>>37355550Outside of ad revenue, having numbers is detrimental as they are greyniggers mostly and they don't buy SCs or merch at all, but they clutter chat and there's a higher chance say negative things about the talent on social media. Ideally invested fans should make up the majority of your audience and that seems to be in the 2.5-4k range for everyone inside of EN sans Gura. A sponsored stream that's not up everyone's alley will not yield bigger numbers than that.
Actually, the way the big corpo vtubing scene is turning out in the west, it seems like most talents will stabilize around that audience size sooner or later, save for big events or hyped up streams. The western market is deflating as vtubers became a normal thing and not something that's a novelty in the middle of a pandemic forcing everyone to stay at home.
