>>52956547>>52947941Pikamee and Coco's situations were special cases for extraordinary circumstances which is why it made waves at all. They were "hallmarks" to people as
>>52956547 put it, where people took them for granted since they were big enough to really reach out to new viewers and always seemed around. No matter what happened people who watched them a few times were going to chime in, and that's not even going into the special circumstances:
>CocoThose in the know knew she was going to come back from the start since she use to be a cosplayer who'd live cam. But then the entire government of China came in with an organized CCP funded spam party to harass her at the height of people being critical on companies bending over for Chinese money.
>PikameeShe got pulled into the culture war with that crowd taking the measures they did to voice their protest about Hogwarts Legacy given that they didn't discriminate against who they attacked. It didn't matter that it was a mixed race bullying victim from a completely different culture - and then there were MONTHS of deflecting and diverting blame that followed. Only to be ultimately followed by calling Henya "the pedophile vtuber" when she came back.
There is every piece of anecdotal and circumstantial evidence that the bullying did affect Pikamee. Even if she came back in the end, it's still unfortunate that it happened.
