>>79488801Hololive has a large dominance in the mindshare of normalfags. Normalfag casuals who tuned into Yakuzajoke Cock 4 years ago, to 'fight' against the China online, do not care about vtubing now. They are either doing real life stuff, or completely broke after 4 years of recession due to the policies of liberalism.
This means whenever new generations like Advent and Justice debut, they briefly get a massive flood of viewers- Gigi had 120,000 viewers on her debut- but overwhelmingly they do not stick around. Regross on the japanese side experienced something similar. Brief normalfag attention, then decline.
This is because vtubing is receding back to "actual vtubing fans". Gatekeeping failed, but nromalfags simply don't have the attention spans to keep up with New Thing all the time, so they fuck off naturally. This is why in 2021 Gura could get 40,000 on a stream, and the indie scene or small corpo vtubers like Kaneko Lumi were streaming to 80 people on twitch. Lumi now streams to 2,000 people, while Gura's streams usually average about 16,000. Chumbuds have the highest number of underage kids who watch anything, so her numbers will always be inflated, but the decline vs. indies like Filian or Chex Lemenaux is because "actual vtubing fans" moved on from hololive to indies and small corpos. This is why you hear about big indies making 100,000 a year, because she might have 1,000 viewers but she has a couple of fat paypig indians working for google simping for her fat ass.
This dissolution will continue over time as actual vtubing fans continue to filter out of large corpos (nijisanji is an extreme example of boom and then bust from normalfags/fake fans) and hololive reclines.
Eventually, Marine will offer her pussy to wealthy men to make up the lost money. But most will decline, as she does not bath and smells bad.
