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.
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.
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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.
You've set up a dozen targets for yourself to hit, but none of them are what I said.
Which was you get all the same parasocial power and dopamine hits as streaming, but you don't even need to put a shirt on to do it. Nothing about being lying bitches or duplicitous. Only that the barrier for entry is much lower for ugly or normal looking girls.
Of course the corporate ones are going to still be the top of the pile in terms of clean histories and lack of trigger points, the same way all the top female streamers are still the mostly regularly attractive and non-socially stunted women to begin with.
At the end of the day they are still women first and foremost, and their character and professional life second. If you think a woman isn't a woman because she puts on a rig, then you have larger issues.