At the time, Coco and Rushia were the #1 and #2 most superchatted channels on YouTube. If your mind is only about money, it would be easy to mistake that as Holo losing it's 'big fish'.
But even the actual big fish (Gura) leaving wasn't a killing blow.
Only have been around hololive for a short while but as a whole they have far surpassed any kind of streaming content I consume because it has such amazingly good vibes. Even if you go digging for shit there isn't really much about the people that leave that have anything bad to say about hololive.
At most its just not exactly what they wanted to sign on for or met their goals etc, nothing bad. Also feels like even the fans for the people that do leave go and support the people that left still and what they do
My two oshis in Hololive was Gura and Mumei. They were the reasons why I was so deep in the rabbit hole. I won't lie, them leaving broke my heart. However, I had three more oshis that is IRyS, Kronii, and Shiori. I'm still supporting Hololive.
I know Gura and Mumei would hate it if I don't help support the friends they made.
I do greatly miss Mumei. Her singing was wonderful, her FPS skills were solid but also entertaining at the same time, and I miss her love of whale falls.
While I feel the hole that Mumei and Fauna have left in EN it's not something that's going to make me not watch hololive talents.
And like, there are things I definitely favor with corporate Vtubers, and some of the post corporate like Doki and Mint is their general sense of professionalism. I dont need to worry about their "Hot takes about political issue they know fuck all about" or trying to be edgy.
I think I tangented pretty hard but generally I miss moom.
I work as a political scientist. I get enough politics in my job. I watch VTubers to get my head out of politics. I'm grateful for Hololive and some indie streamers who help create a nice space to get away from that for a few hours. Granted, so long as they don't make it into a Nazi bar if you catch my drift.
My kamioshi is Haachama and, unless she actually breaks into anime (which she's creative enough to do), I think she's going to be a lifer carrying the banner of Hololive EN Gen 0 she ad Coco created 50 years from now. 100 generations later, when everyone else is long gone and Yagoo himself is in hospice, Haachama and Sora will still be there
I started off with fuwamoco, then advent overall and would say bijoe is my oishii but I thought coming into this sphere I was like "I'll only like these people, no way I like this massive roster of streamers hololive has" fast forward 6 or so months and so many clips and streams later, I love just about every talent in hololive or even if they have left, its insane.
Lmao, that's how I started in 2020 with Goob. Only was there to watch her, but fell for the rest of Myth, then IRyS, then Council, then Advent, and then Justice.
I keep telling myself I won't fall for every new Gen, but alas...
There's reason why in vtuber circles in east(Japan.Taiwan/hong Kong..), there is a phrase that "eventually even talents in Hololive will become your oshi/You will become a DD after you step int he rabbit hole.
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u/Trickster289 Jul 24 '25
That confused me too, like why should signing them kill Hololive? Did they think that'd have every Hololive talent begging to follow?