Okay, decided to do a bit of watching/research on VDoki. This is hampered by the fact that there's very little info on vtuber wiki (the company doesn't have a page) and here's what you get when you visit
the company's website.
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This group is a year old, by the way. Not having a working website a year in does not inspire a great amount of confidence in the company.
The group currently has four members. They started out with Moggi Ijunkit, who left (more detail
here by Banana Hammock), but they have managed to pick up a new member at the start of this month. There's a
launch trailer on YouTube, and the character reveals of new and current members, is a three-shot compilation of the character's tits bouncing up and down, the character face, and character thighs. Not the greatest first impression and I think it did them a disservice since I didn't really see any whore behaviour for the talents I briefly checked out.
First up, caught AuroraPhoenyx live playing an MMO. It looks like she's the most popular member of the group within the confines of Kick (and seems to be the most popular Kick vtuber at about 7K subs). She was on day 62 of a subathon, and as far as I could tell, had made 2300 subs in that time. Not really sure how much a "sub" is, to be able to work out a dollar value for that two months of work, let alone what sort of cut her company is taking. It better not be much if they can't even get a template website working. Her model was pretty expressive, and it appeared to be a regular MMO gaming stream - no lewdbaiting, no whore website links or the like. Oh, and
AuroraPhoenyx's vtuber wiki page is extremely long for someone with 7K subs that's been streaming for three years. I've seen Hololive girls with shorter pages than Aurora's.
Aurora's numbers vary wildly - I started watching when she was half an hour into stream and she was at forty views, and she climbed to over a thousand CCV by hour in, stayed there for a while, and fell down to 200CCV. Her chat appeared to be pretty dead while she was at four-view territory (and appeared roughly the same amount regardless of CCV), but I don't know what chat engagement is like on Kick versus viewer count.
HoneyKub appears to stream on both Twitch and Kick (and does different streams on each) but gets way more views on Twitch. It's good she has a backup platform if Twitch doesn't work out but I'm not sure I'd spend as much time on Kick as she does if I were struggling at two-view territory when she's a mid three-view on Twitch. Not sure how reliable the viewing numbers are on Kick though, and if they refer to total VOD views or something else. Also not sure where she makes more money as a streamer, since Kick is apparently pretty generous with the cut between platform and streamer.
Had a quick glance at the other two girls currently in the group, they're low three-views for their VODs., if you can believe the numbers on Kick.
Lastly, a summary of Kick as a streaming platform from my brief foray:
- They seem to want vtubers on the platform - Aurora, at least, has received gift subs from Kick staff and the Kick CEO multiple times.
- There is a vtuber category on Kick, and it's not hard to navigate to with a quick search. When I was writing this post, there were two three-view vtuber streamers and ten two-view vtuber streamers. There were plenty of one-view girls (one, as in the number of viewers, not the amount of CCV digits) and they were pretty easy to find if that's your thing.
- They don't seem to care much about copyright - I briefly tried out a stream by Honeykub and she's straight up playing music by Kaunaz Dagaz on her loading screen.
- You can only see VODs if a talent isn't live. I couldn't check out Aurora's other streams since she was live while I was researching this shit.
- No watching a video from the start if you're late. If you pause a livestream, you don't get to see what you missed when you unpause.
Overall, I don't think I'd use Kick as a streamer unless I wanted to go full whore or full Alex Jones, and even then I'd be seeing if I could rework what sort of content I wanted to do instead to fit within YouTube or Twitch's guidelines. They're both aids in different ways, but Kick seems to have a very small audience to grow from, and even if you worked out that Aurora was doing okay financially with her paid gift sub numbers, it's a pretty big step down to the next most-popular talent there.
