"Disagreements with management is a bit of a catch-all that covers most reasons that (I fucking lost the rest of the sentence, but I think it was) someone would want to leave" -Calli right now
This kills the dramafag
It's most likely a separation clause line in the contracts to activate durable rights to certain parts of the IP. I'm also pretty sure it's just translated weirdly. It's going to be in every graduation going forward. It also puts the blame on Cover and away from the girls.
OH WOW WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT?!? IT'S ALMOST LIKE I FUCKING SAID THE EXACT SAME THING 200000 TIMES BUT PEOPLE REFUSE TO FACE THE OBVIOUSNESS OF WHAT IS JUST ANOTHER WORDING OF "CREATIVE DIFFERENCES"
Do you guys really think all of the talents, with different personalities, reasons for leaving and experiences in the company would say the exact same thing like robots? Are you daft?
You. are. not. going. to. be. told. the. actual. fucking. reason. why. EVER.
Except for the terminations, it's always because everyone is tired of the grind. Fauna clearly had an actual issue that had bothered her for a long while (I'm pretty certain at this point it's going to be Character Clothes/Models; I think she wanted to use alt-costumes like IronMouse but that wasn't going to work in Cover.)
Mio already confirmed this 4 months ago. If hag wolf of all people can't convince them, then they can have fun with their rrats.
Life moves on, something no one wants to ever admit. So blaming X, Y or Z just feels better.
Holy shit she is. Now if only she'd start playing better games I might start watching her again.
Kronii is low-key probably the best horror streamer around. The issue is that it isn't the games but the way she bounces off of them. That Inzoi stream...wow.
My reasoning for the first 2 is that this is hitting both EN and JP, if it was only one branch I could believe a manager being the issue but we know for a fact that the branches are managed separately, so low-tier managers or even branch managers couldn't be making people from multiple branches quit, that leaves upper management, but that is similarly unlikely because those guys do not interact with the talent directly, it would be pretty hard for them to harass people to the point of quitting if they aren't directly messing with them.
So a reason which hits multiple talents in multiple branches must be a company-wide policy change, of which the most likely to affect people is gonna be the revenue split, the streaming hours comes second simply because of the amount of low activity talents dropping. You could argue other shit like perms (which have gotten better not worse) or project cancellation but unless that got extremely bad I cannot see it setting off so many people at once so quickly.
My third idea is the mixed bag explanation, in which there were a handful of unhappy talents that all got inspired or pushed to quit by each other, in this case the true reasoning for quitting could be many things, from health issues, to project cancellation to burnout to wanting to advance their career. Which is honestly the most likely to me. I have begun believing that Aqua in particular broke something within the internal culture of the company, maybe people were afraid to leave before because of peer pressure or they thought they wouldn't succeed without Holo, and her leaving was just the push many of these girls needed to finally pull the trigger.
There is a lifecycle to a Media Career. In Western "Label" music, it's 4 years. That's generally what we should expect for a big corporate Vtuber that doesn't fail in the 1st year. The fact that Cover has created a system with actual "lifers" is the more interesting aspect. Though it's going to be noticeable how the English ones are always going to be more likely to leave because they're physically disconnected from everyone else. Notice how many are now congregating in Japan, so they can have the social aspect along with the Idol part of things. This isn't an accident.
Kronii is the exception. She's never leaving, but will probably complain about it every week on her PL for the next decade.
If they just want to stream and fuck around, Aqua and Fauna have more than proved they can be successful as long as they keep doing what they were in Holo under a different name, so I'm sure that has shown ones that don't want to go all in on the full entertainment stuff that they can leave and at least keep a decent portion of their fans.
This was known because Kson is still making great money, but I think Aqua leaving did open the floodgates. No one wanted to be the first to graduate in a long time, but once the Onion decided to go it changed the dynamics for those that probably should have graduated a couple of years ago.
Probably true.
The Yagoo tea party thing also corroborates this being an avalanche type deal, he knows better than all of us what his company is doing, and if it were just a person or management or the investors or whatever he could quickly focus on that. But the guy is instead asking each talent what their issues are and what they would like to see improved, that means he either doesn't know or that each talent has their own reasoning and they are simply leaving because they aren't afraid to do so anymore.
We could very well be entering an era of Holo with a much higher turnover rate (as in 1-5 talents leaving per year with their empty slots being refilled by a new gen in JP/EN), where people come in and leave if they just want a quick boost in popularity or regret joining and stay if they are workaholics that wanna reach for the top or are so chill that they have no ambition and don't mind doing their mandated shit for an easy paycheck.
Edit: Of course a high turnover rate is not good for Cover, not just because of PR (although after enough of the new status quo people will stop caring) but mostly because of lost IP, Cover has very clearly been trying to grow their existing IP because merch sales are so damn profitable, cycling through different IP every year is the opposite of this vision. So I can also see some drastic measures go up soon if this prediction is true, the dreaded investors are definitely the opposite of happy right now if we look at the stock price.
I was just thinking the other day we should expect at least a couple of graduations every year going forward. Hololive is out of the Startup Days, so streamers moving on after 5+ years is just a given. The drought of graduations probably kept things bottled up because no one wanted to really be the first to move. After the Onion did, it changed everyone's thinking. It was simply time, which was mostly Chloe's explanation as well.
We'll get graduations every year going forward. The drought is never happening again.
