>>56577638Perhaps they did the math and figured that the damage incurred to the girl's brand costs Cover more than the extra pittance of following for the boys.
If you think about the demographics of what goes on with begging, you are asking probably an overwhelmingly straight male audience who only ever cared about Hololive for the girls to now also watch the boys who are physiologically not capable of being the cute girls experience the name is famous for. When girls like Kronii and Mori shill the guys and get butthurt if people don't like it they are basically trying to twist the arms of the fans to watch the boys as a favor to those girls personally. Like "Kronii won't like you if you don't like Vesper so you better go along with it this is just how it is" which is in fact the legit wimp pussyfooted simp beta orbiter thing to do. Not all viewers are the beta orbiter types desperate to please someone who will not really care, the vtuber is there to entertain us not the other way around and we know it. A lot of viewers will not go spend hours of their time watching tempus literally as a favor to try to gain the approval of the girls. That is not worth the time and effort knowing the girl approving or not of you personally does not actually matter or even really exist in the first place. The average viewer just sees the content he likes being invaded on and the people sympathetic to the invaders getting ridiculous favoritism from some girls and bias coming out against fans of the actual original style of vtubing the girl was doing pre Tempus. Twitter likes very clearly do not correlate to viewership and the actual steady viewership if Tempus are females - the inverse of the normal dude viewers there for cute girls instead want cute guys. And you know what? That is fine, let them do that, I understand that, we are actually here for the same thing just from different demographics. It's not fine to pretend everything goes into one box now suddenly and viewers, whether they told Cover this out loud or not, made it known via Kronii's merch sinking like Titanic. Cover saw that and realized they were being fooled by Twitter bad faith beggars and fucking useless spineless Reddit orbiters (and even Reddit got a spine when tempus 2 came out). So we are now where we are today, though painful but productive convergent evolution the EN live/stars branches are much more separate like the JP ones and it is actually mutually beneficial.
