>>7641406190% of the time the actual reason behind this is that there is already an existing critical mass of posters in the thread and it's only a matter of one post happening to trigger the reaction that leads to active posting. I think I accidentally did that with naiyo because I only saw common posting about her after I brought her up because I got reminded by a "currently live" post, and I know for a fact that there were multiple posters who sometimes mentioned her way before I ever watched her streams.