anyone who wants to be the guy on the right needs to understand the guy on the left is keeping your toys from becoming cheap garbage that suck to play with
The vtuber grift pipeline
>Debut with unowned model or oversimilar model
>Try to release merch without commercial rights and get properly clowned on for it
>Apologize, move forward, have other weird controversies
>Hiatus
>Create stir/hype by peepovanishing <-- YOU ARE HERE
>Reappear at major corpo and/or sudden "oh my dod waow look there's hints, a weird black profile picture that is just colorshifted in photoshop, vaguepost black image with white text that has random puzzle hint"
>Reveal it was all "two steps ahead" the whole time
>Redebut to wild success because the entire space is a social experiment with zero actual consequences.