>>83014270Unironically, she's trying to catch the pandemic-era anime/clipfag audience, which exists but does not watch Hololive (or even VTubers) anymore.
I'm watching the new VTuber anime for example, and it basically tries to show off the appeal of CGDCT, but with a corpo culture that's more rooted in the early Nijisanji culture.
The "Sora" of that anime is more like Mito+Haachama with Subaru's design.
There is no contrast, every single one of the girls in the agency are "unhinged", and even the sole "seiso" type has a pretty weird fetish which came out of nowhere.
The episode where that anime's in-universe 4th gen came out, I understood where a lot of these "muh parasocial" and "muh idol culture" types came from.
The new gen was pretty much ALL "weirdos" with a fixed "character trait".
And... that was all they were.
The audience that wanted "anime girls" just wanted 1D "waifus" for them to coom over, with varieties in what that character and design was according to their "fetish".
Despite being the best attempt at translating the initial appeal of VTuber culture into anime, it fails to go into the core of what makes people STAY and watch these girls day in and out.
The appeal of livestreams, the multifaceted nature of actual women playing anime girls instead of them just being exaggerated one-dimensional characters, the audience sharing in their joys and sorrows... the anime audience doesn't give a shit about any of that, because all this has to be shown in 20 minute chunks (which is basically a mid-level clip of certain chuuba stream events).
The protagonist is the ONLY character with some amount of variety (2 facets instead of just one) which naturally makes her the most popular.
But the thing is, the people who love this type of 1-dimensionality WAS Hololive's audience during the pandemic era.
The ones that stayed loved the multifaceted-ness and the general appeal of cheering for someone who makes your day better.
But the ones that were only there "for the joke" have died off alongside the pandemic which spawned them.
They've since moved on to their original hobbies, gaming, anime, sports, whatever due to several factors such as the pandemic ending, the EN cull, the perms bullshit, the move into more idol related stuff, YouTube censorship killing off most of the racier and "unhinged" content etc.
That's the thing no one understands about this audience. They watch, they clap like seals and have 2 minutes of laughs, post "le based unhinged" comments on reddit a couple of times.
And then they LEAVE.
Pic rel is probably the best example of the change in audience of modern day Hololive.
Back then, if the comment was -
> you start with clips, and then you find a stream and slowly start watchingThere would be 100 comments that agreed that it happened to them, because it was the pandemic and people had plenty of time to watch weird-ass niche shit on Youtube (alongside plenty of other online entertainment).
But now, the mood is -
> yeah sorry, I'm just gonna watch the clips alone, I'll NEVER watch streamsThere's a huge chunk of people that "used to" watch VTubers out there now.
Which is why new EN gens still get tons of new people watching them.
The peak is gone, but there's still tons of ex-fans out there.
That's who Ollie is appealing to. Not you or me.
Because that's the only audience that'll even give her a chance anymore.
