>>20703217Arrival of males scared off a bunch of unicorns, even though she doesn't really spam collabs with them. It didn't make her recline but it slowed her growth significantly as it was the start of an arc where a chunk of her audience realized this was, in fact, not Hololive.
I'd also argue that management failed to capitalize on Lazulight's initial explosion of growth when they were the only 'major' HoloEN alternative in town. So the big debut months passed by with no new group songs, no more paid ads, no individual orisongs, relatively little merch, etc. So there was no second wind once the girls' organic growth naturally began to slow down.
The orisong bit is one of the things that bug me the most. Finana's new song released in Jan 29 and it already has over a million views. Imagine the numbers if you'd dropped that before Obsydia's or even Ethyria's debut when Lazulight was on a hard incline.