Why would you try to compete with someone who's going to take almost all your viewers? This is a terrible comparison but say you decide to start a new sports ball game and your first day of play is the same day as the super bowl. You might pickup some views but where do you think the majority are going? You don't try to compete with someone who by just existing will steal 90% of your viewer base, you have to aim for dates they aren't involved with.
Adding to the above, a lot of smaller vtubers are hololive fans themselves, so they would rather be watching the debut streams than streaming at that time.
If they're going to prioritize other companies then they aren't really fans then, are they? Hololive doesn't care about these smaller Vtubers, so they shouldn't care about Hololive either
Liking more than one company doesn't make someone "not a real fan"
If you're going to prioritize x over y then that means x matters to you more than y. That's simple logic.
Btw how do we know Namie drew that art are we just going off similar style?
Another example might be something like I remember when Star Wars The Force Awakens was coming out, all the studios but one or two moved their major releases months out of the way as to not compete with that juggernaut. Like it or not, Hololive is the big dick in the room when it comes to vtubers in the West and their first EN branch is a smash hit. Everyone is going to and should tune in to see how gen 2 turns out and if lightning strikes twice.
That is the main way people figured out ina was nagu. The art Ina drew for holomyth's debut was clearly Nagu's style, people were linking Nagu to it on booru sites before she debuted.
Arts leave behind quite a large footprint (even more so than voice unless they truly have unique voice like Gura) that unless the uncredited artist copypaste Namie style 1 to 1 or Cover just commission Namie to draw for them for 1 time only so they don’t need to put her name on it like how Nagu did drew for FGO summer event celebration not too long ago (DW did give credit to her in form of super fine print at the corner) but her artstyle is so recognizable that everyone instantly notice who drew that.
The art piece at the end of the PV trailer:
Except for the fact that:
So we can expect one of the council (likely Hakos) to claim credit for that art during their debut just like Ina didThe art piece at the end of the PV trailer:
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Examples of Namie-kun's art:
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Reine seems extremely down to earth. From all of her streams I have watched none of them gave me the impression that she was the daughter of a multimedia company owner.
Basic marketing. People want exposure so it makes sense for them not to stream or announce anything when people won't watch. This is why big streamers have often moved timeslots a little earlier or a bit later than other big streamers in that same category so that dont have to fight for viewers.
The 3 most likely things we have right now are Ouro Kronii being Seru Kisen, Ceres Fauna being Hana Flores, and one of the remaining three being Namie-Kun.
this is still idiotically narrow minded. Yes people prioritize, this goes on even within agencies and between bigger agencies.
As far as I know the Ceres/Hana rrat only has Hana graduating on the same day as the EN2 announcement and them using similar punctuation and emojis going for it. Not what I'd consider convincing personally, definitely less so than the Seru/Kronii rrat, but given how fast this thread can move and that I don't lurk on /vt/ I may have missed something.
Allow me to add to that Rrat guess what Ollie called Fauna while trying to remember her name
