My ultimate hope for the hobby was to support indies over corpos and watch the formation of industry-wide institutions, so the fall of the vtuber awards would probably be an interest-killing blow to my morale.
If it actually dies for good, Grifterrat will probably take over the concept. She wanted to do it once upon a time (since she's the self-proclaimed, self-appointed god empress avatar spokeswoman of vtubing, after all!) but Filian did it first, which is why she's been seething ever since and refuses to acknowledge the awards (literally didn't name them even when she won lol).
Is Filian still sponsored by that amateur porn website? Her audience is 18 years or older trust me bro.
>>104011520Hopefully that happens as a fallback. It is crucial that indie vtubers continue to prove that they need no corporate master to bind the community together
>>104010993>any industry siding with indies over corpos
>>104010993Ironmouse will rig it and win it regardless of if it happens or not
>>104012380I mean, it kind of happened in 2024 when everyone rose up against Nijisanji to back Selen.
>>104012420She never even acknowledges those awards and she's got like 5 of them.
>>104010993>>104014474first off, all corpos (especially vtubers) are working together, the end goal isn't the corpos profit, but the overall narrative.that's why vshojo was dropped, they realize no trannies were taking, so they decided to drop the virtual girls.now they're sticking to the wider net and going with any color, and hoping that they can catch and "release" into the "indie", hollowlife, or face connect, venues.its all a scam, and only those still not waking up to it will continue to be decived by the narrative.
>>104011680fansly? yes, and she refuses to even put out gooner content on it.honestly, she's been scraping the bottom of the barrel with the sponsors for a while now. I don't know if anyone's interested in financing it again, I'm pretty sure phase bought an ad slot last year purely because filian owns equity in the company and basically coerced them into doing a related party transaction
>>104010993Didn't just exist to feed Ironmouse's ego?
>>104014997it's a win-win for everyone, ironmouse's ego gets fed, everyone else gets good person points for celebrating the charity case
>>104010993it will happen, as much as people here shit on filian, she has solid organizational skills and is surprisingly reliable when it comes to these things
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