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Unless they strike gold in the future like they did with the first EN, I'm not gonna lie, slowly losing my interest in them after almost a year of following EN. EN2 doesn't seem all that interesting and they generally feel forced. As entertainers, most of Hololive doesn't provide much. Combine that with the absolute autism that is getting game permissions and you're left with Apex and Minecraft forever and ever, and it gets boring no matter how good a talent is at talking. I'll watch Astel play his crazy ass off for example, because his long endurance runs are entertaining, not because of the game itself. Of the girls I'd say Amelia Watson is the one always trying new things, and her streams are fun because of it. But girls like her are the exception, not the rule.
This is why they will never break a ceiling and tryhard male streamers are still the most successful streamers aside from softcore porn sluts bending over. Last night on twitch there was a guy speedrunning Mario 64 and he had like 17K viewers and a bunch of hype, and it was entertaining. If Holostars didn't have the generic Cover restrictions they would be bigger too. They have it worse because they are living in Japan so they have to always be careful about unicorns going psycho and tracking them down over saying "hi" to one of the holo girls on twitter, but generally they are more entertaining than the girls. In short, what I'm trying to say is that when you get over the cute moments and zatsudans, you'll realize men are just better entertainers overall and why twitch streamers are still on top. More freedom, no game restrictions, more interesting content. A female with or without an anime avatar has their limits because they just don't try hard enough. They don't HAVE to, so it's less entertaining for those that aren't charmed at first sight.
Cover seems to be interested in expanding their roster for no reason. EN2 has maybe three entertaining ones but we'll see. The corporate restrictions is what will, eventually, bite them in the ass to an irreparable level. It happened once before with the VOD nuke, which marked their decline in entertainment value.
What I'm getting at is that at some point, a lot of people will realize watching their favorite twitch streamers is just better for entertainment.
