Information on HoloCN's actions and loyalties is difficult to process
Firstly due to both a language barrier. EN<->CN is more of a barrier than EN<->JP for a lot of logistical reasons. Holo fans, 4channers of all types, etc are all much more likely to study Japanese, so there's more translators available. The few Chinese translators that are available are likely to put a Chinese Nationalist spin on things.
Secondly, the constant bugman misinformation campaign. It's basically not affecting EOP relations with Holo JP/EN/ID at all (It turns out that fluent ESL gayops is actually really really hard for a bunch of internet simps), but it makes it difficult to filter any objective information about HoloCN.
There's been a few graphical posts linking Artia to nationalists, but not many people will see it, and afaik there's very little info on most of the other HoloCNs.
There’s too many fucking groups involved in this shitshow:
1) JP fans - fully invested. Very likely to hold a “Fuck china” attitude. Main player in the game.
2) JP antis - Don’t think they’re involved this time, mentioned for clarity.
3) CN fans - fully invested, likely crushed by what the antis have done. Includes Taiwanbros, who have done their best to relay info to the chans, reddit, etc.
4) CN antis - combination of bugs that hate the US, Sino-superiority complex, want to keep Holos on their platform. Remove Coco, or leave China. Major player in the game.
And now, the dark horses:
5) EN fans. Stupidly large untapped market. Noncentralized, meaning fans across all of social media: reddit, chans, fb, twitter, etc. Generous as well. Really, REALLY fucking hates China for a variety of reasons, primed by Gura shouting out Coco during her karaoke. Major player in the game.
6) EN antis. I include the grifters and atroturfers here as well, since they cut into Hololive’s stronghold on the Vtuber sphere. Mentioned for clarity, barely relevant outside of Twitter.
So, the breakdown of interests:
Group 2 might have a nationalist agenda, since Taiwanbros don’t want mainland control over their region. Groups 1 and 5 really doesn’t want another Aloe to happen, much less two. Cannot be shaken from that conviction. Some say damn the consequences, burn all bridges with China and pull out fully.
Group 4 (maybe a little 3 overlap) want Coco to graduate, due to “anti-China sentiments”. The plan is to cause as much infighting as they can on 4chan, reddit, Twitter through a misinformation and hate campaign.
There’s been 4 large translation infodumps up through the CN graduation arc:
1) the alert that they were planning infiltration
2) an anti-Artia campaign
3) a falseflag doc with translations of chan lingo, noting the anti-Artia campaign
4) an updated anti-CN campaign revealing that CN almost universally goaded their fans on billi billi.
SPECULATION TIME:
Doc 1 should be clean. It was relayed by a Taiwanbro near the beginning of Coco’s suspension, and lines up with antis trying to spam the chats of various Holos.
Doc 2 and 3 are murky, since 3 also revealed that they thought chan shitposting and making chan threads into dumpster fires hating on Artia was a success. Note - after the release of Doc 3 there are intermittent waves of support for Artia and Civia that dried up following their graduations. This leads me to think that Doc 3 is an attempt at damage control by Artia’s discord; why would her fans suddenly stop frequenting the thread unless they were never regulars?
Doc 4 is the stuff that Anon shared concerning this ywwuyi guy, largely spread after CN graduations were set in stone. I’ve seen it floating around but didn’t want to bring it up here, since CN is dead either way. It’s possible that Doc 4 is meant to cut CN from any foreign support and make them completely reliant on billi-billi, if they are caught in the crossfire. If its a false-flag.
If Doc 4 is true, then the whole “We’ll get to keep our avatars!” stream Artia did with Civia is recontextualized as a coordinated CN powermove with their managers; instead of being misguided talents that were lied to, they are soldiers in disguise waiting to backstab the medics trying to evac them. In other words, CN is entirely bad apples (excepting Yogiri, again).
FINAL THOUGHTS - I can’t believe bugs are stupid enough to issue an ultimatum and not create contingencies for both scenarios.
tldr: Chinese Antis (and CN?) vs JP, TW, EN. They got soundly btfo’d, and are -still- trying their damnedest to ruin whatever they can, whenever they can. I feel bad for the fans, but they’re a dying breed over there. Unfortunate.
Fuck CN though, Yogiri excluded.