Quote Originally Posted by Wraith View Post
This one kind of makes sense. I have a very, VERY limited experience of vtubers, but from what I have seen their platform is incredibly incestuous even if you don't take into account networks, wikis, and collab-groups with a shared agent or sponsor.
I think this is mostly derived from the audience end. The vtuber audience is very niche, but also very committed, so among the people who follow any vtubers the proportion that follows a metric f***ton of vtubers is quite high. There are actually a lot of markets like this, and some of them are quite big. For example, cruises. The number of people with any interest in cruises is fairly small, but among the cruise-interested the number of people who only do cruise vacations is quite high.

They're both presenting as cis female, they're both American, and they're both independently 'internet famous' above a certain level. Streamers build collabs from WAY less common ground, and them being in a niche community seems like enough of a handwave.
The biggest reason for them to collab is that they live in the same town, which instantly trivializes a lot of the logistical details of doing something like this. I think this subplot would have made more sense if their identities had been revealed to each other first and then they moved forward with the idea of collaborating. For example, imagine if Victoria appeared on Aurelia's stream (I will grant Marten's comment in the final panel is indeed sage wisdom), and then Marigold idly asked Marten 'so how was your Mom's flight to meet Mommymilkers,' Marten foolishly blurting something like 'no flight, she lives within walking distance,' and going from there.

Two successful streamers in the same small Massachusetts town is a massive coincidence, and while that's perfectly reasonable thing to happen in a sitcom-ified world, it's also something you can build a joke around.