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One interesting thing about Elizabeth's chart is that, usually, there are two separate stages of "verification" for a stream
First stage
>the "waiting room cull" and subsequent verification
where anyone waiting before the stream started gets verified and youtube does large batches to clear this queue fast
Second stage
>everyone that onboarded the stream during the first stage of verification
As none of these got verified, youtube starts a second batch of slightly slower verification in order to clear the second queue that formed while the first was being cleared
Then after everybody from stage one and stage two gets verified, usually the number of people entering and leaving a stream midway is small enough for the queue to be processed in real time instead of in "batches".
And here is the thing: the faster youtube finishes stages one and two, the fewer people onboarded the stream midway.
Usually HoloEN queues take long as fuck because, for God knows why, verification for them is extra slow (although it sped up a little after Nov 2023) but Elizabeth queue, despite processing at the regular HoloEN speed, finished clearing fast enough to indicate most of the audience was the audience already in the waiting room with very little activity after that.
