>>102541231Doki shattered the PL secrecy stigma with her drama.
All these rules that were set in place by Japanese idol culture have been adopted by vtubing wholesale because of the early Japanese influence and cultural power hololive had. As that power is slowly fading, people are finally starting to reexamine long held beliefs, the reason or validity of which were never questions because "it's how it was done".
Nimi is a watershed moment for the idea that vtubers are meant to uphold the unicorn delusion, there's no doubt about that.