>>55308585Before there was HoloEN there were Hololive clips, and there were also Nijisanji clips.
The Hololive clips got more and more popular to the point that a lot of people began translating in chat live for many Hololive members, and people even made extensions that would catch those translations.
This led to a legit community of fans of Hololive way before HoloEN existed.
When HoloEN finally debuted it wasn't out of nowhere, it had been demanded by fans for a year at least.
They debuted with massive hype and inflated numbers the likes EN has never been able to match.
If you caught on to HoloEN even later than that you are just some sort of casual that happened to fit into whoever was at the lead of the industry.
But HoloEN was the result of Hololive's popularity in the west.
You are downplaying that existing grassroots popularity that led HoloEN debut's to be so massive just because you are part of the later group that found the branch afterwards.
NijiEN didn't debut too far behind HoloEN. HoloEN had the first mover's advantage absolutely but NijiEN was not late to the game either. Now a funny reversal happened with NijiEN. When they debuted they had to constantly remind the audience that Nijisanji existed, many had no idea what it even was. That's the result of their lack of popularity in the west which is a consequence of their utter defeat in the early game when there were only clips.
Nijisanji had the same opportunity as Hololive back then, the playing field was equal.
And Nijisanji lost.
Just like it's losing to this day. It had a massive gap between Council and Advent to make its moves and take over the market and it didn't accomplish shit, its numbers are stagnant.
