Fake “Hololive Fan” Salary-Brag Copypasta Hits 5ch — Viewers Call It “Just Trolling”

Background and Key Points

Hololive and Nijisanji are Japan’s two dominant VTuber agencies, and both of their parent companies — Cover Corp and Anycolor — went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2022. That listing is why “stock price” and “profits” function as actual bragging rights for Nijisanji fans: they’re pointing at a real, checkable number on a ticker, not a personal claim. “Holo-pig” and “Nijisanji-pig” are 5ch’s mirrored insults for each fandom’s most obsessive posters, and “salary-brag copypasta” is a long-running genre on Japanese boards where someone posts an exaggerated income boast, almost always as parody rather than a real disclosure — the ¥1.4 million bonus, ¥780,000 salary, and ¥1.18 million weekly investment income here read as stock comedic beats, not data.

The thread didn’t actually split over whether Hololive or Nijisanji is “better.” The consensus formed quickly and in one direction: the copypasta was dismissed as an obvious troll, and posters used it to make a specific, narrower point — that Hololive fans, when needled about money, reach for personal wealth flexes, while Nijisanji fans reach for the company’s stock price and earnings instead of praising their own talents. The mild disagreement, such as it was, was over whether that difference says something meaningful about fan culture or is just noise from one bored poster who’d also been spamming self-replies elsewhere.

What’s easy to miss is that “flex about the company” isn’t actually a compliment to Nijisanji’s talents either — the thread itself concedes that Nijisanji fans “can’t” brag about the performers, only the balance sheet.