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Krenznoch said:

I hope it doesnt get bad to the point that the newer gens get their soul crushed and sucked out of them...

Nah. New gens will just use hololive to get experience and popularity that once things go out of hand, they are free to ditch it and become an indie vtuber or something.

cd_young said:

Cover's shareholders have nearly no control or imput in the company. Since it didn't go 100% public trade
Remember the incident of one shareholder suggesting they stop paying the talents, a-la Nijisanji, and Yagoo famously shouting that person down?

Yup. How quick they forget.

Prolly an internal fuck-up, if that. Unlike the other company, they'll learn and adapt. Just remember the Holo Crisis Mantra, "In Fubuki We Trust." As long as she remains a part of the company, we should have nothing to worry about.

Hthy said:

Considering the whole Selene/dokibird fuck up and how easily she was able to pivot to indie streaming and I'm inclined to heavily disagree on the replacability of talents. Internet fame is primarily driven by individual personality, or at least percieved personality. There's a performance aspect to it that's easily replaceable, like in sports or performance arts (like traditional idols/pop singers here in the west), but that's not the main draw typically.

See, you're thinking like an average joe, and not an executive. From our place on the ground, you can see the how x-factors like personality make a talent unique and irreplaceable, how no one can serve their niche in quite the same way.

Executives can't, they're too high up the chain of command to see those things. You can't see what makes people crowd around a talent when you're looking down from so high they all blur together. All their information on our level comes in the form of numbers piped up to them by equations. Anything that can't be abstracted into a number, like those x-factors, can't fit in those equations, so the execs know nothing about their value. Even if you could somehow bring those factors up to them, the execs will always defer to the numbers because they don't lie, doing otherwise brings in risk and they will never take risks if they can avoid it. An executive who decides to ignore the numbers is a ship captain sailing into open seas without navigation; 5% they luck out and come back with treasure, 95% of the time they become seafood.

An executive knows that, so they won't risk being part of the 95% unless they think there's something REALLY good in the 5% bracket, especially when they're captaining a ship worth billions of yen. So they break out the sextant, they follow the numbers, and they leave behind anyone who won't follow them. Talents are replaceable to them because they are abstracted to resources which can always be replaced or made up for, and all the things that say otherwise will be ignored because they can't fit into a number. And until the numbers say stop or people start banging their door to say stop, they will stay that course.

kolbjorn said:

I'm sorry friend, I believe that unless doing it could harm the talent in some way we should stop the past life/other life taboo, specially in circunstancies like these

I feel a major part of the appeal of vtubing, to people who would become vtubers, is the idea that they can reach a huge number of people while retaining anonymity. Thus they achieve something normally impossible, to simultaneously have fame and privacy. We should keep this in mind.

Arcana55 said:

I feel a major part of the appeal of vtubing, to people who would become vtubers, is the idea that they can reach a huge number of people while retaining anonymity. Thus they achieve something normally impossible, to simultaneously have fame and privacy. We should keep this in mind.

That's why I said "unless doing it could harm the talent" I'm not doxing Fauna, LemonLeaf was her Vtuber persona before joining Hololive

marcymal said:

See, you're thinking like an average joe, and not an executive. From our place on the ground, you can see the how x-factors like personality make a talent unique and irreplaceable, how no one can serve their niche in quite the same way.

Executives can't, they're too high up the chain of command to see those things. You can't see what makes people crowd around a talent when you're looking down from so high they all blur together. All their information on our level comes in the form of numbers piped up to them by equations. Anything that can't be abstracted into a number, like those x-factors, can't fit in those equations, so the execs know nothing about their value. Even if you could somehow bring those factors up to them, the execs will always defer to the numbers because they don't lie, doing otherwise brings in risk and they will never take risks if they can avoid it. An executive who decides to ignore the numbers is a ship captain sailing into open seas without navigation; 5% they luck out and come back with treasure, 95% of the time they become seafood.

An executive knows that, so they won't risk being part of the 95% unless they think there's something REALLY good in the 5% bracket, especially when they're captaining a ship worth billions of yen. So they break out the sextant, they follow the numbers, and they leave behind anyone who won't follow them. Talents are replaceable to them because they are abstracted to resources which can always be replaced or made up for, and all the things that say otherwise will be ignored because they can't fit into a number. And until the numbers say stop or people start banging their door to say stop, they will stay that course.

Unfortunately That's every major corporation. It's not always black and white as you describe but in the end revenue/profit and what direction in genreal they want the company to go will often change the course of the company.

Tomorrow my place could decide to to make changes on how the company is ran, from drastic all the way down to minor changes. It could be something very simple that I personally don't agree with. It doesn't have to be life altering. But at that time I'll have the choice to stay or part ways for a different endeavor.

Others have said it best, a "disagreement with management" is a very very broad statement and doesn't necessarily mean it must come with a negative connotation even though it's the first that comes to mind. I feel that's some of the worst things to come from this, are the assumptions of what caused this, when in all likelihood we'll never know.

She finally can see...

All is well in the world

Is that a mistakenly drawn extra line or a fucking fake strand of hair?

Tomzai said:

Is that a mistakenly drawn extra line or a fucking fake strand of hair?

Looks like a layer error

And then they have to pass through adaptation process, which is difficult, and many can't cope. Unfortunately.

That would redeem Jimmy for sure

Kevio_Nivek said:

That would redeem Jimmy for sure

He litterally already healed 1000 blind people, even the guy that came out to tell a lot of his videos were a scam didn't deny it

I'll fly like an Cannon Ball!

It'd be so awesome if we had an anime, this is so good it could be an official box art!

song name?

Suishitai wa koi shitai

oh that heart burn is going to hurt

@ElliotCroiss where did you get this file? Twitter can't host images this large.

Wow, that was fast. Two strips!

Okay, But have fun getting a stomach ache when you switch back.

I have the first volume of Octopus Girl and it's a lot better than I thought it would be.

Is that Binary number?

To text: "I love you."

Frieren and Shrek Late Night Drive

Adda creeps me out in the best way possible. Love the artist and their works.

I swear this is based on an image but I can’t for the life of me find the original.

Happy birthday King of the monsters

CrystalLeaf said:

A lot of people were clamoring for Biden to step down so Harris could run, so he did just that.
*I* can't help but wonder what the result would've been if people had just let Biden run for a second term.

These next 4 years are gonna be real interesting.

I mean, as much as I don't want to parrot Fox News, it is true that despite watching left wing news, I barely know what Kamala's platform is beyond "we'll just stick to Biden's plans". It made it seem less like people vote for her because they like Kamala, but they vote for her because they hate Trump.

Both sides news seem uninterested in actually building a better future for the country and both just turn the entire election cycle into endless us VS them schoolground squabble. People vote not for their own benefits but to "punish" the enemy. It's your typical sensationalist "angry news get more clicks", than anything of substance, and this is the consequence.

azurelorochi said:

I mean, as much as I don't want to parrot Fox News, it is true that despite watching left wing news, I barely know what Kamala's platform is beyond "we'll just stick to Biden's plans". It made it seem less like people vote for her because they like Kamala, but they vote for her because they hate Trump.

Both sides news seem uninterested in actually building a better future for the country and both just turn the entire election cycle into endless us VS them schoolground squabble. People vote not for their own benefits but to "punish" the enemy. It's your typical sensationalist "angry news get more clicks", than anything of substance, and this is the consequence.

The simple truth is that over her career, Kamala has drifted to binary opposites as far what she supported, depending on what the temperature of the room was where she wanted to be.

ArcanistShion said:

These next 4 years are gonna be real interesting.

Yeah, the guy who model himself after autoritarian dictator will only stay for 4 years.

"Enjoy what you voted". It feels kinda backwards a democracy being only two parties anyway. It's more a monarchy between two adopted families.

Monsieur_Safior said:

Yeah, the guy who model himself after autoritarian dictator will only stay for 4 years.

To be fair, considering how old he is, I don’t know if he will even live after 4 years.

The Star Network, ensures that Little Nuns go to bed early.

New member of the Victory Club.

NNescio said:

New member of the Victory Club.

Chiyono is suffering just like Mcqueen I supposed.

But when are we getting the real Mavuika?

M.D said:

But when are we getting the real Mavuika?

Wdym the real Mavuika?

MNL-AAFEnclave said:

Wdym the real Mavuika?

We're getting just pyro motorcycle, you remove mavuika from the gameplay and it's pretty much the same. She excels a close combat, using her fists and legs, speed, flight, fire blasts and explosions, but we get a fire motorcycle

Average SE asia mother driving a motorcycle with her childrens to local market

M.D said:

We're getting just pyro motorcycle, you remove mavuika from the gameplay and it's pretty much the same. She excels a close combat, using her fists and legs, speed, flight, fire blasts and explosions, but we get a fire motorcycle

I have no idea what you're trying to get at here.

MNL-AAFEnclave said:

I have no idea what you're trying to get at here.

That Mavuika's gameplay design is out of pocket and lame, she could've been "elemental skill the motorcycle" and then the ultimate could've been the "god of war mode" as some people like to call it. She fights with her sword, flies, is extremely dexterous when it comes to martials arts or rather fist fights who can also shoot fire beams and fire balls, but all her kit and constellations are about her motorcycle for no reason at all. She feels such a wasted potential, it's like taking the current power level of Naruto and making him fight using ninja tools instead of any of his techniques, or goku with only his staff and nimbus.