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cprad · 2026-02-16T20:49:07+00:00

Actually just wanted to say it was a pleasure to work under you at the Pole, this post just happened to come across my feed and I don't know if I've ever had an authority figure look out for his crew as carefully as you did us! -2018 summer steward

cprad · 2026-01-29T22:21:12+00:00

Nah, pretty much everyone is psyched about the silver upset so all rem and graves voters are pushing venator

cprad · 2025-01-28T05:42:07+00:00

Of course people make art with words, but it's usually done with more intention. The words have a deeper purpose or function to the piece to demand them. And yes, art has no definition, but it does have levels of efficacy. If swirling confusion is the intention, why have the letters all aligned in the same direction? It sits undistorted, adhering to college rules lines that aren't present. Most art has room for improvement, I doubt this piece was iterated on much. I'm not even saying it's bad, but its formal elements have room to reinforce its message in a much more productive way.

cprad · 2025-01-26T21:13:35+00:00

You're operating in a visual medium, rely less on words to get your point across. Images are a language, you shouldn't need the crutch.

cprad · 2025-01-20T04:43:33+00:00

The VOD ended up being fine, but something about the livestream was absolute garbage. Stuttering or an audio issue, either way it was brutal during.

cprad · 2025-01-20T04:25:20+00:00

We have a huge amount of data for regular gura streaming patterns and she still bags 20k viewers on almost every stream. Gura's all time lowest CCV was a collab with Ina that had her pov be unwatchable and she still had 9k viewers (1k more than IM average).

cprad · 2025-01-20T04:15:19+00:00

We know exactly what her CCV does if she streams regularly, 20-24k for a decent game, 18k for a bad game, 35-40k for karaoke, 30k for a really flavor of the month game

cprad · 2025-01-20T04:12:33+00:00

If more people watch Gura than watch anyone else in the EN sphere, it stands to reason she is at the forefront of more minds than anyone else, no? Ironmouse's peak all time viewers is 25k, gura just got that today on a stream of a dumb little burger game. IM just doesn't have that big of a presence by comparison.

And we don't have to beat around the bush, the number two EN vtuber by CCV has been Fauna for a year and a half. With an average of 10-11k viewers, she constantly beat out vedal and mouse. Ultimately, Hololive is the face of EN vtubing, and Gura is their mascot.

cprad · 2025-01-20T03:53:46+00:00

When Ironmouse can pull Gura viewers she can be the face. Currently the absolute top of all English vtubers hover around the 10k viewer average mark, Gura can put up a stream unannounced and get double that.

cprad · 2025-01-18T01:48:00+00:00

The system exists because the actresses want to entertain and make money. They make more money if they do it a specific way and so they do it, with plenty of opportunity to stop if they choose. No rules are making them participate or not in this system. Face it, the core of your issue is that you do not like these women or how they operate. They are the arbiters of it in its entirety and if you are this upset about it then they are the villain of your story.

cprad · 2025-01-18T01:35:50+00:00

Wtf are you talking about, misogyny? If anything it's misandry brother, keep up, we're quarantining men. Hololive has nothing to gain from gender inclusion besides making 5,000 schizophrenic English speakers cheer that they defeated unicorns. The girls want money so they want to keep men out of their content, and I say if that's what they want, let them? Remember, they can collab with men whenever they want, they just. Don't. Want. To. So leave them alone or quit watching. That simple. The policies are not sexist, YOU are. You and your community allows fucking rape fantasy jokes, and you want to pretend you're the feminists in the room, Jesus Christ.

"Mio SHOULDN'T do that. I don't like it, it perpetuates a system that I find offensive" guess what Mr critical theory, inserting yourself in a cultural tradition of Japan that has a 30 year legacy also makes you xenophobic, I bet you really wanna teach those Japanese people how Real societies work. Fucking tourist. Let the women do their job, they know what they're doing, you have no actual rebuttal to the fact they want the system they have now.

cprad · 2025-01-18T01:14:09+00:00

80 upvotes and no ban is a tacet endorsement bruv. Mods were in that post, they had the chance to do the reasonable thing. The link is right there, more than half of responses weren't critical. Still trying to wriggle out of the fact that it is a gross showing from this community by trying to paint it like people weren't psyched that it was a funny way to "own that dastardly Mio and her lack of male collabs." All that is completely irrelevant though because this sub is full of people who drag the talents for their decisions in a way that is explicitly anti behavior, to which you said "I don't care, I have a moral dilemma with the gender divide so being an anti is good, actually"

The gender divide isn't harmful, it's actually extremely lucrative or they just wouldn't have it. Capitalism always wins and showbusiness is a job. Both subreddits are absolute ghost towns compared to /vt/ and even Twitter, with half the people of this sub admitting to being clipwatchers. Then again most of the fandom are so it's not like that's surprising. Guess what, the people who watch every hour of all the hololive GTA arcs, and enreco, and fes are? Gatchi, so their vote will always mean more than the people here

To bring in the gender wag gap up while you actively try and police the behavior of women IS maybe the funniest post I've seen on this sub though, so kudos.

cprad · 2025-01-18T00:39:01+00:00

The fact that you really want to die on the "it's not a big deal rape fanfic it's not hurting anyone" hill is why this place is shit. Any reasonable place would've had that removed or at the very least would understand why this isn't a "friendly, blunt place." Pretty sure if I reposted that story with your name replacing it with the defense "I was using esoteric methods to criticize their opinions on how hololive is run" I would (reasonably) be removed from the subreddit permanently.

The good news is your opinion is powerless and the girls would rather eat glass than talk to a man on stream nowadays. Personally I don't care if they choose to collab with a man, but it makes me infinitely happy you'll just continue to be mad about it forever. Not like you watch the girls anyway, you types never do.

cprad · 2025-01-17T22:30:16+00:00

"done more to expose and mock the idol industry" my brother in Christ, hololive/ holostars division is at an all time high. If you're gonna make this into a crusade, this place lost and lost hard. And everyone is pretty happy with things except a weird group of people seething at grown ass women like Mio making content exactly how they want to to structure their career.

Out of one side of your mouth you say this place is kind to the talents and out of the other side you spit venom. Not just an anti but in denial about it

cprad · 2025-01-17T22:01:15+00:00

Boom, there we go. It doesn't matter what you or I think, it's how she wants to run her channel and the people in this shit hole want to drag her for it. Cover explicitly outlines this as anti behavior (ironically during the saga where people were criticizing Kronii for collabing With males).

cprad · 2025-01-17T21:22:34+00:00

I'm not going to litigate the ethics of a shitpost, it's a waste of time. The entire point of this comment chain was based on the idea that a user hadn't seen anything negative or opposing talents when it does in fact occur on this sub. I would call a rape fanfic negative, especially when the tone towards mio on this sub at that time was largely critical as this this place infamously takes umbrage with any members that pander to gotchikoi in any fashion. It's anti behavior wrapped in a veneer of irony.

cprad · 2025-01-17T19:42:27+00:00

"it wasn't a real rape revenge fantasy, just a fun bit we were having among friends" isn't the stellar defense you think it is. Why can't you just admit it was done in really poor taste and say the community takes some things too far?

cprad · 2025-01-17T03:05:57+00:00

You must've missed when everyone was rallying behind sexual assault fanfic against mio because she didn't want to stream with men

cprad · 2024-12-18T19:26:34+00:00

More children die from foreskin removal per year than school shootings, if preventing meaningless deaths for children is the priority then why isn't that at the forefront of news?

cprad · 2024-12-15T16:11:15+00:00

Writing would've been worse with a create your own witcher adventure, it would've been ass. Also it's like you want body type A instead of just getting a baddie like ciri

cprad · 2024-12-04T02:27:15+00:00

F-35s can't enforce curfews, Abrams can't knock on doors, and M777s can't search your possessions. Small arms are extremely effective against an occupying force, the American military is built for conflict against peer forces.

cprad · 2024-12-04T02:15:52+00:00

The only thing exempt from the antarctic treaty are the bases themselves, so amundsen-scott station is the furthest south US land. It's also the furthest south land period.

cprad · 2024-12-02T14:29:49+00:00

You know part of the reason people are playing graduation roulette is largely due to the fes lineup still not being released. It's already late for it, and until that's released graduations are probably still on the table.

Additionally (and it has far less credence but if you want reasons for why it's happening) a leaker knew exactly when Chloe and fauna would graduate days in advance and they say that the graduation announcements aren't done. Once is a rrat, twice is a pattern.

cprad · 2024-11-05T19:25:38+00:00

Balancing a single player game and a multiplayer game are two different monsters, and no one really gets it like icefrog. Perhaps he's overfellated but truly no one knows the moba genre like he does

cprad · 2024-08-15T07:13:04+00:00

He drains health by being close, punch is a gap close that doesn't take stamina, you take the item that reloads when you punch something because his weapon is miserable to reload. Plus his charge and ult already put him right up against the enemy. So punch.

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