I come from the future, a year known as 2030. I would like to give this thread known as Numbers some interesting information.
First of all, new gen debuts. By November 2030, 4 new EN gens, 2 new JP gens, 6 new Devis gens, and 5 new gens from other branches have debuted. There were only two new branches launched.
Second of all, graduations. From 2025 to 2030, only one JP graduated per year. Choco, Chloe, Sora, Noel, Luna, and La+. Most of these ended up being shocks, especially Sora's just a few months ago, if you're looking from your own POV. EN has only had two, soon to be three graduations since Sana. ERB graduated in May 2025, which I'm sure a lot of you aren't surprised at. Bit of a shame, since she was actively trying to change herself around Winter 2025, but I suppose it didn't matter in the end. The second one is actually a bit of shock, and it still kind of pains me. IRyS ended up graduating in October 2029, to quite literally everyone's shock. It really stung, especially to Kronii, who went through a depressive arc in the weeks following IRyS' departure. The soon to be third graduation is Kiara, who ended up being the first Myth to say farewell. She's currently on a graduation tour of sorts, and is set to graduate in 3 days. She's actually why I decided to come back and type all this. Seeing a member of Myth go after all this time got me a bit sentimental and nostalgic. Oh, and Ollie got terminated in 2027. We still don't have any ideas why.
Thirdly, changes to Hololive Corporate and Cover Corp. In 2025, Elon Musk briefly made an attempt at buying the brand, but no amount of money was able to convince either YAGOO or the investors. I bring this up here, not only due to the comedy of the scenario, but also due to the fact that it was a reality check for YAGOO. How what he had grown could end up changed beyond recognition after his retirement. He started setting up plans for a lineage to be implemented, if he were ever to retire or die. In 2027, these plans were fully realized as YAGOO was diagnosed with lung cancer, and was officially given 2 years at most, to live. He announced on the official channel what had happened to him, and what the plans for the future were. Sora, along with an "Acquaintance-A" were announced to become in charge of the company upon his coming death. On July 4th, 2029, Motoaki Tanigo passed away due to complications of lung cancer and pneumonia. From that day forward, Sora was effectively both talent and CEO, with "Acquaintance-A" being second-in-command. She wasn't fully able to handle all of that responsibility, which is partly why she decided to graduate from being a talent, to become CEO full time.
Fourthly, the fate of the Holostars brand. Investors started getting wary of both their brand risk as well as their less than stellar monetary gains in Q4 2025, which must've led to YAGOO finally realizing that they just weren't worth it. He ended up selling them off in 2026, to Sony, surprisingly, and about 25% of all talents either graduated soon before the change was put into effect, or voided their own contracts, effectively terminating themselves. By the way, only 2 more gens of Holostars were ever debuted while they were under Cover. One EN and one JP. Sadly, they weren't retarded enough to go for HolostarsID.
For a fifth point, the state of the branches of Hololive. EN grew to a point where the biggest EN YouTube streams everyday, bar some exceptions, were HoloEN streams. GG went on to become a top 5 CCVer in EN, along with another girl who debuted in 2026, who became a top 3 CCVer, right behind Gura and Fauna. EN came to become as strong of a branch as JP is, and it's now odd to think that there wasn't once an EN branch at all. Speaking of JP, it just kind of maintained itself, as it is now. Box events became slightly more common, and staff was beat down a lot by fans to the point where they started being competent, but things mostly stayed the same. The new JP gens ended up being really good. A lot of Koyo energy all around. ID just completely collapsed, aside from Kaela, who is basically an EN who streams in EU timeslots now with zero IDspeak. But, yeah, ID aside from her completely collapsed, and nearly everyone depends on either JOP or EOP audiences to make it. Devis managed to actually become something other than a Holostars pushing machine or JPlite, and they managed to grow fairly well. Not on the levels of EN or JP, but they're all steady 4views with 2 or 3 that push 5view ranges at times. They became a sort of melting pot of chuubas with tons of variance, but still manage to be cohesive, somehow. It's neat. The two new branches both ended up being successes, but not on the levels of EN or JP yet again.
For a final point, things end up pretty alright, all things considered. Beggars effectively lost, minimal yabs and graduations, only a single termination, and successes all around. Hopefully things will still be as great in another 10 years. See ya fags!
