Somehow I knew earlier when that Silvervale quote was posted it was going to get nitpicked to the extent that people just miss the point and get defensive over it.
What she said is, generally speaking, true, and not really much of an insult or shot taken at Hololive. it's more just noting a difference.
When the Vtuber boom happened in 2020 in the west, it was more or less Hololive front and center. A lot of western viewers entire idea of what a vtuber is came from hololive (even though in reality hololive's way of doing things isn't representative of the majority of even Japanese vtubers)
What that interview response is saying is just that there was a point of realization of "oh you don't have to do everything like hololive does you can talk about anything without having to make it a big deal or a concern"
like yeah there's some examples of hololive talking about family, or kobo about her ex, but the point being made wasn't "heh we talk about this and they don't" it was "we don't have to worry about talking about that" which, sorry if anyones in denial on that front, but hololive does, every person you've seen have their mom on in hololive probably went through several steps of managerial approval to do so, Kobo's manager probably shit the bed when Kobo talked about her ex, and just imagine the shitshow that would ensue if a JP girl did that. They have their moms on but notice how it's still kept a unicorn sanctuary and no ones ever had their dad on? closest thing might be Matsuri at one point having her littler brother on alongside her mom once.
Either way all that worrying about subject matter, managerial hoops and bureaucracy, that's what Silver's addressing in that comment, If nyanners wants to stream with her bf, she just does, of someone wants to have family members in stream or break the fourth wall of their character setting freely, they just do (and if you think hololive doesn't get told to stick to kayfabe to some extent, I assure you Calli doesn't avoid saying she taught English instead saying "scythe swinging lessons" without there being some kind of instruction to avoid such topics, it's just not in her personality to obfuscate that way without a reason and comes off exactly like the thin vaneer of Demondice talking about her "restaurant job"). Just imagine the meltdown that would occur if one day unannounced and uncleared by her manager, Pekora fired up her stream with a male voice alongside her and she just said "hey guys this is my dad, today we're going to talk about a funny story about him and my ex boyfriend" she'd be put on break from streaming within hours whereas for Vshojo it would just be another Tuesday.
At any rate, It's not a big deal to note those differences between the companies, about the only real criticism I could give for the comparison is that it's usually bad form to name drop that company you're comparing yourself to and she probably should have avoided outright saying Hololive because it sparks things like the discussion happening here taking her as attacking hololive in some way, and it's usually just unwise to do that sort of stuff with companies you may want to work with in the future.
Those streams were so funny though...
