So, I watched Dizzy's interview with Sakana.
- In year 2, Sakana still thought that talents should have a plan B after vtubing. Sakana still thinks that (but content creators will pivot to new forms of content).
- Dizzy and Sakana agree that the EN sphere is about three to four years behind Japan
- To start a new company these days, you'll need either brand power or much more money than before, raising the barrier of entry.
- Sakana says he won't release cut figures because he calls it "virtue signalling". Sakana says not to compete with large capital or with vitue signalling.
- Sakana's advice to other CEOs is to not get heated in public. There were two times that Sakana wanted to angry tweet and he called Dizzy, who advised him both times to do it. Professional Sakana stopped Sakana from doing it.
- Sakana doesn't like donothons. He feels like talents are demotivated after donothons
- Sakana likes 3D, but says you got to build up to it, rather than start off with 3D
- Sakana and Dizzy say the costs of making models and debuting has ballooned by three to four times what they cost a few years ago. Sakana says a corpo talent costs 10-15K to debut (modelling, rigging, stingers, song and so forth), and that doesn't include advertising costs.