lol, it's a move purely to try to get her viewers back from shylily, I give it a week before she's back to her "old ways."
I don't watch her but judging from /vsj+/ shitposting her biggest debuff is called "sodapopin" both because of the cucked, ridiculed simps and the fact that she would rather flirt with him than stream herself that's why you have rrats that she want's to quit Vtubing and rebrand as a cam-streamer after moving with her American husbando. It seems to be a bit of a theme with vshojo in general this days. They don't seem motivated to do anything including streaming, aside from Ironmouse who just doesn't have anything better to do. Makes you wonder how well the new members would do if the old ones don't bother to push them with regular collabs and interactions, can they even introduce someone who's not already in their collab-partner circle?
Ironmouse's sin is keeping Connor's fingers in the VTubing sphere.
Reminds me of that awkward Kson x Vshojo minecraft collab that got completely dominated by conur (feet Ironmouse) while everyone else was hardly speaking and kinda moving along with those two, not paying much attention to their guest.
I don't even remember if ironmouse was the first vtuber he interacted with, iirc she was just part of one of his early collabs with melody and Merryweather and some of the others and ended up clicking with the gremlin rat more than anyone else.
He tried with multiple chuubas after that Calli episode (including Ame because Calli told him this one is a toxic gamer), despite being open about not liking their content very much, it was obviously calculated and part of the reason why "schizos" dislike this dude so much. Pretty sure Calli actually wanted to have a similar relation with the TT crew, perhaps more with Garnt than Conor but Cover said no.
I don’t feel there’s much interest for the newer generations for Vtubers mainly Nijisanji with EN Gen 5 and hololive with HoloX and ID Gen 3. I think we’ve reached the stalemate of Vtubing and I expect the decline to happen very soon.
Niji male gen's so far cater to a niche, extremely devoted one it seems but in the end there are only so many fujos thirsty for Western boys and those that don't feel like pandering to Chinese women will not have the same level of success as VOX who might actually beat Kuzuha (at least in terms of subs) while streaming in Japanese prime time nonetheless, it would be interesting to see how established Japanese niji fans react to it btw. What I doubt is girls from gen 6 that supposed to be mixed gender (first time for niji EN) doing as well as 1 - 3 that mostly managed to built their fanbases before the dudes were introduced,
Anyway HoloX is doing fine, pretty sure they're actually growing faster than gen 5 (or Council) with Sakamata high in the superchat rankings, you might hear less about them in the Western internet because there are more English Vtubers this days but it's not like they don't get clips and such, ID branch got a boost from holofes and with gen 3 seem to dominate the Indonesian market actually, Kobo is apparently the ID Gura not only in terms of loli model fitting with her way of speaking/personality but also meme game, too bad her English is not so great.
Typical luxiem fans btw:
