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.
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.
Are you autistic or just being disingenuous? Do you know how paragraphs work? I quoted that because it builds on your first statement that has a confrontational tone
What are you even trying to argue here? Also, you refused to answer a simple question, so here it is again: Do you think wahmen should ever be able to earn a living by streaming?
And there's the tradcon response, you know which site you are posting this to, right?
I do, that's why I separated the two statements into two separate sections. One refers to the men who consume it, the other to the women who supply it. If you want to respond to a specific piece then quote that, don't quote one and then say you were referring to the one before it.
Its pretty simply, read it slowly instead of getting super mad that you felt personally attacked by me calling you a simpish weeb consuming an opiate.
And no, I don't think they should. I could explain it in detail, but considering you can't follow basic statements without getting mad you'll just end up frothing that I insulted your queen somehow, whoever she is.
A place formed about video game drama that I, a former /b/tard and lifelong weeb, have been on since formation of the original KIA. I'm the furthest thing from what a tradcon would approve of.
I've also just lived through enough "culture wars" to know that there is more than one cancer going at any given time.
Is there any way I could conterargue without you simply dismissing me as a simp? Funny how you can't even say who is my "queen", I even provided a male vtuber example, almost as if I'm arguing out of principles, but hey, at least beats being called a nahtze, am I right?
Yes, I do have issue with people dismissing other people as consuming "opiate of the masses". Historically has been used by pseudo intellectual assholes who think they know better than anyone
There. That's all what I wanted to know. We will never reach a constructive discussion because you already made your conclusions. You consider (female) streamers cancer, I dont, simple as that. Good night, sir