/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>The year is 2039
>kson’s prophecy was long fulfilled, independent vtubing really died in five years
>Hololive won the company wars, Nijisanji disbanded
>their FPS box boys joined Neo Porte, their non FPS girls graduated, their FPS girls joined VSPO, a company propped up by Hololive to avoid anti trust lawsuits for monopoly in the market
>World War III came and went in a flash, triggered by an accidental nuclear launch done by malfunctioning code in India, a Z in the nuclear system done by programmers recently fired from Youtube
>most of the big urban centers were obliterated, a global lockdown was imposed
>people can no longer leave their homes, they meet in virtual space on the last remaining running metaverse: Holoearth

>last years Hololove Undokai had a record breaking audience of 30kk CCV (half the population of NeoTokyo)
>this thread final tally new cutting point is 1kk, a mark usually breached even by the government sponsored (and mandatory for virtual elementary school students) cooking classes taught by Choco Sensei (now a real sensei)
>an aging Shibuya Hal schedules a live stream, to announce this years VSaikyou, the 20th consecutive edition (didn’t get interrupted even by the EMP disruption of all communications)
>he discloses that due to the strain on the power grid by the massive audience he’ll be forced to make this the last one, for real for real this time
>from his NeoTokyo underground bunker, Pakael promises this year is the year he’ll finally win after choking 15 times in a row
>during the announcement, Hal informs the audience that the tournament scrims might be postponed for a week as a big event may be announced by Hololive in the usual date

>the remaining surviving North American citizens sigh with hope, as they were afraid the scrims might overlap the announcement of EN3