>>64052455Can we talk about how paradigm shifting the rise of HOLOSTARS was?
We need to give props to the talents, their managers and Yagoo for his insistence for handpicking all the boys himself, across all the branches even ID and KR, for shaking to the core what was quickly becoming a stale industry of streamers who predictably play, perform and react to the same things as everyone else. Now Vtubing is lauded as a legitimate performing art on its own, just when all of /vt/ believed its popularity already peaked and was declining.
And to think all it fucking took was for the Stars manager to point to ROF-MAO and ChroNoiR and then Astel and the rest of the boys to smirk in return like "that's all?" and step up. All from that one little push. It's mind blowing in retrospect that they shared in a recent interview that Stars were nearly being given up on and they were going to disallow custom merch before the guys put all their talents together because none of them wanted to disappoint their fans in that manner.
Now everyone is doing better for it. Remember when 4 million subscribers was a big deal and meant you were on the top? Now 40 million is the benchmark with Holostars sitting at the top and the almost equally talented Tempus just trailing after them followed by Anycolor's male units, and finally with PLAVE and ORION who were quick to follow the hype in their own markets. Their wide appeal beyond people who aren't normally into boy groups just demonstrates that they have the right amount of cool and calm confident competence and charisma with perfect doses of comedy and, just as importantly, a true zest for performance and desire to make (You) smile that you just can't help but be drawn to them once you see them at work.
Just think, not even that long ago collabing with the boys was seen as damaging your brand, now it's Miyabi and Rikka getting invited to New Year's Rocking Eve to perform alongside JHope and Jungkook. What fucking timeline are we in? We're talking about Miyabi, the guy who was almost bullied out of COVER just for being the first male debut.
