>>71946334Controversy baiting doesn't work well in the vtubing community because instead of clickbaiting retards that watch your 3+ hour livestream just to find the part where you make an ass of yourself, people will just watch clips you receive no monetization from. The trivial bump in interaction from people calling you a tool in the comments of a single video is completely outclassed by the massive dip you take from becoming an internet laughingstock and hemorrhaging regular viewers.
Controversy grifts work by mass-producing bite-sized clickbait content designed specifically to make people perusing active trends angry enough to engage, and it's the absolute lowest rung of clickbait content because it still tends to generate less revenue than clickbait that follows the zeitgeist or pays lipservice to it. Channels rely on controversy when they lack the weight to otherwise compete in trends already saturated with massive clickbait enterprises eclipsing the rest of the search results.
