IIRC, the California office isn’t even an office, it’s a merch warehouse, all of the actual managers live in Japan.
What is taxing for anyone who wants to be a corporate vtuber is that you will be expected to fly over to the headquarters of your agency and be there for at least a month or so out of the year every year, if not moreso depending on certain aspects.
I’m not sure how many people have children that would want to become a vtuber, but the most useful thing that your child can learn to get an advantage is Japanese. Even as an independent vtuber, shit helps a ton in terms of marketing.
But yeah, I don’t believe that Cover is going full Nijisanji anytime soon, but I do wonder how Cover plans on adapting to all of this. Motoaki Tanigo, otherwise known as Yagoo, the CEO of Cover Corp, has been having regular meetings with the talents as a way to figure out each of their specific issues to try and mitigate things, but we shall see. For a lot of the members of the earlier Japanese generations, being a member of Hololive was their first job.
You’d think this, but basically all of the big corporate vtubers either got doxxed ages ago or never even bothered hiding who they are behind the screen, to the point there was a forum that was specifically for doxxing vtubers that only got shut down just last year.
If this hadn’t already been litigated a while ago maybe you’d have a point, but it’s known who most corporate vtubers are behind the screen
Leftists hate Jobst because he used to be a PUA Youtuber before going over to speedrunning drama, which is honestly kind of funny. I never really was into that whole sphere considering I barely read r/TRP as it was anyway, but have seen some of the videos when people link them and it's hilarious
think of wear the NBA without Jordan and Lebron
The history of the NBA is weird. In the 70s, no one cared about basketball, to the point where teams were literally kicked out of their arenas and forced to play elsewhere because the arenas prioritized Ice Capades, etc, players were doing drugs on the sidelines, throwing games to their bookies, and all sorts of crazy shit.
David Stern becomes commissioner in 1980 after Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson and Larry Bird got drafted and decided to use the Celtics/Lakers rivalry to boost them up with marketing, etc, which lead to Michael Jordan getting the deal with Nike. Magic getting HIV and Larry Bird blowing his back out while repaving his neighbor’s driveway forced their early retirements and lead to the juggernaut that was Michael Jordan and the Jordan brand during the 90s, with the shoes everywhere, Space Jam, etc.
LeBron was so good that for the first time ever, ESPN was broadcasting high school basketball games live, specifically for his school, NBA players were going to his games, he was a celebrity at 17 years old.
Black athletes get used to sell the idea that we are missing out on something by not embracing multi-racialism
I understand that you wouldn’t throw water on me if I was on fire, but all I can do is be a productive member of society. I just want to work and go home, and the fact that society has weaponized the past to the point that a certain number of people on the various .win sites (whether they’re genuine or just trolls, I will never know, all I can do is copy/paste or archive comments) would want Smith1850 and I deported even though we were born in this country and are productive members of society sucks ass.
Black athletes get used to sell bad and destructive ideas about race.
There’s a lot of things this entails, but I’m just curious, because I’m always trying to make sure what others think. Are we talking about the usual ghetto bullshit with rap and all the assorted nonsense, or what exactly?
The fact that he served isn’t irrelevant, but he did serve in the Army and not the Navy, correct. The fact that he served is a large part of why the rest of his life happened, but I think overall that the segregation of the Armed Forces during both World Wars is rather relevant to all branches of the military (which I wish they would include the name of the specific book like they did the MLK and Einstein book). I’m probably just overthinking it, but removing this just feels unnecessary.
One of the main reasons that I posted this is because if this isn’t malicious compliance, there are people in the government who want to actively bury the past of this country, and you can’t exactly separate race from the rest of the country’s history because a massive part of the US’ history was influenced by it. The history of sports in America pretty much comes down to the history of race in America as well, and so pretending these things don’t exist just really irks me.
Like I said in the post about the DoD article, pretending the past doesn’t exist does nothing but harm for everyone involved, but you can also recognize the past without becoming self-hating like Germany. I think that people absolutely recognize that Germany at some point became self-hating because of de-Nazification, but the same shouldn’t happen to the US. I hope that the end result of all this going over the DEI stuff is instead finding ways to recognize the history of the nation without flagellating white people.
China will just do it anyways.
You missed where I mentioned that China's government passed a law making it illegal to do so without permission of the people they're training the LLM off of and have to pay annual royalties to that person or else the data needs to be destroyed. Hoyoverse is already just hiring non-US based voice actors and sidestepping the issue, now that SAG-AFTRA is completely overestimating how much leverage they actually have. South Korea and Japan have the same law on their books as well.
Whether or not the consumer does whatever they do, is up to them, but the studios in charge of recording have to follow said laws. I just don't think that is going to happen nearly as much as you say they will, hence the current strike. What I do agree with you on is that machine generated content will continue to grow more advanced.
FF7 and FF14’s reboot both saved Square Enix from bankruptcy due to the failure of other games in 14’s case, while 7 was one of the most expensive games of all time, for its time.
NieR:Automata didn’t save Platinum games, that was Bayonetta 2 after Nintendo basically paid them to make it a Wii U exclusive, but NieR:Automata was massive for Platinum Games, yes.
LOL, fair enough.
Edit: I actually forgot why I said that, but yeah, the dynamics are kinda weird, as the primary (and honestly only) power a union has against a business is the ability to withhold labor via strikes and lockouts
The first wave feminists who were the suffragettes were predominantly WASPs, not Jews
The second wave feminists who led the sexual revolution that legalized porn were Jews