>>104896121>I don't even know what caused it to stop inclining desuIt's the other way around. Nijisanji was at their absolute peak in 2022 because of three things
1) They had finally reached the 1M milestone with Kuzuha doing so in Sep 2021, Kanae in May 2022 and their main channel, right around that time too, which led to ...
1) Salome. Regardless of whether one takes her numbers at face value it is underbiably that she got some level of attention to their branch specially because her name implied she was some sort of short lived joke celebrating that milestone.
That plus her massive debut buffed numbers helped put some hype in their every event that summer
3) Luxiem. Again, regardless of whether one takes their numbers at face value, it is equally undeniable that they ended up blowing up with a completely different audience outside the typical Niji one (the Chinese adolescent one) and with Vox reaching his 1M subs milestone right around Koshien that year, there were a lot of eyes over them back then.
1 + 2 + 3 was the perfect storm and it's funny as fuck because the reaction by the niji blokes (in this thread and everywhere) was
>Niji is SO BACK!>Holo is dead!and they started numberfagging like crazy! They had Vox passing Kiara in subs before the end of the year, they had Nijisanji having more 100k streams that year than Hololive, they REALLY thought they would beat Coco's then record with Koshien 2023.
The downfall of their EN branch and the stagnation of their main branch is even more delicious considering all of that.
They will NEVER ever ever ever again reach anywhere close to their 2022 numbers and, right now, they're closer to competing with VSPO for second place on their regular stream than with competing with Hololive for the top of the mountain.
