>>16133973Anon, the waiting room cull is something as old as 2020, and it used to be much worse in the first few days
Anya debut stream got frozen at *zero* viewers for eight minutes after the cull because they didn’t show the number until all users were processed.
The new part is not the cull but the fact streams aren’t recovering from it anymore, either taking a full hour to regain the initial number (when it used to be a minute or so) or never doing it and staying at 40%, 30% of that number