It's been a while since I made a V-Tuber news post, but the events of the past two days made it pretty clear that doing so now is necessary.
Sakamata Chloe, a member of Hololive JP's sixth generation, 'Secret Society holoX' (usually just called holoX), will be 'concluding her channel activities', similarly to Amelia Watson, on January 25th, 2025. Laplus Darkness, another member of holoX explains that she understands why Chloe is leaving, because even she says the amount of work that she expected from Hololive is a lot more than she previously expected, and that workload is a lot of why Chloe has chosen to leave.
The big news that got me to want to make this post today is that Ceres Fauna, a member of Hololive EN's second generation 'Council' (now 'Promise' with the graduation of Sana Tsukumo and addition of IryS to the group), will be graduating from Hololive on January 3rd, 2025. She isn't planning on leaving the door open with the affiliate status, like Amelia and Chloe are/have, once she leaves, that is the last that we will see of the Ceres Fauna persona. She specifically states that her reason for graduation is 'disagreement with management, and that she liked being an idol, that she was getting more comfortable with singing. This is notable because with Amelia and Minato Aqua, who have both left, Aqua choosing to graduate, their reasons for leaving were moreso for the sake of their creativity, as Amelia, now dooby3D, has an entire motion capture studio in her home that she mostly wasn't allowed to use in Hololive, and Aqua's problems were with the workload outside of streaming, which leads to something that I actually didn't know until last night.
Cover Corp went public this year, and Motoaki Tanigo, also known as Yagoo, was essentially forced to make Cover go public or be forced to sell the company. Cover was originally a tech company that only started the V-Tubing aspects of things because the person behind Tokino Sora wanted to become a virtual idol. This was done with the help of venture capital money, and because more people are learning this, a large portion of the viewerbase is blaming this new string of graduations and leaving on the investors pushing the girls to lean more and more into the idol aspects of being a vtuber, when a large portion of the fanbase mostly watches streams, and doesn't really care about the concerts. Who knows where this will take us, but Cover Corp going public, and Fauna graduating when there weren't any real signs that she was having problems is going to stain Cover for the foreseeable future. If the investors try to push Cover towards Nijisanji's route, I think everyone will simply be pissed out of their mind and the company will crash and burn for the sake of investors' short term gain.
I have seen conflicting reports of Sakamata Chloe's PL, but here are both of Fauna's channels. The non-ASMR channel has exploded in subscriber count within the past 18 hours since her announcement, as it started at 71k subscribers and has exploded to over 200k subscribers since the announcement of her graduation.
Unfortunately the Vtuber sphere is overwhelmingly male and they are obsessed with pushing it everywhere endlessly. Its the new opiate for the simpish weeb masses.
Women only care about it in terms of how easy it is to make money off it. Its streaming without even having to have tits or even getting dresses, but all the same parasocial powers.
Only someone like you could spin that as a negative. Lol
Do you think wahmen should ever be able to earn a living by streaming?
Edit Also this. Don't offer your opinion if it's something you clearly don't know anything about
He's also assuming that female vtubers are just as duplicitous as the Twitch thots, and at least corpo vtubers definitely aren't. In fact, Cover actively screens against bitchiness and that sort of nonsense in order to prevent another Uruha Rushia from being hired ever again.
lol
This is why you are called simps. Because you actually believe this.
I'm just going to say we agree to disagree, mostly because most corpo vtubers have been doxxed for ages, and with that information, along with everything that's been revealed over the past year, and how easily for example people abandoned Elira Pandora after the infamous 'black screen stream', that's the one thing the vtuber audience is actually somewhat good at, being able to tell whose being a lying bitch or not.
I'm pretty sure I've said this before on another one of these posts, but because of the literal structure of vtubing, models instead of faces, actually having to play the games and not just focus the camera on T&A, etc, the people behind the avatar have to put some semblance of who they actually are into their streams or else they'd be caught in lies constantly, like Pokimane was about her boyfriend, as an example.
Enough of them use their non-corporate accounts and have those videos still up for the viewer to check that stuff out. Do I think everyone's a saint? No, especially a lot of indies, who are the 1-2views (4chan terminology for how many digits are in the viewer count) with badly rigged models you mention in that other comment, but a lot of the bigger ones have had their pasts gone through with a fine tooth comb, which is why I have the belief that I do that at least a large portion of them are not as duplicitous as the Twitch thots.
I didn't call it negative or positive. Its a statement of fact that the bar is lowered there compared to being a twitch thot in terms of appearance, which is why there are thousands of them everywhere constantly cropping up daily to stream to a handful of simps with badly rigged models.
I see we are back to the "only big corpos exist in my bubble" land though.
How is this a neutral statement? This is the equivalent to tradcons saying videogames are for manchildren when someone complains about how shitty the game industry is, and that's your fault for not picking carpentry as a hobby
I don't see how this is a bad thing. I see it more as vtubers actually having to be entertaining as oposed to Amouranth or Pokimane flashing their tits. Also, that's why lots of pngtubers fail to gain any traction.
I mean, this is about Cover. Just the fact that there is a place that isn't flooded by idpolitics is a plus. Losing it in one way or another is worrysome because it's proof you either have to bend the knee to globohomo or go to Tencen level of corporate greed
Because that's not the statement I was referring to, I was referring to the literal thing you quoted which was completely neutral in tone.
Its also my entire point, its one of the major barriers to streaming removed (appearance, dress and hygiene) which lowers the bar of success in their minds, while offering the same level of power and income as one of those Pokimane types. Its why there are so many failing shittubers littering every platform.
There are more problems in life than just the Woke axis.