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>>33522416
New costumes onegai.

>>33521406
I know hindsight is 20/20, but I feel like when I first started watching Hololive, I could tell who was popular and who wasn't, maybe not perfectly, but to a pretty significant degree. Things like energy, sense of humor, content variety and interaction with chat seem to predict popularity. But I don't think Holos like Choco and Roboco, and to a lesser extent Fubuki and Matsuri, used to try and now they don't. I think I'm just describing what the current demographics watching Hololive look for, whereas the previous demographics were maybe looking for something different.

For example, if Pekora never existed, and you told today's Hololive fans that a little bunny girl was debuting and she was going to come out streaming Cuphead, Parappa the Rappa and fucking Seaman, what do you think this thread's reaction would be? Everyone would be losing their shit, that sounds fun. But okay, that happened 20 months ago, and was she popular? Sure, she had to come out of her shell, but the most popular Sankisei was Noel: a girl famous for, what, her big tits and ASMR? To me, it just sounds like "big tits and ASMR" was what used to sell. Or rather, people into that kind of thing got to Hololive first. People into video games and funny genki girls just showed up more recently, and in greater numbers.

That's what I think the real difference is, looking at the numbers. I've watched Roboco's and Choco's old videos. They didn't used to be more entertaining than they are now. It's just a different audience was watching back then. Even compare the old Undertale playthroughs to the recent ones. No one had Marine, Luna or Pekora's enthusiasm. Pretty much all of them just read the dialogue, went "heh *sniff*" and carried on. At least 5 of the 6 playthroughs were like that, but even Subaru feels more enthusiastic today than she did then. Hololive was clearly a different kind of entertainment, even a year ago.