Also, Coco was famous for her joking about how she'd never get monetized....
Seriously? Isn't that rather insane amount of income for a singular livestream? I mean, I am sure lot of her fan's had been saving up for the moment she (likely) would get monetized. But this is darn lot.
No, it's more that YouTube monetized all the Hololive girls. Even the ones famous for being filthy mouthed shittalkers like Coco.
Elmithian said:
Seriously? Isn't that rather insane amount of income for a singular livestream? I mean, I am sure lot of her fan's had been saving up for the moment she (likely) would get monetized. But this is darn lot.
Yes, but it'll be less after YouTube takes their cut. Still, there were four or five minutes of only superchats. A wall of color.
Random thought: due to the artist of this fanart, I can't help but think that this Coco is a physically grown up Suika from the artist's Miko Miko Suika from long ago. I mean, it's hard not to think of it. Orange hair and horns...
Random thought: due to the artist of this fanart, I can't help but think that this Coco is a physically grown up Suika from the artist's Miko Miko Suika from long ago. I mean, it's hard not to think of it. Orange hair and horns...
I think her dragon with horns design is part of why Haniwa likes her, on top of being a sassy shittalking Vtuber.
Incidentally, she has several hundred dollars in Superchats alone in the 15 minutes I was in the Ark chat today, before I had to leave. She's pretty popular.
So part of the drama had to do with the following:
- Several Hololive members were getting demonetized, at the time (Natsuiro Matsuri, Shirogane Noel, Yuzuki Choco, Aki Rosenthal, Yozora Mel, and Akai Haato, particularly) - Coco, and another new Hololive member, Amane Kanata, had also both applied for monetization status, but were denied. - These members all applied for Stream Labs usage, but for some reason, they were delays in getting approval, for some reason. (Coco being the main one to push for it). - The viewers could see the toll it took on each of the members. - Many, many fans complained to YouTube on Twitter. This included the English speaking fans, who, thanks to the efforts of the translators such as lyger and those at r/VirtualYoutubers, were able to reach out to and notify the English speaking fans about this. - Over the weekend before Coco's celebration stream, all of the demonetized Youtubers suddenly got their monetization back, while Coco and Kanata got their monetization status without needing to reapply.
Additionally, Coco had been gaining massive popularity with the western audience. Presumably because of her humor and appeal to both the Japanese and English audiences. Her youtube subscriber numbers were spiking up tremendously; and she's now up over 200k subs.
Essentially, it was a dam ready to explode and boy did it explode. (The first like...15 - 20 minutes of her 1-hour stream was flooded with nothing but superchats). It was until someone pointed this out and Coco saying that she didn't really do anything with the chat so that it only showed superchats that regular chat started coming back in. But the superchats were still coming at a pretty fast pace, anyway. There were so many superchats that some even noted how slow Coco's stream was; with youtube even crashing for some. Coco's monetization stream Twitter hashtag even became the top trending hashtag in Japan on that day, while it may have also trended worldwide.
Edit: Also, to clarify on the whole Coco's stance on Monetization, it wasn't that she didn't want monetization, it was that she was well aware of how YouTube normally doesn't monetize people who go her route of crude humor. So she joked that she would reach 1 million subscribers without monetization. So her attitude was more cavalier towards YouTube monetization (but she was pushing for StreamLabs anyway).
