I mean, it's been tried thrice thus far, and it failed instantly every time.Agreed, Brave may try the skinwalking stunt once again when they have enough momentum, that would certainly kill my interest in vtubing if it doesn't instantly fail and other corpos take note.
I think the pattern has been established. It's too tempting for corpos not to try, but the consumer base won't have it. I imagine we will continue to have an incident every year or two.
I wouldn't worry. Vtubing has a high cost of entry relative to flesh streaming, but a very low cost of entry relative to business. Vtubing being entertainment also makes it a highly elastic good. The consumer can just go "lolno".Pretty much. Either they snap up a ton of resources to try to pad their portfolio, they fail at the business and fall apart, or even worse they manage to succeed in their amassing of resources and stabilize to begin forming a monopoly and everyone else suffers for it. Since if one entity controls all of something with no competition, why would they ever seek to actually improve for the better afterwards? They're the only source, either you buy their product or you get nothing and they can more or less set whatever price point or quality standard by then. We already have more than enough of a problem with consumer complacency and general consumer ignorance allowing companies in all kinds of sectors to get away with screwing over the public with cost-saving bullshit and this is when you have options to choose from. Imagine how bad it could get if you didn't?
I don't know how a monopolization in vtubing management/ownership would look, but I also don't want to find out, once some corporation has a majority control it's so difficult to backtrack. If they turn out to be a total shitshow, there's very little that can be done. Look at the heat that Nijisanji has been increasingly getting lately and they're still going. Pushback against Brave group once they've amassed all their purchases won't matter in that case unless they collapse under their own weight.
Easy entry and high elasticity should make the establishment of an effective monopoly basically impossible.
Brave wants profit, obviously. It wants to be big. But it'll never be a monopolist.
It's Japan, so Yakuza involvement is a legitimate possibility.Anyone here who actually from JP/can read JP tell me where brave group is bringing all this money from. They are throwing in insane money that is no where near recoupable in a foreseeable future, which here is the case?
1. Money laundering
2. Rich oil prince
3. Fund raising, basically selling bridges to investors like Uber does.
If it's no.3, there is indeed a huge chance of it all tumbling down.
lolGonna feature the actual voices of rhe EN girls. This will be the closest thing chumbuds have gotten to a stream from Gura that didn't involve shilling in months.
lmao