/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>40329931
>but it took so much time to have any of the JP boys recognized by even a handful of the Holo girls
There was an actual collab ban (and not the just debuted type of ban) between the branches until sometime on December 1st 2019 with the unification of everyone as Hololive Production, and the first FxM collab was a Pokemon tournament later that same month, so Holostars was by themselves until then since June of the same year. And even after the ban was lifted and we got ID 1, the collab suspects were recurring and not annoying. It currently seems like an issue brought by the same handful of girls in EN and the subsequent ID gens, but it wasn't like this before and it's frustrating.
>>40329976
I doubt it. The only reason that one Valorant collab happened was because K0bo begged Astel to invite Izuru one day in an unarchived Valorant stream (not really begging but she was acting coy around the topic), and Astel probably wanted to be nice so he did it once, but they're close friends and he's aware of Izuru not being very good with outsiders, so I strongly doubt he would push him to do it again. Basically, don't expect Izuru to accept a collab with someone he doesn't know unless Astel acts as an intermediator or he has a reason to (like the TCB family and Shin's initiative.)