>>7056717sterilization, or the opportunity cost of scale.
Essentially, think about it from cover's perspective. You have two options:
>Continue the creativity and environment that gave you explosive growthThis comes with inherent risk from the start, but without much to lose at first, it wasn't really worth worrying about. Worst come they start over, and with like 100k subs to the largest holochuba, it's not a big deal. That complacency against risk was a great asset for the talents while it lasted, but then the whole issue with Taiwan, the Holocaust, Chris/Aloe/CN, caused cover-corp to re-evaluate their other option, once they were grossing 2-20million/quarter:
>sterility to maintain/harvest existing viewership and related upsells (merch/promotions/etc)Essentially, all they had to do was look at HoloEN - sterile, very low levels of SOVL (specifically Yellow and Pink), and capitalization of the moment at the expense of others, while keeping your own ass covered (Kiara). Yet, these tubers do extremely well for them financially through these promotions.
Do they either take the risk of expanding the vtuber market, appealing to wider ranges of niche audiences using their talents' individuality, or do they keep the company stable and rich at the expense of the content and "hardcore" original vtubing fans?
If your kids' college funds were hanging in the balance you'd probably kill the fun, exciting aspects of your job to keep your paycheck/distribution/dividend. The chuubas themselves are gonna suffer in terms of having a more sterile relationship with their audience, but as the actual company, Cover corporation makes massive amounts of money from the risk they already took, so re-risking what they already have is not worth it.
The original chuuba fans are being replaced slowly and surely, and as always chans are a great way to see the undercurrent in real time. Here's what I mean: take a look at threads today vs archives, both in vernacular of then and now as well as depth of conversation and medium-meta thread quantity/quality. Most people that post here aren't interested in vtubing, they care about the things most tourists care about.
Happened with /pol/ in 2016. Wish I still had the meme about original creators of a hobby/game getting kicked out of their own thing by a bunch of migrant normies, because that's exactly what's happening here like it did /pol/, most blue boards, and anywhere something interesting happens, because worthless, empty normans like to flood anything genuine and make it empty like the borderhoppers that are killing the west.
But yeah, basically Hololive is going to get more sterile the more popular it is, and will eventually become actually family friendly and fully reddit. That's the real reason they didn't like Haachama's arc, or Coco, or anything creatively risky. Where do you think Coco got the word shitposting from, and why she pronounced reddit the way she was? She's posted here, as have almost all EN chubas of all companies and indie status.
Once they get real money and a boss, shit changes. Unfortunately, it normalizes to the boring, boring mean instead of staying normie-free. This is part of Artia's appeal, which the reddit faggots who refuse to say chang properly or get church-of-left level insane for Kiara don't understand.
One thing Korone got half wrong - those things you love don't crumble, they rot from the inside out, very slowly so people like Fubuki don't leave due to it being obvious. The smart, good ones leave during the Halcyon.
I really hope matsuri and chammers follow up on Coco's wish and keep things cool new and interesting.
>inb4 summerfaggots like nu/pol/, and nijiniggers start saying their infinite copes or rant about me "not like holos" when I do 
