They’re not “millions” right now. Imagine every single dollar they currently spend for different types of advertising, all used as budget for astroturfing. It would turn every online space into bots talking to themselves and nothing else.
I’m always amazed at how much Reiruka animations manage to convey while still being so minimal lol
I know, and that sucks. But outright banning something that has its benefits has always been detrimental (not to mention, they’d just find sneakier ways to do it and it’d be worse for everyone). We need regulations, a lot of them, not banning entirely.
Plus who are we kidding, everyone in power is so deep into the advertising/propaganda industry that neither of those options have a decent chance of happening in our lifetime.
Yup. The whole article and “we should bring back bullying” rhetoric (even used ironically) just reeks of someone who doesn’t like “uncool” people and finally found a morally valid excuse to hate on some of them.
Really, not much different from misogynists pointing at random female tiktok influencers and concluding “See? This is why women are dumb and we need sexism”.
That’s a generalization. The White Rose was doing “advertising”, and I think that’s all but “by the wealthy, against the working class”.
Advertising has its place and can be beneficial to society, it just needs regulations (admittedly, A LOT of them).
We all know if every other way of advertising was banned, they’d start paying (or “incentivizing”) millions of people to “do word of mouth” for them.
And then we’ll have those people polluting every online space with unlabeled ads. No thank you.
Yeah the thumbnail situation is definitely annoying… I can understand the initial issue with YouTube messing the API access, but now we have a dedicated thumbnail option, why isn’t that one working either…?
Was NOT expecting Dooby and Nimi on a stage together so soon lol. Does Nimi even have a 3D yet? I don’t know the other two but from some quick comments and clips they seem fun as well.
Anyway, broke gang so I likely won’t be watching, but I hope it’s as much of a success as the DokiMint one, they deserve it!
Okay, I’ll admit I didn’t notice the HAW at first lol
Good luck, stinky shark. Hopefully the vod stays up, I still have to watch Mumei’s…
I’ll probably be busy during the streams but I’ll definitely watch the vods, this is gonna hurt my heart.
Oh? Wasn’t expecting two episodes so close together, glad they managed to do both.
Huh, so they did multiple episodes in one week and managed to give Gura one too in the end, nice.
About the episode itself, the second half was really sweet. I feel like an Ame cameo would’ve broken my tear duct but I’ll settle with her line in The Show Goes On. Myth Forever, indeed.
It’s been what, almost 3 years since the Umisea shorts? And I still can’t get used to these mixed-language videos lol
That aside, it’s nice how they did one for Mooms, I don’t remember them doing it for past EN graduations. Wonder if they’ll do a Gura one, although there’s probably not enough time left…
Considering how it started with Korosan’s smug face, I thought a joke about how now she’s gonna have Okayu all to herself was incoming lol
That aside, I like the trend of giving them a “closure” in Hologra, those are always heartwarming.
ALL THE COPIUM WASN’T IN VAIN
Really, even if it ends up being her only appearance post-“graduation”, I’ll be satisfied.
…though damn, now I really wish for one last full-Myth performance before Gura graduates…
God, they really went all-out for this. And for good reason I mean, she deserves it.
“Regular” artists/bands are different, there’s singers who drop an album, make a round of concerts for a year, and then disappear for multiple years before publishing the next one. Being a corporate vtuber means you can’t just do that.
The comparison could be better with regular streamers, and a lot of them definitely drop after 4/5 years. And being a corporate vtuber is even more stressful because you have multiple obligations that a “freelancer” streamer doesn’t have. I doubt most of them have to fly back and forth between US and Japan multiple times a year, for example.
“I can’t match your freak Gigi, it’s not possible!”
Truer words have never been spoken
Holy crap that was a rabbit hole.