>>86796117Bao's boyfriend is very well known but she has a manager too whose a separate person, and I believe has changed managers once. Nyanners is part of Mythic which is up in the air for actually having managers at all but I imagine has someone for that, even if it's essentially just some groupie thing for some popular Twitch guy I don't care to remember the name of, Doki has a manager but she's... not exactly a catch, to be polite. U-san has a manager and I imagine the idea of any kinda sexual relationship is a landmine for obvious reasons. Grimmi needs a manager and a boyfriend, specifically me, because holy fucking shit that girl is retarded. Shylily has a manager whose probably her "boyfriend" since I imagine she's the type to post cleavage but never put out.
I'm not going to say a majority of people who have managers aren't also fucking them, but it's not a dogwhistle. It's more like a 70/30 split for boyfriendmanager/just a guy on payroll, with the chances getting higher for a guy on payroll the more popular someone is and vice versa. A person with 500 or less viewers like Mint (who AFAIK doesn't have one) but has a manager is almost definitely her boyfriend, because the only reason you'd ever have a manager in the first place is if you make a lot of money and get a lot of offers that you can't handle yourself. Bao and U-san have their musical ventures, Doki has her Dokillion sponsorships and connections, Mythic is as said presumably doing some kind of work but likely isn't, and I don't know about Shylily since I only jack off to her porn occasionally after filtering out the slop, and I'm just repeating passing /lig/ knowledge from like a year ago.