I appreciate that whatever she's talking about rarely relates to what's going on on screen. My favorite VTubers are yappers and she's always got something to chatter about.
As for whether or not she should have revealed she's military, well, that ship sailed a loooong time ago.
Cover have opened auditions for a new project different from Hololive but positioned as sub organization of Hololive whatever that means. XAWebsiteArchive
Cover have opened auditions for a new project different from Hololive but positioned as sub organization of Hololive whatever that means. XAWebsiteArchive
Cover have opened auditions for a new project different from Hololive but positioned as sub organization of Hololive whatever that means. XAWebsiteArchive View attachment 8493094
Seems like they're moving away from numbered gens and instead every new one is now a new "project." Like how ReGLOSS and FLOWGLOW really could've just been 7 and 8. God knows why but it's simple enough to blame the investors. Now that I think about it though it's been a while since we got a new Indonesia gen.
This chinchilla would like to sell you drugs right now like right now right now your buying right? all the cool kids are doing drugs, and the koolest of the kool kids klub are buying from the chinchilla
Cover have opened auditions for a new project different from Hololive but positioned as sub organization of Hololive whatever that means. XAWebsiteArchive View attachment 8493094
reading over it it seems like an onboarding program of sorts where new talent can come on, get a feel for things and then be "sorted" into other divisions of the company, the website even says that someone from this program might transition into hololive productions or other sections of the company. Reminds me somewhat of Niji's "vtuber academy" but I'm not sure if it'll be implemented much the same way.
eems like they're moving away from numbered gens and instead every new one is now a new "project." Like how ReGLOSS and FLOWGLOW really could've just been 7 and 8. God knows why
The Unit stuff with Dev_IS has been fairly effective for them I think it goes under the radar how well the groups music generally does, and a lot of the talents coming in for those groups seem to be very music oriented in the first place (hell flowglow has 2 former members of actual major idol groups including AKB4 it kind of overcomes the uneven slowdown of the vtuber boom because you can look at the individual members of flowglow and their streaming performance and it might seem like they are doing just "ok" but then their unit album comes out and they are top 10 on japan's bilboard charts. So for the goals it's aimed at it seems to be working.
It goes beyond just Dev_IS though you can see for the last year or two there's been some general shuffling toward more unit focused stuff with gens as well, Gamers events together, 3rd gen concert, Having Myth start doing gen concerts each year, Reshuffling councilrys into Promise and having those two gens start doing more group focused songs. Advent especially I think is treated very similarly to a regloss/flowglow where the company pushes them quite hard as a unit with all of their song releases, group merch, events etc. (only odd that Justice doesn't seem to have continued that trend)
This kind of organization can also let some of the girls who WANT to do bigger stuff like concerts etc, but aren't a Suisei, or a Mori, or a Pekora etc, get a chance to. Flare for example would never be able to manage a sololive most likely by herself. But she absolutely can be part of a 3rd generation concert.
Or with EN we see that now too with the Kiara/Ina duo concert. Giving some of the girls who might not have gotten a shot at some of those bigger things a route to achieve that.
Outside of those sorts of things the day to day stuff remains the same as always even with Dev_IS units the girls just stream normally same as if the were rolled out like any other generation, the Unit focus and push really only seems to affect the big project stuff, and it seems to be generally beneficial in that department.
One thing I don't understand is why companies like Hololive insist on keeping the characters of graduated talents. For example, they're never going to use the Fauna model or character again, so why insist on holding onto it and not allowing her to use it as an indie? It's not like a company laptop that's wiped and recirculated to another employee when its previous user leaves for another job.
For NOW they won't but you can't guarantee in the future they won't. There's always merch and the possible return of a talent you never know.
One day they may become a total hollow husk of themselves and try to push AI versions of a talent. No company is beyond absolute corruption.
Fauna graduates from Hololive but keeps the model.
Freed from her corporate shackles, Fauna goes on a drunken tirade about how the Armenian genocide could only have been funnier if the Turks had done it dressed as clowns.
"How could Fauna from Hololive do this? How could that green woman from Hololive say such awful things?"
One thing I don't understand is why companies like Hololive insist on keeping the characters of graduated talents. For example, they're never going to use the Fauna model or character again, so why insist on holding onto it and not allowing her to use it as an indie? It's not like a company laptop that's wiped and recirculated to another employee when its previous user leaves for another job.
Cover own the intellectual property, and in general it's not a smart business move to hand over intellectual property since it sets a precedent that's bad for them as a corpo.
Launching a vtuber's career is a considerable financial investment, from the initial model costs, marketing, project costs etc., and ideally, from a corpo's perspective, they'll want a return on that investment. They won't get that if the talent can just sit out their contract and dip the second it expires, so they'll want some kind of leverage (the right to use the company's IP) to encourage them to stick around.
In the past some smaller corpos have sold their IP to graduating talents, usually for around $10,000-$20,000, and have got backlash for charging an "excessive" amount for it - even though being paid a sum as huge as that will still barely break even for them on the amount they invested up-front. VTubing becomes more and more expensive as time goes on and more marketing efforts are needed to stand out in a very populated crowd, so I can appreciate why a for-profit company will do what it needs to do to make it financially viable, even if the optics of it aren't always going to be ideal.
Cover have opened auditions for a new project different from Hololive but positioned as sub organization of Hololive whatever that means. XAWebsiteArchive View attachment 8493094
Cover have opened auditions for a new project different from Hololive but positioned as sub organization of Hololive whatever that means. XAWebsiteArchive View attachment 8493094
I could imagine to a small extent? Kind of like "Day in a life with Mikodanye" or something IDK. I feel like Legend of Polka would fit that more. Or at the very least, these "guided tours" from Cover like IRyS in Ikebukuro (havent heard that name since Durarara!!!)
He decided to talk about that ovulation website and tried to search for Shondo, and got upset, while people in chat tried to tell him that wasn't her account name.
One thing I don't understand is why companies like Hololive insist on keeping the characters of graduated talents. For example, they're never going to use the Fauna model or character again, so why insist on holding onto it and not allowing her to use it as an indie? It's not like a company laptop that's wiped and recirculated to another employee when its previous user leaves for another job.
Think of it as movie stars, staring in whatever movie franchise. And then it starts to make lot more sense. Actors almost never own the IP they are acting in. Hololive spend significant amount of money building up the IP. They are not going to give it out for free.
it kind of overcomes the uneven slowdown of the vtuber boom because you can look at the individual members of flowglow and their streaming performance and it might seem like they are doing just "ok" but then their unit album comes out and they are top 10 on japan's bilboard charts. So for the goals it's aimed at it seems to be working.
