>>82450921I have had a theory for a long time that Niji livers are (deliberately, as a corporate strategy) split into two groups: Pomus and Finanas.
The Pomus' job is to generate money, the way you would expect a vtuber to do. They produce content and develop a fanbase. In doing so, they produce more value for the company than they take in terms of support required. The cost/value ratio is skewed in favor of the company when you manage to hire a Pomu.
But the inverse is also true, the cost/value ratio is skewed against the Pomu in this situation, so why would a rational-acting vtuber work for the company when they take more than they give? This is where the Finana streamer comes into play. The Finana's job is the exact opposite: to be a bad streamer. Finanas do not generate a new audience or create excitement, they actually have negative value when you consider the opportunity cost of adding them to your roster instead of anyone else. A vtuber agency consisting only of Finanas would hemorrhage money at unfathomable rates.
Finana-like streamers are important to the ecosystem because they serve as marketing to *other potential vtubers*. The point is for current indies to look at them and say "Wow, someone THIS boring and THIS lazy can get thousands of viewers in Nijisanji, it must be the golden ticket!". This gives Niji a wider pool of potential Pomus (and potential Finanas) to recruit for future waves, and helps feed the idea to existing livers that Anycolor is essential to their audience.
NijiEN's problem isn't that they have lost too many livers, it's that almost every liver they have lost is a Pomu, and all the ones who stayed are Finanas. The equilibrium is completely out of wack. No new energy is being added to the company, like an ecosystem with no plants, where all that's left are scavengers eating each other's corpses.
