/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

This is a reply to an EN redditor's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/VtuberV8/comments/lwos5l/in_regards_to_kiryuu_coco/ It also serves as an introduction to the spamming incident for the western Hololive fans. I will give you my answer from a moderator perspective and I am not only the mod in this sub. Hope you have a comprehensive understanding after reading my explanation.

A little bit background: I.Date back to the time when Hololive entered Chinese market, their videos were translated by loyal fans who wanted to share these interesting vtubers to general audience. After the audience base became large enough, the translators contacted each other in private to form "translation groups" and recruited more members from the audience. As the groups became massive with super high productivity (2-hour livestream translated after 12 hours), they contact Hololive staff and Bilibili employee asking for permission to become an "official" group, which basically was an agent who duplicated everything the vtuber did online, including twitter translation, livestream announcement, merchandise info, etc.
After the official group formation, most people relied on it to watch vtuber videos and the individual translators gradually lost audience and were absorbed into the official group.

II.Hololive members did not often broadcast in Bilibili. First reason was the language issue obviously. The second reason was because of the foreign currency exchange restriction in China, especially between a person to a foreign enterprise [1], it's extremely hard for the Bilibili Gift (equivalent to Superchat) to reach the vtuber's account. Fubuki once even told the Chinese audience she preferred Superchat in Youtube. From my knowledge, some payments even were not sent out after six months. That's one reason Yagoo said the Chinese business was not profitable. The third reason was the extensive political minefield, which I will elaborate later.

Since the Hololive members did not interact with Chinese fans directly (through Bilibili streaming), some fans were not satisfied but it's more like a minor complaint. However, it's a hidden bomb waiting for detonation. Furthermore, sometimes after Youtube banned someone's channel, that vtuber would come to Bilibili to broadcast a lot, since she had nothing else to do. Then after the YouTube channel returned normal, she immediately abandoned Bilibili. Such behavior added more internal heat to the situation.

III.Moderators in NGA tried to avoid two things: first, discussion of political affairs related to China; second, become the target of the enraged users, for whatever reason. Therefore, they deleted the posts which explained the point of view of a foreigner regarding Taiwan (which involved the history and political background), banned users who supported Coco and the Taiwan people (users who did not stand with CCP's ideology), let the extremists attack rational users freely (to drain their time and energy). However, these cowards did not dare to ban the nationalists because they feared that these users would draw the government to deal with them or shutdown the NGA.
This self-preservation practice led to the result that all the Hololive supporters left NGA. The remained consisted of only antis and trolls.

IV.Chinese domestic vtuber agencies were jealous about the JP vtubers for a long time. However, even without the language barrier, they still could not compete with the Japanese.