>>9403159You're both a faggot and a certified retard. The likely answer is that Hololive and Niji will remain on top, but nobody can actually predict the future. That's not to say there isn't hope, but you're focusing too much on the external.
The issue isn't that they're underdogs. The problem that Hololive set the shit standard that you don't have to be entertaining to succeed if you have good branding. So now instead of trying to be entertaining, everyone's just trying to be hololive. What winds up happening is that vtubers gimp themselves by becoming cheap bootlegs competing with the more premium products.
Hypothetically speaking, holo and Niji have bottlenecks in the form of generations. All an agency needs to do is assemble an all star cast that's too large to completely poach and there's no way they'll be able to fail. This requires genuinely entertaining and skilled vtubers...which is something there's a dearth of. Western pop culture produces women just as vapid and shallow, while aspiring male entertainers (at least the ones who d be worth watching) have no reason to throw themselves before the commies and risk becoming canceled, persona non grata, or possibly even debanked for the rest of their lives. The only people who can vtube safely in the current western cultural climate are just imitations of better streamers who do the same content but better, while subculture streamers run the risk of being brigaded by the alphabet community or tradfags (like that ethot who tried to take down gura) the moment they go viral simply for being outside the normative standard for hobbies and interests.
Hololive and Niji relied heavily on their preexisting success in Japan, a culture that's far more permissive towards artistic expression. This allows them to take chances with controversial streamers, content and opinions that domestic companies can't. The west is more like China in the sense that the domestic market is just too ideologically constrained to compete with outside investment. Chubas from the west will succeed working for foreign companies, but domestic companies will likely always be on top for that reason. Meritocracy always finds a way, and I just don't see how western agencies can compete.
Weebs ultimately want Japanese entertainment which follows problematic Japanese that includes glorifying things like male dominance over women and lusting after young girls. So long as western entertainment isn't free to appeal to men in an unfettered and unapologetic way, in a style reminiscent of Japanese media, there's no reason for any vtubing fan to watch anything other than big brand chubas because an ethot is an ethot is an ethot and they're all so publically homogenous in terms of temperament, interests, ideology and culture most of them might as well not even exist.
tldr Either keep clawing over one another for the chance to jump ship and join a big brand, or take the risk of getting Susan'd by catering to niches and subjects that fall outside of GFE or frat culture. But do keep in mind that nobody likes phonies or posers, so the prerequisite will always be getting passionate, entertaining people who are genuinely into their niche rather than trying to repurpose basic bitch ethots into something they're not.
