She remembers her old days, an outfit reveal could get her more than 50k ccv.
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This is Rushia's outfit reveal peak ccv (I think).
This just shows she's still not moving on from her termination, and that is quite sad and concerning. Does she even still hang out with her old friends? I hope they still do.
She's been moving on in many ways, but she's still a bit disconnected on what being a vtuber outside of the Hololive-YouTube market blob means. Especially on Twitch where only a handful of Japanese streamers can get 10k viewers period.
Back on Rushia's birthday this year, she outright told us she was terrified of how she would react on that day, but found herself feeling surprisingly okay when she distracted herself by twitcasting all night and having people to talk to. She's also been showing way more willingness/desire to define herself as someone more than a former Hololive streamer.
She just doesn't have reasonable expectations for how to measure success at the moment. Her fans donate stupid amounts of money relative to her average CCV and buy merch at a rate that Vshojo stated far exceeded their expectations. She just needs to be consistent in streaming and stop letting the remaining JP antis drive her into paywalling everything out of fear.
As far as keeping in contact with her friends, she has vaguely confirmed she has in the past, at least some of them, but has not been doing so recently.
She's developed a fear of leaving her home and is basically a shut-in right now. She will go to the convenience store right before they close at night and to any appointments she absolutely has to keep, but is not leaving her home otherwise.
For about a solid month and a half, she has also been functionally nocturnal and has streamed from like 2am to 11am JST before going to sleep. She's had severe insomnia and gets lonely to the point that her fans will tell her to go to bed (and thus let them go to bed since most of them have to work in the morning) and then an hour later she will start another stream and practically beg us to keep her company because she can't sleep.
I realize this is the third wall of text I've spat out about this now, but I genuinely do like her a lot despite all the issues and can't help but get invested. She's made progress in many areas compared to last year and I'm happy to see it, but it sucks to see her develop new issues in their wake.