>>49677288Kawaii has dedicated girls, they are fun, cute, lovable dorks.
I think they are good and can do a good job appealing to a GFE demographic, even if they are not super funny or that good at getting attention.
But management is complicated thing, I can't say it's bad or incompetent, but it's from Japan and there's some lag when it interacts with them and some cultural differences.
The company is not exactly well funded either, they've had to do a kickstarter for their 3D.
Some girls have complained management makes them stream on a strict schedule, has mandated tweets, forced clips. It's not bad stuff, it all helps growth.
But it's definitely one of the most hands on managements out there that asks a lot of its talents.
I've even heard they told one of its members "play less games, do more asmr" but of course this is shit no one can confirm.
I think the company would benefit a lot from targeted ads and some heavier promotion.
An entire generation walked away but it's hard to make a clear take on that because we just lack a lot of information. But I think they just had buyer's remorse, they either expected greater success or didn't expect the conditions would ask so much from them.
I'd say it's a nice company but I am not surprised it's not really blowing up and it might really stagnate at its current level unless there are big changes in there.
EIEN had an amazing start, seriously. For a company that came out of nowhere and lacked a big marketing department it started off with great numbers, the girls all seemed very fun, they had a lot of freedom other corpos dont't and they quickly occupied a niche as a sort of more horny take on small corpos, love it or hate it, it worked quite well. But that didn't last long and we are now familiar with what happened, one girl got caught in a very complicated drama that I won't go into detail but they fired her and it hurt the company image a lot. I can't put the full blame on management, a girl like that would a problem anywhere, but it still makes their management look very bad for letting it blow up that way. And they follow it up with another yab, the chair. I don't know the full details, did she do it without management's permission? Was management aware and didn't stop it? Either way it's fucked up. I don't think they can ever recover from that, it's a small new company without a brand to back it up, not enough time for the fans to be invested enough to ignore shit like this, it happened too early to debut a new gen.
They just started and already lost 1 member and now another one has this reputation. It's very hard to bounce back from that.
If I were in charge I'd just close the company, let them go indie, everyone cuts their losses and try to be even and move on.
What what are Big corpo doing to fuck up?
NijiEN is constantly stuck on some drama, and nasty drama like internal conflict, work conditions, members openly making the company look bad. And their numbers have fallen off hard. The males have dropped hard, and the girls as well.
HoloEN is nearly abandoned, no new gen for 2 years, half the members are on tummy hurt, many of them told their fans to fuck off, male collabs against the fans wishes and the company's identity, management known for sucking at getting game perms, not approving fun content, and mistreating the girls. Barely any cohesion, members don't interact much. Their numbers have gone to shit. 30k-40k to 10k-20k to 5k-10k to 3k-6k. It's not growth it's worse than stagnation it's actual decline.
>>49677408It happens here all the time, it's one of the most shitposted companies despite its size.
What other websites are there? Twitter? It happens a little from time to time. Reddit? Ok none of their audience goes there.
>>49677695I can't speak for all Phase Connect fans but from experience I'd say there are many CGDCT fans but not many GFE fans and it's a distinction worth doing.
I love Pippa, I watch her a lot but if Phase Connect had a male branch and she constantly interacted with them I'd watch her less because I don't like watching males, I watch vtubers for the cute girls. But if she has a stream with a guy sometimes I don't mind it because seeing her with a guy does not bother me because I have no romantic feelings towards her.
If she came out and said she had a boyfriend and constantly talked about him on stream I'd find it annoying so it would also make me watch her less, but it's not the fact that she'd have a boyfriend it's the fact that she'd bring it up when I just want to watch cute anime girls somewhat in character.
What Lia did with her ASMR was stupid because she ruined that part of the experience. The fans weren't happy but if she had interacted with a guy under different circumstances it wouldn't have been such a big problem.
Perhaps Phase Connect fans are better at understanding the difference between the stream experience:a girl playing a character, giving a performance vs the real human being behind it.
