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Just in time to spice up New Year's Eve, the day with most suicides per year!
The way you put it reminds me of the era gaming was for a while: only budget indies or AAA slop, no inbetween.
Surely vtubing isn't entering that era, right? Right?
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Brave has the opportunity to do the funniest damn thing right now.
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I was thinking of PixelLink's Christmas Conundrum Causes Crowd Chagrin but I'll go with this.
This feels like deja vu. Before Erika and Cheri announced their graduations, VReverie seemed to be doing quite well and appeared to be one of the more promising small corpos. Is Erika/Kanna just cursed?
If Pixel Link folds, I'm probably just done with small corpos (except maybe V4Mirai with their Brave money).
The silver lining is that I really wasn't a fan of the Kanna model, but I'll miss her "qua's". Hope she doesn't go dark for 3-4 months again like last time. That said, as much as I disliked Kanna's model, this feels like a monkey's paw moment, because losing Lottie's model would be a travesty.
Edit: If Pixel Link dying is the case, I'd feel so bad for Kanna. She's been growing and has been getting between 300-500 ccv outside of ASMR. It would be awful to see her have to start over again in less than a year.
If Pixel Link folds, I'm probably just done with small corpos (except maybe V4Mirai with their Brave money).
The silver lining is that I really wasn't a fan of the Kanna model, but I'll miss her "qua's". Hope she doesn't go dark for 3-4 months again like last time. That said, as much as I disliked Kanna's model, this feels like a monkey's paw moment, because losing Lottie's model would be a travesty.
Edit: If Pixel Link dying is the case, I'd feel so bad for Kanna. She's been growing and has been getting between 300-500 ccv outside of ASMR. It would be awful to see her have to start over again in less than a year.
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This is Lottie. The art style is her's and she mentions kaiju in her description. Don't know why she is making a new account rather than returning to her old one.
https://x.com/lilitapuff
Maybe she wanted to be more familiar to her Pixel audience and keep the aquatic theme.
I'm pretty disappointed. Pixel Link was one of the few small corpos that looked like it could actually do well, I also kind of thought of it as Phase's little sister with the whole tech word starting with P + synonym for join naming scheme and the fact that Lottie seems to have inherited the Mister Metokur audience. In my last post I said that dinosaur girls in corpos are cursed, guess I was more correct than I thought, should have kept my mouth shut. Personal feelings aside less companies means less competition which leads to stagnation, looks like we're entering the era of vtubing that reflects the rest of media: high budget sanitized bullshit that just survives off of the clout it earned in the past rather than innovating in the present.
No merch on their site, because they outsourced all their merch business to Kawa early on, after some initial merch issues.
This is so bizarre and sudden, considering the Christmas merch just went on sale a few days ago. No major merch issues (other than shipping costs) since Kawa started handling everything. People have been getting their Lad plushies for the past month or so:
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I'm pretty sure this is Lottie (odd that she would make a new account when still has her PL as Lilita - it's been locked for a couple of months now, I think after someone started posting tweets from her PL on /vt/). Art comparison:
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Just finished the space, Daiya is pretty calm and talking about her future streams like normal, other than repeatedly reassuring Monmons that "the world is not ending". Miuna's also quiet on her alt, and Kanna will still be streaming like it's nobody's business:Daiyas also live on Twitter rn
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If this is a corpo dissolution, it's one of the weirdest I've seen, maybe even weirder than VReverie.
Reminder that this girl has survived CyberLive, Tsunderia, and AkioAir (the reply is Raki's PL):Wisu...
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Also, would anyone know who this is? Possibly Chiaki? Raki's PL just retweeted:
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Christmas closures aren't that uncommon, and while it sucks that so many companies do layoffs right before Christmas and New Years, the reality is that it makes the most sense. Think of it this way, Black Friday is called that because that's when many companies go from being in the red to the black, and as such many companies are holding out all year in hopes that the holiday season turns their fortunes around. When Black Friday passes and things still haven't recovered, that's when they either need to lay people off or close completely, it feels especially heartless to do right before the holidays but many times they're hoping and fighting to avoid this using the season to get enough of a lifeline to keep limping along, but when reality sets in they're left with no choice and that reality always sets in in December.
Just cross-posting the known PLs from the "Not-" thread for quick reference:
Adding in the new ones from this thread:
Lottie (new) - LAZULI
Chio (new) - Rebbi
Chiaki (been around for years apparently) - LunaKat
Daiya - Mai
Only one unaccounted for is Daiya. She's new to streaming so she doesn't have any known PL. She has been the calmest, other than Kanna, over the past few hours. Kanna hasn't posted anything on her Freya account.
E: Possibly Daiya, spotted on Sai's following list:
Got a lead from this anon that Sai was following her, and that Maria had replied to her.
Would check out since the account got quickly privated right after.
E2: Yeah, that's Daiya:
Adding in the new ones from this thread:
Lottie (new) - LAZULI
Chio (new) - Rebbi
Chiaki (been around for years apparently) - LunaKat
Daiya - Mai
E: Possibly Daiya, spotted on Sai's following list:
Got a lead from this anon that Sai was following her, and that Maria had replied to her.
Would check out since the account got quickly privated right after.
E2: Yeah, that's Daiya:
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That seems to be par for the course for Kanna. She went completely radio silent last time despite all of her peers firing up their PL/alt accounts and tweeting a bunch. Obviously, she had her gig lined up with Pixel Link from the get-go, so that attributed to the silence, but it's not out of character for her--even when trouble is brewing.
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Oh, this is interesting, it sounds like a split down the middle rather than a full-on dissolution. Could be a change in management/acquisition some of them are okay with while the others vehemently hate, could be woman drama. We're just at the wait-and-see phase right now, I guess.Just finished the space, Daiya is pretty calm and talking about her future streams like normal, other than repeatedly reassuring Monmons that "the world is not ending". Miuna's also quiet on her alt, and Kanna will still be streaming like it's nobody's business:
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If this is a corpo dissolution, it's one of the weirdest I've seen, maybe even weirder than VReverie.
My pet rrat is that one of the investors got impatient and suddenly decided to pull their funds from the company before the end of the year. Might be threatening to take action/hold the company hostage otherwise. This would explain why basically everyone was caught off-guard.
If it was a change in management/acquisition the mood would have been very different and we would have seen PL activity way in advance of this. If it was purely because of poor financial performance, then it would make more sense to push through with the Christmas events since they would have made quite a bit of money.
I suppose things are going on behind-the-scenes, maybe the company is looking for a quick cash transfusion or working some legal chicanery. No choice but to wait and see.
