>>86754262I would just like to point out that NijiEN didn't just collapse with the Chinese audience. They collapsed with multiple different audiences independently of each other.
The also collapsed with the western audience. The SEA audience. The male audience. The female audience. Sure these collapses were a little bit related but also somewhat independent.
The males for example started declining in popularity around the middle of 2022. But if you actually look at the graphs, the females didn't start declining until early 2023, 6 months later. Coincidentally, right after Enna's NTR collabs with Kyo.
She did those collabs in December, and in early January her memberships dropped so much that she lost several emote slots and was complaining about it on twitter. Her views started dropping so much that she stirred up drama after drama trying to get them back.
I actually believe that those NTR streams did massive damage to the male fanbase, which was difficult to notice at the time since the chinese women were still lifting all boats. But after the tide receded the girls realized their male fanbase was a skeleton of what it was before
