>>1267822>>1267406High view numbers compared to concurrent live viewers usually means more people are jumping in and out of the stream rather than staying or leaving the stream open. It's impossible to know whether the people watching are unique viewers or not, only the streamer themselves and youtube have access to that metric. The only way to tell is comparing view to stream ratio to generally get how many times someone might jump in and out per how many hours or whenever youtube publishes total hours watched divided by stream time, but there's so many other factors like whether it's a special event, whether it was promoted somewhere, what type of content, the time it was streamed, whether youtube takes time to audit the views, etc.
One example is this
>>1267406, Mori currently at 88k for a 101 minute stream, Nui at 89k for a 240 minute FFXV stream. Both sides can rrat all day about whether it means Nui's viewers stayed to watched while Mori's jumped in and out, or whether it means Mori has 4x the regular amount of viewers/reach than Nui, but no one knows unique viewer numbers. You always have to consider whether a game they're playing normally has people coming/going, has high viewers or not, etc. which is why it's always better to look at a trend instead, or look at multiple factors. For example, 2 hours compared to 4 hour is pretty significant, Mori isn't streaming it for the first time compared to Nui, it's unknown whether GG or FFXV should be counted as a buff or not, but GG theoretically should have people leaving and coming back less. Still, you can easily guess that Mori most likely has a higher number of unique viewers, even though it's to be expected since she has 4x the subs. You can also probably make the guess, that there's a considerably higher amount of dead subs on Mori's channel, at least for GG content, compared to Nui's view:sub ratio. She also does enough streams so that covers don't impact that too much, besides RIP.
One example you can take about why you don't cherry pick videos is
>>1267822. Sans endurance is known for having people check back over and over to see whether they've finally beaten Sans or not. You can see multiple people punch way above their viewer numbers. Undertale is also getting popular among Hololive as a whole, so initial/eventful streams might get a slight buff, along with post stream views for people checking in. This isn't her initial stream, but you can see Sans doing his work here.
She's done 8 undertale streams, totaling 3571 minutes, with 3.597m views, averaging 1007 views per minute streamed. The thing is, the N routes also either had people stay for a long time, or people just weren't interested in the N routes, the latter being more likely if you compare to her other streams. Genocide is doing a lot of heavy lifting, not just for Kanata, but a lot of streamers too. If you only looked at one video, you would end up drawing the conclusion that Kanata was as popular as Pekora/Korone/Kuzuha.
