>>79728169The real answer? The first couple of JP stars sucked ass, at a time where vtubing was not only mostly out of it's growing pains but one where there were already a couple of very well established male vtubers. The stars didn't offer anything it was a bunch of bad to mediocre male vtubers, and they were shilled at an audience made of people who watched female vtubers (not unicorns tho, at the time the stars debuted, most Holos did collab with males, the trend started with Gen 3 who were relatively new) and in general, being real, most stars JP are just kinda bad at their jobs, that's why no matter who they're advertised to it really has never mattered, they've even managed to get into the normie streamer circle and it hasn't done much for them, hell the most popular stars is still a 1-2k streamer, in a genre of streaming where the top male can pull 100k.
EN just came in late, and in general the scene is pretty dead
