>>69804598Indies have to make themselves by themselves something successful. they're capped by what they themselves alone are willing or able to put into their work (overall).
Corpo vtubers are not themselves. they will always be tied to some degree to their corpo and at least genmates. anyone who has looked at any corpo knows a solid chunk of fans are fans of the corpo, not the individual vtuber, aswell as success or controversy both from their fellow talents can and will effect them. on top of this, their career can be inflated or propped up by the corpo and corpo structure.
this often makes a new corpo or corpo gen debuting almost more like a movie or event, than an introduction to an individual talent. its an inflated spectacle that an indie just cant usually pull off, and even if they could match a single corpo talents debut, they cant match a whole group in terms of pizazz factor. this however, mixed with the other issues of a corpo, can easily end up with talents not actually having anywhere near the support it looks like, and leaving only a scant few talents actually having one reason or another for continued growth and proper support, because a solid chunk of the original support was just people there for the spectacle that always wears off, or corpo fans spread thin.
and then the new spectacle of the next gen comes around, but now the corpo has an initial boost to get more on the new talents out the gate, aswell as possibly having talents of a higher quality to help keep attention on them.
and if they last, hopefully, the process keeps repeating with a slight increase each gen.
