while i think its too early to say they flopped, i honestly doubt they wont turn out to have flopped because they were basically set up to flop.
all signs point to anycolor having no faith in EN anymore that they returned to the default number of livers per wave instead of flooding the market with 5+ per wave for over 2 years.
which is hilarious because its their own fault that EN is crashing so badly, to the point even nijifags dont give a shit about the new ones anymore.
this is made even worse because almost all of EN treating it as a full time job, where JP is more balanced between full timers and casual streamers so not everyone is competing for the limited pool of viewers all the damn time.
add onto the fact that JP never released more than 5 in a wave after 2018, meaning that all the flooding was front loaded instead of with EN where they middle loaded which fucked up the whole branches identity it had built over a year.
>>61460519especially that theyre actually releasing less livers per wave now.
i get the feeling that the company decides how many per wave for the foreign branches based on the success of the recent waves as theyre recruiting them, starting with 3 for the first to test the waters.
ID went from 3 to 4 to 3 for the rest of its waves, IN only got 1 wave of 3, KR outside of the vtubers they collected from a defunct company had always done 3 livers per wave and EN started with 3 to 3 to 4 to 5 to 5 to 6 to 6 to 3 (5 if it wasnt leaks and dropout) to 3 now.
