>>69527252Entertainment industry is absolutely brutal. Vtubers are at best small-time D-list celebrities, and while they make a good bit of money, it can vanish in an instant. New blood comes in every day to steal your audience from you, and 10% of your audience makes up 90% of your income. If you lose a few of them, you can still have basically the same number of viewers, but be making 10% of the income, so you're basically struggling to keep streaming enough to keep your "passive" income from your subscribers, but not being able to put in as much effort because it's just not enough to live on by itself.
That can happen literally any time, without warning. It could be for no reason than a new generation comes in and steals your oil daddies (notice how many older-generation streamers suddenly become highly active when a new generation shows up? Yeah, this is why), or it could be that you screw up somehow - accidentally show discord for half a second and show a message from your boyfriend, make a dumb joke without thinking, tell a friend about an upcoming project and they tell some other friend of theirs who tells someone else that can't keep their mouth shut, and you get fired.
It's good to milk it, but not rely on it.
