LOL, I didn't really get that impression during her days as Lyrica (a.k.a. the little Filipino indie chuuba that could). She got a huge boost in viewership/interest during her final days after her graduation announcement due to the speculation about her jumping ship to either one of the big two chuuba corpos but she basically operated like your typical poorfag indie chuuba prior to that - inconsistently hopping around between Twitch, Youtube and fucking Facebook Gaming playing Tetris, Arknights and Genshin fucking Impact and basically just catering her content to a mostly Filipino audience that didn't really translate to a lot of SC-earnings.
$27K in Youtube SC earnings for a 100K subbed chuuba with 284 videos over the course of 2 years is just abysmal. $6K out of that $27k overall number came from her final graduation stream. Hell, we even discussed that here last year:
Actually reading this was pretty surprising given how big Lyrica was in the Philippines but at the same time, it's plausible considering filipinos are massive cheapskates and donating was only for those really desperate enough for attention (or those with expendable income which is rare because 3rd world something something)
But, semi-related, this also got me looking back on her growth as Lyrica and thought to give a little bit more insight on how big Lyrica actually was here despite the lack of superchat earnings:
The filipino vtuber community was really small during 2020 and the only prominent vtuber in the country was Kaheru and she'd already been in the game since 2016. Lyrica really stood out in the community after she debuted because she was the first filipino vtuber to break into the mainstream with her collabs with ID during the time Hololive coincidentally were going through their initial boom in popularity, making it an even bigger deal to the local community, and she did this only
a month after she debuted. She also did a bunch of streams that haven't really been done here before so that also boosted her by a lot. Later on, she (comparably) wasn't a small creator either. She had about 70,000 subs a month before her 1st anniversary which is was actually way more than what Mint (Pomu) and Nova (Elira) had
combined despite debuting roughly around the same time as each other.
Also wanted to add just because:
As for the facebook gaming thing actually, in a weird way, Facebook Gaming is/was actually a really popular streaming platform in the PH at the time so it's not really out of the ordinary for Lyrica to be on there when every other content creator/filipino vtuber was also on there doing streams and making personal accounts to interact with people with as kind of a "trend" almost. The Philippines does have the 5th highest number of active facebook users in the world compared to Youtube and Twitch (where it doesn't even break top 10).
Also, stream tax:
It's NoriPro's Hoozuki Warabe's 3D debut today!
