LogFAQs > #946144418

of course, there is one major thing i guess you were suggesting, in that the "micro indies" don't have other people on them that you can really watch them with... but that's not really the case. 20ish viewers used to be a standard for the english vtuber community a couple of years ago and they never even felt particularly empty (in fact, that could be defined as "pretty good" then with the steady stream of comments coming in that they could respond to all the time). now you can find international fanbases for pretty much anyone at that level, and pretty much everyone i post is at that level now because that's how much more popular virtual youtubers are period now

really about the only difference between watching good "unpopular" streamers and good popular ones is just that there isn't any obnoxious spam happening (outside of emotes during karaoke streams) in the former. (also the lack of consistent live translators, but these days they can only really be seen on specifically holostars streams now since hololive streams proper go too fast to read any comments lmao)