I guess there's a big kerfuffle with China at the moment, because a lot of stuff is/was simulcast to bilibili. As best I understand it:
-Haato was talking about overseas viewers, and showed some youtube analytics that mentioned Taiwan, probably unaware she was kicking a hornet's nest -Chinese trolls didn't much care for that -Coco also mentioned Taiwan, probably on purpose so she could draw aggro because she is the tank of hololive -Chinese trolls didn't much care for that either -Coco is getting most of the hate and everybody's suspended on bilibili (which is a bigger deal to some hololivers than others) -Coco has made chat members-only, which means you have to pay to send her death threats and stuff -....which they are doing, apparently -The impression I get is that we are just gonna kinda hunker down and wait for things to blow over, but it probably wouldn't hurt to leave Coco some extra likes and positivity and stuff
Coco I guess is making bank off the haters, but it's probably not the most fun anybody's ever had even for a yakuza dragon
extra context i suppose, with the only exception being certain gen 3/4/5 hololive members, vtubers are overwhelmingly more popular on bilibili than youtube, so i guess they actually have a really really big hornet's nest with slightly more reason to get defensive than usual
the sad thing is taiwan, from anecdotal experience, actually cares a lot about vtubers too. i can think of a couple of notable taiwan-based indie vtubers, one of which experienced dramatic channel growth specifically after moving to there