Shion reflects on joining hololive after Aqua's graduation

[@extremely_human8598]

Born too late to explore the world. Born too early for outer space. Born just in time to witness hololive.

[@yezki8]

Its been an honor to witness all of this with you fine lads 🥂

[@dreadfulman5191]

Gonna be having fond memories of this era in my retirement home

[@Stolas002]

Honestly, im really glad that I exist in the same timeline and era as Hololive (and some other amazing creators that I follow)

[@oioio-yb9dw]

The last part was "just in time to be drafted to WWIII"😅

[@Xaito]

Free candy van stops in front of Shion: "Shion san, get in" Shion: "Huh.... OK"

[@justawanderingoldman7699]

More like Yagoo: "You, girl over there. Want to join us? We have candies here..." Girl: "Hmm... Okay then." Yagoo: "Alright. From now on, your name is Murasaki Shion" Girl (Shion): "EH? Okay I guess."

[@JomMarn3963]

I guess, at the time, Shion saw Sora flavor and Gen-1 flavor and decided to go with that 😆

[@kaitoryujin8266]

Pretty much "oi! Be my nakama!!!"

[@mjr6121]

Hololive could only have happened at that exact moment in history, with the right combination of technology, interest, Yagoo finding the right talent and all of the girls deciding to give it a chance. Now half of all the world's top female streamers are there. You can all it luck or you can call it fate. This was always the true worldline.

[@nicodalusong149]

At the end of the day, we still have to thank Sora herself for seeking out Yagoo for his tech.

[@ruaghs7123]

@@nicodalusong149 as well as everyone in gen 0 being there for each other as there were a lot of times when each of them nearly gave up

[@kos2919]

Don't forget 2 years of Ligma19 to brainwash all of us to stay in the rabbit hole.

[@tienmanhnguyen3422]

​@@nicodalusong149 A-chan, she was the one who want Sora's dream to be realize, so went straight to Cover corp and talk business.

[@doob626]

Yeah, this whole thing was built on happenstance. The right time, the right environment to foster the right group. It’s followed AKB48 just like Yagoo was seeking.

[@flippingkoifish6086]

It’s that weird combo of luck and work required for anything to be successful. You can put in the time and effort building a foundation, but if you don’t get that “spark” and catch the right eyes or ride the right trend it might not come to anything. But if you don’t do it then your chances of catching that spark drop to almost nothing. I’m glad that Shion was found by Hololive and said yes. It granted us this Harvard-Grad garlic kusogaki

[@TechSY730]

It works the other way around too. If you get that lucky break, but don't have the skills or work ethic to capitalize on it, then most likely your "reward" will be a lot smaller than it could have been, or even be lost entirely. In other words, skill and work are needed to take advantage of lucky opportunities.

[@RexZShadow]

@@TechSY730 Yep, too many people try to deny one or the other, you really need both to be successful. Work hard so you can captalize on the chances that do come your way. Either people who are unsucessful say its all luck and the people who are successful won't admit it part luck because that make them look bad.

[@yezki8]

Yea, its also about luck. I am glad that UI mama also had the opportunity to join Hololive

[@tedjomuljono3052]

work with, yes, join, not yet

[@MadCapybaraRX]

Ui-mama at this point is practically an honorary holomember LMAO

[@KeiosKod]

@tedjomuljono3052 It’s a jest, I believe.

[@1.2.1.0.R.I.O]

Yeah... It's a running gag. Yezki might be a "trash"

[@kkj-vb6mh]

@@tedjomuljono3052 It's a running joke dude...

[@Meonium]

Even Gura have slim to none chance to repeat her success story again

[@kos2919]

Girl was on the right time, right world event and good enough experience for doing this.

[@DoozyyTV]

In another timeline she said 'b' instead of 'a'

[@Neko_Medic]

Pekora meanwhile repeats her success by having the highest viewership by far.

[@RejectHumanityReturn2Monke]

​@@Neko_Medic That's different though. If Pekora started a little later or earlier or joined a different agency, we might see another vtuber who's doing her numbers. Butterfly effect.

[@Otoshi_Gami]

@@kos2919 pretty much. COVID worldwide pandemic helped alot Ironically since everybody is at home DOING NOTHING so they might as well go INTERNET 24/7 during that time. Hololive got Really lucky to have this much BOOST dramatically thanks to that.

[@TheJum]

“The daily life you take for granted will one day crumble. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”

[@ririfiri3243]

And clip translation channels started those sparks, I won't be here if lyger didn't make Matsuri band aid translation video. Thank you very much clippers

[@LiveTwinReaction]

The first time I ever heard of hololive was the miko gta clip on reddit of all places💀 it had like 40k upvotes in 2019 in some meme subreddit so it hit /r/all lol. Didn't start watching then though but I imagine a ton of people did. Fauna clippers brought me in during early 2023 with her neuro sama interactions. Clippers are the real homies

[@stefanyuwono1909]

Shion is absoutely correct, both effort and luck is needed for success

[@KovoN]

Whichever sus management that approached shion back then, i love you eternally Theres this charm to shion thats hard to put in words. Shes quite considerate to her fans, but at the same time very tsundere.

[@faidzeelhisyamhattar2133]

When you're small, people will think you are a scam because you got no reputation. When you're huge, people will think you are a scam since you got too big of a reputation.

[@Japaneseanimeguy]

Phase Connect girls have gone on record about how they thought it was a scam when Sakana was trying to start his company. Just a risk that comes with a relatively young form of entertainment/employment on the Internet.

[@Windyyyyyyyyy]

It’s really weird to say that the OG era of Hololive wouldn’t even happen with the way how hololive runs right now. We probably don’t get any stories like Shion, Noel, Pekora, Aqua or Subaru either the way how management works currently But at the same time, the way how Hololive used to take risks and was always trying to see what could work and what didn’t made us all fall in love with them. Shion is pretty lucky, and so are the 70 or so members that comprise of hololive today

[@jotusmas4038]

Didn't korone also joined out of a referral from Okayu?

[@tedjomuljono3052]

​@@jotusmas4038not a referral, more like a threat, "i won't join if she doesn't", or something to that effect

[@wtfbros5110]

​@@jotusmas4038the entire hololive gamers was basically fubuki recruiting her friends and her her friend's friend

[@thenoisyninja]

Coco applied on the managerial side of Cover. They saw she had experience as a content creator and suggested she go that route instead. They sure played things fast and loose back then

[@Argenolf]

​@@wtfbros5110Mio applied without Fubuki knowing though. And Gamers was formed because of Mio's interview (with Yagoo maybe?) mentioning she likes gaming which rollball to the branching of Hololive unit specializes in gaming streaming with Fubuki as leader.

[@deanthomas2305]

Yagoo... A suspicious ojisan lol

[@world4saker]

hearing how hololive was hanging on a dream and hope show how much yagoo was trusted, even when shit hits the fan everyone has a towel at the end to clean themselves and go on their merry way. and her jab at being lucky to join hololive instead of kurosanji and dealing with everything including the most recent shit

[@jjQlLlLq]

With how many fallen vtuber companies there are, it's not just Niji that she's fortunate to not get in really While Niji is a sore thumb to us, I don't think it's necessarily what's being thought here

[@signumxmagnum]

That's because Yagoo is a self made businessman, he built his own company and not just being handed over by family.

[@janematthews9087]

Oh the stories 4chan's /jp/ would tell you of Holo's growing pains and how much hatred people there had at management with how useless they were(like seriously Mio getting 2 strikes from Capcom which led to everyone privating their VODs. Or in Subaru's Manager's case, deleting hera altogether. Until they had to establish Perms.) felt like such a long ago dream. Never trust the company to do right by the girls always. Be ready to put their feet to the fire at the slightest hint of foul play. We do not want to be like Niji and trusts the company unconditionally.

[@signumxmagnum]

@@janematthews9087 the fact that you believing 4chan is more concerning..

[@Starxsword]

@@signumxmagnum I see it more of because he is from the start up tech sector. So, his views on how to treat employees differ. Entertainment industries do not have good reputations.

[@Pitester]

Yagoo: I want you to make a contract with me and become magical witch! Shion: Sure, why not? OK.

[@iJakku]

The risk of it being a scam, how true those words hold.

[@UnclePutte]

Yagoo and his crew have good eye, if anything.

[@kiggerst]

i think by the time 2nd gen debut, Sora already entered top 10 most superchatted youtuber of all time and were partnered with (forgot the venue name) along with tenjin kotone and alice performing on live stage. I think she has also signed up with Victor Entertainment by that time.

[@Lacheln9]

IDK about the others, but Sora signed with Victor Entertainment on March 2019. Gen 2 debuted on Aug / Sept 2018.

[@thenoisyninja]

Calli also spoke about the role luck plays in success. This isnt to say that hard work is useless, hard work lets you roll more in a manner of speaking.

[@DakiNightcore]

As long as Fubuki is still in Hololive, I'll put my trust in Yagoo

[@F1lletme1n]

A saying goes like "life is gamble"

[@datsneefa]

i love shion in all her live events and collabs

[@Arcterion]

4:24 -- Little did she know that that spark turned out to be a world-wide pandemic.

[@danielzboy]

There’s the saying ‘Luck is when Preparation meets Opportunity’. Lucky people are able to fully capitalise on rare, unique opportunities in their lives because they have already set a solid foundation or prepared adequately beforehand. It’s true that Cover corp has benefitted heavily from COVID, but so did many other companies, especially AnyColor. And yet, Cover now stands at the top of the Vtuber industry because they were able to fully capitalise on their momentum by making sound decisions and good investments. Whereas many companies failed to replicate the kind of success and growth Cover enjoyed, only enjoying brief waves of growth before tumbling down altogether. Even Gura, who many consider to be lucky for being there at the right time at the right place, has proven for years now that she truly has what it takes to be the #1 Vtuber and is not just a flash in a pan, having retained her popularity growth from COVID and still continuing to grow today. There were many others who also debuted with high CCVs, but they struggle to retain their success from debut for long.

[@RexZShadow]

If you think about the early gen hires its pretty nuts they landed some naturals who just had no experience at all with this stuff.

[@tysonfontanez]

To be fair, at the time, pretty much nobody had any experience with this stuff. Vtubers were a very new concept in 2018

[@RexZShadow]

@@tysonfontanez Vtuber was but streaming and youtube and generally being an online entertainer was not that new. All of those are the same skill set as vtuber and we already know how hard it is to be successful on those. So having people who just have zero even relative experience all be pretty succesful is kinda amazing for me.

[@thenoisyninja]

I dont know if this has changed but Subaru used to stream from their office because she didnt have a PC. She had no clue how this stuff worked

[@JavoCover]

​@@thenoisyninjaYeah, Subaru was true level 0.

[@dyasion]

It's a skill that you develop. Some of those girls absolutely did suck at streaming at first. it took time and effort to get where they are today.

[@notinusesoon4975]

finally, someone who didn't misuse 'suspect' and uses the right term, suspicious, good for you i saw so many misusing of suspect the last decade i thought i got isekai'd

[@circularangle4324]

It's funny how almost all the early gens are doubting their life choices when joining lol, "please god please don't let me get scammed"

[@BetterdaysarecomingLoves]

Here's my answer...let me be your CEO and your rock....I'm not wealthy...but I'll always protect your feelings and your interests for the future

[@shiki333]

besides, many years ago i dont remember exaclty but i though you said hololive maybe would exist anymore in like 3 years, but it has grown a lot. that clip still should be around here.

[@madison8818]

I remember a clip of Subaru, Korone, and Coco saying they probably won't be hired if they ever joined Hololive today. They all said the same as well them being lucky was the main contributor for their success.

[@RejectHumanityReturn2Monke]

It was a series of unprecedented events that made Hololive THE vtuber agency. Although it was a grim period of time, without the pandemic, without the Miko GTAV clips and the Korone memes that sparked the clipping and animation culture of vtubers, it would have been very different today.

[@ghostering8]

Shion was the most members everyone both staff/talent like her keep help bring her up while she took long rest (a lot of cover) 😂

[@ivanbluecool]

Aqua graduation was truly sad to go through.

[@poggamus4330]

I feel sadder for those who we didn't even get to say goodbye too.

[@CapsLock690]

At least they can take solace that Aqua held her head high saying goodbye to hololive and was beloved by all not just the talents and staffs other vtubers as well, especially the entire vtubing community as a whole those 750k viewers during her grad stream is the evidence of that.

[@RJTAYLER]

@@poggamus4330 Or get to know of, for that matter. As for Shion that was truly a real-life story straight out of old Broadway or London's East End. A producer asking "That girl on the street going about her day" to be a star and she accepting on the spot. Thus a stage and screen legend being born in that moment.

[@naraiah994]

I hope they pre-recorded something for her for the end of year medley :(

[@Faylakes]

Even in JP streamer circle many of them don't stream when Aqua Graduation LIVE. They start after it ended, whether that is to give respect to her or just doesn't want to clash with her.

[@shade0180]

It's that thing where you position yourself to receive that lucky situation. It's like a lottery if you didn't buy a lottery ticket there's no chance for the luck to come, But if you bought one then chances are the luck might come your way.

[@rektl2036]

A set of twins comes to mind. Despite multiple fails.. they continued on

[@HoscoFelix]

"This post was sponsored by FaunaMart"

[@CapsLock690]

It's like those cellphone numbers written in a gas station bathroom you either get shanked which is highly likely or you will have a good time enjoy the fun things in life which is slim and shion definitely got the slim chance right.

[@gabr9009]

its like at MIB, right place, roght time.

[@jergarmar]

Wow, what a clip. It's so true, you had the "foundation" of Hololive in Sora and Roboco, and then the 1st generation, and then Shion and Aqua and the rest of 2nd gen... and all of this happened in 2018. So here's the funny thing: besides Sora, think of the personalities of every one of these vtubers. They are all "winging it" kind of people. Could you imagine a world where Aki or Haachama or Shion or Roboco answered the wrong ad, and got attached to a black company or even a scamming organization? As Shion basically said, "Yeah, it's surprising that it DIDN'T happen!" 😆 Thank goodness for the people running Hololive at the time, it must have been hard on them too.

[@Spyduck]

Normally they say, "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity". To be honest, none of the principles apply here. What really happened was pure luck itself - Shion was unsuspectingly, and simply at the right place at the right time. For every second the scout remained there, there was a chance that the "Shion" we know, may have been someone else instead.

[@Millicente]

No you're missing everything that they did in their life beforehand. Preparation in that quote doesn't refer to preparation specifically for that one outcome

[@rgual7513]

​@Millicente This 100%. Never devalue your experiences and what you have done because that's the real preparation that blooms when opportunities to use it arrives

[@gladewings1192]

Well she's probably a streamer that got invited because of her streams or presence online its not like a girl walking on the street and got scouted at the right timing.

[@mukti5896]

"Preparation" May also refer to Knowledge, Skill and Experience. Not that you are prepared for that TPO events

[@lvxix9686]

Imagine if it's Kurosanji ☠️☠️☠️

[@lyconxero457]

So, I’m guessing that Shion was already an established streamer of some sort if she was scouted. I honestly know very little about her.

[@tahutagaol9186]

Most of HoloJP were nico2 streamer backthen

[@Hell_O7]

One English clips beget more English clips before it somehow reached to people like me

[@harveyhandog8736]

Maybe EN Version Aqua's Successor?

[@obitoxshinobi8978]

💜😂

[@Jesujej]

when your wife leaves you while you are on sick leave 😂

[@sebelumkupergi]

So for gen 2 they were scouted? Iirc i heard that Noel was offered but she decline (because she said never applied) so probably it was gen 2 scouting?

[@mukti5896]

Gen 1 & 2 high chance are Scouted.

[@wasabiGT]

then she fell in love and married a shark... the end

[@date5960]

As long as Fubuki is still in Hololive, i have my trust in Yagoo

[@JavoCover]

I remember that.

[@realQuestion]

And Sora is another strong indicator having been there from the very beginning, she'd know if anything had irretrievably been lost

[@fernandoancco2765]

The day Fubuki graduates all the members of Hololive will cry, I hope she stays forever.