>>24545472>>24545605I was asleep but saw these when I got up and checked the thread. Kind of gave me a laugh since I wasn’t expecting it lol but I understand the “concern.” The general opinion that people have been partially doomposting about is:
>”Why are Gura’s VODs lower than normal?”And to that I say it’s both (slightly) true and (highly) false. To start with the concerns, much of it comes from her recent string of buff games that don’t seem to make much traction during the processing phase. These thoughts are valid, as I do theorize that Gorn being thrown into age restriction actually did have an effect on her discoverability, which would cause this effect of her VODs “normalizing.” There’s also the expectation out of Gura VODs and the belief that any 20k is gonna be massive. This is where things get a bit falsified by people who never really paid attention to these sort of things.
1. Minecraft has always been a buff game that’s brought success to just about everyone, but there’s always been a hint of the VODs stabilizing out over time. This is not necessarily because people don’t want to watch. In fact, it could easily be explained as the opposite: People STICK to the stream and watch, therefore the churn is lessened and the bloated VODs suddenly become more in line with others. This can be seen in a lot of top holos, Pekora included. Even Startend had been showing signs of this, where Aqua was down 150-200k views on vods that seemingly were in line with the rest ccv-wise. In the end, ccv is just ccv. In a world where hundreds of thousands are tuning in, the difference in 2k people watching does not reflect well on that.
2. To follow this thought, there’s likely people looking at this latest stream and saying to themselves “hey why isn’t this 300k yet” and that again can be explained with the response above with a bit more proof to show.
https://youtu.be/M9vk96qkRxMhttps://youtu.be/1h-yvYrA5UIhttps://youtu.be/sQyDvzyXJVE(^ check stream stime of that one)
The thing with horror games/spooky games is that most of the attraction to them comes from the reactions. And there’s no worse way to enjoy this than to not be in the stream. For that reason, there’s been many of cases where VODs of these games have never really found footing in the processing period. It happened with her Within Skerry VOD too, that was initially stuck at around 340k during the most buff time for her this year and didn’t find views until much later.
Lastly, this is the part that is the most untrue of them and that’s that Gura’s VODs are low in the first place. This is dumb, and any concerns about this are purely due to stream time as of late. When Gura was getting her best VODs this year, it was a mixture of buff games and longer VODs. You don’t get amazing results off 2 hour long streams. Stream time matters, and in Gura’s case she’s notorious for getting above 100k/hr of stream time. I’ve tried to explain this here and there but if Gura hypothetically streamed an hour longer for things like Taiko/MC, you’d already be seeing a 400k VOD and those worries would be dispelled. And Gura, despite the worries of people, absolutely has the power of her VODs come out still. Her first MC VOD beat out her OW stream with Towa in just 3 days. And that was a VOD thought to be great, so it’s not like people just up and left. Again, let me just reiterate this: Stream length matters. You can see that Gura is clearly hitting the 125k-150k views per hour mark in her recent VODs while processing. That’s essentially in line with her numbers of the past.
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TL;DR
Essentially, she’s performing the same as before, if not better, however the concerns of people are not false either. Her Gorn age restriction may have had an effect on her showing, as in YT could have put her in a lower priority system off it if that’s how that bullshit works.
