>>56627642Hololive doesn't care. As long as their brand clout is still so massive that every new female EN talent is basically guaranteed a six-figgy subcount before debut and afterwards a five-figgy monthly income just for showing up, they'll still have thousands enough potential applicants willing to snatch one of those golden tickets. Because even if their split is "just" 50% instead of 60 or whatever, nobody cares if the absolute value difference is still heavily favoring them (i.e. 50% of $10k a month is still a hell of a lot more than for example 70% of just $1k a month, as most of the smallcorpo vtubers have a much lower sc average).
If it is a shot at anyone, it's more aimed at their other smallcorpo competitiors (and maybe even NijiEN, whose recent hires have been trending so downwards lately that they almost dip into being considered smallcorpo-tier). Even if you don't buy the positive interpretation ("want to improve transparency and help talents make better informed choices" blabla whatever), it's an interesting move. Forces the conversation to your advantage (make yourself look good, thereby implicitely making your competitors look worse), maybe even bait some other corpos into replying, as contracts and money stuff is generally a hush hush issue in the business which does indeed let some black behavior fester in that obscurity. It makes Idol look more attractive to future potential applicants who'll prioritize it over other corpos, thereby it makes their competitors talent pool smaller/worse. And gets the girls in other companies with much shittier contracts to start asking questions, sow some doubts and rattle some cages, maybe even jump ship.
All in all, quite an interesting bold move indeed, as it combines both transparency and sneakyness, sasuga Heebs. As someone who has no particular horse in this race (I enjoy some Idol talents, but it's not my main company and I mostly watch vtubers from other corpos), I'll be watching to see how this develops from the sidelines with popcorn. Either it works and puts some pressure on their competitors, maybe even spark some juicy dramas, or it doesn't work and could even backfire spectacularly when it turns out they were just bullshitting. Fun times ahead in any case
