>>50447195>>50447724TLDR; while her new outfit back in early 2021 gave her a steep boost in popularity along with the help of the Gundam Seed utawaku stream, her average viewers were still extremely low(as seen with Vrabi and Holo poi
https://holo.poi.cat/vtuber/azki https://vrabi.net/channel/UC0TXe_LYZ4scaW2XMyi5_kw [reaching for instance an astoundingly low of 17,7k peak on her kino 3rd anniversary 3D live
https://vrabi.net/video/Q2_fe1wtGn0]), what actually started her incline was when Nousagis and Pekora tremendously helped her growth when she first joined Hololive solely due to the mystery of Pekora calling AZKI azu-chan, because the senpai/kouhai is very important among the Japanese and Pekora straight up threw that to the garbage, showing how close she actually was with AZKI right from the start despite her saying they aren't close. Several kino interactions between the two later, AZKi started collabing much more with Holomembers other than with Sora and their usual SorAZKi Minecraft collabs, other fans from other fanbases started noticing her. After her anniversary 3D live and her Christmas relay, her karaoke numbers inclined a whole lot and she used that to her advantage by doing an utawaku stream once per week. The nail on the coffin was GeoGuessr being her game of predilection, lots of tourists came to her and stayed as regular Pioneers.
You can all check my theory with thishttps://
vrabi.net/channel/UC0TXe_LYZ4scaW2XMyi5_kw. Her January/February 2022 numbers were awfully low, and it was only after the PekoraAZKi interactions after joining the box that she started to incline.
Other pioneers will come whining and say that AZKi solely climbed by herself, but I believe I provided enough proofs like that to say that Pekora and Nousagis helped a lot in making AZKi the monster that she is nowadays. This actually happened a lot in the past(PekoBae, PekoAki ARK, PekoMoona), but AZKi was by far the smartest of the bunch as she used Pekora to her advantage, Collabed a lot with other Holomembers, found her niche game, and started being a lot more consistent in her streams.
PEKOAZU TEETEE!!