On the topic of corpos vs indies, I've mentioned this before, but it's ignorant to reality to treat indies as this monolithic group where the activities of one can be construed as representative of them all. People here can pretend all indies are talentless whores selling their virtual bodies on Twitch, and people like Proctor and I can pretend indies are all good girls that dindu nuffin, but the reality is that both are true, since the term "indie" is big and all-encompassing enough to unite them simply by what they aren't, which is a corpo vtuber. Even if the corpo scene explodes, that'd give the term indie even less meaning, as then that'd be the default state of vtubers and would describe exactly nothing. Total corpo death does seem more possible than ever before at this point, given how Holo is fucking things up, but if it does come to pass (which would also have to mean Brave and all the small corpos die off, for some reason), I don't think we would see the Age of the Indie, as if indies are all on the same team and cooperating under the same banner. People would just do their own thing. Hell, some would probably try and make their own company, and then this autistic debate would start all over again.
On the topic of Hololive Ls, it feels like karma has come for holobros after a year or two of Total Niji Death. In the end, Hololive is a large Japanese corporation, subject to all the autism and retardation that comes with the territory, and while we've been willing to overlook it for all the good they've done, they have, historically, made a lot of fuck ups. It shouldn't be that surprising they would hit a rough patch like this, especially with them going public recently. I can't say I'm as bloodthirsty towards them as I am Niji, at least for the sake of the talents I care about like Mori and Gigi, but I would really like to see this situation acknowledged by Yagoo, with an explanation of why it happened and what he's going to do to prevent it happening in the future. If he has one thing Riku didn't when he made his statement, it's goodwill, and if he wants to maintain that goodwill, he needs to stop this talent bleed before more people lose their oshis.