>>48196723NTA, but he's right in principle. Making everything about numbers is bullshit, but acting like numbers don't matter at all is also bullshit. Numbers largely dictate what is and is not financially viable for a business to do. In the end, every chuuba is either a business, a franchisee of a business, or a hobbyist who needs to be able to justify the time they spend on it, which is subjected to similar calculations as a business, often without direct profits. Not to mention the well-known (and extremely unhealthy) mental effects that numbers have on all types of YouTubers, not just vtubers, roughly as follows:
>Sees a seasonal or just random dip in numbers>Starts getting stressed out about it>Starts streaming/making videos less>Makes noticeably less money>Starts slipping into the depression spiral>Streams even less>Makes even less money>No longer emotionally able to stream enough to make enough money to survive>People are no longer engaged. and go elsewhere>No longer have an audience large enough to make sufficient money, even if you could physically do it.>Eventually quits altogether.This is common, and could easily happen to your oshi. Creators love to act like numbers don't matter, and they're above it, and just in it for the art, but this is basic psychology. Humans get fucky if they feel like they're trending away from survival, even if it's just a totally abstract number on a screen.
