>>103487040
>So you are getting more streams than you would otherwise and somehow that's a bad thing?
There isn't anything bad about sponsorships for anime figures, video games, and food though it does feel more questionable when Hololive is shilling alcohol and gambling. When so many of their viewers are children it does feel immoral to sell them addictions and it's only a few steps away from shilling cigarettes.
>>103487054
>Aside from merch, sponsor streams are the other way a vtuber makes a lot of money. If the EN girls are leaning on those more then they are losing money somewhere else.
After the recent graduation wave I am extremely cynical towards Cover but there would be even more graduations if things were that bad. If the Hololive contracts were steadily getting worse at least half the EN branch would have quit. The constant shilling is the new direction of Hololive and to be fair the JP branch has been like that for a while.