My Opinion On The Recent Graduations In Hololive

Summary

Highlights

• Hololive's changes reflect its growth into the largest VTuber agency, but not all talents may agree with its direction 🎙️.
• Going public brought financial opportunities, but also new challenges and expectations for both the company and talents 💼.
• Koefficient stresses the importance of respecting the talents' choices, whether they stay or go 🙌.
• Despite graduations, Hololive has a robust roster and will continue to thrive with new and existing talents 🌟.
• The VTuber community has evolved, allowing talents to continue successfully even after leaving an agency 🚀.

Key Takeaways

• Hololive has experienced significant growth and changes, going public and expanding its ambitions 🎉.
• Some talents may not align with the company's direction, leading to recent graduations 🚪.
• There's speculation about internal issues, but Koefficient emphasizes focusing on known facts only 🕵️.
• Fans are encouraged to continue supporting their favorite talents, regardless of where they go 🌟.
• Gura's graduation was somewhat expected due to her inactivity, yet she remains influential in the VTuber scene 🌐.

Overview

Chapters

• 00:00 - 02:00: Introduction and Background The chapter provides an overview of the recent changes in Hollow Life, acknowledging that these changes have been evolving over the past couple of months, or even years. The speaker, currently in Japan, shares personal reflections on having been less active in uploading videos this year.
• 02:00 - 05:00: Growth and Changes in Hololive The chapter titled 'Growth and Changes in Hololive' discusses the evolution of the Hololive company since its early days, particularly since the debut of Gura. A key theme is the significant transformations the company has undergone, highlighted by almost double-digit graduations. These changes are attributed to disagreements with the management and the company's direction not aligning with the desires of some of its members.
• 05:00 - 09:00: Company and Talent Dynamics The chapter discusses the significant growth and changes in Holife, a VTuber agency. It highlights two major changes: the enormous expansion of Holife, making it the biggest agency of its kind, and its transition to a public company. The narrator notes a tendency among people to attribute various outcomes or issues to the company going public, suggesting that while this might be correct, it may not be the sole factor influencing current dynamics.
• 09:00 - 14:00: Implications of Graduations The chapter titled 'Implications of Graduations' appears to be a personal reflection by the narrator, who chooses not to make a lot of assumptions to maintain an open perspective. The speaker discusses their own opinions and beliefs based on the facts they know, emphasizing speculation. A significant focus is on Hol Life, which the speaker notes has grown greatly in ambition, though their use of 'extremendously' to describe this growth is more playful than precise. The narrative reflects on this notion in a casual and introspective manner.
• 14:00 - 16:30: Closing Thoughts The chapter reflects on the journey and success achieved through talent. It emphasizes that the success of the company is heavily reliant on the talented individuals involved. However, the growth of a company fuels ambitions for increased revenue and opportunities, which often leads to new possibilities and the involvement of investors.

My Opinion On The Recent Graduations In Hololive Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 so there's been some changes in Hollow Life Alive hasn't there uh I mean I think we knew that already for the past couple months actually some could even say the past year or two there's been some changes and we're now seeing the fruits of those changes so I want to talk about it and give my opinion on it now pardon me i am actually in Japan so I might be uploading this at a weird time compared to my other videos actually I I've been hardly uploading this year at all this is definitely one of those things that I've been wanting to do but I never really thought of a
• 00:30 - 01:00 good time to do it or even if I should do it and I think yeah I want to do it this time so as we all know things have changed in Holive the Holive that we knew back when Gura first debuted is not the same as it is now we have seen close to doubledigit graduations at this point all discussing disagreements with management direction of the company not being the a thing that they want to
• 01:00 - 01:30 follow and I think we can make some deductions based on these facts now there are two factual changes that we have seen Holife go through number one it has grown enormously to the point where it's the biggest VTuber agency of all time second they went public meaning you know what now I don't want to blame everything on going public because that's what a lot of people are doing right now and to be honest with you it might actually be the case but
• 01:30 - 02:00 I'm not going to make a lot of assumptions because I want to leave things a little bit just I don't know all the facts so I'm just making my personal opinion on this based on what I know and what I believe let's talk about the first thing hol life is huge now their ambitions have grown e extremendously if that's even a word is that even a word is that is extremendously a word it is now it is now okay I'm just going to extremendously and the fact that they
• 02:00 - 02:30 got so far with the talent that they have really speaks volume as to how good all the talents are they really wouldn't be in the place that they are now without the talents but just like with every successful company you want to grow more you have more ambitions more revenue more opportunities and that usually leads to a door that opens up and behind them are investors and usually to be able to
• 02:30 - 03:00 accommodate these amii ambitions you have to have money and with money comes investors going public my thought process right now is they 100% needed to go public to be able to make all the crazy things that they've been doing come true over here is it's insane bro i opened up my phone which had a furball Coron i would show you but I'm recording this on my phone right now and the lady told me
• 03:00 - 03:30 Coronki i just connected with someone I don't understand over a phone wallpaper that had Coron you see what I mean of course whether or not you think them going public was a good thing or a bad thing is completely subjective i'm not going into that the fact of the matter is it happened and we're here now comes the part where I think is happening right now some of the talents were probably there because they want to have friends and they do want to do idol stuff and
• 03:30 - 04:00 they do want to sing and they do want to dance but they want to do it for fun and maybe things have happened internally things that I don't know that maybe don't align with that whatever the case may be I don't know what it is i do think that a lot of people and this is the part where it's going to get people are going to get upset at me which I'm fine i don't I don't give a i do think that a lot of people are blowing this up specifically on holive and cover more than it needs to matter of fact is
• 04:00 - 04:30 the company needs specific things from the talent the talent don't want to provide that so they leave and that's it that's just how it is and I understand why people are getting upset at Cover because last time this happened it was a huge show with Niji Sanji and I don't think that Cover is a a black sheep company or whatever you want to call it right i think they're just businessoriented that's it and they try to accommodate the talents as best as
• 04:30 - 05:00 they can i've always been an advocate of the talent over the company like my loyalty is primarily to the talents not to the company you know I don't really care too much about what Holy Cover does as long as the talents are okay that's all I really care about because at the end of the day I'm not going to Hollow lives or covers live streams i'm going to Coron's live streams i'm going to Gura's live streams i'm going to Watame you know I'm going to their live streams
• 05:00 - 05:30 and that's all I care about really i care about the individual rather than the character now that's not to say that the people that think the opposite aren't validated here because I understand that people are very upset people care about the character over the talent sometimes so all in all my opinion is that this is happening because there has been a change in the company that I do think was pretty huge huge enough to warrant a a ginormous wave of graduations and there's probably going to be more after this but I don't
• 05:30 - 06:00 think that there's anything necessarily bad happening internally at least not with the facts that we know now i mean we can theorize all day we can start you know thinking up all sorts of crazy that's going on behind closed doors but none of that is factual and if it's not factual I'm not going to bother with it because at the end of the day I'm a human being that has very little time on his hands and I would like to try to cherish the time that I have right now
• 06:00 - 06:30 if anything does come out of this that's very bad then of course I'll eat my words and then I'll reassess and I'll I'll pick up the pitchforks with you guys you know what I mean but for right now I do think that this is very mutual i do think well maybe not mutual maybe you know we heard from previous talents that they wanted to keep going they wanted to keep things as they were but they can't because you know ambitions and stuff possibly and that's another point I wanted to bring out as well is that back in the day when graduations
• 06:30 - 07:00 were very very shocking i think a lot of the talents didn't want to graduate maybe they had feelings before but they can't really do it because they thought they can't make it without their agency but now because of things that have happened primarily last year and they saw the success of what happens whenever you get when you get out and then become independent you can get be very very successful i mean we've seen it time and time again now they can see that they
• 07:00 - 07:30 can make it without the agency having an agency has a lot of pros but it also has a lot of cons as we know hi post edit me here it's morning time now i had time to sleep on it and I was looking back at the footage and I wanted to add a few things the first thing is that 5 years which is the time period where she has been in holive it's actually or four and a half to 5 years has been a pretty good amount of time to give a lot of herself and to be able to build her reputation and build the company up as well it's
• 07:30 - 08:00 safe to assume that Gur is one of the most important VTubers in history so her giving it her all for 5 years is actually pretty good amount of time before you decide or she decides to move on and potentially pursue other things maybe some things on her own or maybe some things that aren't that not sure the second thing I do think that not everything has to do with you know being public or having investors or having a return this is something that maybe there is their own personal reasons they
• 08:00 - 08:30 also have their health to look out for and whether it be mentally or physically doesn't matter and I think that's a really important thing to think about in this type of situation because the people that are there right now are willing to be able to grow within Holive or with Holive and cover by their side but some people just don't want that and I think that the people that are leaving now are the those people that want to pursue other things without Holive by their side even though they're losing
• 08:30 - 09:00 losing out on a lot and they are sacrificing a lot it's very brave of them to be able to leave a company like Hollow Life which how such a huge safety blanket for them and now that they're leaving it it's I I feel like it's very brave i feel like if I was in their shoes I would probably stay with Hollow Life i think a lot of us would cuz it seems like so much fun but we don't know what's going on in their own personal life so personal reasons definitely have a huge thing in this type of ordeal and
• 09:00 - 09:30 the last thing is that a lot of people are wanting to control the narrative they're wanting to make problems that aren't there and everything seems pretty mutual for the most part and they if they can't elaborate any further it's not as easy as oh here's the main reason why if it was that easy then we would have heard about it a long time ago but because it isn't I don't think that's something that we should be worrying about and I know a lot of people are very respectful about the decision as well as the the
• 09:30 - 10:00 turn of events of how everything turned out however there are some people that are wanting to cry wolf but there's really no wolf to be crying over either way be respectful of the decisions be respectful of the talent that are there and be respectful to the talent that are leaving and they might come back i'm just grateful that there's no shows if there was a show this would have been the only people that would benefit from a show would be drama tubers
• 10:00 - 10:30 now on the topic of Gura to kind of end this off I think that this was a long time coming as she said in her announcement video she has been taking breaks on and off for it feels like the past like year and a half now to two years she's been just take on and off she hasn't been streaming she has been kind of active on her past life and it's just not been looking good for the chum buds because they really haven't been getting too much content and that's not to fault her of her own that she has her
• 10:30 - 11:00 own reasons i it's safe to say that Gura's graduation was by far one of the most anticip not anticipated what's the word for it it's uh expected that's what it is it's the most expected graduations uh out of all of them because of how infrequent she has been with her streams and her content and I feel like right now graduations just aren't as sad it's weird to say this but they're not as sad as they used to be
• 11:00 - 11:30 because before there was so much uncertainty that we wouldn't see the person behind the avatar anymore but now we kind of have seen we're we're in a space where you can leave your persona that you have built up and go to your old one or a new one and have your audience be right where they left them i have no doubt that we're going to see Gura in a reincarnation and I have no doubt that Hollow Alive is going to continue
• 11:30 - 12:00 thriving a lot of people are thinking that the Holive is going to die now because of Gura leaving i don't think that's the case they have too many heavy hitters and they have too much talent under their umbrella to be able to even consider the fact that they're dying because they're not but ultimately what I do think is that there are some people that are going to be leaving that were around for a while and probably don't want to be around anymore because of changes that are happening or there's some disagreements i don't think any of
• 12:00 - 12:30 the talents that have been graduating actually want to leave so I do think Cover needs to do something to be able to accommodate the current talent for the most part I think they're going to have new talents new VTubers that are going to come in new generations that are going to be more than okay with the new set of new the new Holive cuz I do think that there's an old Holive and there's a new Holive which one of them you think is better is is not what I'm
• 12:30 - 13:00 here for i like Hollow Alive in general i like all the talents and I like old and new because there's some great content happening on both ends of the timelines but overall it sucks that Guru is graduating but I guess that's just how things are right now so let me know what you guys think uh my heart's out to all the chum buds and yeah just watch your Oshi you know you know it just make sure that you uh you you
• 13:00 - 13:30 stay with them and watch their streams and that's it all right I'm gonna keep enjoying Japan bye-bye