>>41426412>launch a "counter measure" Nobody said Roboko was a countermeasure, retarded. She debuted AFTER NIji's 1st and 2nd wave, which means that her producing short video combined with some stream style in her first year can still be under the influence of Nijisanji. NOBODY is talking about how they planned the whole thing, and neither you nor I know how Cover decided to handle her in the first place. Also, she didn't "popularize" it, so it didn't affect my point whatsoever.
>a business decision that totally makes sense in order to save budgetDo you know how many 3D talents came before Gen 1? Cover created sora by themself, brought Roboco from some MMD creator, and sent Miko into the wild, hoping that she would succeed, but somehow failed to realize this "normal business decision" until 2018.07.
The fucking industry standard at that time was 3D, just like people think a mobile phone should have a keyboard. And there was legit no one ever succeeded with a 2D avatar before Nijisanji.
>but Niji does changing direction based on their members words themselvesTo be more precise, only Gundo. And even in Gundo's own words, she stated that it was her own thought because she hated dancing. While in reality, Nijisanji already started sending their talent to major music labels all the way back in 2019 when Raindrops debuted.
Moreover, do you know how many agencies out there have music-focus? Kamitsubaki, Riotmusic. The whole "shift in direction" you claimed hasn't even led to a Vsinger that solely focuses on that. Calling that a direction copy while the whole 3D to 2D thing is a "normal business decision" is just biased as fuck and fucking delusional.
