State of The VTuber World - (Rest) of July 2025

Good Riddance, VShojo

There is only two reasons to be an EN corpo now. Either you have some legal issue that needs protections (like KURO) or you are wading to a pursuit filled with red tape like Music (so, AmaLee).

Any other promises that EN corpo has made is now false. Ironmouse should have known this when Nyatasha left. I personally think she was kind of gaslighted in that contract decision, because of VShojo was desperate to hold onto to her because she was the last real crowd-bringer left.

I'm sad that being stiffed out of a huge charity was the catalyst...

Well, they still have their remaining members, although who knows if the company will exist...

I'm With Husband

There is a reason Nimi is so goddamn hated by Hololive fans - her residual success is part of this, but I did want to write this exactly when Fauna left - but it felt too brash. But I have this now, so...

Ceres Fauna left because she hated 'Hololive', not the nominal Hololive of the talents - I do think her distance from her peers was to quiet the backfire, but obviously THAT backfired tremendously. But 'Hololive' that the Audience likes.

It was clear in around 2023, that Fauna realized she fucked up - she initially primed herself as this yandere GFE ASMR girlfriend, but as she streamed - she realized she just wanted to be the Female Northernlion, and the fandom she had built up was not going to conducive to this change.

So like, she had to rip the band-aid and I think she purposely made the fire worse because she couldn't handle what needed to be done... but you know, now it's done. Good job for her.

The real reason Sana left was that she realized how big of mess she would be in if she kept going and the best thing to do was to with the excuse of an illness to leave the company and never mention her time there unless someone pokes, and ironically that's why Sana is still loved by the fans.

I think this above irony along with Nimi's descent with the HoloFans is... instructive.