>>51754872Gura's old channel had 800k subscribers in March, while Fubuki and Korone had around 500k/300k. Before she joined Hololive. Gura felt bad reaching 1 million before them after starting over.
Also let's not forget they weren't the first EN. Nijisanji and others tried to accelerate after Gura's success, though they struck gold with Luxiem. Salome grew faster than Gura. But longevity is the true metric of success.