>>40972394>>40979561Pretty much. Vtubing is all about networking. I think that’s why SNOT became a thing…until Gura stopped streaming. The reason Gura’s “good” is that she’s popular. And she’s popular because lots of people like her streams. That’s fine, and it means by plenty of metrics she *is* good.
But Gura’s not good at forming connections with other vtubers, which puts a ceiling on how good she is. Because while some people watch vtubers only for a specific person they like and don’t care about vtubing as a whole, other people like the feeling of the vtuber scene as a whole, and Gura is really not that present outside of her own channel nowadays.
There’s a reason so many other corpos are emphasizing group chemistry more and more as they try to learn from HoloEN’s mistakes. It’s because things like this impact the ability of even a good streamer like Gura to…do anything with that popularity.
In fact, my rrat is that this is why Gura’s depressed. Sure she can get lots of money from merch and superchats, but that means she has enough to care about the other parts of vtubing, like forming connections—which she’s bad at.
