I like a lot of indies. I respect and wish for them to succeed and stay out of danger or trouble. And if they aren't clashing with my mains, I'll enjoy a good indie stream. There's a reason thousands of thousands of indies send in applications every time a corpo opens up their apps. Even garbage corporations. NIjisanji EN's reputation is dumpstered right now, but I can assure you next time Riku chooses to accelerate, They will be sifting through thousands of applications. Less than before, but still a considerable amount. Even indies don't believe indies are the future.
Another thing: Corpos are kind of the 1% of the vtuber universe. They're the big boys, but let's pretend. Let's get rid of all the corpos and corpo vtubers. You know what you still get? The 1%. The top of the crop. The Shylilys and the Shxtos and the Baos (are these technically in an agency? I don't know) I won't watch that video, but there's a reason every single one of those indies in that thumbnail are super recognizable and that Doki is the biggest in there and leading the pack. The game is still going to be skewed, we'll just be coping about "Small indies are the future" or something similar.
In the end it feels like a cope that hipsters used to rock. There are some fantastic 1 views that really definitely should be 4 views. We only have so much time in our days though, can only watch so much. That's just how it is.
Another thing: Corpos are kind of the 1% of the vtuber universe. They're the big boys, but let's pretend. Let's get rid of all the corpos and corpo vtubers. You know what you still get? The 1%. The top of the crop. The Shylilys and the Shxtos and the Baos (are these technically in an agency? I don't know) I won't watch that video, but there's a reason every single one of those indies in that thumbnail are super recognizable and that Doki is the biggest in there and leading the pack. The game is still going to be skewed, we'll just be coping about "Small indies are the future" or something similar.
In the end it feels like a cope that hipsters used to rock. There are some fantastic 1 views that really definitely should be 4 views. We only have so much time in our days though, can only watch so much. That's just how it is.
I'm watching the vod and my troon voice detector is going off.
Pfft! We will have even more drama like the Tora shit and all sorts of wonderful twitter callouts and twitlongers, indies are 10x more dramatic than corpos, the only difference is that indie drama only matters to a few people and not 45% of the whole community.
if it wasn't for the corpo who made kizuna AI vtubing wouldn't be what it is today. The future will always be corporate because unless you get rich with bitcoin like mister beast you ain't gonna have the money to pull all the flashy things corpos do. The indie scenes is a fucking cesspit of backstabbing and drama. I no doubt corpo backroom talk is the same but they are on a leash and that prevents things to go full nuclear most of the time 
Indies can have their appeal but if any indie that looks at doki thinks they could get the same amount of success this far into the game without doing time in a corpo are retarded. Indies who want to try vtubing seriously should go the football atlhete route. You build your skills in the local team(twitch/youtube) and then you hope to get picked up for the nba/nfl(holo/niji/whatever) and then you retire in vshojo.
