>>71191007I'm not an Indonesian, so I can only talk about an outside perspective.
The indonesian "market" is - at least from an outside view - filled with a combination of self-hating ironic weebs and beggars.
The types that go "pfff simping for anime girls? who'd do that?" and then watch 40 hours or so of Kobo.
As is pretty obvious, their audience seems extremely disinterested in buying merch, voice packs or other "otakatsu" type activities, because it's all too "cringe" or "parasocial" to them, both publicly and privately.
Japanese normies hate otaku ofc but at least the otaku over there have built themselves a sort of support system, where they can actively shout out their love for their oshi and get at least 3-4 replies going "ME TOO BROTHER!".
But in ID, they'll usually get 5 "Get some help" replies instead.
This is also encouraged by talents themselves due to the entire branch being intermingled with homos, both on the JP side and on the EN side.
But not just that, they also seem to actively push away the gachikoi and unicorn audiences, the types that tend to get attached to girls and whale insane amounts of money on them. Even going so far as to directly shit on them when they express even a non-schizo disapproval against males and male collabs.
But is the entire community really all like that? JKT48 was quite successful, and Indonesia is usually the first foreign expansion done by Japanese entertainment companies, so there's definitely a paying audience for weebshit over there.
But at least outwardly this audience seems to have been completely alienated by HoloID.
Even the most unicorn-friendly girl in ID has an anti-gachikoi catchphrase.
It all adds up in subtle ways to end up here :
>>71183942Remember the G R I M year of homopushing that was 2022?
I get the feeling that ID has been in that situation permanently since the branch's debut. Yet there might also be an audience similar to the current Advent fanbase under the surface, just waiting to be tapped.
Granted, I am an outsider to ID culture in general, so maybe someone living there can fill in the gaps and correct anything I got wrong.
