The clip of Uruha Rushia accidentally tells English viewers to “Go home” push me down the Hololive rabbit hole. But I don’t know Japanese. So I just watched subbed clips. Then Kiryu Coco debuted. That really made into a Hololive fan.
EDIT When Coco graduated. I went back to watching subbed clips. To be honest I stopped watching Hololive talents streams. Due to me finding other vtubers to watch. But Advent may push me down the rabbit hole again.
I started about September or October 2021, when clips of Myth and Pikamee began showing up in my YouTube Shorts feed when I was trying that out. I would watch a stream or clips here and there, but I would really only consider myself a casual fan.
That was until late February when it was announced Rushia’s channel would be deleted at the end of March '22 after her “graduation”. As someone who would have considered themselves a novice “datahoarder”, I felt the need to save her channel. This consisted of waiting to buy a 4tb hard drive and getting it about mid-March, the next week-ish mainly fine-tuning my downloader, then the last week purely downloading for days on end.
And throughout all this, I would watch clips of her or pick a VOD that had downloaded; this was where I really fell down the rabbit hole. People from Hololive, Phase Connect, (then) WACTOR, idol, indies, etc. were popping up and I gleefully watched along.
Strangely also, it seems that most of my oshis have graduated at some time (Rushia, Vesper, WACTOR ES’ Luna Rurine and Neon Kuroyuri, VOMS’ Pikamee) but I still watch them now in their new forms.
(And the Archive grows.)