>>646386 It's hard to summarize everything, mostly things have fallen apart A whole load of small corpos failed Nerissa is the only white girl in NA remaining VShojo (surprise surprise!) turned out to be a scam top to bottom HololiveJP stopped growing entirely, instead Cover pivoted to a new branch, ReGloss. Aqua and Shion left. NijiEN lost even more people, JP continues to grow in size (though I think their audience size has been treading water lately) Phase grew a bunch There's a handful of new small corpos too, including an ero one Twitch has been cracking down on allowed avatars And, of course, the whole community splintered completely thanks to gookmoot's terrible management and decision to hand his site over to a literal niggerjeet. Hence here and HoloTower

>>647442 >Phase grew a bunch Glad to hear that. I always had a soft spot for them. Did PhaseJP grow too or has it mostly been the English branch?

>>654535 Nobody cares about phase JP outside of like, Clara. Shes not really even JP anyways so no nobody cares about JP Honestly at this point if all you care for is EN then just watch phase. Indies and other small corpos are almost entirely focused on being whores. And I mean like literally they have a fansly and do dicksucking ASMR or are straight up camming now. That isnt to say everyone in Phase is squeaky clean but they seem to be the only chuubas that have futures (unless you dont care about/enjoy chuubas who fill their wholes on stream in which case, pick whoever really) Hololive EN though seems like a sinking ship, most of the girls worth anything are gone and with only a few exceptions, anyone who was acceptable in the past are pretty unstable now a days If youre intent on holoEN then check out FWMC Irys or Biboo

>>654535 PhaseJP has somewhat grown, not by nearly as much but Yuu and Loki in particular have gained significant JP audiences

>>654535 Michiru and Nasa have done a lot more than in the past. Iori is as usual. All of Kaleido is always a mid-3view, i.e. averaging 400-500 viewers per stream, even with "debuff" topics. Due to Kaleido's choice of content nobody can say whether they will grow more than this, but they are by no means "nobodies". Not to mention some of them are networking like crazy. Most of their audience is also made by Japanese people, so the viewers are not just "Phase fans" hopping from one chuuba to the other but largely the result of organic growth.

>>646386 Gura graduated => Debuts as Saba, hilariously starts streaming pretty regularly https://www.youtube.com/@SamekoSaba Fauna graduated => Debuts as Nimi https://www.youtube.com/@niminightmare Ame graduated => Debuts as Dooby, streams pretty regularly https://www.youtube.com/@dooby3d All of them cited issues and disagreements with management, and so did every other girl that has graduated in the last year and a half. VShojo imploded but all of the girls kept their IP, so no need to go looking for their new identity. Turns out VSJ stole 500k from IronMouse's charity donation and owes her EVEN MORE money on top, plus they owe every other talent money as well. NijisanjiEN almost killed one of their talent, Selen, tried to smear her. The entire agency fucking exploded under the massive backlash of the ENTIRE western VT industry telling them to go fuck themselves. The stock is the gutter and the growth is essentially negative. Selen redebuted under her previous identity, Dokibird, and has been collabing with tons of people, growing, doing events and generally having a good time. https://www.youtube.com/@Dokibird Pomu of NijisanjiEN also redebuted under her previous identity, Maid Mint Fantome. https://www.youtube.com/@mintfantome Oh yeah, and Phase had a concert while Nijisanji canceled one of theirs. It's pretty much confirmed that Phase had to fill-in for Niji with only 1 month to prepare, yet they did a better concert than NijiEN did afterwards, which is FUCKING HILARIOUS btw.

the EN vtubing landscape has entirely shifted toward being non-GFE/anti-unicorn, so i hope you're okay with that as well