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I don't mind "male collabs" but context matters a lot.
Scenario 1: Korone collabs with a famous singer she looks up to on stage as an idol?
Perfectly fine, she only meets him once, he's there, they collab, it's professional.
Scenario 2:Korone collabs with some other vtuber on stream once. Ok, not so bad.
Scenario 3: Korone collabs with the same guy, again, and again, and has been collabing for multiple weeks that way, and he shows up at her streams uninvited.
Ok fuck this.
Scenario 1 is perfectly fine, scenario 3 is unacceptable, so you know what I'm just going to say fuck scenario 2 too because I see no benefit to it and it just opens the door for scenario 3.
You can apply the same sort of logic to the situation with HoloEN.
They collabed with the homos once? Ok sure, it was a company event, not such a big deal.
But they keep collabing together over and over, it becomes a regular thing, it eats away from other potential collabs they could have and it becomes part of those vtuber's experience? Ok, fuck this.
That's why the furthest a vtuber is from a male, better. And less of a problem a collab can be.
A celebrity or some famous person is not likely to become a regular for the stream. A purely corporate event is not going to become a casual thing.
Also mind you I don't have an issue with these things on an universal level, context matters.
Nijisanji can do this shit all it wants, that's what that company is about.
But Hololive is for the cute girls faux idols experience.
Which is why the english branch being nijified was such a big problem, if they were indies doing whatever the fuck they wanted no one would care, but they are working under Hololive, that's the experience they are supposed to represent.
They're not expected to be pro gamers because that's not what Hololive is, but there's stuff they're expected to not do. Another example is selfies, they always wear gloves, avoid posting themselves in real life. If it happens it's a rarity like chama fucking up. It's just part of that company's culture. It's a very manufactured and fake image. Vshoujo can give 0 fucks and have Kson basically be a real life streamer that uses a vtuber avatar, that's fine.
And do note Hololive members can still do that shit if they want, just not as their characters.
Hololive does not restrict the freedom of its talents like real idol companies.
Many members still have public personas as real flesh people and it's fine.
Hololive only restricts what its characters can do, and whenever a girl streams she's playing said character.
