytime they want.
B.) Brand loyalty. This is partially because every corpo is going for a different audience, and most of the people who watch HoloEN definitely don’t like NijiEN because NijiEN is targeting a very different kind of demographic. The walled garden doesn’t help, either. They only got rid of that policy when they realized nine girls who barely stream isn’t enough to make that strategy viable.
Also, this board was only created after HoloEN was created. It was meant first as a containment zone so anons would stop shitting up the /jp/ board. That means it has a natural bias towards EN vtubers, especially HoloEN, and it’s remained that way because of the reasons I just stated.