>>15288616>Collab with popular chink gacha game in the first year of it's english launch>Collab is translated and put on the english server at the same time as JP and CNThat collab caused a massive influx of EOPs watching hololive clips, moving into subs to the streamers then as it hit peak momentum the released gen 4
Hololive timed everything perfectly to get the biggest influx of viewership possible along with new streamers.
Then just as it started to settle down released the HoloEN which combined with covid lock downs pretty much put a stranglehold on it all.
Hololive just really took advantage of a marketing move.
>>15288665Niji had the early moment. Hololive was behind Niji until the azur lane collab.
Even when Gen 4 debuted the numbers were only slightly higher in subs (Towa was actually lower than Emma August) but Hololive had way higher growth after due to the mass number of new EOP fans.