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Helkar

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"Awawa Akbar!" - Jelly Hoshiumi, 2025, during an ingame suicide bombing run
 

DelusionTree

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Heraclitus121

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Airi's mental breakdown in April almost resulted in her graduating but Shiina, Dizzy, and other talents talked her out of it
Around this time I remember Shiina saying Airi was sad about not being cute or popular. And Shiina thought Airi would have a more popular channel than her if she streamed more often.
 

Death by Dishonor

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particularly Tenma's physics
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But man, i wonder wtf happened.
Wasn't this around the time her house got flooded and they had to fix it? Also IIRC there was the April 1st stream she had to cancel because something happened. Basically, knowing her life, literally anything.

Was this before or after the maggots dropped from her work's ceiling
...including this, I guess :pomuStare:
 

Helkar

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And Shiina thought Airi would have a more popular channel than her if she streamed more often.
I mean unironically, yeah likely.
Airi as a fulltime streamer would be a damn menace.
 

John Vtuber👁️

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I mean unironically, yeah likely.
Airi as a fulltime streamer would be a damn menace.

All she has to do is quit her job

...Any year now, surely! Please do not die in a car accident before then
 

sbm

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True, but the goal isn't for the con to be profitable right now. Outside of it being a massive fan event its also a massive advertising stunt and the goal for them is to get there name out there rather then make a profit. On the financial front they just need to break even or to only have a mild loss for the event.
Running events like this without breaking the bank is all about matching up revenue and expenses.

For example you want the cost you're charging for a vendor booth times the number of booths to equal the cost of renting the vendor hall plus any associated expenses. Maybe you add a little more to give some room or make a profit. Maybe you undercost it a bit if you think you can make it up in ticket sales.

Conventions have a few sources of income:
- Tickets/badges
- Sponsorships/advertising
- Booth sales

You can usually match these pretty neatly with associated expenses. Attendee tickets go to the cost of the rental and all of the static costs (furniture rental, equipment rental, insurance, security, any staff you're paying). Sponsorships might line up with the costs associated with guests and setting up special panels. Sometimes you can even get these to line up 1:1 for example get a company to sponsor a particular panel.

Of course you don't have to match revenues with expenses so long as the books balance in the end, but doing so is a neat shorthand way of keeping things under control, and makes it easy to predict and estimate where you might have profit or fall short.


PhaseCon would have a few unique advantages:
- Firstly, they don't have to pay for guests if they don't want to. 29 phase girls should be enough for the celebrity portion, it's entirely possible they'd get vtuber friends to guest for free, and fan volunteers can do fan panels. Should they pay to have Hololive show up? I'd argue these days it's an even bigger draw to get someone like Dooby or Nimi to do a half-hour event and probably an easier sell and less expensive.
- Secondly and more importantly, PhaseCon will be the single biggest day of official Phase merch sales. They can likely sell as much as they can stock beforehand. Speaking as a Phase fan, I wouldn't go to PhaseCon without also having a budget for con-exclusive official merch. I think a lot of vtuber fans are like me - if we're spending significant money already, we're not afraid of spending more money to expand the experience. Phase can make merch front and center in a way that can't be done at most cons, like Hololive does at HoloFes.
- This is kind of weird to say, but even OffKai doesn't really take advantage of being an event mostly about online influencers. I think there are two big events that do this fairly well. HoloFes is the most relevant example - you have mixed media events at the con itself and a massive digital concert sale, all of which doesn't cannibalize attendance. TwitchCon is the other example but I am much less familiar with how it integrates streaming into the con itself.

The downsides:
- Phase itself is fairly niche and you don't have the wide OffKai style draw, though I think there are plenty of Phase fans who would show up to PhaseCon and not OffKai. It would definitely be a smaller event and finding volunteers to help run it might also take a bit from its paying attendance.
- First year is going to be a gong show, pretty much no matter what. Imagine the kind of rrats people will throw out when Phase has massive persistent tech problems at their own event. It will happen.
- Events are generally trash for advertising. You aren't going to make Phase bigger by having a big convention. It's better to think of them as ways to milk money and add enthusiasm to existing fans.
 

Koronesuki

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Death by Dishonor

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These three might actually convince Dizzy to kill herself...
 

Italian Raccoon

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Paladin

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As an expert in both managing menhera girls and mental breakdowns Dizzy is probably the best person for the job.
But man, i wonder wtf happened.
For that kind of shit its better for a woman to come to the rescue as they can come from a more emotional angle that men struggle with. A voice of reason is not always the best solution as some times people just need an open ear and the time to talk through there own issues.
 

El Chupacabra

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Death by Dishonor

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El Chupacabra

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I think suicide might have been mentioned 457 times in this stream alone
 

Johnny Jambalaya

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Added the PhaseCon business card tweet to the thread header. Feel free to report posts that you think should be featured there (or sitewide) or ping a janny. I don't personally read this thread outside of responding to pings or reports so that kind of stuff is helpful. :kaelaapprob:
 

Phantasm

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VTuberThrow

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These are their paid editors, by the way. I feel like until a year ago or so, I never saw a phase editor say much of anything, besides maybe Xyncro. I think that was better. You get paid, you get credited, and you probably get a thank you from a talent; you shouldn't need to shove your shit in everyone's face all day, every day. Every time you open Twitter, it's some bullshit attention grab. Every talent's discord channel it's something, every stream it's something. Just stfu and put the subtitles on the clips. You're not anime women, and nobody wants to hear from you.
:autismvortex:
NotTheo stays winning.
Huh, this year's Offkai is surprisingly less gay than last y-
At least some of them are women. I suppose that's improvement.
 

Negzana

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This game is like old source levels of jank, I love it.
 

dumdum did nothing wrong

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NotTheo stays winning.
Theo probably lives in fear that if he acted up Tenma would beat him and take out to the curb American X style. More Phase talents should copy Tenma and beat their clippers/editors more. Gotta keep that pimp hand firm Sisko style.

 

Italian Raccoon

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Theo probably lives in fear that if he acted up Tenma would beat him and take out to the curb American X style. More Phase talents should copy Tenma and beat their clippers/editors more. Gotta keep that pimp hand firm Sisko style.
One of Tenma's best qualities is setting boundaries when enforcing them when someone crosses them, I feel like some of the girls get swept up with the degeneracy and end up having to tolerate shit they don't like, and won't speak up about it because it'd cause a scene. But obviously some of the girls are just straight up freaks and encourage this type of behavior, so you can't really blame the degenerates in those situations.
 

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