>Golden age
LMAO
>The real golden age, late 2017- early 2018
Small number of vtubers, for the fans and by the fans, experimenting with 3D and pioneering in everything, the 4 heavenly kings are born.
Youtube videos are the norm, barely any streams, no paypigs or idols.
Kizuna Ai become the eternal Queen of Vtubers forever
>The Silver age, late 2018- early 2019
Nijisanji introduce the 2Dlive streamer format in NicoNico Douga, vtubers become low effort and become niche e-celebs streamers in Japan, that even normalfags watch.
Idol. is created and introduce the idol scene to vtubing, vtubers unicorns are born.
>The bronze age, late 2019-early 2020
Too many vtubers to follow, over 10,000 vtubers worldwide
Idol. shit the bed because internal drama (Tama/Sio), Hololive steal their audience and Idol format, focuse on stream on Youtube, most streams were made on NicoNico douga before this.
HoloCN is created to try to appeal the CN audience, because JP was dominated by Nijisanji.
HoloID is also created to appeal the indonesian audience.
the 4th gen of Hololive debut, Coco become a huge streamer on Japan and give Hololive a lot of popularity overseas.
Nijisanji become the biggest vtuber company and the most popular in Japan by a wide margin.
>Iron age, late 2020- early 2021
The hololive age, HoloEN is created, they become really popular and every hololive branch get the covid boost, they dominate the oversea market.
Nijisanji lose territory in Japan and they enforce their popularity with Kuzuha and Kanae, and try to appeal female otakus and fujoshis, they become a huge success.
>The bandwagon age late 2021- early 2022
Normalfags and Ironic western otakus get into vtubers, e-celebs and twitch streamers jump into the fade.
Vshojo become a vtuber agency, and dominate Twitch
NijiEN is released and is poorly received, little to no interest outside oversea fans that watch NijiJP
Council is released and they do poorly in comparative with Myth
Covid ends and all vtubers lose viewers
>Cancer era, late 2022-now
Small vtubers companies start to pop out everywhere
Every country in the world have at least one vtuber
Normal e-celeb start to interact with vtubers, vtubers become normal and lose any novelty or innovation, all are the same by now
Over 10,000,000 vtubers around the world
Every vtuber is slowly losing viewers
Hololive domination overseas and in Japan
Nijisanji slowly bleeding viewers and streamers
Hololive and Nijisanji go public, and sell stocks, signaling that it's the time to cash out of the fade
Everything is getting worse
