>>68605090> wouldn't be watching in the first place if they weren't ok with management's scummy practices and the trashy livers>>68605313> A handful of fanartists etc. ..won't hurt them in the long runSee, the thing about any VTuber "casual" audience is that as long as they aren't trying to change the culture of what they just casually watch (e.g. beggars, /leftypol/fags etc.) they can be a HUGE help with mindshare and general positive attention to whatever chuubas they watch clips of.
Hell, the entire reason Hololive blew up was because of the casuals and clipwatchers. Almost every single anon on this board found Hololive through clips or collabs with other companies after all.
It's a testament to the holos' entertainment skill that they were able to convert so many of these "casuals" into streamwatchers - causing a ton of JP holos to have half their chat filled with English. Contrast people like Natori Sana or Shizuka Rin who actively tried to filter the EN audience instead of throwing them crumbs and getting them to stay.
Casuals only see, share and show off the "good parts" of the company, and actively shit on people spreading unsubstantiated bad stuff.
But what happens when your company's reputation is completely toast in the western hemisphere?
The people who ONLY watch streams are very few in number for NijiEN. Their casual audience though, is HUUUGE. Clipwatchers, fan artists, animators, fan merch sellers, and just "muh community"fags that just latch on to the popular thing like leeches to feel like they belong.
That soup of people is where streamwatchers ORIGINATE from!
With the Selen move, they've basically turned their company and brand into radioactive waste in the west.
The number of clips and clippers will fall, meaning less new streamwatchers.
Old livers will keep graduating, meaning streamwatchers will keep reducing.
New debuts? They were ALREADY in a shitty situation with reclining numbers, now they're gonna actively get shit on.
This will also cause the quality of their applicants to just PLUMMET, because anyone remotely decent is NEVER gonna apply to NijiEN again - their audition applications are gonna be filled with the most desperate, toxic and slimy types of 2views that just want to funnel audiences into their rm.
NijiEN is done as an entity.
