/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>76644650
Before Gura, there was NijiEN.

Hololive was lucky to have Gura who had more subs than any in Hololive at the time, to debut their EN branch. Carrying the rest on her shoulders.

>>72952016
Right time, wrong company.
They were EN Vtubers before Myth.

>>70407357
>They only got big because they were the first,
Hololive was not first in IN, ID, KR, or EN.
Fads for being first do not last 4 years later.

>>70361787
Myth was not the first EN

>>68185891
Niji attempts should not be regarded. They lack building support for them to succeed. IN, ID, KR, and soon-to-be EN.

>>63106879
They did try Western after IN failed.

Then Myth came along.

>>62568973
Gura is still the queen without streaming.
Gura and Hololive were fated to happen. neither would be as successful without each other.

Gura has said since the beginning that she joined Hololive to be on stage like Hatsune Miku. Made her dreams come true and what she still focuses on now. What Hololive was looking for.

>>62524118
Nijisanji made an EN vtuber group before Hololive.

>>62441489
This was EN before Gura.

>>55604725
And India too.

Did we forget already?
There were other corps with English debuts before Hololive. No one expected Myth to be near as successful, which boosted all of Hololive.

Timeline of all vtubers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhkLY7ZZsNI
While Fubuki and Aqua were gaining ground just before the Myth debut. The release of Myth became total domination for all Hololive members. Crazy how fast it happened.

>>51754872
Gura's old channel had 800k subscribers in March, while Fubuki and Korone had around 500k/300k. Before she joined Hololive. Gura felt bad reaching 1 million before them after starting over.
Also let's not forget they weren't the first EN. Nijisanji and others tried to accelerate after Gura's success, though they struck gold with Luxiem. Salome grew faster than Gura. But longevity is the true metric of success.

>>50056572
>>first of big corpo in the west

>>46645717
>You don't need charisma to get popular
But in Gura's case, it was.

>>45576894
>They got big only because they were the first EN gen released in the middle of pandemic.
NijiEN was the first to the English market during the pandemic on July 20, 2020. HoloMyth debuted on Sept 12, 2020. NijiEN accelerated 14 additional members in 2021.