>>36595626Depends on what you mean by best streamer. Most popular streamers got in early or benefitted from nepotism.
Like look at Ironmouse, very good streamer, popular but she was streaming for like 9 fucking years. Bat has been streaming forever and was a 2view until she rebranded as a vtuber. Growth tends to happen in leaps and bounds not a steady climb unless you have outside connections and meticulously craft your content to be algorithm friendly (Randon, Southside, etc.)
Pure raw talent can only get you so far especially in a small market like "english speaking vtuber" where there's a ton of people doing it and the ones who already have a foothold are going to protect their spot. You see it in other categories too like people who specialize in a specific franchise or game where say someone who's in the top 0.01% rank for a popular game and is a good streamer can have like double digit viewers while some screaming zoomerlord will always have 100x the viewership simply because they've been around longer or had connections with other people on the top before starting.
Basically the same deal as anything in life I guess.
