>>60103655I can 100% promise you that there will be another boom period. I don't know when and I don't how, but vtubing is in it's infancy. Consider this:
There are still too many markets not explored yet. People are finding new ones all the time, like V-Dere being a talent-lead group. Hell, even something like AkioAir's 'country club' approach has potential if it's not run by a autistic chink. Look how the Europeans shit up the board begging for a significant vtuber presence in their timezone (something Holo appears to have abandoned completely). Meanwhile there are many countries where vtubers are successful (usual asian) that have yet to provide their own agencies.
The point is a true declining industry also suffers from lack of demand. Your very thread is proof against this. People here moan all the time about the various failures and drawbacks of differing approaches and groups, but that's a sign of hunger and needs not being met - not of decline and certainly not of overssaturation as some have claimed (a bunch of talentless twitterfags thinking vtubing is an easy pass isn't saturating anything, they're as much vtubers as a person drawing a stickman is a professional artist). The truth is a ssuccessful vtuber (let along an idol) is a remarkably difficult thing to pin down and the western market in particular struggles with it. Hololive are the only ones who have it even partially down to an effective pattern and even they can't solve the male vtuber problem (which yes is a market that will prove successful once the right people and circumstances align). And yes I know Nijisanji has successful males but only for either horny content (which isn't sustainable) or for their game-playing skills (where the vtuber aspect is incidental - niether of these are true fulfillments of the male vtuber market need).What we're seeing here is the sausage getting made: Many failures go into every success. I suspect for Hololive rather than finding it harder to find talent, I suspect that they are simply having the problem every industry has beyond a certain size: Dividing noise from signal. We'll see how that plays out for them. Western vtubing appears to be on the decline, because very few seem to 'get' it and those who aren't being recruited (or they end in a rut like Kawaii who end up in a rut (in their case because their girls are nice but lack the additional talent to make awe-inspiring.). Meanwhile, with the complete decimation of Myth (which yes - does have a negative iimpact on Hololive and vtubing as a whole), what we're seeing is a failure of supply to meet demand.
Demand exist and somebody will find a way to market. It's just a matter of time.
