Is everyone just trying to beat Hololive at their own game now? Can't they just do their own thing instead. Niji is specifically hiring people involved in music starting from last auditions, Vshojo is shifting gears into music production. They had their own thing going (for better or worse) and to abandon it in pursuit of something that your competitor ate a dog on is just stupid
Vtubing got its start in a country that spontaneously decided to turn voice actor into idols because reasons. Vtubing swerved into Idol activities within a year or two of its creation.
By the time the west was exposed to it, vtubing was already strongly associated with idol activities.
All of this set expectations. Not just for the fans, but also for the talents attracted to the business. In Vshojo's case, Henyamee and (theoretically) Nazuna.
Indeed, not just talents and fans, but the financial muscle behind upstart corps had the same expectations and desires. Sakana wanted to create an idol corp. Aviel went and outright called his project Idol Corp.
Random indies put out cover after cover, routinely do karaoke streams, neither of which is particularly associated with flesh streamers. Not unheard of, of course, but much less common.
Frankly, chances are, Vshojo got asked questions along the lines of "When concert?" and "Why no music?" and it's now giving it a shot.
Whether the revenue is worth it, no idea. We'll see, I suppose. Or Vshojo will, at any rate.
I’m still unsure of who the target audience for the slop these shitty commentary/essay channels put out. Casual vtuber fans? Or is there a subset of hardcore fans that just really like listening to information they already know for nearly 30 minutes?
With channels that cover topics I care about (other than vtubing), it's typically that they cover something I already know and if they're right about it, I'm happy and much more likely to trust their content on topics I'm less familiar with. If they're wrong about it, I'm not visiting the channel again.