>>81049002>so what ended up making you drop him?Up until Tempus I considered the homos the "lovable underdog that didn't make it" and Astel can sing good and can play APEX good.
Here is a funny thing: I absolutely LOATHED his "sibling arc" with Ollie back in 2021 because that was Ollie 100% leeching on him and I was
>why the fuck is he giving that retard the time of the day?!?!But when the EN homos debuted
>without the JP homos even knowing about itI realized one important thing: there is no "coexistence" and the end result of even entertaining the idea of accepting the homos came at a HUGE price which was
>allowing Hololive brass to pivot into a more "nijified" style of mixed vtubingNotice I have zero fucking relutance in watching male vtubers, with evidence to that being me watching Astel for two years up until that point (and Hal and Reid and Pakael too, for that matter).
But I quickly understood that, if the girls I FUCKING LOVE were to continue having their independence to continue standalone without any external interference, then by providing even a single ounce of support to the homos I would be undermining that so I just stopped cold turkey.
>unsubbed from every homo>never again watched any homo stream>never again said even a single word of support to any homoIt became an existential threat, any support for the homos would 100% be misconstrued as "a vote for change" and I didn't want any change, only to watch my favorite girls in peace so I dropped the homos including Astel
I didn't want that, I could easily continue watching both but they forced me to choose and I choose the girls
