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What do you think about the long-term effects of Hololive's absolute dominance over the vtuber overseas market?
From what I can gather Cover, while having a lot of the biggest talents among japanese vtubers, still has a healthy amount of competition in that market (which is also by far the most saturated).
It's a different thing in the much larger overseas market though, there pretty much nobody can compete with Hololive. Other Japanese companies have little to no name recognition, let alone japanese indies, and local indies have the tough choice between speaking their own language (thus relegating themselves to an extremely niche market) or speaking English and being doa due to competition from HoloEN, subbed meme clips and the ocasional english stream from a Japanese speaking holo (which will likely become more common).
Even English speaking vtuber groups have a hard time because at best they will be popular among the insular community that is their own fandom, while Hololive essentially has achieved the critical mass to become the face of vtubers outside of Japan. Thus, even if you are a Tsunderia fan you will know a bunch of names from Hololive, while the opposite is not necessarily true. afaik only Vshojo can somewhat compete in terms of views and their numbers are still in line with the lower-end of holos.
An indie has to crawl their way to very modest success and even that is not guaranteed, while new holos are bound to succeed unless they are useless at their job.
Pic related (and HoloEN in general) is the most clear example of this, she achieved 1million subs in under a month and her videos on her yt channel have, on average, around 500k total views, something that most vtubers, indie or not, Japanese or overseas, will never achieve.
tl;dr: do you think the virtual monopoly hololive has on the overseas market is/will be detrimental to the community overall? The way they get all the attention pretty much prevents other talents from ever developing a stable community.
From what I can gather Cover, while having a lot of the biggest talents among japanese vtubers, still has a healthy amount of competition in that market (which is also by far the most saturated).
It's a different thing in the much larger overseas market though, there pretty much nobody can compete with Hololive. Other Japanese companies have little to no name recognition, let alone japanese indies, and local indies have the tough choice between speaking their own language (thus relegating themselves to an extremely niche market) or speaking English and being doa due to competition from HoloEN, subbed meme clips and the ocasional english stream from a Japanese speaking holo (which will likely become more common).
Even English speaking vtuber groups have a hard time because at best they will be popular among the insular community that is their own fandom, while Hololive essentially has achieved the critical mass to become the face of vtubers outside of Japan. Thus, even if you are a Tsunderia fan you will know a bunch of names from Hololive, while the opposite is not necessarily true. afaik only Vshojo can somewhat compete in terms of views and their numbers are still in line with the lower-end of holos.
An indie has to crawl their way to very modest success and even that is not guaranteed, while new holos are bound to succeed unless they are useless at their job.
Pic related (and HoloEN in general) is the most clear example of this, she achieved 1million subs in under a month and her videos on her yt channel have, on average, around 500k total views, something that most vtubers, indie or not, Japanese or overseas, will never achieve.
tl;dr: do you think the virtual monopoly hololive has on the overseas market is/will be detrimental to the community overall? The way they get all the attention pretty much prevents other talents from ever developing a stable community.
