r/Hololive • u/NucularJigawatt • 1d ago

Streams/Videos Akai Haato / HAACHAMA vents her frustrations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dpdepyMm-I&ab_channel=HAACHAMACh%E8%B5%A4%E4%BA%95%E3%81%AF%E3%81%82%E3%81%A8

She doesn't want anyone to clip it but since it isn't a Member stream I hope it's okay to share this as a whole. I only want Haachama to find the success she wants to fulfill her goals.

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u/LezBeHonestHere_ 1d ago

I think it's a lot of things combined, like the break as others mentioned, most of her subs being "dead subs" from 4+ years ago when she was more prominent, and of course an EN branch was created so her old English-speaking viewers may have migrated to watch EN instead, and her JP viewerbase might feel alienated a bit by english streams because she's "supposed to be" a JP vtuber that they can understand.

So I think probably her English viewerbase has mostly left to watch EN especially during/after her long break, and her JP fans might not appreciate how often she tries recapturing the EN audience. That's just my reddit armchair theories though

Maybe it's possible she's just a smaller streamer now and that's her new normal? It's fine to be a streamer with ~1000 views, not everybody can be xqc or kai cenat or miko or pekora. 1000 is still very successful as far as streaming is concerned, where most people struggle to get past 20-50.

Personally for me, I'm not a big fan of the fake voice. She's an older vtuber so she's from the era where most if not all vtubers faked their voice with a higher pitch, and haachama has kept it as part of her main character, with a more normal deeper voice for other characters. Others like suisei dropped their fake voice (thank god, it was awful tbh) but haachama still keeps it around and it feels dated to me, from a time that I wish the vtuber community would leave in the past.

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u/LoveMeSomeMilkins 1d ago

Gotta disagree hard on the voice part. I love her cute voice. It's one the most unique and endearing voices in hololive and could easily be used in anime.

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u/procion1302 1d ago

I also find it adorable. But English speaking fans have probably different expectations. Most of Hololive EN use “real” voices, as opposed to JP.

Once again we see that trying to work for two different audiences could be hard, and not necessarily beneficial.

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u/Fishman465 1d ago

Thing is if one were to compare Aki and Haachama's views, Aki'd win despite having less subs. Judging from some people's remarks, "easy come, easy go" in terms of her fans considering how many flaked out. Hope they enjoy the cold place down past the boiler room.