>>8693732Because the West's vtuber audience isn't as big. Twitch exists too, they have fiercer competition than you can think of. Tell me a popular Japanese non vtuber streamer, how many are there? 3?
That said, Youtube is retarded and I bet it's culling so many viewers for Gura and EN it's insane. Pic related was her 40k viewers Gawr karaoke. 350k views at the end. If you want a comparison, her 120k viewers karaoke she did back when the bug didn't exist had 400k views at the end.