ASMR is a fetish thing. Apparently you get a hardon from listening to lipsmacking noises and the sound of heavy breathing. Definitely kink territory. The whole "relaxation" angle is to side curb the normies and youtube shitgorithm.
It's not inherently sexual nor a "fetish thing." Some people MAKE it so, yes, but it's not.
Blue meteor's new voice, not too different from her usual one.
I know we've discussed this, but its interesting to me when I heard a lot of the hologirls voice's I assumed "that has to just be how they sound" because no one would do a voice that hurts their throat for hours and hours. But I forget, they're japs so of course they would.
A good handful of the Holo girls do "put-on" voices, but they're all just very slightly exaggerated versions of their normal voices. Well, except Luna and Ollie, but even then Luna's general tone is the same.
Interesting talk here from Aki's experience as 1st gen.
This was a really nice stream. It was nice to hear Aki lay down more perspective from the Olde Days, back when it was the wild west and the talents basically just had to fuckin' wing it with no help from management at all. Crazy how different it is now, it was nice of Noel and Lamy to thank Aki and the OG crew for struggling so they could be successful.
Now more people sub to Aki, please.
My completely unsubstantiated predictions for the next 6 months
NijiEN will surprise everyone and do really well (like, a member will get 100k subs in the first month),
Nijiholo company wars will be imported to the west and ruin every discussion about vtubers forever,
Cover will continue to shit it's pants and make stupid management decisions,
A Hololive JP member will graduate or semi-retire,
View numbers overall will continue to plateau,
Overseas public interest vtubers will decline, less tourists and "react" type of content from normies,
Twitch will start pandering to vtubers in some lame and cringe way because YouTube won't,
Nyanners is going to get even bigger and 4chan will seethe about it
I mostly agree with this, but I highly doubt the raw, voracious tribalism that is Niji v. Holo from the JP side will translate over to the overseas fans.
and, yeah, I don't wanna admit it nor think about it but I feel like this is the year the first JP girl will retire/graduate. Under what circumstances? No idea, but I feel like it's coming.
Wonder if that means maybe it's not specifically Coco/Bugmen that EN Management is concerned about. But it's not exactly subscriber or viewer count either since Korone has collabed with Calli. I honestly wouldn't mind a little bit of transparency. Like both sides have shown interest in collabing with one another, but there's obviously something that management feels is important enough to stop it from happening. And having other branches on the EN server isn't the issue either because Ame invited ID to play whenever they want.
I think
@Biobreak was right when he posited that it's simply middle management being inept clownshoes who do things in the worst, most roundabout ways. But I agree with you - more transparency would be nice. It ain't gonna happen though, it's their company and they ain't gotta say jack shit, and that's their prerogative.
Also, is Null serious about the loli/pedo shit? I thought he was joking at first.
When did any of that ever come up once in this thread? No, seriously - when?
...or is he just doing the internet edgelord shit of "I hate [THING], so you shouldn't like [THING] either?"
