>>95661814I think this is the only place where I've seen people actually vent their frustrations. X is a hugbox, as is discord. Some JP boards have topics about wtf happened today, but the majority of JP ichimi don;t have a spine, they're so afraid of the scary word "graduation", that they're willing to brown-nose Marine as long as it means she won't leave. If you look at X, they just make posts where they ignore Ao's presence, even if she was an integral part of the stream. Ignoring the situation, that kinda shit stops working as soon as a menhera-event like today happens. (Hell, even AO of all people put out a Valentine's Day stream today, so what's Marine's excuse?)
Gonna let you in on a little secret. Once she hits 4m subs, she's gonna announce her graduation. No way in hell she's gonna be around for much of 2026. We're just stuck, suffering in the period where she A) doesn't want to tell us wtf is going on exactly and B) has to wait for her subcount to get to that magical number (Cover's railroading her to that number, there's no way her channel's growing this fast even if she's in front and center of every damn campaign they put out, just compare her growthrate to other holos, it doesn't make any sense).
>>95662718Yeah, totally agree on that. Another problem is the lack of communication. Maybe it's part of JP (corpo/work) culture, where you can't talk about that kinda shit, but everyone feels something is going on. That's the sorta thing that happens when you shit where you eat. Goes double for vtubing-culture, triple for JP-vtubing culture.
