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.
I've said this before in passing to friends on here, but I've genuinely come to believe that it's something of a duty for people my age and older (ie: mid-30s on up) who actually remember what technology, culture, and socialization were like both before and in the earliest days of the Internet to proactively push back against toxic structures and incentives in today's Internet and demonstrate to gen z'ers in particular that what they know as normal isn't healthy nor does it have to be the inherent state of online culture. I wasn't around for the Internet and modern computing in their most primordial forms, but as someone who literally came of age when the very first iPhone came out, I sure as shit remember how things used to before pretty much all of today's staples were in place, or at least not in their current form. That knowledge and insight is all but impossible to have if you're even just several years younger than me and it's so easy to treat the structures we're confronted with today as just a natural given if that's all you've grown up knowing. But I cannot stress enough, just how much of THIS that we encounter and deal with is a product of deliberate engineering and conspiring to derive cold, monetized value out of people's time, passion, and emotions.
You deserve a better Internet, we all do, but in order to get it we all have to do our parts to combat those machinations and prove within our own spheres of influence what a different, healthier Internet can do that. It is a fight against capital and capitalists and the minute you make their game your reason to be on the Internet is the minute you've already lost it.