>>76853246She's not isolated, though. The Sayu of today is an immensely successful indie, commanding numbers that other indies would kill for even a faction of. Sure, it's not Doki or Mint's numbers, but why does that matter when she's regularly breaking into 4view territory? She still has a host of people willing to work with her, like Bao or Pippa. And if she networked, she could easily get others as well.
The issue is that Sayu has too many mindworms to sit back and enjoy her immense success. It really doesn't matter if Doki or Mint or Matara collabs with her or not, she has enough support to not need to care about it. Yet, she cares. She gets one-guy'd on stream way too easily and ends up saying stuff that gets clipped by bad faith clippers and turned into a part of her brand. Sure, she probably didn't intend to draw hard lines in the sand against Cy Yu or VShojo, but if she gets one-guy'd into saying negative things about them, the bad faith actors will draw that line for her, and suddenly, more and more collab opportunities are closed by association.
I really with Sayu success. Kurosanji really screwed her over and is the cause of her mental spiral, but that mental spiral is NOT helping her at all. I really do hope she gets her mentals straight before she ends up doing something really dumb and torpedos the success she currently has.