I am very much hoping this is not true, for her sake. She's genuinely already put herself through enough, but leaking to dramatubers has consequences.
I'd say the Taiwan stuff with Coco was their biggest controversy, but in other news, did you see that Mikeneko cosplayed as Rushia for Tanabata, the Japanese holiday for making wishes.
I feel awful for her, but she put herself in this situation. I just hope the rumors that she apparently joined Wactor/910 aren't true because I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemies.
I used to think that too, but considering Mori and Kiara among others still actively stream on/use their side accounts, idk how strict that part of the contract really is.
Noel Shirogane for example has a Japanese ASMR channel with over 700k subs
Before this month I hadn’t really done that at all. The Dodgers night mixes with both sports and baseball, and Hololive debuts are pop culture relevant because of what Yagoo wants Hololive to become as well as just how much vtubing has exploded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW7j8tKMOfY
Raora will debut at 11:45 PM EST, and the girls will have their first collab stream at 12:30 AM EST
I was just looking on Reddit and found who her PL/previous accounts were, a lot of her content was doing impressions of other vtubers and characters so it checks out. Sadly she privated all the videos on her previous channel.
Elizabeth is debuting now, Gigi Murin debuts at the :45 hour mark.
Cecelia Immergreen debuts tomorrow at the :00 mark of whatever hour this is for you and Raora Panthera debuts at this hour's :45 mark tomorrow, with Justice's first full collab stream being an hour from now tomorrow.
https://cover-corp.com/en/news/detail/20240622-01
This is the official press release to accompany this video.
Yagoo's actively trying to make vtubing go mainstream, in my eyes that's the only reason the Dodgers game is even happening, because he actively wants vtubing to become as big as possible, but that may or may not backfire, considering how many Holo models have wobbly chests that certain people may or may not complain about.
The leaning into their character I do get, considering a lot of vtubers just drop it, but a lot of what makes vtubing work is the communities around each talent. I'm thinking a lot of them being 'uninteresting' may or may not be because of how long chatting goes on for, but I also know a lot of vtuber's 'past lives' (the 'official' term for their other accounts, including IRL and non-corpo vtuber accounts for corporate vtubers).
Maybe it's just me but my definition of mediocre and others is pretty different because I mostly play fighting games, where the degree of how good you are can vary massively because you can be the best player in your region and get demolished by the best players in the world, but you're still very good because objectively you get pretty damn far in tournaments, but I wouldn't necessarily say many of them are mediocre, some of them, like Dokibird/Selen Tatsuki for example, are genuinely pro level at some of their games (her specifically would be Overwatch and Apex Legends).
On the 'hiding' front, at this point I say it's mostly for the sake of aesthetic + security. A lot more independent vtubers also show their faces than corporate vtubers as a whole, but just from finding out different vtuber's PLs and seeing what they look like, it's aesthetic and security. Security mainly because I genuinely didn't understand how desperate the modern man can become until I saw the tweet where Pokimane's former editor actively admitted that he occasionally was late delivering/uploading videos for her because he was fapping to her, and actually admitted that.
The brain of a man who can actively admit that has to be the brain of a man who delusionally believes he can get some, which is also the reason why most female streamers hide their boyfriends, because those boyfriends have almost always gotten death threats spammed to them from being found, which is ridiculous. Albeit with vtubers, some of that attitude is purposely cultivated by the corporations because corporate vtubing (or at least Hololive) is an extension of Asian idol culture.
There's a lot more hot IRL vtubers than there are not, to the point where some of them 'match the model' if you catch my drift.
I'm primarily a clip watcher who mostly got into vtubers because Moist Critikal/Charlie/penguinz0 was covering the Dokibird/Selen Tatsuki situation when it happened and I had heard and seen clips of them for years, just never really bothered following them really until then.
I can’t find that post at all, would you mind linking it? It was genuinely the worst sports rendition of the Star Spangled Banner of all time, beating out Fergie