>>40115884>>40116125>>40116603Pretty much. It's super hard to tear away particularly if you came in during the all-girl waves and spent a ton of emotional capital on watching them grow. Then there's also a component of not wanting to be wrong, like maybe you were perfectly OK with co-ed culture on principle so watching the male waves be packed with SEA groomers and overall despicable human beings is also hard to face. Then some of the girls themselves like Selen or Elira or Pomu keep collabs down to a low roar which if you're already in sunk-cost mode gives you ample space for copium and excuses... at least until there's another REALLY shit collab or the 'men' pull off yet more dumb bullshit that the girls have to run damage control for.
t. Lazulight fan from debut who eventually managed to leave late this past year. I like to think I'm something of a case study because I'm an adult, I was a longtime fan, I was never a unicorn, I wasn't (and I'm still not) a regular Hololive viewer, I was predisposed to give every wave up to iluna a chance, and this shit STILL managed to completely alienate me and make me leery of supporting the talents I still watched.
Anyway I guess it's for the best. I miss Pomu like hell but I moved on to small corpos and there's a ton of amazing talents flying under the radar there.
