1. It highly is all fake.I'm going to preface all of this with a big fat "If the site is actually real" disclaimer.
V-tubing died in China specifically because of the Chinese government forcing "online influencers" to show their real names when they get a decent follower count. Hoyo is big, but big corpos still have to look like they're toeing the party line if they don't want to end up like Jack Ma did.
There are a couple loopholes to the law that I'm aware of; specifically, you're only legally required to show your name if you bring up IRL information on stream (basically a way to keep people under the boot of the state media) or if you bring up certain hot-button topics like professions or the stock market or something. The caveat to that is that none of the platforms gave a shit about the fine details, they wanted to avoid getting "re-educated" so the vast majority of them simply forced people to put their real names on their accounts or leave (Bilibili falls in this camp IIRC). That's why Niji and HoloID has been able to get away with occasional streams on Chinese platforms; I'd bet hard cash that they have a very restricted list of things that they can actually talk about on these streams.
Conversely, if you can 100% ensure that your v-tubers will avoid IRL topics that piss off the secret police (say, by playing a character from Hoyoverse games and not diverging from that tack) and can negotiate with a given platform to bend their individual rules, you could absolutely run a v-tubing company in China.
In order to create a safe, civilized and harmonious network ecological environment and enhance the credibility and authority of the platform's top "self-media" account, the website will guide the top "self-media" account to display the front-end real-name display in the near future, so as to further Standardize the operation and management of "self-media" accounts, and make it easier for the public to implement supervision for the public's public interests. The specific description is as follows:
1. The website will guide the "self-media" account with more than 1 million fans in professional fields such as social current affairs, military, finance, law, and medical care in the near future, and will gradually expand to "self-media with more than 500,000 fans in related fields. "Account, with the user's consent, the front desk real name display is performed.
2. Ordinary users and accounts in areas that mainly share their personal daily life are not affected by the front desk real-name display.
3. After the user fills in the real name information, the user's real name will be displayed on the profile page. For unlogged-in tourist users, users who have not passed the authenticity information, users who are abnormal in behavior, and users who have been dealt with due to unfriendly behavior recently, it is prohibited to view the real-name information of other users at the front desk.
4. The website will inform users who need to display the front desk real name through a private message. Users can guide the front desk real name information through a private message link.
5. For users who receive private messages but do not fill in the front desk real-name information, the traffic and revenue of their accounts will be partially restricted, including recommendation flow display restrictions, hot search display restrictions, advertising sharing restrictions, reward revenue restrictions, etc.
Because of its social influence, the top "self-media" big Vs on various platforms have a public opinion guidance role far exceeding that of ordinary users when discussing social current hot topics. The implementation of real-name front desk is to promote the big Vs to take on the responsibility and The responsibility of matching discourse energy can further promote the ecological governance of online public opinion. In the future, the site will continuously optimize and improve the front-end real-name display process and rules, and actively improve the user experience while strengthening the main responsibility of the platform. At the same time, the website also thanks the majority of users for their active support and cooperation with the front desk real name. Weibo is willing to work with forces from all walks of life to jointly create a clear cyberspace.
If Hoyoverse wanted to make a Hololive ripoff, they'd have to either show the talent's real names (which is possible, I suppose) or stream with a fairly hard script set-up. Someone who actually knows about the Chinese online ecosystem might know more about the fine details, but it's not completely impossible to pull off. With that said, I don't think they'd ever try to reach outside of China, it'd be risky and there's no real reason for them to.
2. HoyoVerse/Cognosphere is technically a Singaporean company.
They dont have to subscribe to chinese gov bullshit as long as they dont stream on a Chinese platform like Bilibili. E.g develope their own platform like Anilive and register it under Singapore.
Or hiring known voice actors so face and name isnt an issue.
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uses kamioshi. I can see the kind behind that piece.
