I normally can't be bothered to get involved in discussions like this cause I hate timelooping as much as anybody on here, but seeing as we're a couple hours away from her being gone and no longer a relevant topic of discussion - whatever.
Everybody is entitled to their opinion, of course, but I will never understand the idea that Gura is a "wasted" or "failed" Hololive career.
We got 2 years of great streams both alone and with the other girls, and even the 2 years when she "didn't stream" produced some bangers (minecraft on the old new server, choo choo charles, geoguesser with ame, the off collab mumei voice challenge, poppy playtime, hatsune miku boxing, dark souls race with fauna, FNAF:into the pit and "gallons", her fast food simulator collab with kronii which is still the funniest stream of 2025 so far imo, scary golf with kronii and the return of the GWAK, 3 collabs with SNOT, the Myth japan off collab arc, her appearance on Oozora Police, the end of mythbreakers, Girls talk, phasmo with Ame, lethal company with Myth, the Myth 1-block arc, the ENReco pointy-hat crew, and the great farewell streams for Ame, Fauna and Mumei).
We also got 4 3d live concerts (including the graduation one), and countless appearances on other girls' lives and Myth 3d lives.
We got dozens of some of the best karaoke streams in all of hololive (my Gura karaoke archive folder has 57 files in it).
We got 8 original songs (not even counting big group songs), of which 5 were solo originals. Ash Again and Shinkiro belong in the all-time top tier of Hololive originals IMO and none of hers are bad (sweet appetite is kinda mid i guess).
I certainly agree that others have done more for Hololive, and that she herself could have done a lot more and communicated better - I don't think that there's any reasonable person, Chumbud or otherwise, that wouldn't. Calling her time a "disappointment" I can understand, but I can't personally find it in me to be disappointed with what I got out of the last 4.5 years of shark.
I feel like Gura is judged by a different standard, both because of her enormous popularity, and because she works alongside some of the most cracked-out hard-working girls in all of vtubing. It's like we don't allow the Hololive girls to just be normal people who have problems that they're not good at dealing with. Do I wish that Gura was as insanely OP as somebody like Calli or Bae? Kinda - but then again if she was like that, she wouldn't be Gura anymore.
I think it's worth pointing out that it's the internet that is calling Gura the "world's number one vtuber" and the "savior of EN vtubing" or whatever. Gura herself never seemed to want more than to play video games, sing for people, and maybe get up on stage a bit like her idol Miku. And she did that - right up to the end.
Anyways, this Myth collab relay has been amazing and I will rest easy knowing that the Shark will forever be lurking deep inside the colon of her hideous, misshapen homunculus on the Hololive minecraft server, haunting anyone who is foolish enough to come near it...
