TL;DR, hololive staying on YouTube allows for a strain of ENvtubers to develop a streaming culture not influenced by Twitch. With holoEN, there's a good chance that ENvtubing becomes basically indistinguishable from normal streaming.
>>86566662It depends on what you mean by ENvtubing. If you mean "vtubers that stream in EN", there's a risk. If you mean "EN streamers with a vtuber avatar", then it's arguable that a decent amount of Twitch vtubers have picked that path.
If the ENvtubers on YouTube can survive and thrive, there's a chance for them to continue to develop a streaming culture unique to vtubers. If they go on Twitch, unless their content is unique to an animated avatar or 3D model, there's a good chance they just get subsumed by Twitch culture and become just another EN streamer.
Due to physical limitations/primary content/content delivery, streamers like Ironmouse, Neuro, and Filian can probably maintain some uniqueness to vtuber streaming culture. However, we're already seeing a bunch of vtubers go 50/50 between webcam/avatar. Stuff like Twitchcon, the Twitch clique, and how the company runs the site really incentivizes a sort of homogeneity with content. In the same way hololive captures its audience with its talents, Twitch captures its audience with its "culture".
Of course, there are Twitch streamers whose audiences only use the platform to watch that streamer. However, there is a reason why Twitch is working hard with cross-channel emotes, letting streamers host other streamers when offline, sharing chats, that mic drama, hosting Twitchcon, favoring the Twitch clique, and supporting large "Twitch" events. By having its streamers share a similar "culture", the audience is incentivized to stay on its platform and watch streamers that share that similar "culture". This type of ecosystem works against streamers that try to continue to do their own thing. Not only does it incentivize vtubers to collab with fleshies (not necessarily a bad thing), but also attend IRL events with them and damaging the possible of a "vtuber streaming culture" that isn't just "streamers with avatars".
