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Kirsche's detractor made her "lose" her partnership with an underbaked game she liked. Then she made more than 160k$ with her Gamersupps cup. Most likely one of Gamersupps most financially successful campaigns. Kirsche detractor made her "lose" her Mythic management contract and she's had more than 3.2k orders on her personal merch website. With the top two items being the most expensive available in the store. An absolutely absurd feat for a talent run merch store. Every time the same people talk about Kirsche negatively they only make her more popular and relevant. If you dislike/hate Kirsche those are the people you should be upset about. They handed her success on a silver platter. [...] For months they would tweet about her everyday. Plastering her face all over everyone's timelines. Making any legitimate criticism impossible as they wrote slander, took clips out of context and simply made shit up. Constantly, everyday/week some for nearly an entire year. In short one of the most absurd marketing campaigns I have ever seen. The more they made her to be this "evil controversial person" the more people got curious. So they started watching. And many of them kept watching. Kirsche was blessed with having some of the stupidest, most dislikeable and morally dubious individuals start to anti her. As they started running a large scale, long duration marketing campaign FOR FREE. They made it very easy for Kirsche to convert casual fans into dedicated, money spending and active fans. Humans tend to create closer bounds and stronger communities when constantly under attack from all sides for an extended period of time. The effect of that success is slowly becoming visible. Kirsche used to stream "current news" content once a week. Now partisan politics is most of her content. Political VTuber as a niche has been growing in the background, many of them clearly inspired by Kirsche. As someone who values VTubing as its own culture which takes roots from anime and idol culture. I write these words with sadness. Yet these words remain factual. [...] That is why I hate Kirsche's anti. Not because I love Kirsche, but because they made Kirsche the juggernaut she's slowly becoming. In a little over two years she went from barely being relevant, to multi-tousand CCV. [...] Now some of you may ask me the following question : why am I talking about this right now. After my time in university I met and kept in touch with various researchers and academics in the communication field. One of them, a political communication researcher, happened to call me today : "hey, I've been told about how those VTubers you like talking about are starting to influence Japanese, American and Filipino politics. Specifically I was told about this american woman called Kirsche. Do you know anything about her ?" One of the most surreal professional/academic conversation I had to be a part of. 😵‍💫