Hana Macchia is so mid at her job that she had to hide her dad after he was better at it than her . I think you chose a bad example.
Besides it's not anti-consumer at all. Most vtubers/streamers started it as a hobby . Vtuber is not special , saying it's a 3 year old thing is disingenuous . It's a niche category of streamers (it used to be of youtubers in the kizuna AI days). If nobody made money on it we would still have streamers and considering the success we would still have vtubers too. It's not anti-consumer or monopolistic to compare someone to the biggest IN THEIR NICHE subset of streaming.
That seems like kind of a crude way of putting it, as far as I can tell it was more that he started feeling uncomfortable because chat brainlets wouldn't stop asking her to put him on. That's kinda to be expected, the median IQ of a stream's chat tends to be lower than its median age; it's part of why if Nina is actually using the mommy shtick to manipulate that kind of people, she's doing God's work, fuck them.
The reason why it might come off as disingenuous to make Hololive the bar for success is that their current position isn't just success, it's essentially a perfect landing with a telemark. Everything that could've gone well did go well, from the best possible timing (rising interest in the West plus the pandemic keeping people in homes) and algorithm RNG being loaded just the right way, to their skill, talent and execution (yes, even if you get lucky you still need to know what you're doing to make use of it, please don't throw rocks at me k thanks) allowing them to navigate and ride the wave instead of crashing and looking like total retards doing it (and I'll admit, Niji absolutely crashed at first when, for some fucking reason, they tried turning the Indian branch into EN0).
With things like the pandemic no longer being this much of a concern in a lot of peoples' eyes, a lot of the variables Hololive had will be very unlikely to appear again. With that in mind, it just doesn't make sense to make the bar for "a successful Vtuber"
that high. The perfect scenario where timing, luck and sheer skill created the perfect environment for growth, yes; a point that you're a failure for not reaching, not really. Unless that's not the point and I apparently don't know how to read, which is more than likely to be the answer.
