So I want to change the topic from vagueposting and other usual posting for a minute to make a serious question. Have you guys ever dropped an oshi or stopped watching them not because they graduated but because they changed their streams, content, or just because things that seemed fun or liked about them at first turned annoying after? or because you lost interest?
Edit: I guess I'd like to also add, did you stop them watching permanently or returned later? or watch them but less frequently? Also just to be clearer by oshi I mean like a Vtuber you really respected or watched a lot, like one of if not your favourite
A bit of a text wall, I suppose:
In the era when NijiJP clips were still abundant, I would still tune in to some streams for Mito, Ange and Roa, but I started drifting towards HoloJP, right before NijiEN got announced. I naturally stopped watching JP Vtubers, since I stopped doing my reps and didn't have enough time to get attached to any single one of them before the big EN boom after Myth. I checked out Myth, but while I liked them, I never got attached. Same with Council. (In retrospect, if it was Advent that came out instead of Council at the time, I might have been a solid Holofag).
I ended up watching NijiEN the most and generally liked most of the LazuSydia girls + Nina (though I'll admit I got scared away for a while when I found out her PL). I even liked Maria and Scarle (still kind of do). I watched Selen, Pomu and Rosemi most, but I gradually stopped keeping up in 2022, partly because Niji was starting to feel off, but also because I got into small corpos with Tsunderia and Phase. I still watch and enjoy Selen and Pomu as Doki and Mint now, but it doesn't quite feel the same as the early days, I can't really describe it.
In Tsun, I watched Miori and Lisa most, but I ended up watching both less over time, Miori because...yeah, and Lisa because generally I felt she was beginning to lose interest in streaming (probably not helped by the slow death of the company, but still).
For Phase, I got into the company because of Pippa and Tenma, but ended up watching Lia the most. Lia is still one of my favorites, but I ended up drifting from her when she took more and more breaks after her big incline in the middle of last year. Since then I've been religiously keeping up with Jelly.
While I still do my best to keep up with most of the Phase girls, I have been watching them less compared to this time last year, since there's just so many of them now. I also feel, to a certain extent, that my path as a Phase fan is partly finished. The community has grown by a lot from the time I started watching, to the point where I feel PC is solid and self-sustaining. So I have been branching out with more small corpos and indies in the past year, partly because I miss the feeling of a smaller community, but also to support emerging talents as they grind their way up.