/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

Most streamers fear going on break, extended hiatus can be a death sentence in the algorithm. Peoples viewing habits change, others might investigate why you aren't streaming who would have otherwise remained complacent.
I feel that the Niji's might have had one or two bad streams, but agitators would have moved on quickly if they got banned and ignored, or not even allowed to post due to members only mode being turned on.
Instead Nijisanji have gone to ground, many have been offline for going on a week, their self imposed exile is going to end up doing more damage to them than any amount of angry tourists, as some of their core audience bleeds out to inattention and finding other shit to do.
Shutting the fuck up only related to official statements, not shutting off your streamers business, niji.

>>66684815
They killed any chance of niji / holo unity for years, purely by being unprofessional on their work personas and raising the question of 'what else isn't being shown?'
Before that there was a belief that the companies chuubas were fine with each other, it's just the fans that are shit to one another. This pretty much ruined everything, in that regard. It torpedoed a shit ton of good will and really changed the perception of things.

>>66185433
>>66185380
makes a lot of sense, naruhodo.

>>63859376
They would need a breakout gen that basically overshadows all the previous gens and becomes 'ID' for all intents and purposes. The people there... it's too late for them to change it on their own. Kobo might have been able to, but she completely obliterated that path.

>>54569383
Coma-chama?

>>32684213
Its a nun - nun it's sora little emoji thing she does it's cute

>>31569556
>Also I just assumed she's one of his RM's friends so it's whatever.

>>30821172
I'm actually looking at the documents for Cover's financials right now, and let me tell you, it is a much better indicator than you may think it is.
Let me preface this by saying that "Fiscal Year(FY)" is a period that ranges from April 1st of one year to March 31st of the next. So "FY2020" means "From April 1st, 2019 to March 31st, 2020."
Their accounting statements are fucking STUPIDLY solid. In the past three periods, Cover went from making a gross profit of $6,400,000 (FY2020) to making $39,500,000 (FY2022). But despite that, their executive compensation totals only went from a salary of $90,000 (FY2020) to $480,000 (FY2022). Meaning the money being paid is not being siphoned to the corporate head honchos, it's being used elsewhere, that's good.
For total Net Profit (Money kept after all expenses are paid), they went from $1,300,000 (FY2020) to $9,400,000 (FY2021). So in FY2021, they RETAINED more profit than they earned BEFORE ANY EXPENSES IN FY2020. THAT'S GOOD. THAT'S REALLY GOOD.
But that's only something business people would care about. What's really, REALLY, REALLY GOOD is what comes in FY2022. See, in FY2021, the gross profit was $21,100,000 (FY2021). Of that, they retained $9,400,000.
Now, in FY2022, the gross profit was immense. $39,500,000 (FY2022). They nearly fucking DOUBLED their gross income. But how much did they retain after expenses?
They retained $9,300,000 (FY2022) in profit. That's LESS RETAINED EARNINGS THAN FY2021.
They doubled their gross earnings (And remember, Gross Profit = Income after the cost incurred by selling the product, so all sales costs are taken care of already), but they retained less. Why? Because nearly all of that money was DIRECTLY RE-INVESTED BACK INTO THE COMPANY.
For the following stats, I'm going to compare FY2022 to FY 2021 and show you what grew, and explain what each section is so you understand what they've been spending on:
>Salary Allowance (the amount paid as a base salary to managers and staff[possibly talents as well, but if they're contracted instead of hired on, as some people have said, it would be later on for them]) rose 126% YoY
>Welfare Expense (Cash allocated to support workers in various, non-salary ways) rose 225% YoY
>Education and Training (training new staff and new talents) rose 282% YoY
>Travel Expenses (The money allocated to staff to meet with talents and personally help, and to go in-person to other corporations to make deals) rose 156% YoY
>Commissions Paid (this is the hardest for me to understand without access to their actual books; this is either "expenses related to commissions for assets" exclusively, such as Mama/Papas and things like VSinger expenses, or "expenses incurred by contract work," which could possibly include talent pay. If you feel conservatively, assume talents are paid by the Salary expense. If not, talents may be getting paid under this expense) rose 10,630% YoY (!!!)
Like, holy fucking shit, man. If I had the Japanese residency needed to comb over the raw stats myself, I'd be sitting here making a post that would go over the character limit five times over, but just from what I can see from that, Cover is like, the ideal company in terms of how they're treating their growth.
>Massive financial windfall
>spend the money on quality of life improvements, increase compensation for everyone you work with so that their quality of life is increased and you become a far more attractive business partner, keep a significant chunk of money safe as a slush fund just in case, but most importantly, focus on re-investment into your company to generate high-quality production of goods, and high-quality services
I was fucking amazed. Cover's business strategy is literally "plan for the long-term future." If they thought this was a fad, they'd have raised executive compensation insanely high, spent VERY little YoY on improvements, and pocketed tens of millions of excess. But instead, they're planning out business expansion in ways that indicate, at the very least, a five-to-ten year long business cycle, with a priority on improving lines of communication and facilitating staff/talent connections to the wider world. And all of that, WITHOUT EVEN NEEDING TO OR EVEN WANTING TO GO PUBLIC.
It's like a businessman's wet dream of a company, and a pretty fucking good deal for the worker, too.

>>27642955
Saving this version now.
(bonus god)

she's smiling down on us all

>>15487557
You can buy a proxy Japanese to be your legal identity in Japan, anon, if you're smart and know the right people

>Gura/Ame: Gift of Seaweed
>Mumei/Kronii: Gift of Berry
Which gift would you want of the two?

SHE'S IN

>>10697437

>>10436890
The thing is that this kind of discussion is always going to be somewhat hampered by the fact that we're anonymous. No one's got full control over a conversation, and people can springboard off of other people to make points that weren't originally intended easily. You saw it yourself last thread, I assume, someone springboarding off of you even.
But obviously, that happens for unity stuff, too. Some people springboard off of it to pretend it's about being an active Hololive DD, but it definitely isn't, that's not something that should reasonably be expected, I don't think. Everyone has preferences; that's a fact of life.
When people here make their points, they don't typically put a lot of thought or effort into how they make them. Words are chosen haphazardly, implications are barely considered before posting, and because of that, misinterpretations flourish easily. That's how you see so many tribalfags take a molehill and wedge it into a mountain, through those gaps in interpretation. So when people say
>don't talk shit about the girls
they say it because they expect this thread, much like the entire site, to react to badly-worded negativity like that one Boondocks scene where a chair gets thrown and everyone starts fighting.
You can speak your mind, for the most part, here. Even negativity, if you're articulate enough to express it well. But that's the advice I'd give: It requires being very articulate to express that sentiment without also leaving room for a fight to be instigated, and most people who want to express that sentiment don't consider that when they do.

>>4912724
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0rv8UOESlXI

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I hereby forbid any more horny Sora posting after this post.
Sora is for appreciation, respect and love, not lust

>>3162840
Sora

>>2897061
post more meganekko sora

Smart Soda

>>1336316
I'm glad people love Sora here!
Remember that strange period of a week or two where a bunch of anons were extremely horny for Sora? What a strange time that was.