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>ECONOMICS ANCHOR
Post about Merch, Stocks, Sponsorships, Markets, Economics, and Business affairs pertaining to the Vtuber industry and community. Whether corporate or indie, it does not matter as long as it involves Vtubers.
We also report vtuber advertisements related issues on this tag, including corporate ads or indie ads (rip /ads/)

>BOARD EVENTS ANCHOR

Divegrass, Formula, HFZ, Tournaments, birthdays plans ,cards, group projects, anything goes.

Any board activities you want to share go here

If you're wondering where the Rrat/Kuro anchors are, they have been intentionally omitted for the time being as a trial run.

Goodnight /news/
I hope to wake up too some nice stories cause these last couple days have been kind of dead.

>>72365417
Anycolor Inc – Stock Watch
>https://finance.yahoo.co.jp/cm/message/1835700/e0f1c8592aa7c340a07c2f60d41004ca
>https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/5032?countrycode=jp
>https://www.investing.com/equities/anycolor

Cover Corp – Stock Watch
>https://finance.yahoo.co.jp/cm/message/1835700/a845c59066c88e2975f24bc8372d4c46
>https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/5253?countrycode=jp
>https://www.investing.com/equities/cover

>>72365644
GN /new/ anon

>>72365578
I'd say we need a /rrats/ to cut down on the catalog browsing then, but of course Bae already snagged that.

>>72365240
Credit for OP
>>72363618
>Smol-Ame poster
Smol-Ame poster if you are reading this keep up the good work!

>>72365240
KEK

>>72365578
>>72366195
Personally, I think /kuro/ is the most important anchor thread /news/ could hope to have, as it involves stuff that affects the entire vtubing industry, and in some cases threatens its existence, sometimes even being dangerous to individuals if they aren't made aware, and sadly spreading shit on social media is the only mechanism available to make folks aware of these sort of dangers and abuse.

I'll admit it does get a bit old when it's the same /kuro/ companies over and over again though... Rrats that relate to personal lives I can personally do without, though I must begrudgingly admit it's half of the reason the board exists.

>>72366640
The main reason I'd suggest keeping the /kuro/ anchor out is mostly because most of the stuff that was being linked to it could just be attached to the news anchor. While there's a lot of fog regarding some of the more dubious practices of black corpos, the real shit ends up being noteworthy regardless.
If /news/ was to ever expand into more informative/less investigative content, though, I would advise one such piece of coverage being something along the lines of "how to spot danger signs of a black corpo" either as a talent or as a viewer.

>>72366941
>I would advise one such piece of coverage being something along the lines of "how to spot danger signs of a black corpo" either as a talent or as a viewer.
That'd be a nice editorial. I went and got myself attached to V&U's Meeta before I read the /kuro/ list and now I'm afraid for her.

I just hope there's nothing wrong with EIEN as since Niji went pure black a lot of my corpo viewing is there. I mean, they're American, they can't be that bad, right? RIGHT!?

>>72367135
A certain formerly green woman alleged that EIEN is black. Withholding pay and struggle sessions.

>>72367257
God damnit...

...Someday I'll find a home that doesn't abuse me.

>>72367135
To avoid getting into drama, I'll just say that it's difficult to spot a black company when they're smaller and starting out, because a lot of things that could be seen as signs of being in a black corpo could just be early growing pains typical of newer startups and young executives. That's partly why intent and tone are so important when it comes to a corpo's actions and PR. It is easy to excuse incompetence borne of ignorance, especially if those in question are clearly willing to learn. It is much harder to give a pass to incompetence borne of malice. It is crucial to identify how a company responds to strife, both internally and externally. Learning to avoid trouble is important, but you can't avoid everything. Eventually, your ability to get out of trouble will be tested, and you will be judged for how you respond.

It's also important to understand that shifts in mangement and attitude can happen. Once a black corpo is not always a black corpo, just like how cleaner corpos can slip into the black if they don't keep themselves in check. Evaluate each scenario on its own, then evaluate it based on history. Be open to new information changing your preconceptions.

>>72365417
The Yahoo Finance board has become completely useless as it's been inundated with tribalistic shit-slinging with record numbers of posts and votes. Actual investment talk is drowned out. Who is behind this brigade is unknown.

In other news, Anycolor stock closed today at 2,578 yen, up a mere +0.66%. They are struggling hard to get back to their pre-drop valuation despite their live-saving CPR measures.

>>72367257
Yeah, but she's also a retard

>>72367463
It's also important to not be so sensitive to allegations. That's exactly what they are: allegations.
Trust, but Verify.

>>72367821
News on specific controversies can be pretty well buried, especially with small corpos, but termination notices stay up. You can tell a lot about a company through their termination notices, provided they aren't too old.

I've forgiven Idol, more or less. Despite publicly airing a sex scandal earlier, their handling of Pochi was alright, and I feel that she was largely at fault. Still, lot of grumbling from talents, and individual drama management probably should have mitigated, so I'm keeping a wary eye on them. Just saying it's not as though I've been jumping on every company at the slightest sign of danger or always siding with the liver.

>>72368244
There's also the scenario where both sides are partially at fault, too. Or neither is at true fault and it's just a bad match. Both happen all the time in the professional world, especially in entertainment sectors.
It can make you seem wishy-washy at times, but sometimes it's best to just be flexible in your opinions. Today's villain isn't always a villain, even in retrospect.

>The mother of BriAtCookiebox (formerly Cheri Lupina of VReverie) announces that she intends to debut as a vtuber
Wait, like her actual irl mother? Not like her artist mama?

>>72365355

>>72368497
Yeah

>>72368647
Holy kek

>>72367257
>>72368244
>Termination notices
Bleh, looking into it now, I think...

"Sharing additional details", deleting all her videos, stuff I don't like to see in that notice. I suppose to be fair I'll have to dig further to find said "additional details", but I really don't like it when companies create sin-lists to make sure a talent can never work in the industry again, no matter what they did. Just wish her well and say goodbye - best way to warn other companies is simply to refuse to provide reference, no need to air all that shit to the general public. It's also no skin off the company's nose to keep videos for the fan's sake. It's not as if Youtube charges for storage space or that you can't deliberately unmonetized a channel.

>>72368383
Sometimes, yes. Sometimes they attempt charge $450K to quit the company. Doesn't really matter what kind of problematic menhera the talent may have been at that point.

>>72368497
Yes her actual biomama, and as an actual separate vtuber, rather than a guest PNG.

>>72368497
>BriAtCookiebox (formerly Cheri Lupina of VReverie)
>VReverie
Speaking of black companies and talents I got into at the very moment they were falling apart and wish I'd be warned ahead of time. (Also Akio, poor Lida).

>>72365240
>>HoloXBreak will NOT have online Co-Op on release, but it is intended to have it in the future.
Source on this? And do we know when "in the future" is roughly?

>>72369053
From the Steam store page:
>-Up to 4 players local with online in an upcoming update
I believe it originally said that it was going to ship with online co-op, but there may have been a problem with implementation. It now states it is shared/split screen Co-Op.
You're still able to play using Remote Play Together, though.

>>72369110
Mmm, damn, I was looking forward to playing it with friends. Maybe we can get remote play to work though.

>>72369206
No idea when it'll come out with online co-op, but if they were intending to ship with it, probably a couple of months at most.

>>72371066
Would there be DLC fighters? DLC campaigns even?

>>72366640
While interesting to read, I can do without having to bear the arguments that look like rival interns fighting for their own side that often pops up whenever something of particular note happens

>>72365240
>new thread in the middle of the night
sure is pagpag in here, I always knew drama trannies were all sea chimps

>>72367756
You're implying that it has ever been of use to actual investors in the first place

>>72368244
I would've side with Idol if the invoice is 45k. 450k really shutdown any argument they got

>>72365312
Miori Celesta sang for the NIKKE x ReZero collab battle theme song
https://x.com/mioricelesta/status/1772618579919208476
>>72374336

>>72365461
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDw1rkAeIl6RC8s8lrI-ebtveNjRRXEeMTrzi3sKTUiS0xwQ/viewform?usp=pp_url

New signup GForm!

Thread still on btw: >>72351790

>>72374732
Think you're confusing V&U and Idol. There was no invoice involved with Idol that I'm aware of.

>>72374732
Think you're confusing V&U and Idol.

V&U slapped their departing talent Serafi with a $450K invoice when she tried to quit an already expired contract, which they lied about, while also dragging her name through the mud.

The recent Idol fiasco involved Pochi wanting to quit before finishing donothon goals. In the end Idol bit the bullet, gave refunds and paid her off what was left, without dragging her name through the mud. (Actually Serafi left donothon goals unfulfilled as well, but unlike Pochi, she was not paid nor demanding to be paid for them.)

...Pochi was handled fairly well, but Idol still made public a sex scandal with Riro a ways back, so their record is a bit mixed. (I mean, yes, fire the two of them, but don't air their dirty laundry to the world.)

>>72374002
No, but it was at least funny to look at how the bag holders were coping and mock them. Now it's just 5ch-tier garbage.

>>72375608
Yeah because the bag holders weren't also larping 5channers

>>72375339
>Idol still made public a sex scandal with Riro a ways back, so their record is a bit mixed
Considering that Riro made most of it public herself I don't see how idol could've approached it without revealing it. It's pretty much them confirming that yes, we are firing her because she took drugs on stream and offered to fuck high paying fans.

>>72365240
Question, why don't you call this thread /press/?

>>72375339
>Think you're confusing V&U and Idol
I did, thank you for correcting me.

>>72365240
Is there any mention on how many players Holo Break caps at? I wonder if you can go up to 8p with online or something.

>>72367756
>their live-saving CPR measures.
for how long will they keep doing it?

>>72365355
>reviews
hmm... Shimada tiger of tsunx fame does watchalongs twice per week. Maybe I can do short, online reviews. This week we are finishing Bravern, I could write something a bit more elaborate about that.

Yesterday, we watched Kaiji ep 4-6. My review, having already seen the series years ago, is that Kaiji rules and you are fucking up in life if you havent watched it.
Five burgers out of five (^◡^ )(^◡^ )(^◡^ )(^◡^ )(^◡^ )

>>72377688
4 but there wont be online yet
>>72376161
fuck, i like that name better

>>72365312
nice piece of oc

>>72376161
because the general is more than just one meme.

>>72365417
the Yen briefly fell to it's lowest valuation vs the Dollar since 1990 (34 years) before slightly recovering, currently sitting at around 151 yen to 1 dollar. By comparison, before the ukraine invasion it was around 115 yen per dollar.
Low valuation is great for exporters and corpos that make the majority of their money overseas, because each dollar they make abroad nets them more yen when they bring it back home.
But it's horrible for consumers, as everything they import is more expensive and their purchasing power decreases.
BoJ and Japan govt have indicated that they will intervene as necessary, but normie numberfags (stock traders) have indicated their intent to test the limits.
hopefully the yen recovers soon, so that JPbros can buy more chuuba merch, but if you westernbros have been thinking about a vacation to Japan now might be a good time.

>>72379674
The price of the yen won't actually matter to domestic vtuber merch because the manufacturing costs would also be in yen. It only really matters if they want to import phase connect merch or something and phase jp has not exactly seen great success in jp

KOBO 9K DORYAAAAAAAA

>>72365417
/nasfaqg/'s Seiso rep is here!

Time for a Seiso Market Update:
Is this not why you bought Suisei, are you not entertained?!

>Suichan waaaaaaaaaaa fucking rich!
>Marine in her 30s is in demand. BUY.
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>Kanata is waaaaaaay down, BUY.
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>AMEEEEEEEEEEEEE hits her ceiling?
>Shiro~n dips below her bottom avg.
>Beebs on a discount.
>Kaela rewards her investors!
>And there is the ReGloss sub spike!
>Uimama nice little jump as well. Either Sell if you think she'll go down, or HODL.
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>It's rare seeing Pekora this low...

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>Potato falls from 1 to 4.
>Buy Marine funds.
>Benis is good.

Head on over to >>72377627 if you would like to join the game.
Just follow the link in the OP and register on the site.
Summon a Dev in the bread if you are having any issues.

bump

>>72383453
(1)

Any suuji news roundup today?

Hololive news

>Bibbidiba hit 3 millions views!
>Congratulations Sui-chan!

>ANCHOR >>72365312

>>72385327

Here bruh
>>72378836

They always respond it to the OP so it's not hard to find

https://twitter.com/vtubernewsdrop/status/1772792703560159331
Thoughts on this? Also, weren't these the guys who interviewed OffKai about the recent stuff that happened with them and Nijisanji?

>>72386091
Ohfuck this is in my country...Didnt hear much about no happenings from my coser moots.

>>72386091
I feel like they're trying to piece together some big controversy or issue when there isn't much to go off on? also, the callouts of the two dudes in the first half seem kinda witchhunt-y to me at least

>>72386679
They tasted a big drama with a suicide attempt involved, and want more.

>>72386679
>>72386744
Man, me and my fellas at the new thread /tubero/ were just discussing it too...

>>72365417

>>72373623

>>72386091
Rumao so that Flip anon really did go forward with his plans. How is parodying Riku an attack on Niji fanartists anyway?

>>72390750
seggs

>>72380841
Keep up the good work Seiso rep!

>>72365417
>I’m on the official Apex Twitter, dokicoin going up, to the moon we go dragoons - Dokibird
>https://twitter.com/PlayApex/status/1773032211249352774
>https://twitter.com/dokibird/status/1773056228496752699

What's the rrat on Offkai? There are 2 months to offkai and no phase announcements? Did Phase really burn their bridges with Offkai ?

>>72365312
Very good news that won't be enforced
https://twitter.com/nemchan_nel/status/1772467512011112882

>>72393879
Offkai made a big deal about Vdere. Which tells me that Kawaii is likely skipping it and that's Grim if that's the best Offkai can get.

>>72395102
Kawaii is tiny anyway

>>72386175
>>72386679
>>72389175
>>72389690
There's no mention of this specific incident last weekend in the /tubero/ thread chain, otherwise I would've broken the news here as the flip correspondent and introduce the new general too. It seems /tubero/ needs to be created later today instead of Friday to discuss this.

I suggest baking /tubero/ in the evening because there's also at least 2 streams at 8pm PHT that the general can livewatch:
Kiichan karaoke | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHBAPmVqWBA
Nemu anniversary | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBMRxfrYZCI

>>72365644
when I was young I had the usual kids dream of being a cop or a firefighter, obviously since I became a lazy fuck that didn't happen, but when you think about it, their entire existence is to deal with bad things happening, so don't think too much about it being a slow news day, but a peaceful one instead

>>72396953
you're not allowed to create /tubero/ jesus is dead

>>72365312
>https://twitter.com/TwitchSupport/status/1773045278821564914
>Starting on Friday, March 29th, content that focuses on intimate body parts for a prolonged period of time will not be allowed.
Will this affect Vtubers on Twitch? Or is this just another one of Twitch's lies?

>>72398311
>No underboob allowed
>Everything from your hips down must be covered
>No nipples
>Wearing a bikini or similar swimwear while not actually in/at a beach, pool, or hot tub setting is a violation
Okay, sounds good so far
>If you're in swimwear it's okay to show ass as long as it's not in camera focus
>You're more or less exempt from most of the rules as long as you're actively engaging in or showing off the results of body art.
This changes jack shit. The keystone aspect of the rules that allows people to skirt around them still exists. And that's entirely ignoring the inconsistent enforcement problem Twitch historically has.

>>72398863
>This changes jack shit
You're clueless on the most recent twitch meta. This is design to ban that. These girls literally have dedicated pussy cams set up below them while they're sitting on glass chairs

>>72399170
No, I'm aware of that, but this doesn't solve the core problem. Sure, no more glass chairs and green screen booty cams, but tomorrow it'll be something else because the exceptions that allow them to bypass shit still exist with poor definitions.

>>72399170
Provide an example, please. For /news/ research... yeah research...

>>72398058
I'm proposing to create the thread on Maundy Thursday, when Jesus is still partying at the Last Supper. It's fitting, we can also watch a karaoke stream, we'll party with Jesus.

>>72399350
novaruu

>>72398863
>Wearing a bikini or similar swimwear while not actually in/at a beach, pool, or hot tub setting is a violation
>hot tub
Good to see that twitch is still protecting its disgusting whores.

>>72399324
>core problem
There really isn't one. Hot tub streams have been here for 4+ years now, and they've completely fallen out of the news cycle. The only time Twitch camgirls get brought up these days is when they're doing these absurd boundary skirting streams

>>72398058
Jesus isn't dead yet, he died on a Friday.

>>72396837
It's bigger than V-dere

>>72400745
yes but it would most likely stay alive until Friday and we should abstain from rrats and schizo ramblings and /#/fagging this holy week

>>72401624
Only a few of them. Just look at their newest gen

>>72394979
But this can be useful for large-scale reporting--this can be used for good.

>>72398311
Twitch HATES vtubers and will use this as an excuse to ban them, and only them.

>>72405862
The only ones getting banned are the ones with super whorish models anyway

>>72405862
>Twitch VTubers banned
And this is a problem why?

>>72365240
How many times in the previous thread has marines song been reported as an “original” and how many times did you get corrected ffs
It’s not an original, doesn’t belong to hololive.

>>72398863
>Everything from your hips down must be covered
Dufuq? Is no one allowed to wear shorts or skirts now?

Twitch really needs to either defer to FCC rules, or simply say, "You can be sexy but not too sexy." and deal with it on an individual basis - which would be fine since they never tell you why you were banned anyways.

>>72406840
Anon is just ESL or he didn't actually read the thing he's quoting

>>72407754
Caught me speedreading.

>>72405862
>>72406151
Pretty much this. Vtubers will just use Youtube and while it gives less interaction, it allows more monetary gain trough superchat and VOD are also more watched giving more membership and engagement.
Twitch honestly should stop being an indecisive faggot. Either allow things with proper warning and limits or don’t, these weekly rule change make them feel desperate.

>>72365417
>https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/531faefdc9a8bb5a31fb36ac7e99b329d9355482
>>72408458

>>72408129
>it allows more monetary gain trough superchat
99% sure that you gain more money from twitch donations than superchats

>>72408985
...and the thread is deleted. Nijimods strike again.

>>72408985
>>72410225
>>/vt/thread/72408458#p72408458

>>72405862
>>72406151
I get the feeling that you're just extrapolating again

>>72410225
I’m very confused this time, it’s literally Vtuber news. How can it be off topic, is now our fault?

>>72408985
>>72410225
I'll paste the translation of the article to cut down on the botnet, though I'm too lazy to OCR it.

>>72410317
That might be better, with an archived discussion, though they didn't capture the whole article for some reason.

>>72410929
It's pretty common sadly... There's at least one janny that is a sister.

>>72411309
It's not even that bad for AC, but I guess they just read the title and decided to axe it.

>>72411309
What's this an article for ants?

>>72412640
>1.02MB
open better

>>72412640
https://i.4cdn.org/vt/1711585445061334.png

>>72380511
That's true, I was thinking more in terms of overall purchasing power and disposable income vs like imported food/energy costs but yeah on the whole it's difficult to quantify what impact it might have. A fair bit of hololive merch supply base is Chinese (based on the stuff i've gotten) and so a stronger yen might make the outlay to vendors a little cheaper but they definitely won't cut prices lol.

>>72368497
fujck that's so fucking hot holy shit

they should do an off-collab oyakodon RP

Hololive news

>Luna's 4th anniversary 3D live nears
>She is also very close to 1 million subscribers
>Baby love!

>>72365240
Has anyone talked about Nenkan Alice yet? Her entire gimmick is that she’s dying in a year (vtuber not the talent) so she’s streaming until then. My theory is that she’s a Niji girl who’s waiting out her contract. Either way she’ll be streaming for one year and then she graduates on March 30th of 2025.

Huge production value all things considered

>>72417854
>My theory is that she’s a Niji girl who’s waiting out her contract.
Your theory immediately dies since Nijis aren't allowed to do any rm content, let alone stream on their rms.

>>72411309
TL of the article (DeepL+clean-up):
A big difference visible between VTuber companies after fes.
Revenues generally increase, but ANYCOLOR takes a hit

How far can the momentum of VTubers, now a major force in the entertainment industry, continue?
Cover, which runs "hololive production", had a major expo at Makuhari Messe from March 16-17. Based on ticket sales, the event attracted some 86,000 visitors, about double last year's total of 45,000.
>[Chart] ANYCOLOR, the second-largest VTuber company, has seen slowing growth in the EN market
For the fiscal year ending March 18, 2023, Cover recorded 1.8 billion yen in revenue. The revenue this year is expected to far exceed that amount.
There were many attendees at the event, including tourists from faraway places. One of the most striking features was the large presence of overseas fans. Even from beyond Asia, there were people from Brazil and the United States.
>Popularity of Anime Overseas Spread to VTubers
"I've been watching hololive since 2020, and I watch it about twice a day, before and after work". David, 30, an American working in Japan, says that watching hololive has become a hobby for him.
Not only David, but many overseas fans also have an appreciation for anime. Sahil, an Indian who came to Japan on vacation, planned to attend Anime Japan 2024 next week, but was sad that he "couldn't buy a ticket" for it.
"I've been watching anime for seven years, but have really gotten into VTubers in the past two years," Sahil said. He has watched many "clips" on YouTube, as well as Japanese-speaking VTubers, and has come to understand somewhat of the Japanese language.
The growing popularity of anime overseas has spread to VTubers as well.
In addition to the large number of foreigners, there was also a shocking amount of merchandise sales.
A huge area in the convention hall was set aside for merchandise sales, from which issued long lines of fans waiting in lines. The sales are supported by "oshikatsu" (oshi support), where people by plushies of their oshis and decorates their bags with a large number of badges.
The VTuber industry is in the midst of unusual surge. However, some uncertainties have arisen.
ANYCOLOR, a competitor of Cover which runs "Nijisanji", released its quarterly report for Q3 (ending April '24) on March 14. Sales and income grew by about 20% year-over-year, driven mainly by merchandise.
The day after the report, ANYCOLOR stock fell to the stop-loss level. While total Q3 showed an increase in sales and profit, for the previous quarter (Nov. '23-Jan. '24), sales were up only 4.4% year-over-year and profit was down 20.1% year-over-year. Despite the y/y growth in Q3, it was not enough to make up for the disappointment of Q2 in the market.
>Deficit Grows at Festivals at End of Year
One factor contributing to ANYCOLOR's sluggish performance was the two-day "Nijisanji Fes" held late in December. According to the company, while revenue from the fes was up 50% y/y, "higher-then-expected associated costs" increased the operating deficit and thus decreased the company's operating income.
Previously, ANYCOLOR had a strong market for high-return merchandise sales and promotions. In the previous year, merchandise sales and promotions accounted for 52.2% of Cover's revenue and 72% of ANYCOLOR's revenue. As a result, in terms of operating profit, there is a difference of more than double, with Cover's 16.7% and ANYCOLOR's 37.1%.
An industry insider stated, "For ANYCOLOR, with a profit margin of nearly 40%, the larger the scale of costly festivals, the lower the profit margin is likely to be". In this regard, Cover is unlikely to see a negative effect from their fes.
Even more worrisome than the decreasing profit margins is the ongoing struggle of "Nijisanji EN", a VTuber group focused on English-speaking regions, to make ends meet. In the previous year, Nijisanji EN accounted for 25% of ANYCOLOR's sales, and was expected to drive the company's future growth. However, recent sales are down 24.6% y/y, and merchandise sales, the main profit driver, are declining.
ANYCOLOR CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Shinya Tsurui stated at the March 14th meeting that the decline was partially due to "very good sales of certain products" last year, but added, "Nijisanji EN has some issues. We need to develop a stable structure for growth".
According to the company, it has not been able to keep up with creating training and other systems, which has delayed new VTuber debuts. In order to debut VTubers who will be successful in the mid- to long-term, "we will continue to develop a system to reduce delays and manage compliance issues" (Riku Tazumi, company representative).
[continued...]

>>72402679
I agree with this. And also on the hornyposting. Hore shit, suisexposting was one thing in english, but it hits different in pilipino.

>>72418776
The contract we saw only stops them from joining a corp after they leave. She’s a indie… technically

Feels like corpos can't do anything without people twisting it in a way to shit on them. Normally people would love to have more details about a situation like this but it seems like the vtuber community goes in the direction of "don't tell me anything about anything bad happening ever, I want escapism." And there's a degree of hypocrisy to it too, apparently indies are allowed to write huge screeds explaining their side but corpos aren't allowed to defend themselves against the allegations without getting a bunch of "How dare you respond to this instead of just saying nothing, you are evil." Which is funny because if they said nothing then it would be "How dare you remain silent about this, you are evil." Something about the vtubing fanbase in general is really rubbing me the wrong way lately. I guess it makes sense, since a lot of them are anime fans and anime fans are some of the dumbest people I've ever met. And I'm sure a fair amount of them are also teenagers with no critical thinking skills. And I have to keep in mind that social media such as Twitter profits from ragebaiting, so level-headed responses are never going to be the ones on top. There was a time when this was limited to /vt/ but this place has really poisoned the wider vtuber community. You can't escape it no matter where you go. But then again, that makes sense too. Vtubing has been around for so long that all the sane people have gradually been pushed away, and this is what it looks like when only the insane ones are left.

>>72365461
Waiting room is up for the next CorpoCar season 5 stream on Friday night at 8 PM EST, rounds 5 & 6 of West and East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlLqG1jLr1A

>>72419180
You copied this from a reddit post didn't you?
Anyway the reason why it happens is because corpos confuse "being transparent" with "covering their ass". Nobody has problems with idol being transparent when firing Riro, but when you have nijisanji attempting to cover their ass during the termination announcement and V&U using their termination announcement as an excuse to sling mud around obviously people are going to shit o them

>>72418919
Nijisanji EN has also been "roasted" [lit.: involved in a negative situation in which one receives intense criticism] since the beginning of the year. In February, ANYCOLOR terminated the contract of Nijisanji EN-affiliated liver "Selen Tatsuki", for "repeated breaches of her contract and incorrect and misleading statement on SNS".
However, in the statement to investors about the situation, the statement that "The impact of this decision on our financial results will be negligible" was met with outrage by overseas fans. [The article actually writes "(negligible)" after the JP version of the quote.] Later, the company's representative, Mr. Tazumi, even posted an apology video on YouTube in English.
Since "oshi support" is based on a relationship of trust between fans, oshis, and the company, such a situation could negatively effect the company's bottom line.
Questions were raised about the "roasting" at the quarterly report meeting. Mr. Tazumi stated, "There have been some delays in streaming content," and stressed that "we will re-build our relationship with fans by firmly developing measures that will boost Nijisanji EN as a whole in the future."
>Gap Between ANYCOLOR and Cover is Closing
Although the market cap for ANYCOLOR, which went public in 2022, was once nearly twice that of Cover's, which went public the next year, the gap is quickly narrowing following ANYCOLOR's recent drop in price. It may be that we are entering a phase of intense competition within the industry.
As opposed to the struggling ANYCOLOR, Cover is expanding its overseas operations. On March 12, they announced a new branch office in the United States.
President Motoaki Tanigo, who took the stage at the announcement, spoke enthusiastically, stating, "The NA region has great potential for MD (merchandise) revenue and licensing agreements, and we expect to expand the scale of revenue in the future. The new branch will develop content for local needs and promote connections with local companies.
Will the VTuber company, which is growing rapidly, keep up with the demands of the stock market? The success or failure of the overseas market, which has great potential, is key.

>>72365312
just realized Flork did an ama on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/VirtualYoutubers/comments/1boko0e/hi_im_flork_ceo_of_socksagency_popping_in_to_say/

>>72420388
Following up on this one.
Is there going to be more than one chuuba on debut?
Cause there is one confirmed hag, but not everyone is a hag.

Here's the round-up of today's news.

Hololive
>Watame will be featured in Polaris Chord, a Konami rhythm game, as part of a collab. The collab includes merch, ingame rewards, and a future release of a 3DMV.
>Luna announces her 4th Anniversary Live for 3/29 @ 7a ET.

Nijisanji
>A few NijiJP talents will be featured as part of Lemino's DREAM x SCHOOL event.

Small Corpos
>Syusetu Kohaku, of VEE, released an original song on 3/27, with an MV. I triple-checked this time, and yes, it is actually an original song.
>Florkofcows hosts an AMA regarding Socks Vtubing Agency. Confirms at least 1 hag, with "more later", and refuses to confirm how many non-hags there will be.

Indies
>Miori Celesta sang the battle theme for the NIKKE x ReZero collab

Other
>The Japanese Yen momentarily fell to the lowest valuation vs the USD since 1990. It has recovered mildly since then.
>Kasukabe Tsukushi, a JP prefectural chuuba, continues her tenure as Saitama Prefecture's tourism ambassador.
>Hiyori Ibara, a JP prefectural chuuba, continues as the PR agent for the Ibaraki Prefecture.
>Twitter (formerly "X (formerly Twitter)") announces intentions to update its policy regarding Personal Information/Doxxing to entirely prohibit exposing real names and photos of users that have not disclosed their identities.
>Twitch announces their intent to update their Community Guidelines, particularly regarding sexual content.

Local
>The VGTC has reopened entries following issues with the previous form. Event will take place in Fall 2024.

Corrections
>Previous reporting on Marine's new song indicated that it was an original song. It is not. Apologies for how many attempts it took for this to actually get corrected.

>>72419399
>"being transparent" with "covering their ass"
More like they conflate "covering their ass" with "slander the vtuber so they can never work in the industry again". Basically it reads like management trying to paint the vtuber as insane to vengefully divert blame from themselves in case the higher ups peek in. They do this while absolutely terrifying all the remaining talents to keep them in line. ...and they have this inexplicable tendency to accidentally out bad behavior on their part in the process, revealing things entirely unnecessarily, often getting caught in extreme exaggerations or outright lies in the process.

And while Riro was one of those cases where it's pretty easy to pin it all on the chuuba - no, we shouldn't have heard about it. Sex scandals should be rrats, at best, not confirmed officially by the goddamn company.

Transparency is a croc. All they have to do is be NICE about it. "We regret we must part ways due to creative differences... ...they were a valued member... ...we wish them luck in their future endeavors.", one, simple, paragraph. If there is a sin list, let it be internal. If the fans witnessed heinous shit, it stays with the fans. If the vtuber wants to air their dirty laundry themselves, they can do that - unless they are doxxing, it's easy enough to ignore. If the company wants to protect other companies that may hire them, just don't provide reference - that's the biggest red flag there is.

You certainly don't threaten to sue talents over half-million dollar invoices, or spend time publicly attacking a popular suicide victim, twice. Being quietly magnanimous is the easiest way to avoid losing millions by being picked up by thousands of drama tubers and twitter warriors as the drama affects all your other talents, and tends to be much more effective at keeping the ousted Youtuber from running crying to them. Selen was ready to let her company cover up her suicide. Serafi wouldn't have said shit if they hadn't invoiced her for $450K. Be nice and be discreet. It's that simple.

>>72421937
Thank you smol-ame poster

>>72421937
Based Smol-Ame poster back at it again with today's news round-up!

>>72421937
Keep marching on, smol-ame.

>>72365417
>>72388830
Birthday merch report of Shiranami Ramune from VSpo
>>72150635
>>72150907
Tsukimachi Nyamo, an indie VTuber, kas managed to sell 4,000 of her first voicepack on DLSite, netting her a profit of 2.772 million yen
https://twitter.com/TukimachiNyamo/status/1771503714605359364

>>72421937

>indie news
filian is getting sponsored to watch MMA matches once a month.

>>72421937
To add: those who registered to the old form have no need to register on the new one.

>>72425670
>>72365312

>>72425670
Speaking of which did we talk about her revealing she makes about 5 cents of r million views on youtube shorts?

>>72399350

>>72427184
i hate twitch thots so much why can't they fuck off to onlyfans or chaturbate

>>72427073
that was obviously hyperbole but yeah shorts don't pay shit

>>72427423
because its much easier to have thousands of horny teenage boys see you on twitch

>>72427423
Because only fans and chaturbate doesn't have the reach or frankly the easy monitization that twitch has. It's the same reason why some soft core porn videos still end up finding their way to youtube every now and then

>>72425670
if its not ufc nobody cares

>>72427521
They do wonders for the algorithm if you make enough of them often enough though - just look at Rin Penrose.

Basically you're paid in exposure.

>>72429073
the big con is sponsors
you need ccv for twitch, but you get them easily on twitch

>>72429073
Exposure to children and the dregs of the audience. Remember kids, sometimes the numbers aren't everything.
>>72250242
>>72255217

>>72429279
I disagree.
Numbers are everything.
It's just that kids are people, because their age lacks numbers

This just in: I fucked youre mom

>>72431234
Your*

The way you originally had it reads as
>I fucked you are mom.

>>72429279
Rin Penrose seemed to be showing up in EVERYONE's feed, including on my parent's TV, both registered as literal boomers... Even if, yes, only Alpha-Zoomers actually watch #shorts.

...assuming anyone watches #shorts. That player is useless and Youtube just seems to keep mindlessly pushing them with two rows of them in my fucking feed, despite it being a year since I clicked one.

>>72429204
>the big con is sponsors
I really don't get how sponsors still think that high sub counts are the only things that matter. Surely they'd realize that someone who grew from shorts is landing them fewer customers per ad than someone who grew without them

>>72431586
>how sponsors still think that high sub counts are the only things that matter.
all metrics are fundamentally false anyway
CCV? views can be embedded
Subs? Can be botted
Truth is as a marketing guy you need to justify your existence by doing massive advertising campaigns and you seek up the biggest number available and show it the 80 year old boomer at the top paying your checks and who still doesnt get exactly what "streaming" or why would anyone watch someone else play videogames

>>72431775
You do realize that there is such a thing as regular non live views too, right?

>>72431856
those can be botted and have been botted in the past, even by "human" bots
k-popers for example were infamous for having multiple videos in repeat so they would harvest views

>>72431909
Great way to kill your channel in the algorithm. Nobody is doing that in reality

>>72431954
This is cope and you know it

>>72431272
you could trolling is a art

>>72432121
Nope. If you knew anything about Youtube you'd know that it actively fucks with your channel more than it helps

>>72432492
tell it to the kpopers

Mori 3d live

>>72432630
Cool >>72365312

>This summer, coming to a stream near you
Not sure if this is /news/worthy but I scrolled the AMA someone linked earlier and Flork says his agency plans to debut in the summer.

>>72365312
Holoindie releasing new games
https://twitter.com/hololive_En/status/1773258728214864326
https://twitter.com/hololive_En/status/1773258728214864326
https://twitter.com/hololive_En/status/1773258728214864326

>>72427423
Both of those sites are notorious for being shady and thus have a fraction of the reach of twitch. Plus there's the stigma of paying for porn which is still strong there which leads to a greater increase in charge backs and the like for those sites and less safety mechanisms, unlike twitch which has the whole bits thing that provides abit of assurance against that.

>>72433888
Awesome!

>>72433888
Nijibros... Our fangames...

>>72434807
The only fangames they'll get are them as villains and their defectors as heroes.

Press

>>72434807
>>72434970
Elira ryona fangame when

>>72435952
Meh, too far for me imo
But I'll admit, I whacked it to THAT fanart

>>72365312
1.28 million listens
https://twitter.com/hakosbaelz/status/1773285116103516519

>>72436496
Which one?

>>72435952
Needs one of those old flash games where you beat up that doll with a bunch of weapons but with chuubas

>>72436688
That one where the artist mentioned 2% then tagged her. No, not based. No, not NDF either.

>>72386091
As promised, here's the /tubero/ thread where I will discuss this news more. Or I mean rrat about it more, so it's done in another thread, not /news/.
>>72439097

>>72365312
Roundup from /数字/
>>72439421

>>72365312
Addition to >>72439421
>>72440133

>>72365312
Update to >>72440133
It is confirmed that Rene lost her underboob

>>72441557
Baffling decision.
The consequences this will have cannot be understated.

>>72365312
Cafe VPI 2nd gen confirmed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E--JwifofyY

>>72431527
Rin used shorts that leeched on Gura’s name and other clickbait to get a huge algo boost, going from least subbed to most in her company (and making others there start doing the same)
It resulted in some terrible underage chatters being her audience though to the extent she devoted multiple streams just to wrangling them.

>>72442001
New twitch rules ban underboob.

>>72443002
Does Rene plan to stream on Twitch, though?

>>72365312
New HoloId original song

>>72443002
Bezos can suck my dick also JPs don't stream on Twitch.

>>72365312
Shirayuki Tomoe from Nijisanji is revealing a new outfit on Saturday, also announcing that she quits her job next month to focus full-time on VTubing

>>72365312
Aglio Olio E Peperoncino's 3D debut's frame is up, March 31st, 8PM JST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doVCVgN9O9E

>>72445281
Super exciting!
I missed her frantic energy being 3D.

>>72365417
/Nasfaqg/ news from the Seiso rep!

Get comfy, because it's time for a Seiso Market Update.
I'm so tired edition.

>IRyS once is back once again. SELL then buy the dip.
>Nene: Covid cannot contain her.
>Uncharted territory for Flare. SELL.
>Kobo received her Anniversary buff.
>Mel jumped, but HODL.
>Suichan comes back crashing to Earth. Wait for the dip.
>Ogayu falls after the leap, BUY OF THE DAY.
>ReGloss still has their buff. Ririka and AO are still strong.
>Pochi is on the cheap side.
>Holochannel is on a downwards slope, wait for a better price.

Mutual Funds:
>Lemao + RoboCo... takes back the #1 spot after slipping multiple spots.
>Aki Love!! hangs on to stay at #2.
>Potato Investments drops multiple spots.
>Funds will continue to fluctuate I guess...

See anything that I missed?
Are there any funds we should look at that are on the rise?
Koyolabo a sleeping giant?