Glorious 3D Immerrage 🙏

My god, Tomodachi Life has been such a goldmine for clips, at this point I think I’ve seen funny stuff from at least 20 different talents lmao

I think the ![text](link) syntax only works with pictures, you should probably remove the “!” to get a video link

And this would probably fit !vtubers@sh.itjust.works more

That being said… holy shit what kind of black magic is that

I haven’t followed much of Flow Glow but from the little clips I’ve seen (including this one) Vivi did seem pretty funny, yeah.

As for me, not much specific these days, I recently caught up with the April Fools shenanigans and the Holostars situation and now I’m just watching whatever clips seem interesting, for example Subaru’s Tomodachi Life “arc” struggling with Mii Fubuki’s love life (1 / 2)

“Where… where did you say you left the shopping cart…?”

Not sure if I got woosh’d, but just in case:

People know her from her previous job/streaming persona, and she’s also talked in uploaded videos, afaik she just prefers to stream without mic since she has throat issues and doesn’t want to strain her voice too much.

Ow, from that wording it seems like she’s still not quite in the condition to get back to streaming. Hopefully she eventually manages to go back to normal (mostly for her mental health, if she’s ok but she still decides not to stream that’s perfectly fine, of course).

(The Xcancel link still links to the main site, btw)

Eh, I guess that was predictable. No point in spending resources to audition and make models for multiple talents when the ones already active don’t earn enough either.

Man, he’s such a ball of positivity.

I mean, he’s probably one of the least affected since he wasn’t very music-oriented to begin with, but still his ability to act optimistically even in situations like this is admirable. Hope all goes well for him and the rest of the boys.

Yeah, but why is the profit low? Female vtubers definitely are more popular, but Holostars performing badly is unique to Holopro in the vtuber industry. There are tons of succesful male vtubers. I doubt the talents are the issue here.

I’d say it’s more that male Vtubers performing VERY well is almost unique to Nijisanji. Pretty sure every other male corpo VTuber is less popular than Stars. My theory is that at Niji they lean more into the BFE side, while Star streams are more “gender-neutral” and as a consequence attract less gachikois, but I haven’t really watched enough Niji to form a concrete opinion.

Yeah probably, as always. Selling shares was never a good idea.

I’m pretty sure Cover started with Venture Capital and they were 100% forced to sell either shares or the whole company. It was bound to happen since the foundation of the company, they didn’t choose to do it later.

I mean, they totally can. Other companies have done so before and so have they with the whole HoloCN thing IIRC (or at least, offered).

I personally can’t remember of a company that did that without closing down (outside of VShojo where their IPs were their property from the start), and the HoloCN disaster happened when they weren’t publicly traded yet. If you know of a situation where that happened in a public company I’d be interested in knowing, my argument on this is just based on hearsay and anecdotal evidence so if it’s a misconception I’d be glad to be corrected.

The more or less reliable data I saw on just superchats from 2023 had like ~13 female vtubers before they got to the first male (it was Bettel I think) and then it was a huge gap to the second.

I’m looking at the 2023 Playboard ranking and I see 4 males in the top 10 VTubers. It’s just that they’re all from Niji (and on the other hand, 5 out of 6 females are from Holo). There is a market share for male VTubers, it’s just already full (and probably more geared towards BFE than what Holostars ever was).

I mean, at this point I doubt Cover shareholders care if they quit or not, they basically removed all the expenses from the branch already.

Also, more than “male VTuber glass ceiling”, I’d say it’s market saturation. Male VTubers can get enough gachikois to be profitable, but all the “whales” in the market are probably already following Kuzuha, Kanae, Vox and the other big Niji ones.

They’ve never really given Holostars the same attention and promotion as Hololive and now they’re basically putting the blame on Holostars for not living up to their Hololive counterpart.

To be honest, for how little profit they made, their treatment wasn’t even that bad. Especially in the early days, Miyabi said a couple times how Yagoo was very supportive even when the branch had extremely little following. They even had a countdown live for a couple years, and I felt like it had the same effort put into them as the girls’ side.

Cover can probably easily subsidize the costs of keeping Holostars going properly with the profits from Hololive too. They’re not short on money. It really boils down to Cover’s willingness to actually make something of it.

I can’t say for sure, but I personally think if it was 100% Yagoo’s choice to make, things would’ve stayed like this. Unfortunately he doesn’t own all the stocks and he probably can’t justify spending that much on a low-income project to the other shareholders.

Just give them a severance package or something and let them actually go indie while the boys keep their characters. Giving them little to no support, but still taking a cut of their income is fucked up.

I’m not that knowledgeable about it and my source is Reddit so take it as you will, but it probably still has to do with shareholders. Their characters are company property and they can’t just give them away for free, even if Yagoo wanted to.

Hopefully at least the income cut is massively reduced since otherwise it’s basically “being indie, but worse”.

Shien’s tweet about it

In summary, all events, AGF, live shows, Osha Festa, Stacolle, company-led projects, studio usage (including simple 3D), sales of birthday and anniversary goods, new goods, voice sales, and original song releases will all be gone. Everyone, I’m truly sorry.

Sad day for all Stars fans. I wish the best to all of them, whatever path they might choose to take.

Cute. Will definitely check the channel again when they’re all released

Technically not much should change for viewers, but this should give her more freedom without accusations of “preferential treatment” or similar

“No eigo, no nihongo, googoo gaga” -Gigi Murin, 2026

Unrestrained Laplus is basically “that one horny friend of the MC” trope personified lmao

I guess it’s the “duck lips peace sign” pose/meme that is often associated with millennials doing selfies?

Not sure why they went with that pose since Biboo mostly uses more “recent” humor (although she might very well be a millennial age-wise), but that’s what it looks like to me.

Man, Chapter 3 is coming and there’s still no comprehensive way of watching Chapter 1 as far as I know… Boubon Clipper slowed down their videos and afaik the recaps in the official channel are way too abridged. The event always looked interesting but I really don’t feel like watching 100+ hours of streams just to get the full picture.