/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

GRIM

>>74511180
*GENERAL NUMBERFAG SITES*
>https://playboard.co/en/
>http://ikioi-ranking.com/
>https://vrabi.net/
>https://www.vstats.jp
>https://live-ranking.userlocal.jp/vtuber-ranking
>https://vt.poi.cat/

Hololive sites
>https://www.hololyzer.net/youtube/index.html
>https://trackholo.live/en/
>https://holosongs.com/
>https://holo-spotify-stats.jirikunes.eu/

Nijisanji sites
>https://niji-mado.web.app/stats/hourly
>https://twitter.com/2434rankings
>https://twitter.com/2434subscriber
>https://www.nijiuta.com/

Twitch
>https://sullygnome.com/
>https://twitchtracker.com/
>https://stats.roki.sh/

>>74511127
Context?

>>74511188
REAPER

> 奏 / Kanade (cover) *new*
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=VT1on_WaMzw
>My Dearest (cover)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oxZeLM9rx7s
>DAYBREAK FRONTLINE (cover)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=BWexRFqs3Wg
>名前のない怪物 / Namae No Nai Kaibutsu (cover)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=45ZfAdZuaok

>symmetry *new*
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=5ADaIvhhcCU
>Shunkan Heartbeat Otonose Kanade SOLO ver.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRwOG06UtI
>カバー曲 / Cover Songs
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6qjLH_5VIDUEA7yBOKxdRPdI4vYmL-dR
>歌まとめ / All Songs
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6qjLH_5VIDUogkBSe9WqTU0X1ia7xi_1

>>74511180
This is the right tit size for Pekora. Not those disgusting big tits we see in most of her fanarts

>>74510834
Saw this in the other thread. they have a book releasing in konbinis?
>>74506266
https://x.com/appli_style/status/1782605322655511006
KEMOMIMI-REFLE! BOOK lawson exclusive

https://www.lawson.co.jp/lab/entertainment/art/20240416_bookkemomimirefle.html

>>74511247
Anon, peko has tits

A tale of war, written with unseen blood of mythical creatures and hideous skinwalkers.
/#/ first album - Invisible War

>https://files.catbox.moe/iyoggu.mp3 - Invisible War
>https://voca.ro/1ck7EYrwZKT7 - Mythical Warrior
>https://files.catbox.moe/v2atx0.mp3 - Unicorn Musketeer
>https://vocaroo.com/1lTxMJdiHnBv - Horn held High
>https://voca.ro/1fesmEGUP42F - Fight the Fight
>https://voca.ro/1dhnZ4tpnF0C - #
>https://files.catbox.moe/ig9bbe.mp3 - Holy Land
>https://files.catbox.moe/zugkvu.mp3 - Iron Maiden
>https://files.catbox.moe/301ojo.mp3 - Gatekeeping
>https://files.catbox.moe/ojiufv.mp3 - Midnight Guardians
>https://files.catbox.moe/afrrj0.mp3 - Rhapsody of FauMei
>https://files.catbox.moe/dbf89f.mp3 - Glitched Affections
>https://files.catbox.moe/gmumns.mp3 - Digital Crusaders
>https://files.catbox.moe/ur4hen.mp3 - Defiant Unison
>https://files.catbox.moe/i3q2uk.mp3 - Unicorn Odyssey
>https://vocaroo.com/1cgZKe0SWQGS - Global Domination

>Credit: Anonymous

>>74511180
sex
Pegor has the perfect body type

>>74511180
>>74510772

>>74511278
I don't know either of this? Knockoff Astel and literally who?

>>74511118
Hololive shop only ships to these countries, as you'll notice none are in Europe. The shipping rates are actually pretty great for the US now but Europe and other countries not listed are either stuck with Geekjack or need to use a proxy

>>74511278
You think they bonded over their low numbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYjJ94tyoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYjJ94tyoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYjJ94tyoI

>>74511290
Second album - "Nijiniggers and their Triggers" (temperory name) submissions open

https://vocaroo.com/1a5fvEtXZTGV - t. Sister

https://vocaroo.com/1nrM41iaJxrT - yacht

https://vocaroo.com/1kN2NfbxwzH0 - Ennacuck

https://files.catbox.moe/z9yky7.mp3 - Anycolor but they chose Black

https://vocaroo.com/1mVuxWMF4bty - You disgust me

https://vocaroo.com/175QN29GrzmJ - Please Seethe

>dragon ball GOLD
It's like early Christmas

>>74511347
>more advent shilling

>>74511278
I wonder if this means him and Nerissa have a bond behind the scenes too?
Considering how close she is with Reimu

>>74511278
I didn't expect Reimu of all people going full JP and abandoned EN

>>74511326
Maybe you should watch more streams europoor

>>74511347
Uh ohhh Axel gonna be watching this one am I right fellow Hololiver fans?

>>74511365
Advent is Biboo, Nerissa and Shiori.

>>74511278
Based homewrecker

Where do you get the confidence to drive on the road with this on the back...?
Man imagine if I do this on the European roads

>>74511247
The genetics will flow and reveal themselves soon enough

Wouldn't you stay that Mint's audience has proven to be loyal?

>>74511324
>>74511325
>>74511381
https://twitter.com/asmoroll/status/1781721888797901090

>>74511438
this is why cover doesn't pander to eurocucks

>>74511180
Pekora unironically looks like a child.

What did we learn from last thread?

>>74511438
Ah, come on, that got nothing on the Marinetruck!

>check pekora's chat speed
lmao why are they botting her

>>74506617
Blame omega's scouting.
Magni and Vesper were good recruits if it was for literally ANY corpo other than Hololive.
4/5 of Myth were Hololive fans, and that showed in how well-integrated they were into JP and ID.
Absolutely NONE of the homos were fans of the JP homos. It's a recruitment issue, and fundamentally a "homo" specific issue because they are so shit that they don't have any talented fans.

>>74511448

>>74511438
>forcing prudes to cover their eyes and crash their cars
Impressive strat.

>>74511496

Already back to collab begging
>Can I just say with how they've been slowly opening up to each other I hope they feel comfortable to ask some of the JP girls for collabs. Suisei opened up the door to Roberu but he hasn't stepped in yet and that was a year ago.

And that's a wrap
sales are now officially ended
https://virtualrhapsody.zaiko.io/e/SG2024
last count had these three meet and greets and the venue tickets all being avaialble

>>74511326
Isn't EU a shitty place for importers because their laws are shit

>>74511547
retard

Unicorn Requiem

>>74511529
You really aren't going to find any English-speaking male Holostar JP fans. That's an incredibly shallow pool, like trying to fish in a puddle.

>>74511508
Trunks x Mai stinks

>>74511365
>Advent

>>74511326
>ships to new zealand
>not australia
whatthefuck

>>74511567
somehow geekjack manages

>>74511567
Because the EU hates people buying from non-EU countries so they tax the fuck out of any imports.

>>74511529
>good recruits for any company
I'm sorry but if they left because they "couldn't deal with working" they were never good recruits for any corpo

>>74511547
Suisei has a "charity quota" which has shrunk as she gets busier over the years. Anyone who thinks she actually gives a shit about people outside of Hololive (with a few exceptions) is a retard.

>>74511567
And yet I ordered merch and stuff from many other shops over years without issues.

>>74511529
Magni was a Marinefag but going by how he supposedly expected to have an easy chance at collabing with her shows how unfamiliar he was with the whole scene

>>74511508
Toriyama is a hagchad

>>74511567
It depends on the arrangement between the EU and said country/block. In the case of Japan the the trade for food stuffs etc is pretty good, but a lot of other types of goods have hefty import duties+the vat.

>>74511671
We still have absolutely no idea why they quit. Neither of them ever elaborated. They both had issues with their models and got redesigns before dipping so that wasn't it.

>>74511594
That's just because Astel put me through seventeen tiers of filters until I got tired of his retarded menhera ways and dropped him.
He didn't have to do ANYTHING other than
1) play APEX with the rest of the lads: Pakael, Gori-chan, Kamito, Hal, Reid and others
2) sing once a week
That's it. You know how Patra gets to the tally every Tuesday and Necoma, every Saturday because they do the same thing every week to achieve the same result?
How fucking hard would be for the homos, Astel in particular, to just do that?
But no, they're all homosexual menheras.
>you must love me even at my worse!
Fuck off nigger, I'm not your gf, I just want to watch someone playing FPS competently.

Pekora should've been cunny.

Is the Dreamhack concert today? Viewership guesses? Is it going to be something big, or is it just going to be mogged by other holo related performances.

>>74511567
It's because of VAT and Cover doesn't want to pay.
That's what it always comes down to

>>74511742
Dang, I used to watch Astel APEX and karaokes a bit too. Same shit, got filtered.

>6hours with Nerissa

>>74511633
>Because the EU hates people buying from non-EU countries so they tax the fuck out of any imports.
It's not "hating". It is that "communitary laws" prevent any EU country from putting barriers to imports from any other EU country so it's all simpler when dealing with in bloc countries.

>>74511766
Don't you just charge the buyer? They collect sales tax on my purchases in the US

>>74511728
Pako...

>>74511746
waiting room numbers look grim. it won't beat the nijiEN AR live.

Fuwamoco are literally holoJP now. It's the right move.

>>74511829
>holokek lose again
yawn

>>74511802
sounds like shit

https://twitter.com/hakuikoyori/status/1783892967494987844
https://twitter.com/hakuikoyori/status/1783892967494987844
https://twitter.com/hakuikoyori/status/1783892967494987844

KOYO YAB SHES DONE FOR

>>74511837
>Fuwamoco are literally holoJP now
not with those numbers

>>74511837
Great,I hope they change timeslot too.This way I can watch biboo more

>>74511746
10k probably

>>74511893
not now ennacuck

>>74511742
You seen many mentally stable male vtubers?

>>74511766
>It's because of VAT and Cover doesn't want to pay.
Retard, it's not the seller paying the VAT, it's the buyer.
It's not that at all, but the logistics of shipping. In case you didn't realize things aren't going REALLY smooth with moving wares from Asia to Europe thanks to salam sandniggers taking exception about the actions of shalom sandniggers and blocking the two main ways to do that
>Hormuz strait
>Red sea
meaning it takes a fuckhuge detour all the way through the southern tip of Africa to move stuff from Asia to Europe
>just air freight it
Yeah, good luck doing that without crossing Russia and Ukraine airspace

>>74511825
Anon, it's the EU. Their whole thing is "we will protect EU citizens first and everyone else can get bent"
Sales tax and VAT aren't the same. End consumer does not pay VAT

>>74511802

>>74511881
>Coriander instead of curry
patrician taste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlgEyzpvgWI

>>74511766
Cover literally doesn’t even have a VAT number.

>>74511931
The end consumer doesn't pay the VAT you dumb ass. What do you think the buyers are going to do? They off set the VAT they have to pay on to the importer. So yes Cover would need to offer a better cut to them and that is not something they want to pay

>>74511938
A shame they don't apply that logic in other matters

>>74511881
It looks like my cats turd

>>74510137
I'm almost certain that the US, having one of the most robust logistics networks of the modern world, would be able to pull off something like a dedicated maid cafe (yes, we have those) with a Hololive collab theme.

>>74511986
>Comeback
>mog holoEN
nothing personal, holokek

>>74511336

>>74511679
I don't even think Suisei gives a shit about people IN Hololive

>>74511938
Anon, end consumers definitely are the ones paying the VAT, the company only docks it on your behalf.
That's why it sucks so much, Cover or whatever third party would have to have add in their sales system 27 different fiscal systems so they could dock the correct amount of VAT and send to the correct country.
It is much easier just to tell euros to buzz off

>>74512040

>>74511931
>Hormuz strait
Only oil and gas company who care about that
>Red sea
Fucking Yemen
The world already has Somalia problem and now we have Yemen too

>>74512011
>The end consumer doesn't pay the VAT you dumb ass.
See >>74512071, the company docks it on your behalf but it is not Cover paying it, it is you.

>>74511998
cute

>>74511837
Good for them, I can hardly relate to them anyway, they are completely disconnected from western culture, media, references, memes, whatever else. I spent half my life around /a/ so I'm weeb enough for all this stuff, but at the end of the day it's easier to regularly watch someone who is on the same wavelength as you.

>>74511278
>Reimu trying to homewreck astellas after doing the same to kindred
astellas are menhera as fuck but prob wont get much blowback given shes more relevant than him

>>74512064
She doesn't even invite holos to her 3D lives any more.

>>74511746
You have to buy a fucking ticket for a 1 hour concert? Fuck that. The "sneak peak" is probably going to be like half of the concert itself. Though anyways, you probably shouldn't expect it to get any record breaking numbers in the first place. I'm thinking like 20k-30k at most.

>>74512092
>>74511986
there's no way this new outfit is real

>>74512001
Yes because it's something they don't want to deal with as I already told you

>>74511931
Yeah and PLENTY of other companies are able to manage shipping to Europe still. You know how they do it? They PAY for it

You're just making a bunch of excuses. Europe isn't some abandoned wasteland right now isolated from the world. If Cover wanted to ship to Europe they could do it. How would they do it? They would PAY more money

So again it comes down to the fact that Cover simply doesn't want to pay. If you can buy an anime figure in Europe you can buy Hololive merch just as well, the only difference is one is willing to pay more to get their merch inside and the other isn't

>>74511938
yes but when an item is imported from outside the customs union VAT gets charged based on the total customs value which is most of the import cost

>>74512189
Cover has already said that they have no plans of even thinking about Europe until 2025 at the earliest. Their priority is Cover USA when it officially launches.

>>74505490
First of all, kek this is from a stream that happened one whole WEEK ago.
Anything that's got branch-wide implications like this in holo would be translated and trascribed within an hour.
Shows just how much of their audience just doesn't give a shit about them.
Second, there's a ton of stuff that the person skipped or mistranslated, so I'm gonna do another qrd -

Merch sold out but no restock
> Pin Badge was sold out, so Astel asked management for restocks, but there won't be any.
> Doesn't know how much stock they prepared for his pin badges, wants to know.
> If it was just 1000, he wants to get angry, because obviously that wouldn't have been enough.
> "Keychains and Badges are the only things sold out" - chat
> Management apparently prepared a TON of keychains, they didn't expect to fully sell out, but it did.
> "Wish management would add more stocks after seeing so much merch selling out repeatedly" - chat
> Well the question is about how many sold out isn't it? (which he doesn't know)

State of Stars 3D Lives moving forward
> Talks about how they've had a few continuous lives going for a while
> But in manga terms, this most recent one feels like an axed spin-off manga (comparing to Hololive?)
> Tons of effort being poured into it, including more streams and not just shilling, even going as far as making a remix of an old orisong
> Feels like this Live might be their last one
> "why?" - chat
> Well.. let's just say that those of you that aren't able to attend this live due to whatever reason.. like "I'll attend next time".. should probably reconsider that decision.
> From my heart, I cannot assure you whether there'll be a "next time". I'd like you to think "This is it".
> It's not that I'm COMPLETELY dismissing any notions of "next time", but..
> The live this time wasn't something organized like normal.
> If this wasn't our 5th anniversary, this whole thing would probably not even happen.
> The next Live might only be on the 10th anniversary *laugh*

Talks with management
> Astel was heavily involved in organizing this Live and the planning for Holostars as a whole moving forward, discussed a ton of stuff with management.
> Chat asks about EN, Astel thinks EN should have separate Live or it'll be too long and have to be split. Might be 10k-15k Yen ticket.
> He also thinks EN doesn't have enough songs for a Live (only 2 or so rn), and apparently Uproar is internally separate from the rest of holostars, so their songs are counted separately.
> It'd have to be 2 Stages, and they don't have the popularity or budget to have a 2-Stage Live.
> Realistically speaking, there won't be another Live for them.

Rest is pretty much same.

>>74511746
Doubt it beat Pekora's DBZ but guessing 35k for the free part? https://youtu.be/IQqAbuGvDHM
And the pic should be the venue

https://vocaroo.com/175QN29GrzmJ

>>74512092

>>74512189
>Yeah and PLENTY of other companies are able to manage shipping to Europe still. You know how they do it? They PAY for it
>So again it comes down to the fact that Cover simply doesn't want to pay
I'll agree with you here and say .... that's definitely the right decision. Between taking "quick wins" and opening the singaporean market, taiwanese, market, north american market and having to literally pay to sell to euros, it is a no brainer which one os the best way to go

>>74512246
>Homo Concert Title : Moving On!
>Huh? this might be the last?
How are StarFAGS so retarded to not understand it?

>>74512064
She does, she understands very well that her brand is ingrained in holo. Personal connections to the members aside she respects Hololives culture and the roles other girls play in it.
As for the 3dlives she is trying to break out of the meta, group idol songs arnt for everyone and Suisei can carry herself very well solo.
I mean the numbers show everything she is probably one of the biggest tourist pullers in the agency and she should keep doing that as it's healthy for the whole agency.

>ifunny

>>74512246
sounds like they have a good 3 years left to get some kind of growth going or theyre out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxws3AklfKU

>>74512302
Cover's focus is very obvious
Japan > other east asia nations > US > others

>>74512266
How many people is that? 5k? That plus 35k would be less than the average 3D showcase and concert...

>>74512266
>35k for the free part
you really believe that?

>>74512383
>She does, she understands very well that her brand is ingrained in holo.
Thay's not what caring is

>>74512420
Its the same for branches
Japan (homos and holos) > ID (they got the boat thing) > HoloEN

>>74512246
Why are they surprised?
Homostars have been on the lifeline for ages, they never grew nor add anything to holoPro
And I think Yagoo is loosing his tight grip on them, the Investors are already pushing the homo issue

Why are they like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJJJ-_YEuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJJJ-_YEuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJJJ-_YEuw

almost time for SEAcucks to go to sleep right

Ok anontachi SURELY at least one of you has a position of authority in your local government
It's time to infiltrate and push for a local Holo collab

Soooo this thing isn't even going to be simulcast on Youtube/Twitch later today? It's exclusively on some weird app?

>>74512471
Depends how they dodge any homo questions during their investor meeting. They’re already mentioning them in their reports the bare minimum amount of times that they can.

>>74505894
no its over. luxiem was probably the closest they would ever get to popular male EN vtubers worth anything and thats mainly because of the culture of nijisanji to begin with. Male vtubers will never thrive unless theyre indies + doing other form of content that isnt streaming (even shit like reacting, drama, or variety content.)

>>74511180
PEKO!!!!

>>74511189
Ew.

This is not attractive at all.

Can't stand whores who cosplay. Especially ones with useless meat bags like this hag.
TAKE OFF THAT OUTFIT! YOU'RE NOT PEKORA!

WATAME 10K LATE DORYAAAAAAAA!
>YOU GUYS DID DORYA, DIDN'T YOU ANONSSSS?!?!?!
Just for the record, please fill the following form with your oshi's name, just for sakekeeping!
>.............................
>(anon's oshi)

>>74512482
Not a SEAFAG but Im going to work now so I'll leave this here for good vibes

https://vocaroo.com/1lTxMJdiHnBv

See you later niggers!

>>74512445
Yes, the show still includes Towa and Marine who are easy crowd draws.

>>74511281

peko has tits

草!!!!!!

Kanata has tits too

草草草草

>>74512463
Chu Chu Chu

>>74512548
>TAKE OFF THAT OUTFIT! YOU'RE NOT PEKORA!
Anon, that's a Pekomom cosplay.

>>74512516
A weird app exclusive to iOS that requires you to fill out a google doc forum to get access!
It's amazingly insane.

>>74512457
Retard

>>74512463
chuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

>>74512516
The app is the product they're trying to shill, after all

>>74512463
Chu~

>>74512555
I, an IRYSTOCRAT, did not dorya because I was at work at the time

>>74512623
Geez I forgot it was an iOS exclusive too
I kinda feel bad for these guys

>>74511438

you act like you've never seen itasha before

American has some like this but with full on nudity too

>>74512463
Chu posting never fails to make me laugh. Even better when you know that it makes sisters seethe really hard and was used as a motivation for the /jp/ numbers split. KEK.

>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>GIVE ME YOUR LOVE, ALL OF YOUR LOVE, GIVE ME YOUR LOVE - YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING
>IF I HAVE YOU, I CAN HAVE YOU - SHOULDER MY LOAD, NOW YOURS TO BEHOLD
>STILL NOT ENOUGH, YOU’RE NOT ENOUGH - NEVER ENOUGH. STILL I WON’T LOOSEN MY HOLD
>TRULY, I’M SO SORRY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWU3o_kDixc

>>74512555
Sorry, I was out buying milk

You can do 2 streams from one channel?
https://youtu.be/sNcEPTpecuQ
https://youtu.be/W-PFsFz-bjU

https://youtu.be/tMvWFWYKWmE

>>74512602
yeah they have, but it is the dreamhack on the hololive english channel

*FINAL EN COPE TALLY OF THE DAY IS IN*

>04/26 TALLY (1.000 - 4.999)
4.144: Dokibird (Indie) | SandLand
3.868: Nerissa (Hololive) | School Labyrinth Advent Collab
3.503: Pippa (Phase-Connect) | Variety Stream
3.474: Mint (Indie) | Mahjong Soul x Blue Archive Collab
1.927: Bettel (Holostars) | Fallout: New Vegas
1.646: Alban (Nijisanji) | Who's Your Daddy? w/ Wilson
1.546: Shiina (Phase-Connect) | Another Crab's Treasure
1.380: Tenma (Phase-Connect) | Disco Elysium 3
1.345: Erina (Phase-Connect) | Variety Stream w/ Family
1.330: Vox (Nijisanji) | Tekken 8
1.224: Elira (Nijisanji) | Persona 3: Reload
1.224: Rexford (Holostars) | Ao Oni
1.219: Rosemi (Nijisanji) | Variety Stream
1.177: Wilson (Nijisanji) | Who's Your Daddy? w/ Alban
1.082: Lia (Phase-Connect) | Return Stream
1.060: Victoria (Nijisanji) | Soma
1.027: Vantacrow (Nijisanji) | Animal Crossing

>>74512719
You have immunity, because Watame has a thing for Fauna

>>74512276

>>74512516
Its a money laundering app
>Pretend to invest millions of illegal burgers on an App and vtuber group
>Let it go downhill
>File bankruptcy
>Millions of burgers are now usable/legal money

>>74512525
nta but when your largest competitor lists out revenue by branch, and you don't, all the while you have 1 branch which is obviously a runt compared to the rest, it's pretty clear what's going on. Cover can dodge homo questions as much as they like, any investor who is paying attention knows they don't make money.

>>74512722
no, anon, they just put up 2 frames at the same time for some giggles

>>74512246
>Astel was heavily involved in organizing this Live and the planning for Holostars as a whole moving forward, discussed a ton of stuff with management.
>even if it makes zero fucking money, they'll just keep them around anyways and let the talents run the Asylum
I'm gonna lose my fucking mind bro the amount of grace these people get despite providing almost literal negative value is insane

Was gonna ask in global but that seems like it'd be a bad idea with how shitty that thread has been lately
But why are KFP doomposting more this last 24 hours or so, did Kiara say something on stream yesterday?

The only relevent EN vtubers

>>74512722
For years, it's just that most people have zero reason to ever do so.

>>74512516
Nox Orphee my beloved please step on me and put me on a leash

Can anyone teach me how to access litterbox.catmoe?
i always get this error ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR
even with vpn

>>74512246
> The next Live might only be on the 10th anniversary
Kek, I doubt the branch would even survive for that long.

>>74511180
Her boobs are bigger but i dont mind this size too

>>74512483
Surely Cover USA would be willing to do a sponsorship with my town in Rural Western Massachusetts that consists of exactly
>one street with any activity whatsoever
>a big fucking lake
>farmland all over the place
Surely

>>74512860
https://twitter.com/Nox_Orphee/status/1776756756225683571
She's uh... interesting I guess

>>74512826
it is negative value since it will always be better value to let the girls use the studio instead
imagine how many cute programs like the hoshimati project we could have had

>>74512863
try changing DNS server to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8

>>74512881
Nicer than me I'm Holyoke

>>74512908
Well she is not Noel tier at least
sovl karaoke

>>74512246
> After streaming for 12h a day, he got only 1 new subscriber
> Since he took a break and all, he proabbly got shadowbanned and willl need to keep up releasing stuff/streaming to get into the algorithm again
Okay I know this is an often-repeated argument, but I honestly think hololive fans are what killed the homos.
> I DON'T WANT TO WATCH THE FUCKING HOMOS HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO-
Exactly.
Thanks to being under the Hololive Productions umbrella, the algorithm would naturally push out pretty much any talent that's somewhat linked to Hololive.
But 2022-23 changed it quite a bit.
People on the EN side AND the JP side started not just actively ignoring homo clips, but clicking them and putting "not interested" or even "don't recommended this channel" on them.
EN fans thanks to Tempus and the holopro push, and JP fans due to Kanata minecraft, overlap ban and HLZTL.
What does the algorithm see from this?
> Oh these particular channels are heavily disliked by the people that like a huge bunch of similar channels, so let's not recommend it to them
But the thing is... is there any audience that's interested in the homos while also NOT interested in Hololive?
There's a very, VERY small percentage of Unityfags that watch both holos and homos, who won't click "don't recommend" for homo streams.
Because of them, the algorithm keeps recommending the homos to hololive viewers, because it's not a "clean break" which separates both sides. Unityfags watch Hololive too, and Holostars, and is their biggest audience, so the "similar interests" part of the algo will ALWAYS keep pushing the homos to hololive viewers... who continue to ignore or block the channels, killing them in the algorithm.

Separating the homos early on might have avoided this algorithm black hole and maybe at least pushed the homos to audiences that weren't familiar with hololive.

>>74512829
I'm sure it's related to global being shit atm or something
Kiara didn't indicate any issues anywhere, so it's probably just people being sad or something

>>74512863
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/117505176/err-http2-protocol-error-please-help-all-browsers-including-chrome-will-not-work?hl=en

>it said try turning off then on your anti virus

>>74512881
Sendai's population is barely 1 mil

my wife

>>74512908
>Luxiem song
If anything Nexas will bring lots of shitposting

>>74512942
Nigga shut the fuck up, you're RIGHT NEXT to that Round One compared to me taking a half hour drive to get to it
So technically you already have a Nene collab going on all the time
If I see you there I'm gonna... I dunno talk I guess

>>74512908
>forced to use iphones so the audio quality is absolute garbage
God they are so fucked

>>74512975
this is why it is important to do outside collabs (if you are small), sure the algorithm will push you out from the target audience to probe and test sometimes buuuuut it is much more effective to just collab and get an influx of viewers from another audience

>>74512999
My towns population is 9,000 and shrinking

>>74507015
Ultimately the difference between HoloEN and HomoEN are -
> one was a response to market demand for English speaking VTubers (the JP speaking ones were ALREADY very popular, just not as accessible)
> one was a misguided attempt to save the dying JP branch, which got hijacked by an egotistical retard halfway through, achieving neither aim
There was no real demand for homoEN at the end of the day.

>>74512908
I just wasted my 17 seconds from watching this video.

>>74512934
you mean like network & internet > wifi > hardware properties right?
that already using 8.8.8.8

>>74512998
turning off my window defender doesn't work too

>>74513080
Marry and reproduce
Abe.jpg

>>74513047
Nta but that nene game is fun

https://youtu.be/_iXSgEcZh8U
Majin Buu saga kino.
Vegeta was so badass there.
This scene alone mogs every modern shonen into oblivion.

>>74513165
>16:9

>>74512829
No but she said earlier in the week she had some things she wanted to talk about in members only so they’re doomposting

>>74512829
She put confession in her membership stream title so KFP in the Kiara thread are hyper doomposting, with some cuckposting, and just some general shitposting. I think it's that combined with her apparently mentioning that she had things on her mind that she wanted to talk about, and a members stream is the best place to do that, even though her schizos have memberships to her.

>>74512703
Lilium cover doko?

PREDICTIONS???

https://youtu.be/uZohCav0tN0
https://youtu.be/uZohCav0tN0
https://youtu.be/uZohCav0tN0

https://twitter.com/queenie1601/status/1783861907033850147
>men like this
I am ashamed of having a penis

>>74513293

>>74513137
I'm working on it man
But our town has fucking nothing and everyone just leaves instead of staying
If they had some good fucking internet maybe people would stay BUT ITS XFINITY

>>74513293
Chat is this real?

Now that yen is falling so much, it's making my holoshop stuff cheaper with every year...

>>74512150
The woman being more relevant didn't stop them last time.

>>74511518
Why does it look like a garbage truck in the thumb kek

>>74513293
this is 100% real and not photoshopped at all

>>74513293
I don't mind women having a little work done, but why in the world would you make your hips look that retarded lmao

>>74513421
>holoen brings in about 30% more revenue just because the yen is in the shitter
should have expanded holoen instead of spamming homos stupid fagoo

>>74512830
who?

>>74512516
The app is also formatted to be like Youtube's vertical streams.

>>74511180
>>74511290
What was used to make all this? Suno? Or is there another AI song generator? It sounds more coherent than the last time I messed around with AI songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcsEthAdgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcsEthAdgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcsEthAdgI


graduation imminent

>>74513276
early and it will overlap azki but it is also the first one
eh i will go in with low 30k

>>74513103 (me)
Nvm
Found the solution already

Is Shion back or not?

>>74513276
This dumbass keeps streaming too early for me. I hate her

>>74513276
AQUTAN!!!

I'd her play. Should be as good as watching Pekora do it xDD

>>74513724
Wake up earlier dumbass

>>74513718
She dropped a cover today but thats about it

>>74513276
rabu you onyan

>>74512908
That sure is something alright

>>74513718
no

>>74512881
I’d say you could pitch it as the vtuber equivalent of Woodstock, but the only ones who actually made money off of Woodstock were The Who and The Grateful Dead.

>>74513775
Shes afraid to stream in her regular timeslot because of her recent numbers.

>>74512286
We love Anya "Stuffs" Melfissa in this thread.

What are the chances that Kiwawa Drama Member is about her going back to japan and live there like the doggos?

>>74513837
Maybe we could go a few towns over and they could partner with like, the fucking Six Flags, I dunno

>>74513861
She can't stream in her regular timeslot because that's also when the holo she's in love with streams and she wants to watch her. Dumbass

>>74513975
She'd never leave her cats

>>74514060
Her merch still hasn't shipped
I am very angry jellykek

>>74514060
Buy an ad, phasekek

* FINAL TALLY OF THE DAY IS IN *

Here it goes
>92,859: Pekora (Hololive)
>29,494: Bijou (Hololive)
>27,041: Botan (Hololive)
>24,514: Runa (VSPO)
>19,986: Rou (Nijisanji)
>19,761: Shigure Ui (Indie)
>18,825: Koyori (Hololive)
>17,646: Subaru (Hololive)
>14,255: Fuwa (Nijisanji)
>13,004: Lauren (Nijisanji)
>12,907: Chloe (Hololive)
>12,904: Fuwamoco (Hololive)
>11,088: Watame (Hololive)
>10,775: Lui (Hololive)
>10,519: AZKi (Hololive)

Gold for Pekora with an exceptional performance with a Dragon Ball stream with Bijou getting silver and Botan, bronze

>>74512246
oh wow
I was just shitposting about the 10th anniversary. I'm more right than I thought

>>74514174
PEGO SEGGS

>>74514096
Shipping the merch takes a ridiculous amount of time from what I've heard.

>>74514174
PEKORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>There have been more collabs with the JP girls this year than basically any other year. I don't think it helps grow their channel as much as people think. While the amount of people who hate the Stars is a small minority, most fans of the girls are just ambivalent towards the boys. They don't have a problem with them if they appear, but they have 0 interest in watching them.

>I think they'd be much more successful if they collab outside the company. The 2 most popular StarsJP members are Astel and Roberu and they're also the 2 who collab outside the company more than anyone else. Meanwhile the guys who are struggling rarely do collabs of any kind.

>>74512555
im a sapling but WTM sure is cute as hell

* FINAL EN TALLY OF THE DAY IS IN *
>04/26 TALLY:
29,494: Bijou (Hololive) | School Labyrinth w/ Advent
12,904: FuwaMoco (Hololive) | FuwaMoco Morning w/ Koyori
8,851: Fauna (Hololive) | Witcher 3
7,311: Mori (Hololive) | Trying Australian Food Offcollab w/ Baelz
6,193: Shiori (Hololive) | School Labyrinth w/ Advent
6,161: FuwaMoco (Hololive) | School Labyrinth w/ Advent
6,105: Kronii (Hololive) | Superchat Reading


>EN GOLDS FOR APRIL 2024
1) Kiara (Hololive) - 17,995 - Easter Collab Special
2) Shiori (Hololive) - 17,536 - Biboo Is Missing (Overcooked 2 Collab w/ Advent)
3) Mori (Hololive) - 19,506 - Birthday Countdown + Totsu + Announcement
4) Mori (Hololive) - 46,665 - 3D Birthday Live
5) Mint (Indie) - 25,197 - Return Karaoke
6) Sonny (Nijisanji) - 10,444 - Birthday Karaoke (Duets)
7) Mumei (Hololive) - 17,280 - Unarchived Karaoke
8) Nerissa (Hololive) - 13,792 - Unarchived Karaoke
9) Fauna (Hololive) - 12,977 - Minecraft
10) FuwaMoco (Hololive) - 13,057 - Shinkansen 0
11) Bijou (Hololive) - 41,782 - Wolfquest w/ Iofi, Mumei, Nerissa, Shiori
12) Mori (Hololive) - 9,288 - Monster Hunter World
13) Fauna (Hololive) - 12,763 - The Witcher 3
14) Gura (Hololive) - 31,329 - Content Warning Collab w/ Fauna, Kronii, Mumei
15) Bijou (Hololive) - 20,599 - Birthday Party (Karaoke Duets)
16) Mori (Hololive) - 13,015 - VCR Rust
17) Bijou (Hololive) - 41,859 - Monster Hunter World
18) Mumei (Hololive) - 15,810 - ABZU
19) Gura (Hololive) - 23,879 - Monster Hunter Rise
20) Millie (Nijisanji) - 14,421 - 3D Debut
21) Bijou (Hololive) - 11,622 - Monster Hunter World
22) Vox (Nijisanji) - 15,645 - Outfit Reveal + Return Stream
23) Mumei (Hololive) - 11,308 - Stardew Valley
24) Nerissa (Hololive) - 11,418 - Powerwash Simulator w/ Kronii
25) Bijou (Hololive) - 50,822 - Monster Hunter World
26) Bijou (Hololive) - 29,494 - School Labyrinth w/ Advent

>PER COMPANY
22x: Hololive
3x: Nijisanji
1x: Indie

>PER STREAMER
6x: Bijou
4x: Mori
3x: Mumei
2x: Fauna, Gura, Nerissa
1x: FuwaMoco, Kiara, Millie, Mint Shiori, Sonny, Vox

>POINTS PER STREAMER (gold = 5pts, silver = 3pts, bronze = 1pt)
52p: Bijou
29p: Mumei
25p: Mori
20p: Fauna
14p: FuwaMoco
13p: IRyS
11p: Nerissa
10p: Gura
8p: Vox
7p: Ina, Kronii
6p: Mint, Nijisanji
4p: Baelz
5p: Kiara, Millie, Shiori, Sonny
1p: Amelia, Matara

>>74514174

>>74514174
Another gold without even trying

>>74512246

>>74514174
Did you guys expect pekora to get this number when she starts playing the game?

>>74513263
Qrd? What happened to it?

>>74514174

#1!! as expected of the Best Girl.

>>74511986
>>74512092
>>74512286
RUMAO

>>74514174
the difference betweens juns playthrough is showing, he didn't get high numbers for cell
but i still hope she will get the highest peak at the very end of kid buu

>>74512555
>sheep utawaku
she better get 10k. that's a given.

>>74514391
Copyright striked by author, dead for 3 months.
Likely perms issue between original author vs song publisher.

>>74513216
She was struggling for a long while with mental health and shit so you never know. Last months were seemingly good but there were more menhera moments too here and there, enough to keep people alerted.

>>74514388
no, i mean she had a bug at the first day and got 42k
then the saiyan saga got a peak of 50k
i didn't expect her to then start to average over 50k for the next parts

>>74511290
>>74511348
Fresh from over
Yabba Dabba Doo - https://files.catbox.moe/v168sy.mp3

>>74513293
Chun li ass body

>>74514388
Anyone who says yes is kinda nuts. A mild buff? Yeah, it's dragon ball. ~40k playthrough didn't seem unreasonable. But this is pretty mind blowing.

>>74512975
I will never respect a fellow dick carrier whos career is being subsidized by females
>Men are respected when they grind through tough times
Faggots and Grills will never understand this

>>74514174

>>74512779
just call them incel/parasocial. Tell them to educate themselves

LOL
https://twitter.com/harry__so/status/1783580524864499772
>Hi S1, Please allow me to apologize for how I reacted in this thread. What you said had some very fair and valid points. We are trying something different with a new platform and hope to build a positive environment with unique opportunities for all of our talents. My actions were unprofessional and I sincerely apologize for my messages. I hope you will support our talents despite this as they have all worked extremely hard for this. Thank you!

>new numbers dropped
It's over for holokeks now

>>74514388
No, not at all. It also helps that pekora isnt entirely familar with the story

>>74512871
aa long as hololive continues, the welfare will never dry up. Yagoo will personally keep them afloat.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xWicFAbXwyM

>>74514606
What's S1?

>>74513977
That could work decently if the other Six Flags locations are included in the deal. I wouldn’t mind taking a picture with a cardboard cutout of Mumei or Suisei after chickening out of riding Kingda Ka, for example.

>>74514174
can we please go back and call pekora a low ceiling high floor holo, so i can always have something to laugh about

>>74513084
>Your voice has been heard
>Your wish has been granted
O MY POPULAR DEMAND NEN

>>74514687
Yagoo is waiting & praying for a homo version of Caitlin Clark, that college basketball player who will totally make the WNBA profitable. That's the justification he will tell himself & the investors.

UH OH KIARA WANT TO DUMP SOMETHING IN MEMBA STREAM..............she wants no clips of this, can't say it even, dancing around the topic

>>74514174
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9no8H70PMCI

>>74514732
some ukrainian businessman

>>74514174
GIVE PEKO YOUR ENERGY
>AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>74514174
>full gen collab can't beat biboo
why is gen 5 such a failure?

OH FUCK 2022.....WHAT CAN IT BE

>>74514912
Oh boy
Will she be smart enough to hold it in
Or will she have a woman moment

>>74514732
The name of the account he was replying to.

>>74512246

>>74514732
Twitter username

>>74513276
>6 am
Kill me.

>>74515048
>Laughs in 5am but not interested

>>74514912
If she can't understand that anybody can pay/be gifted her membership then whatever happens is on her.

KIARA GRADUATION, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>74513293
mewtwo body shape is made for onahole treatment

>>74514534

>>74514912
Keep us updated anon

I have a feeling it's about one thing if it's 2022 GOD pls tell me it's true but I don't wanna JINX IT

If anyone is graduating, its Ame

>Watching the globie cow karaoke
>This setlist
Honestly this is probably the biggest thing about EU chuubas, their setlists would be different from NA and JP ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea8HZTqxWnQ
Shame she streams at US hours most of the time

>woman wants to trauma dump something from two years ago
>but she's struggling to remember it
Say what you want but Kiara is clearly the single most womanly woman in HoloEN

Kiara says ______________________

>>74515173
Ame are secret Hololive staff

>>74514174

>>74515220
Kiara has dementia...

>>74515213
why is Kiara's karaoke setlist almost a carbon copy of JPs and NA ENs?

>>74515123
You know... yeah, I would fuck mewtwo

>>74515222
Yeah, Omega are fuck up. That Kiara reason to Graduate

Kiara says that HoloEU is never happening because all europeans are retarded and boring as fuck

>>74514060
You should post new lewd

>>74515300
She lived in Japan and has garbage tastes

>>74515213
Shut up Braveshill, We are watching Kiara Graduation

>>74515348
:(

>>74515348
EUFags are homobeggars
>Case closed

>>74515173
>>74515221
Ame really needs to transfer to staff and become "head of broadcasting" or something.

>>74515409
If you want this to change, recruit the only viable option for HoloEU into Vtubing:
>MORE NORDIC WOMEN

>>74515048
>>74515086
It'll be fucking midnight to me. You guys have it easy.

>>74515413
that's a reason FOR opening a branch there though

>>74515413
EUCHAD are normal person. Yeah we know that

>>74514174
IT'S OVER 90,000 THOUSAND

Ok it will be fucking 20 sub tangents until she moves to the main tangent

>SEAsters still forcing this retarded Kiara "graduation" angle

>>74514174
I have noticed the Ennacuck really seethes at Fauna and IRyS and tires how's best so that they never win gold.

>>74515413
>>74515512
>misogyny is normal
EU...is based? Are we the baddies?

>>74514912
something bad happened in 2022 that we never learned about

hurry up woman holy shit

>>74515512
>EU
>Chad
You cant even close your fucking borders against literal terrorists

UH OH it's serious

Kiara just admitted that Cover execs detest Europe and everyone in it since they can't see difference between all their flags

>>74515610
Don't look at your own Country, Amerifat.

>>74515348
:D

Kiara has a stalker and the police has been notified. That's the news.

Retards, if it's THAT serious it won't be in just a member stream

It's about Kakun, her stalker.

>>74511219
Regloss gen when? Kanade and ao are such cutiepies

>>74515742
Yep, knew it was that kakun tard. If this doesn't get KFP to hunt him down and lynch him then I don't know what will.

So she got hard doxxed in 2022 I guess

>ORANGE WOMAN BAD 2.0: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

>>74514894
That's a perfect analogy... If your brain is wrecked from pagpag-induced malnutrition

>>74515213
She is Polish?

>>74515781
I don’t think he’s been active ever since Kiara’s RM publically called him out

>>74515759
Exactly what I wanted to say, he's the guy who donated her a lot of euro but she told him pulbicly to fuck off, right? But we'll see she didn't say anything YET

KIARA GOING TO GET MARRIED, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>74515787
that's for being a loudmouth bitch who won't support the cause. Be glad she didn't have to relive the
>wrestling

>>74515833
She should go back to JP DESU
Bring her cat and all shit, shes way better off in japan

SEAsters, you can stop pretending anyone in this thread has a Kiara membership now.

>>74515833
He still retweets Kiara fanart and talks about Kiara, but he doesn't directly talk to or at @ anymore.

>>74514282
>most popular
>Astel
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>74515896
Phasecuck...

Best GFE girl?

>>74515817
Ye, knows Italian too I think, shame about her corpo
She's also the least subbed girl in it still more subs than any dude in it

>>74515787
>So she got hard doxxed in 2022 I guess
Anon? For fuck sake, no other Holo girl in either side of the kaigai pond has a more public life than her

>>74515977
holoEN mogged

>>74512881
A fishing town collab to get the chumbuds to spend their money buying all-American shrimp for their oshi.

>>74515481
Bro it's 11 PM for me and I'm napping as soon as I get home just to be able to watch all of it through the night. Try harder.

>>74515948
>2 most popular stars JP
>most popular stars JP
>stars JP
learn how to read anon

>>74515787
Shes literally exposing her life online

>>74515993
Mori...
Nerrisa...
FWMC...

>>74515977
>gfe

>74515896
why are phase FLIPS like this?

>>74515213
>no es rappelt im karton
smdhtbqhwyfampaitachi

>>74515946
Sounds like she got an actual restraining order.

>>74515426
No she needs to get over it and start streaming regularly and for the pleasure of the audience

>>74516091
A lot of people have those sorts of feelings about her. They love her

>>74516079
Nah, here is the thing, being a cosplay sommelier I'm a fan of Kiara before she was even close to Hololive
>and, ironically, I don't care about her Holo career at all
and she's a public figure through and through with zero separation between her non Holo side and her Holo one.
In more than one occasion random KFPs mentioned thinking about approaching her in her other stints but refraining because it would be a buzzkill

>>74515742
That's all???

Stalker faggots coping.

Apparently Kanade got stressed out and cried about the sub requirement for 3D, so she made her VOD members only.

>>74516239
Pokimane Holo are possible?

Here anons, to get the thread on a lighter mood, a challenge
>SONGS YOU THINK YOUR FAVORITE HOLO GIRL WOULD EXCEL IN SINGING

Here is mine
> Paul Schwartz - Willow (after Verdi`s Otello)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_CXtSpS7SE
I could see Nerissa singing this and making a splash.
I could see Sora singing it too but I don't know how well Japanese can enunciate romance languages

>>74516062
I used to wake up 5am every day to watch Nene when she used to have a steady schedule of streaming at 6am. That would give me 1 hour to take a shower and eat before the stream.

For the first time in 6 years I was sleeping and waking up early, for moths. I miss those times

Stalking is funny to me in a way, because it's like
>nothing about the various things that constitute stalking is illegal in the slightest
>when you put them all together it's so obviously illegal that no one questions that it should be stopped
So it just makes this super fucking absurd legal Grey area where getting a stalking charge is just the most convoluted thing ever

>>74516361
kek, peak Pokimane would have to take a downgrade to join Holo. Present day Pokimane can't meet the requirements.

>>74516363
Off-topic, Retard
We are not your discord

>>74516363
Fauna should sing Octavarium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYV8Zt2k0RQ

So that's it? I thought Goku was graduating after killing Cell

>>74516336
Should have been a homo, then you get 3D worry-free 9 months after debut

>>74516361
Holo is Apolitical, she will never qualify

>>74516397
You're essentially restricting freedom of movement of a person that has YET to do anything criminal.

Her landlord WHORE had to be a JEWISH BITCH

What the fuck

Kiara said she's moving to Japan.

>>74516540
>Kiara
Case and point

>>74516397
Stalking is more about the pattern of behavior than any individual act. Following someone isn't a crime. Following someone every day at every chance is stalking. Just like it's not illegal to stand outside the store, it is illegal to say there for extended periods of time, loitering.

>>74516397
I mean it has to be, police and journalist need to do stuff that a normal stalker does as well

>>74516397
>getting a stalking charge
In my community there is a very easy solution for that.
There was once a case of rape in this blessed corner of the world (a very rare one, as this is a mostly white mostly tight knit place) and there was no way it would ever see a day in court because it would not only become a
>he said she said
but the detrimental effect to her reputation would be big enough for it not to be worthy
>she wouldn't get "unraped" after going through with it.
So the lads just waited for summer when there is always forest fires, tied the barely mentally capable retard to the woods and set the forest on fire and he was counted as another tragic victim of that year forest fire season.

Again: society has all the tools to deal with this sort of problems and it is not always the judicial one.

>>74516547
Right
But it's entirely justified because we've seen what happens if you DON'T do it across society for decades
It's like, one of the few times where going
>fuck this shit and quash it before it happens
Is actually generally accepted by the public at large, and that's also why it's as light as a restraining order compared to, say, locking them up right away

>>74516065
>actually thinks that he is popular
living under a rock anon?

>>74516571
Pekotyan is playing Rusty!!!!!!!!

>>74516571
Not Dragonball, fuck off

>>74516596
>Case and point

>>74516336
Why doesn't Cover
>delete the homos
>scrap dev_is
>give the people what they want, JP7 and EN4 & 5?

>>74516616
Oh, wow, George from the famous novel "Of Mice and Men" is in this thread? I'm honored

>>74516596
Double retard.

>>74516204
Sounds like the guy stalked her friends and tried to befriend them, and stalked them when they visited her which is how he ended up finding out where she lived she obviously moved btw, it coincides with Kiara's weird attitude when she moved back then. But it's done and over now and she's talking about something completely different now. Probably going to self-delete since meidos thinks it's offtopic despite Kiara talking about it like 20 minutes ago.

>>74516689
Wut? I'm not literate enough to know what the fuck you're talking about

>>74516336
Why lie? It was because of dance practice.

You have to be kidding me KEK. This nigga is literally a homobeggar from fwmc comment section lmaoo. Do these "people" have no self awareness?

>>74516336
copebros? I thought the subs weren't a requirement