>>102528336Both JP and EN were more than capable of handling the dip in popularity that came after most the world lifted their pandemic restrictions (although you could argue that JP proceeded to become even more popular than their previous peak, while EN never matched mythmania again)
Given how most of EN rn are just... having fun in Japan seemingly without any worries for their financial situation, I highly doubt they're concerted for the minimal decrease in popularity that happened recently, their numbers are still very much in "holy shit I've made it" territory, they got an entire company looking after them (to mixed results being fair) and most of them come from relatively wealthy families, the two important things to the girls rn is, financial stability, which is a guarantee, and the ability to leverage the resources Cover gives them for their creative projects, which is about as good as it has ever been.
So no, I doubt they're worrying at all at the fact that they're a little less popular than before
