>>86653456No, the problem is that people are investing too much into something that can only be done as a career assuming they pick up speed somehow.
Like, I see a thousand chuubas buying and playing 60$+ games at least once per month, sometimes weekly, and they are not making returns, some live off savings, no irl work, some are IN DEBT to start their chuuba career. They don't do math. If you can't invest into it, unironically pick up freeware or games that cost more or less a single buck to play on-stream. Also a gimmick, anything could work.
People are trying too hard or grinding in the "wrong way" let's say.
You are SUPPOSED to make a career out of this only if you get popular or earn a """"modest"""" amount, otherwise it's better as a hobby, legit most of the top chuubas save for a majority of the most recent corpo ones had to start from near ZERO or a grim prospect to be where they are at.
People forget that chuubas like Miko and Suisei almost gave up because they weren't going up, numbers weren't "numbering", only saying GTA 5 and specifically saying NIGGA on-stream kickstarted Miko. and Suisei's story becoming widely known + her non-stop grinding after realizing she shouldn't slow once she picked up speed where the events that saved them, Aki-fucking-Rose was doing not so hot until that one clip that made people pity subscribe and membership to her and then eventually most of those got replaced by Nips and COVER grew bigger so things got better.
People fucking forget that at one point, saying COVER was going to be as big as NIJISANJI got anons dogpilling on your ass for saying nonsense or what now is called a schizo rrat. It was a grim time, girls only stayed because they were willing to endure hardship and borderline zero pay, and it wasn't a single year thing, Blue Dorito didn't more or less settle that fucking well until early 2020, without the pandemic, god knows if VTubing would have been so succesful in the West without the pandemic, God knows if you would have gotten the current roster of HoloEN because the pandemic put them in a position in which playing the anime girl looked better than just doing nothing and letting life happen.
God fucking knows if all these indies that popped up later, all these agencies, all these projects, would have existed, especially the EN branches of things, if people weren't dying of a cough.
All of these post-boom chuubas don't understand that, success is not guaranteed, more often than not it happens via a happy accident or something they can't will into existence, sometimes grinding will work, sometimes they will get the "Who?" treatment and never amount to anything. And because of this looming treat, just like with supas, merch, membership, all the paid things, if you can't do all, don't do all. Search for alternatives and keep going until you feel like not doing so anymore.
In order to succeed, you have to risk things, but you can't risk everything, it's like /biz/ 101, dunno how many people don't get it. Zero financial self-awareness. What the actual fuck??????????
