/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>50681715
>SOUL is good at first but loses novelty as time goes by.
I agree with lots of what you are talking but disagree here.
>pic related
Choco is somehow getting WORSE(!) as the years go by, but the audience for her karaoke is very stable
>including this humble anon, which tunes it at every opportunity
With that example I'll propose an alternative to the theory you're putting forward.
You say that EN is reclining because they are "not that interesting as streamers" and uses "dead air" as an example which >>50681794 correctly points out that it is not exclusive to the EN girls.

What is causing EN recline is the fact they lost the "collective emotional grasp" on the audience.
Each girl can hold their own audience but what powers Hololive numbers is "the box", the audience shared by the girls powered by their interpersonal connections.
With a strong box, the combined audience of the branch will also show up in the individual streams of most girls.
Without that, each girl will get their floor, and pad the numbers with some tourists in buffed streams, tourists that won't show up for their regular streams.

Using last night as an example: out of the 5k departing takos (in a stream that "stole" few people from Fauna ongoing stream), only some 400 of them funneled to Fauna's stream at the end.
This might be explained is "incompatible content" in this case but it happens pretty much on a daily basis, people tune in to watch their favorite and bail afterwards.

The "box pushing" strat is dead for EN, each girl get theirs and that's it. Anon is correct that adding more girls could improve on that front but that's saying what could fix, the cause is what I just mentioned: lack of audience cohesion