The viewer's ability to see the amount of dislikes is technically disabled but there are browser plugins that restore it.
Sorry these are old, forgot I had them in my quotes list.
Just wanted to clarify: there is literally no way for anyone (other than video creator) to see dislike counts
from Youtube anymore.
What extensions like this actually do, is maintain their own dislike counts, and extrapolate from the behavior of extension users, combined with the actual dislike counts from videos before YT removed it. They're not hiding how it works or anything, it's stated outright in the FAQ.
If the extrapolation is done intelligently enough, then it should be reasonably accurate. But it's worth taking these things with a grain of salt (especially with outlier data such as suspected dislike bombs from antis).
Question of the day, what is the appeal of
HAGS? Why do you like em
aged and
crusty?
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what's the opposite of a hag called in vchuubing?
I love the hags because
generally they're emotionally stable, consistent, experienced, laid-back, supportive. Of course, there are always exceptions, like Rushia.
But also they're closer to my age, and I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a large part of it. Even across EN/JP cultural barriers, there's a different feel to their style of humor, game preferences, chatting topics, etc.
Two reasons:
1. Overproduction is a drag on business, both financially and spatially. The ideal scenario in any merch production run is that you produce a set quantity of a product and sell out completely at full price. Obviously, there will be some latecomers who would have been willing to buy a product at full price, but trying to guess long-term demand is tricky and businesses love predictability, so they'd rather play it safe and produce what they think is an optimal amount for their profit margins.
Now think of the opposite scenario. If they make too much of a product and it stops selling as well as it did on launch, that merch doesn't just disappear, it's now taking up space in some storage area until enough people who missed the initial wave finally buy in. That's not a terrible scenario on its own, but if you overproduce enough times, you can run out of space hoarding garbage products that don't sell and your need for more and more space increases. Since rent ain't cheap, it turns into a balancing act of how much do they value the potential gains on this declining product vs. how much do they value having enough space in their storage units for future products vs. is it worth investing in more storage space to sustain both. If this sounds annoying to deal with, then you can see why some businesses prefer to say fuck all that, we're only producing [X] units of this merch and if you miss the boat, tough shit, better luck next time.
2. As an extra bonus to artificially limiting the supply, businesses also benefit heavily from FOMO culture. The shopper's anxiety of, "If I don't buy now, I'll lose out forever" generates impulse spending behaviors, which are much more desirable than the ambiguity of a wishy-washy customer who might wait for a sale or flat out forget about the product entirely once they click away from the store page. That'll also net more eyes on merch runs, because people who have been burned by missing out once will be more likely to keep up to date on merch news so they don't miss out a second time.
Yes, I can agree with this reasoning.
I think it definitely depends on the type of product though. For something highly custom (e.g., a tako-shaped mesh laundry bag), I would think that needs to be ordered in
large amounts to be viable both for the VTuber corp and the factory. Also, the more unique a product is, the harder it's going to be to predict sales volume for. Limited-time order period might be the only thing that's even remotely sensible.
Products that only differ in a 2D design or shape are a different story though (e.g. t-shirts, acrylic stands, wall scrolls, posters, playing cards), as those can usually be manufactured in way smaller batches if necessary due to the way the tooling works, and most of those are also small or flat and therefore easier to warehouse.
Currently for Hololive, the only things they have marked as "regular products" are a set of acrylic stands, and a few music albums. I'd like to see them do more.
