All right, so time for the May update. What's new for this month, is that she has deleted all pictures showing her face on both SC and CB - clearly she does not want anyone knowing what she looks like anymore - unless you tip 130 tokens for it during a collab, then it's apparently fine to show it for a short while at least. She also still shows her face on X and some TG channels.
She has updated her menu on CB - almost all cheap acts are gone, and she increased the prices on almost everything that remains. She included some "new" acts (that she would do unprompted before) and some pointless ones like "You made MY day!", "Give flowers" and "Dream tip". The most interesting change to her tip menu though is that she finally deleted "custom video" from it after 6 months of apparent non-delivery. 30 minutes of "all-inclusive private shows" is now back for 4444 tokens. On SC however, she still advertises private/exclusive shows for just 8 tokens per minute (it used to be 200) and turns down all requests for them. Why she only offers them on CB I have no idea.
Now, money-wise May is a bit strange. Her solo income for this month was barely $3300 - compared to $5800 in April, which is a lot worse. However, her hourly income is up to $179 (which is one of her best monthly results), due to 3/8 shows having big whales. The main issue is that she has barely been streaming for 20 hours solo - less than half of last month's and her lowest ever. She did put in a lot of hours through the collab with Marry_Cordy, which would put her around 50 hours or so total. Naturally I don't have the data for her collab income, but I would guess Marry would get around 70% since she was on for much longer, was the main act, and was using her room and equipment. Still, the collab probably netted Nelly somewhere around $2000-2500 overall by my guess. That puts her at the same or lower amount as in April, and likely the third declining month in a row.
Unless she does another lengthy collab (already hinted at) or puts in a lot more solo hours in June, next month is looking to be another repeat in terms of decline. She's still making decent enough money, but it's the fact that she's barely showing up for work solo that is the biggest concern.
Some other things I've discovered:
First up, I think I was wrong regarding her getting banned on SC back in November, because when I found out about her current yui_asuka profile, it already had amassed 160k likes in the span of 3 months, whereas it has 215k likes 4 months later. Something did cause her to rebrand and change her username though (which also changes her profile link, but keeps the old data).
I mentioned earlier that I had not seen her end a show properly for a long time, so I decided to check out the endings of all shows all the way back to August to see if this was just a feeling or not (it was not). She has practically completely stopped communicating her endings to the audience since early February. All but one show since has just been her quietly disconnecting at the end. Before this, she would at least thank the audience and say goodbye before logging off around half the time. Another pretty major burnout sign unfortunately.
She has updated her menu on CB - almost all cheap acts are gone, and she increased the prices on almost everything that remains. She included some "new" acts (that she would do unprompted before) and some pointless ones like "You made MY day!", "Give flowers" and "Dream tip". The most interesting change to her tip menu though is that she finally deleted "custom video" from it after 6 months of apparent non-delivery. 30 minutes of "all-inclusive private shows" is now back for 4444 tokens. On SC however, she still advertises private/exclusive shows for just 8 tokens per minute (it used to be 200) and turns down all requests for them. Why she only offers them on CB I have no idea.
Now, money-wise May is a bit strange. Her solo income for this month was barely $3300 - compared to $5800 in April, which is a lot worse. However, her hourly income is up to $179 (which is one of her best monthly results), due to 3/8 shows having big whales. The main issue is that she has barely been streaming for 20 hours solo - less than half of last month's and her lowest ever. She did put in a lot of hours through the collab with Marry_Cordy, which would put her around 50 hours or so total. Naturally I don't have the data for her collab income, but I would guess Marry would get around 70% since she was on for much longer, was the main act, and was using her room and equipment. Still, the collab probably netted Nelly somewhere around $2000-2500 overall by my guess. That puts her at the same or lower amount as in April, and likely the third declining month in a row.
Unless she does another lengthy collab (already hinted at) or puts in a lot more solo hours in June, next month is looking to be another repeat in terms of decline. She's still making decent enough money, but it's the fact that she's barely showing up for work solo that is the biggest concern.
Some other things I've discovered:
First up, I think I was wrong regarding her getting banned on SC back in November, because when I found out about her current yui_asuka profile, it already had amassed 160k likes in the span of 3 months, whereas it has 215k likes 4 months later. Something did cause her to rebrand and change her username though (which also changes her profile link, but keeps the old data).
I mentioned earlier that I had not seen her end a show properly for a long time, so I decided to check out the endings of all shows all the way back to August to see if this was just a feeling or not (it was not). She has practically completely stopped communicating her endings to the audience since early February. All but one show since has just been her quietly disconnecting at the end. Before this, she would at least thank the audience and say goodbye before logging off around half the time. Another pretty major burnout sign unfortunately.
The fact that she accepted a private show was surprising - she has stated multiple times that she does not like them, and I've seen her turn down offers of 14000 tokens just 1-2 months ago. After she came back from this one, her mods kept turning down all other private requests, which tells me she is not looking at making it a regular thing. Even when she used to offer private shows for 4444 tokens in her tip menu, they almost never happened since she went solo (I think maybe once every 2-3 months or so, don't have the exact data).
What was also unexpected is that starting yesterday, she began a new collab with Marry_Cordy, pushing very long streams, partially unmasked for the first time this year. I don't know how they split the income since Nelly is not streaming from her room this time, but I would imagine Marry takes at least 50% since she is carrying the show with Nelly just being a side character. What I can say though is that the collab is not really successful for either of them money-wise. They had several whales on SC yesterday netting $240 USD per hour - but split 50/50, they would make around the same or less as during their solo streams. Today's show has been going on for almost 8 hours, and has only netted $150 per hour - split halfway, that's half of they normally make solo recently.
Remains to be seen how any future shows play out, but IIRC the last collab had a similar result. I have a feeling this is Marry helping Nelly out as a favour, seems she's struggling to stream solo this month. I'll update this thread again at the end of the month unless anything particularly interesting happens before that.