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I stopped watching my first oshi after I realized it kinda made me miserable. They were a genuine menhara indie with all the trappings that generally entails (no schedules, last minute cancellations, menhara fanbase interaction) but they really are one of the most funny people in the space currently. They really did help me out in a bad spot in my life just to have something to watch and laugh and get invested in when I didn't have much else. There was a lot of things that grinded me down, but the biggest was I realized I was wasting like 2 hours a day checking three different socials to see if they were gonna stream or not, or planning and wasting a ton of time when scheduled streams fell through. I stuck around for a while but eventually it just got too much and maybe the stupidest straw that ever broke a camel's back was bestowed upon me and that finally made me take a step back and realize that I was in too deep.
I still wish this person the best. They do deserve success, and are fighting a bunch of shitty life circumstances in pursuit of it. But more than any of that, they are their own worst enemy and hopefully one day they can get out of their own way and figure it out.
That was around the time Advent debuted, and I watched most of them. I quite like all of them. A lot of people criticize Hololive as bland and corporate, but honestly after about a year and a half of menhara indie hell, that's exactly up my alley. I've also since started watching another indie that's a stream monster and seems to genuinely enjoy actually streaming, which has been the biggest breath of fresh air. Probably done with oshis, but I suspect I'll be watching this bunch of wackos for the foreseeable future.
Apologies for the blogpost. If there's any actionable advice for anyone looking to move on after an oshi, it's probably just to honestly reflect on the simple things that you liked and disliked about your previous oshi and give new ones a try, abandoning as many preconceptions as you can. It's honestly a lot like real life dating, as pathetic as that sounds. It's just a sliding scale of compatibility that's made or broken by the simple things you sometimes take for granted.
