The Dodgers won one of the most exciting games this year 8-5, even though Ohtani went 0-5 with 3 Ks (strikeouts) on his birthday.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/1dwguuc/7th_inning_stretch/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/1dwmp7s/cole_sprouse_actor_of_disney_show_zack_cody/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/1dwux5w/hololive_dodgers_fiasco/
The actual collab itself went perfectly, but the controversy is in the way that the merch was handled was really bad, as there was only one tent for all of the Hololive merch for the collab and the line for the event went all the way around the stadium, and was apparently the largest line for merch for a Dodgers collab in the history of the team. The line lasted for over six hours, from 5:30 PM PST until they finally stopped at 1:00 AM the next day. With Anime Expo being the same weekend, that helped boost the attendance, but I think overall the sheer enthusiasm that the line shows me is that vtubing becoming mainstream is an inevitability, and it's up to vtuber fans to identify 'tourists' and stop them from doing their bullshit.
I've been to a few. Met Greg Ayres, Jessica Calvello and (of all people) Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug at one, John Swasey at another--in fact, Swasey RAN the latter con, Anime Houston.
The lines were never THIS bad.
If you didn't know, John Swasey was the second voice of Gendo Ikari, and Greg Ayres was young Kensuke Aida in the Rebuilds. Though this was before I watched Eva or the movies.
The handful I went to you basically had to be in the room from the moment the event opened if you wanted to make it in for any "main" event at 6pm.
Though the ones I went to had a lot bigger names than yours. No hate on any of them, but this was guys like Vic during the FMA days or the DBZ guys while they were just finishing off the original dub run. Which meant people had to basically be inside each other the crowds were so big.