>>923694Yeah, the initial expansions were quick but I was going by 6-8 based on the most recent gens. They can't just expand forever unless they plan on rivaling Nijisanji directly with havine 100+ talents eventually.
Figuratively looking at how things realistically go, new talents/gens is absolutely the better way to go for profitability/popularity booms etc so I think they'll keep expanding no matter what. It's like say, compare ID1 to ID2. Only Moona ever got even somewhat popular as HoloJPs out of those, and probably half her subs are only because she got insanely lucky and became friends with Peko in her biggest buff game. Now look at ID2 with Ollie already set to eventually rival or pass Moona's subs, income etc. Anya and Reine haven't been growing super fast like Ollie, but Reine is already closing in on Iofi now. I mean, would anyone seriously argue, that Iofi and Risu would have picked up the slack and gained a couple hundred thousand extra subs if ID2 never happened? Is that even conceivable at all realistically? No. If talents didn't catch on already then holding back new additions assuming that it'll help the old ones have time to shine doesn't seem like it'd have any real basis to work out.
If anything, new additions have potential to bring attention to older, forgotten talents by just random chance of interactions. ID2 collabing with ID1, ENs collab with IDs frequently, Mel has collabed with several ENs now which got her tangible boosts etc. Basically the plausible argument is not to rush in a new gen before the most recent one has had time to establish itself, which does make sense, but you can generally see that daily new subs, average views/viewers etc level off within a couple months and it's not like attention would be unfairly taken away from them at that point. I mean a couple months ago the ENs were growing at 5-10k subs a day nonstop but now most of them (besides Gura who has been an outlier the whole time) grow at the same speeds as HoloJPs so quite visibly have cooled down. Hence they recently opened EN2 auditions - there's no longer a danger of pre-emptively deflating hype trains.
