Time to explain some things. Throw some coombaiting e-thots from NicoNicoDouga some anime avatars and suddenly they bring their whole audience with them. If you want to get technical the anti male campaign hypothetically should’ve started with Aqua-chan. She was notorious on NND. Pekora also had a weird stream where she just wore strange Santa lingerie for her neet fans on NND. I’ve heard they’ve feuded and we’re petty as fuck. I would say Noel’s a mediumcore camgirl and that brings in the jp version of the vshojo audience. The difference is that this jp vshojo audience actually feels cucked if their favourite FC2 camgirl ever appears with men, they get too invested.
There was never an issue before the debuts of gen 3 even with Aqua, which makes me think they did something to prompt this. Perhaps Noel’s fear of her fans. Lonely porn addicts make up a large part of mass murderers after all and the culture of a male appearing could set one off. This is however, just conjecture. There were male collabs still happening after gen 3 had their debuts. It seems after being out for a bit, that everything involving males just stopped. We know it couldn’t be gen one, all of them still collab with men to this day. So logically the cause has to be someone from gens 2-3. and all that without even considering opening the can of worms that was Rushia. possibly gen 4 too if they were hired in advance and then set to debut later, I’ve got a feeling vtuber companies used to hire people around a year before actually debuting (but don’t anymore)
tl;dr they hired e-celeb camgirls instead of idols like Sora. and that is the problem with modern Hololive. It’s all NND e-girls with established audiences they drag with them instead of real idols they build from the ground up. A real idol is so pure you know they wouldn’t do anything even around men. The reason you feel the way you do is because you know deep down your oshi is a harlot. An e-girl. You know she’s going to inevitably fuck up. That’s how unicorns got ahold of the largest vtuber company. e-thots pretending to be idols.