>>58375440Yeah, paying for fan appearances is generally kinda cringe. Only Migo managed to make it work but that's because she REALLY loves GTA (it literally saved her career).
No one paid Hikakin to visit Okayu (twice even, second time being a completely random zatsu stream). Dude was also seen in a random Pekora noodle tasting stream.
No one paid Kinniku TV to give a guest message to Okayu.
No one really paid to get famous VAs to audition for the trailer of Marine's chuuni childhood game.
No one paid Kojima to RT Pekora and Anya streaming his games.
No one paid that JP wrestler dude to be a fan of Subaru.
No one paid Sugita to talk about Pekora to his coworkers and get them addicted to chuubas.
No one paid Mafia Kajita and Yuichi Nakamura to have multiple collab videos with Fubuki.
No one paid Tadokoro Azusa to have a radio show with Suisei for 2 years.
Not to mention all the different celebrity appearance in Holo fanbox streams and main channel programs.
Toby Fox likely did get paid to compose MariBako though.
I don't know whether Taira Isao got paid to appear in Korone's 3D live either.
Point is, whenever the EN girls get one of these "celebrity guest" messages that are obviously paid for by the fans, it highlights the vast difference in mindshare of HoloJP and HoloEN among their respective markets.
Even Anya got a couple of VA messages (which were a total surprise to her) just by being slightly adjacent to JP (I know I know, memes).
HoloEN is a far cry from making any sort of impact in the wider mindshare of western entertainment.
But then again, considering the absolute clusterfuck that Hollywood has turned into, one has to wonder if it's actually a GOOD thing that Hololive isn't mainstream in the US...
