Definitely apropos of nothing else going on elsewhere on the Internet, every year, the farther away I am from my old online life and deeper I get into my localization career, the more grateful I just became a weirdo Internet hermit in my late 20s who dedicated his life's work to crusty old dating sims because man did a lot of the scenes I originally came from sure become nightmarish hellholes full of just, the most avoidable drama with gigantic studio audiences once I bailed.
Clout chasing in fan spheres is lame as fuck and if you think it'll ever help you break into the sort of work I do, it doesn't and the longer you do it, the worse you're making your own odds.
If you're trying to impress and make a name for yourself among anyone and everyone instead of the right people by demonstrating your worth, consistency, reliability, and especially your integrity, you're barking up the wrong damn tree and way, way too few of the prominent younger fan translators seem to get that.
Just being good and not weird and awful makes for a solid foundation, I recommend starting at that and going from there.