>>8882869Yes. In Japan they have these things called host clubs where guys specifically are just nice and friendly and hang with girls but don't do anything more with them. There's nothing like that in the West so the idea of joining just to be a light chatty friend of girls absolutely does not compute.
More importantly in the vtuber scene, successful dude vtubers are a common thing in Japan and generally Nijisanji's breadwinners and arguably its real focus, is on the dudes, not the girls. The West? vtuebrs are known for Holo generally. There basically is not one SINGLE successful male tuber that's equivalent to a Holo tier that I know of. To Western dudes, vtuber = chick in specific, not just anime person. So, it'd go to reason that almost all the dudes joining would be thinking of /assuming that this thing was about connecting with Hololive and being a part of them and so on. I've known several dudes who are on twitch, right now, doing vtuber gigs, and I've known them online for years. Not a single one isn't planning on someday joining HolostarsEN just to get closer to Hololive because they have some "genius" plan to go fuck their oshi that basically every single one of them has. LIke they have a timeline, roadmap etc already assuming this will happen and that's the ENTIRE point of it. It's fucked.
I do think there is one way to avoid HolostarsEN being Groomerstars - hire actual gay dudes. LIke really really fucking gay. Not just "oh uh sure, I'm bisexual" ones who you can see have only ever had GFs or shown interest in girls. Actual proud faggots with BFs etc. That's the way to keep them out of interfering with Holo.
