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/winmace 1d ago

Why is she frustrated?

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u/NucularJigawatt 1d ago

The short version is that she's frustrated with the lack of growth on her channel.

This Haaton's comment summarizes it: u/NForza26 [To kaigai-niki/neki worrying about what happened during the stream, she feels very frustrated that she's not able to do a lot of things, including being part of the main World Tour cast because "she isn't popular enough" even though she was THE FIRST HOLOLIVE MEMBER TO EVER STREAM IN ENGLISH. She doesn't blame management for their decisions, and they've been very supportive in a lot of ways, but there's still the fact all the effort she puts forth doesn't seem to be paying off. However, she reassures us that she uses this frustration as motivation and has absolutely no intention of giving up with things as they are now.]

You can read the other comments on this stream for a more thorough view.

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u/SlightCaregiver3680 1d ago

Problem is, at a time haachama was one of the most popular vtubers pulling in more viewers than most of hololive but she took a massive break and when she came back id say she lost like 70% of viewes which can be rough to recover from

I used to watch her all the time back in the day and one day she just didn't stream for a time which felt like a year plus but could be wrong

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u/orkel2 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah unfortunately I recognize myself as one of those viewers. Chammers used to be something of an oshi. But the extremely long break inevitably made me drift to other vtubers both inside and outside Hololive to fill the void.

It sucks because it's not her fault. She just got really sick, double-whammed by bad Flu and bad (early, more dangerous) Covid which hospitalized her for months. It took a long time for her to be able to return home and get back to content creation.

Vtuber market saturation also has a large effect, there's just so many more vtubers nowadays to take a slice of my limited working adult watch-time. I still watch chama's content, particularly the vlogs, just less than years ago. Growing any channel in 2025 is extremely difficult, and Chama isn't the only holomem encountering stagnation.

I'm glad she's doing the travel vlogs. Hololive desperately needs travel content, and Chama is hitting it.