>>83478445Your logic stops making sense the moment you apply the most minuscule amount of scrutiny at how much money a vtuber makes compared to how much they cost.
Debuting a vtuber is an upfront cost. It costs a certain sum of money, but after that, a vtuber model doesn't need more money pumped into it unless they get more costumes or a re-rig. Here's the thing, the best models in the industry right now cost around 10k-15k. None of the stars get even close to that level of quality; I'd be surprised if they cost more than 8k at most. Now if we take the amount of money they make on the day they get monetization ebaled, we can see that they make twice that amount at least, so that's the upfront cost for debuting paid. Debuting a new costume also tends to make fans donate more than in regular streams, so that cost is covered as well, if not in that very same stream then in two or three more at most.
And when it comes to merch and concerts, well, cover knows that stars don't sell nearly as well as holo because their fanbase is so much smaller, so what do they do? They produce less. Less merch, concerts with less equipment and smaller venues, all which leads to it costing less, but still selling out all the same. Think of it like producing anything holo costs 100k, and they get 1 million in return, while anything stars costs 10k but they get 100k in return. Of course it's not as much as the main branch, but revenue is revenue and it doesn't cost them nearly as much.
>only occasionally do well with superchats that they get by leechingCould you explain what you mean by this? How does one leech superchats? The only way this can happen is if a male and female are collabing and the stream happens to be on the male's channel, leading to superchats only being able to go to him (which would be weird, my assumption is that when it comes to collabs, if there's only one stream all participants will split the superchats evenly)
