>>88855513Most indies stream on Twitch, and in order to grow you have to do a significantly better job in a particular niche than the vtubers already occupying the top spots, otherwise people will just watch them instead. Are you more athletic, witty, and content brained than filian? Can you be more funny than Vedal while also building a more impressive AI and network of collab partners? Can you out stream ironmouse, out sing her, while having a worse chronic disease that gains you sympathy? Do you have more impressive 3D than Dooby, Zentreya, Saruei or many others? Can you be goofier than Chibidoki? Can you appeal to normie Twitch fleshstreamer viewers better than Vei? Be better at insane GFE than Shondo? Sexier than Sinder? Cuter and more well liked than Henya? Appeal to people who like muscle women and furries more than Buffpup? Be a better mommy bug woman than Matara? Even if you're better in one area, these people have thousands of viewers, all know each other, have connections to top artists, and have no real reason to pay attention to people much smaller than them. How do you grow to a size where you can work your way into their circles and get people to recognize your prowess in a niche, when you have no mindshare or budget for great models that catch people's eyes? Unless you're doing something totally unique like Vedal was at the time, it's a long and slow grind to the top vs. thousands of competitors.
