this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
39 points (95.3% liked)
hololive
1370 readers
13 users here now
Community dedicated to discussing the Japanese Vtuber group Hololive!
Rules:
- No doxxing
- Make sure to link original art sources
- No harassment
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Well, even now it’s not 100% public, afaik around 40/50% is still owned by Yagoo. Fans would “just” need to buy the rest and say “listen Yagoo, we don’t really care that much about profit, just run the company like you used to and we’re good”.
Though of course, that’s still a lot of organizing and having a bunch of people commit to handling things the same way is definitely not an easy task.
I'm adjacent to enough backroom con drama. Some "fan" will try to become the king of the hill. Honestly, if Hololive nose dives, the talents have plenty of examples to follow on restarting their careers as indies or corpos. I think that's going to be the real legacy of Coco. Before her, no one knew if the fans would follow.
Yeah, I can see that happening unfortunately. My cynical mind says they would probably do better than the average shareholder, but I wouldn’t put my money on it.
We had a small taste with Delutaya but yeah, Kson really paved the way with that. Looking at the bright side though, the fact that 3+ years later so many old talents still choose to stay in holo shows they can’t be doing that badly, at least on the JP side. We’ll see if Doki proving how well that can go on the EN side will cause an uptick in Holo graduations like it happened with Niji, hopefully not because that would be a very red flag about the EN management.
Holo and Niji are still very different beasts. Everyone leaving Holo are still doing it on professional terms. No one's reported abuse, favoritism, or pay being withheld. No one's ended up in a hospital. No talents have dogpiled on anyone leaving. We also had two graduation notices within two days, so there's no enforced queue, although I wouldn't be surprised if the talents are choosing to soften the blow by spacing things out voluntarily.
Well, iirc that was the situation for Niji as well up to Zaion’s termination… and then in less than a year everything came crumbling down, revealing things were going terribly even before then.
Now I wholeheartedly hope that’s not the case in Holo, but we can never know for sure. Though yeah, before any of that gets public it’s no use being paranoid. Let’s just see what the future brings.