>>50682148Pekora and most of the first army are good at creating content on their own, but that has its limits.
Where they TRULY shine, is in their interactions with chat. Picking up just the right comment out of the 10-20 or so per second rolling comments in order to continue a conversation thread or transition into a new one is an unparalleled ability to have for a streamer.
Having a witty chat dynamic also helps since they can contribute a lot to the bantz and halve the streamer's workload since they have nice little prompts to go off on tangents.
Pekora's also a bit special in that she does a HUGE amount of egosa, and finds even the most remote-ass memes about her and make it into content.
Unrelated example is the cold chicken meme, which started off in 5ch but quickly broke containment so it wasn't really all that surprising that she found out about it. She referenced it multiple times a year later once the situation had calmed down, and nowadays she and her fanbase can have actual bantz about it without any hurt feelings.
Pekora also found the "fucking monkey" shitposts, and although she didn't perfectly understand it, she was still able to use it as a chat topic and more content for her.
HoloEN has these moments as well, Ina's back thingey, sapling roleplay etc. and while Ina handles hers with some grace, Fauna did not seem to understand "chat dynamics" even when it was handed to her on a silver platter.
I mean sure, there might be a small percentage of weirdos who would actually consider Fauna as their virtual mom or whatever, but I'm pretty sure 99% of sapling "mommy uuuu" posting is ironic.
She could've easily played into it and created a chat dynamic and a "running joke" for herself, but she instead thought that these people were serious and told them to "cool it", followed by the whole "not a friend" rant.
It won't really lose her viewers right away, but it has a bit of a chilling effect on this type of "fun" in her chat.
You'll think "oh Fauna doesn't like us going uuu so I probably shouldn't type that in chat", and over the course of a few weeks her chat will lose that "fun factor" and "identity" that they had, becoming indistinguishable from other chuuba chats and - more importantly - losing a great source of content for Fauna herself.
