Oh, how soon we forget the long, complicated relationship between Hololive and Azur Lane:
HL and AL did a collab event way back in November 2019 called Looking Glass of Fact and Fiction. To give you an idea of how long ago this was, there were only three generations of JP at the time (first, second, and Gamers), and Azur Lane's Global server had only opened six months prior (I was playing AL at the time, and the event was the first time I had heard about Hololive).
The most famous Holomem associated with it was Marine, who streamed the games fairly often and shared her opinions on the various characters once she rolled them (mostly on how lewd their outfits were, because it's Marine, after all). In September 2020, she appeared during the livestream celebrating the 3rd Anniversary of AL's Japanese server, hoping for a second collab between HL and AL that she could participate in.
Since then, Hololive has refrained from streaming Azur Lane, or any games published in China, including Arknights and Genshin Impact, after an incident in November 2020 where Haachama and Coco pissed off Chinese nationalists by pointing out the number of viewers they had in Taiwan. Cover had to exit from the Chinese market, and dissolve their Hololive China branch, with all six of its members graduating in the same month.
Especially ironic, because a quite a few Chinese fans, and a couple members of Hololive CN, spoke both English and Japanese, and were a big part of making Hololive better known in the English-speaking world before EN's debut.
Oh, how soon we forget the long, complicated relationship between Hololive and Azur Lane:
HL and AL did a collab event way back in November 2019 called Looking Glass of Fact and Fiction. To give you an idea of how long ago this was, there were only three generations of JP at the time (first, second, and Gamers), and Azur Lane's Global server had only opened six months prior (I was playing AL at the time, and the event was the first time I had heard about Hololive).
The most famous Holomem associated with it was Marine, who streamed the games fairly often and shared her opinions on the various characters once she rolled them (mostly on how lewd their outfits were, because it's Marine, after all). In September 2020, she appeared during the livestream celebrating the 3rd Anniversary of AL's Japanese server, hoping for a second collab between HL and AL that she could participate in.
Since then, Hololive has refrained from streaming Azur Lane, or any games published in China, including Arknights and Genshin Impact, after an incident in November 2020 where Haachama and Coco pissed off Chinese nationalists by pointing out the number of viewers they had in Taiwan. Cover had to exit from the Chinese market, and dissolve their Hololive China branch, with all six of its members graduating in the same month.
Especially ironic, because a quite a few Chinese fans, and a couple members of Hololive CN, spoke both English and Japanese, and were a big part of making Hololive better known in the English-speaking world before EN's debut.
So, TL;DR, it's still the CCP's fault, albeit indirectly?
