>>8840514It wouldn't have made a difference. Even in the unlikely event that China had come back around on Hololive it wouldn't have been at a level that would've made the CN branch sustainable in the long term. There was an attempt to establish an english speaking channel for Civia on youtube which looked promising but the only other english speaker in the gen was Artia who was reluctant about streaming on youtube in general.
What was the most frustrating part was that the whole thing was needless. General attitude towards Haachama's intial mention of Taiwan was upset but generally that she meant nothing malicious by it. Coco tried to defend Haachama by saying Youtube designated the viewers region as Taiwan so any blame should lie with them but all that did was paint a target on Coco's back for bringing a sensitive matter back up in the first place, leaving the chinese audience to think she was being inconsiderate opposed to trying to to stick up for her colleague.
After that things spiraled out of control and never really de-escalated. Anyone with chinese sympathies sided with China, included many clip channels who considered themselves the reason Hololive achieved such widespread international success in the first place.
>>8841486She was a girl who just wanted to shitpost and play Overwatch who ended up stuck between a rock and a hard place and embroiled in a lot of political bullshit. I don't agree with everything she did, but I can't hate her for it.
I still belieb.
