Here is an interview from a month ago where he talks about the future of Hololive post-Breaking Dimensions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUhYPvYGepE
This is an interview aimed at Japanese college students talking about what Hololive is and what to expect as part of Hololive's staff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pLPaeA3K5w
Here is an interview done with Anime News Network where he talks about Breaking Dimensions, talent-manager interactions and exposure of Hololive to normies/the mainstream audience: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2024-10-04/bringing-hololive-to-the-u.s-an-with-motoaki-tanigo-ceo-of-cover-corp/.215676
On a side note, outside of Hololive, VShojo's Matara Kan is now a member of a mainstream talent agency, William Morris Endeavor: https://x.com/MataraKan/status/1846340762495004849
This is the same Endeavor that owns WWE and UFC, so the mainstreamification of vtubing is all but inevitable in my opinion, it's up to the current audience to not allow tourists to ruin it.
My teenager daughter's perspective:
Some of them are hot irl, some of them are decent at videogames and some of them are actually pretty good comedians.
Besides that, it's either simping or else their own chats roasting them for various things. Sometimes they play collaborative games and troll each other, etc.
My perspective: this Yagoo guy has figured out how to make pimping legal. He's pulled a Deuce Bigallow, because it's not illegal to get lonely people to pay you to be their friend. I applaud him.
By that logic employment is slavery
That makes no sense whatsoever dude.
Yeah it does, if you consider soliciting parasocial relationships as prostitution than surely your definitions are expansive enough to consider working a job as slavery.
No, I consider it taking money from lonely men without actually having to provide sexual services. If anything he's found an even better scam than pimping.