I know it's a lot more nuanced then that, but from an outsider's perspective, it might not seem that much different than what happened with the Chinese fanbase during the whole Coco/Haachama debacle. I do wonder now with Hololive EN's success and JP's overseas fanbase how much power they have when it comes to having a say with how certain talents are treated. (Given a large enough controversy)
Here's a good video I saw sometime last year on how fucked up the idol industry is:
Ah, yes, people's reactions to this NTR stream were damn fine.
No.
That's really reductionist. The reality is actually pretty complicated and also off-topic so I'll keep it short. Let me put it like this--the idol industry, on the surface, much like anything moe-related, has been compared multiple times to the "floating world" of the geisha. This is really apparent in maid cafes. The idol industry has morphed into it from what it started out as (which was a copy of the French idol industry of the mid-to-late 1970s). It sells a fantasy world, pure-and-simple. The problem is, some people stop living in reality and instead live in the fantasy bubble and rail against anything that shatters the fantasy. On the other hand, the Japanese management sees the talents as mere products to be sold and by controlling every aspect of their lives, they reduce any variables that might interfere with their profit margins. Hell, Japanese management sees EVERYONE as mere cogs in a machine, anyway.
That's the one. The reactions were mostly total coomer stuff, just in Japanese. How these guys manage simultaneously to type and fap is beyond me. Lots of "Ii, ne?" and "Nakadashi hoshi?"
Yeah, sure. For real. Turns out it was the neighbor's dog, too.
What little I know about hostesses and hosts is what the Yakuza games have taught me; the girls get paid according to how much cash they can mooch of clients, then in their offtime they spend their salary on host clubs with their masculine counterparts, who in turn return the favor on their off duty, rinse and repeat.
Ironically yes. Just watch the gachakoi meltdown when Mizuki Nana, a forever 17 with 20+ years of idol experience, announced her married last year. When I read about it I was facepalm so hard.
This new season of Kiniro Mosaic is weird. Didn't expect Shino to become a VTuber.
>they dont actually sing it
It’s still unknown but I bet they would still draw some red line on how Hololivers should act if said livers are Japanese like majority of them to completely oversea like the EN and ID girls. So far, even ex idol like Kiara is still doing just fine. Coco, who grew up over sea is getting the same treatment (let them do whatever). I wonder what they think about half blood like Rushia or Hoshikawa.
Wish the ID manager would stop wacking off for 10 mintues and tardwrangle harder.
Absolutely was, and they still kinda treat her unfavorably because of it. She's the only Holo talent to have a higher ratio of EN viewers and comments than JP. Also, her growth has been at an absolute crawl since that incident, numberfagging here for a sec but there's no way in hell her sub count should still be where it's at, with the amount of talent she has (same goes for Flare too while I'm at it), But, of course, she also streams very randomly and usually not on a tight schedule so there's that.
Given how the Japanese fandom reacts to idols having a relationship, the answer is self-explanatory.
pls, share a short story or two. i have been interested to know more of these kind of things. seems like such a scummy business.
Is it even possible to tardwrangle ID? One would think that if someone was serious about "maintaining image" for ID specifically, it would drive most people to drink.
