To be honest I have the least amount of respect for ironmouses growth to popularity compared to every other vtuber out there. Hell, I even respect Froot more than her since she actually put effort in her cover songs like Suneater to hit a million views on youtube.
I think due to how
fast Mouse grew from being a
literal nobody in early 2020 people tend to forget that she started out with well,
nothing. As far as I recall this was a semi-last ditch effort to do something with her life considering she failed at everything she might've wanted to do IRL and only jobs she could have would be Working-from-home (which she lacked the credentials for most likely. As most of those are IT related.)
No matter how she might come off to everyone today, many years later. I'll always hold a lot of respect for how far she's come.
People can proclaim that she had a
lot of help along the way via VS or Connor but that doesn't really change the fact she stepped onto the scene with absolutely
no contacts whatsoever.
I think that's a lot of the appeal Mouse can have sometimes especially for older viewers. Because it's insane to think about how much of a nobody she was when she started. She didn't have a big fancy debut or anything. She was a tiny-tuber for ages before she got traction.
Meanwhile Froot's a literal whore who scammed people and had contacts in-scene due to her art talent. Personally one of the
worst examples you could've brought up for someone who got popular.
In the end however, Mouse's rapid success and the fact she's plastered EVERYWHERE has made thousands of people who might've been indifferent to her or soft-core fans instead begin to hate her likeness. It doesn't matter how good something is if it's rubbed in your face all the time. It just becomes grating and annoying- and you eventually become cynical about it.
Off-note but. It's actually insane to think about how some streamers have /everything/ handed to them on a platter during debuts. Gura is a fantastic entertainer but she (among her peers) had massive megaphones to boost whatever entertaining they'd do under their new accounts. I'm honestly a bit less impressed by corpo-vtupers as a result.
Hell, I'll admit full on that as much as I
despise Snuffy for being the
Icon of everything wrong with Western-Vtubing, I'll reluctantly respect the fact most- if not all her popularity came entirely from herself. Collabing helped but I'll admit I don't think Snuffy ever piggy backed off anyone else. Something I can't really say for Mouse- Connor was an irreplaceable asset to her career.