>>43248516you don't get it. there are normies buying all these cute goods that have never watched a livestreamer or a vtuber.
now miko, gura, and mori are the tokyo tourism ambassadors. at souvenir shops all around tokyo, alongside pikachu and hellokitty keychains, there'll be little blue shark girl keychains and booby reaper notepads.
you noticed how lore-centric gen6 HoloX was? it has a tie-in manga.
gen7 will be even more coherent, lore-wise, so they can adapt it into more media like novels, anime, short internet/TV animations, and even if the girls don't stream it won't matter as long as they keep producing merchandizing and keep doing some voice acting work for whatever content they make.
maybe they'll have to record some singing for the "live" concerts but they won't even have to dance, contracted body doubles will do that for them.
in a few years, they'll open "Hololive Goods Store" chains at shopping malls or tokyo station to sell their goods directly.
look up pictures of rilakkuma stores, hellokitty stores, pokemon centers, that's the primary future of Hololive, not livestreaming.
selling goods is way easier. livestreaming is just too finicky and too troublesome to be worth it, having to tardwrangle grown women that act like children. think about it.
