>>726889
The main problem was the mu
yth of nijisanji and its little bro hololive were printing money hand over fist it was a gold rush all you had to do was show up to start sucking down free money. So lazy retarded shitters flooded in and the rest is history.
A lot of girls like Finana and Saya need a manager with a firm hand to tard wrangle them. To in essence, produce them.
There's a very large swath where they're put off by the workload or are burdened by the heavy tard wrangling workload of getting merch designed, produced, and shipped to the consoomer. Mari being one of the chief cases for it. In theory it would be able to work on volume but in actuality the seasonal surges and the need to have very many very high quality veteran employees to oversee the merch process without overloading them is just too unrealistic and too much that can go wrong. The degree the talent may want to get involved also loops back to the geega paradox where you're already nearly doing it all yourself so you may as well not give them a cut and just do it yourself.
A proper production team for music helps take the load off having to dickride an indie mixer and commissioned artists
An agency helps spread the load on a 3d recording studio since they're so retard expensive and helps maintain a content schedule to sustain engagement.
Overall, we're stuck in quicksand. I think Sakana has the
(((right))) angle where it's all about not overextending and not getting too big for your britches. 3d/corpo cover spam is a woefully costly gimmick over vrchat/home3d slop or not at all. That stability at the cost of quality is the correct way to go about it. Much like how you can appreciate a scuffed artist with sovl and vision even if their drawing skills look bad.
That said, chuubers are ultimately still entertainers. Much like actual idol groups, they can succeed if they can secure regular high paying venues. I think as the general shift continues it's certainly doable provided talented idol quality groups manage to get their legs under them and get out there. That's something an otaku oiler could finance. As things stand, since niji bilked it, it's entirely on holo now to prove to geriatric boomers that they can supply opening acts, large sponsorships, and headline major shows as other performers could.
>>727319
Yeah, sux Lia!