Is it commonly assumed there's going to be a Hololive graduation this year? EN auditions got officially opened, and reportedly a couple months ago, ID gen 4 auditions were "wrapped up" (which I don't have a direct source for, I just see people say it, even though the auditions are always open, kind of like EN). These make me wonder if they're going to do the typical "graduate a talent, and then debut a new generation shortly after" strategy.
Doing a new EN branch is making me wonder if its Gura that's graduating due to health issues. Gura's pretty big so maybe it'd make sense to offset that loss with a whole new generation. Idk the business right, but it seems pretty disruptive to the other talents to debut a whole gen, and Hololive doesn't seem to want to act like Nijisanji does. Also, watching the clips with Kiara talking about meeting her in Japan, she expressed "regret" about not getting to know gura better over the two years, and cried a bit. The tone to me seemed kind of like there was some sort of finality to it, then again I don't watch Kiara's dono reading streams, so maybe this is normal?
On the ID side, I feel like it could be Ollie or some of the earlier ID's that appear to have stagnated in growth (like Lofi, Reine, etc), especially compared with the new Gen 3.
There is also Haachama that's been basically MIA for a couple of months. Someone even asked Kanata on her twitter space about her, and it could be JP translation weirdness, but she said something like "oh uh, I can't really comment on that" and "I haven't talked to her." Pretty strange.