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oh yeah i guess now's a good time to start fleshing out the scene a little bit more

in 2020, there are two particularly notable virtual youtuber talent agencies out there. Nijisanji and Hololive.

Nijisanji started off back in like, early 2018, and they in particular are notable for constantly recruiting more members, though they've finally slowed down this year. In their incredibly large roster of over 100 virtual talents, they've been constantly at the forefront of the scene for the bulk of the last year and a half, and generally speaking, they mostly have hundreds of thousands of subscribers and thousands of viewers on every stream or video they do. They've pierced the japanese mainstream media more than any other group, getting several tv dramas and a lot of big events before any other group could hope to garner the numbers. They were also the first ones to start branching out internationally, and now have members from Indonesia, India and Korea if I remember right.

Hololive really started taking off late last year. A few members, arguably starting with the most popular member Shirakami Fubuki, actively started trying to appeal more to a more western fanbase with like the 3D anime meme clips already posted and random shitpost videos in general. Thanks to that, they're now really huge too and basically on exactly the same level as Nijisanji on youtube. They're also even more popular in China, and have also branched out there on top of Indonesia. They also have a male division that is not as popular called HOLOSTARS that's pretty good too.

In both cases, anything major they do is an event of major cultural significance. Any say, 3D Debut stream involving one of their members is basically guaranteed to be seen by at least 50k concurrent viewers, and miliions of people overall. Live events trend globally, and a couple have happened this year.

(by contrast, an average kizuna ai stream these days would likely get like... 2000 viewers?)

of course, they're hardly the only ones trying to break into the scene and there are still plenty of others seeing a lot of success