>>1943361this is going to be a retarded sperging rant i'm only typing it so you can take what you want from it and i'm also not going to bump:
i have over 6000k subs on a 12 year old account and i never upload shit, like 1 video per year at best and they're always weird or personal videos. two of my videos are relatively old have over 1.1M views. the majority of my channel's attention is coming from those. i've actually gained 33 subs in the past month, but i haven't uploaded a video in six months, and this is actually very consistent, and lower than average for my channel, so try explaining that. people just click the sub button because they're conditioned to, and are addicted to easy access content. all following someone means is you might get to see a new video in your feed. if you stay inactive, all that means is they forget you exist.
youtube content is entirely driven by promoting within their own platform, like if i could get analytics to fucking load right now it'd show me that 80-95% of my channel's traffic comes from the recommendation side bar or direct searches for content (so not because they're interested in my channel.) goes without saying you have to be pretty fucking popular to be gaining traffic from people -directly- searching your name and subbing to you, and regularly watching your videos. directly after subbing to someone, you will be promoted by youtube's recommendation algo engine. it will do this until it completely runs out of content to rec to you, which could be months if you have a lot of content and rapidly shit it out.
after some amount of time it's going to stop, or some other channels your viewers are subbing to are going to be taking up those rec slots. this is influenced by the like button which is why people tell you to hit the like button. (it's also because they are forced to by gunpoint as part of the monetization terms) so you end up in my situation where the channel looks quite popular, you have millions of total hits, thousands of subs, but get only dozens-hundreds of views on your newest videos. the algo and your viewers quite simply forgot about you. i sometimes get comments on new videos asking "how did this get in my feed" because my content has never been consistent and people forget who i am or why they subbed to me.
tl;dr all this means is AI is failing to influence the watch algo into seeding her videos in recs. she needs more 'viral' videos that people click into, watch a lot of, and actually like, or just overall more content. not saying i know her channel well, i actually don't, but it's going to be one of those things. this could also be due to an overabundance of choice, including fansubbers, as well as youtube's complete incompetence of categorizing everything related to vtuber as anime, so only people who like the "anime" tag are being recommended vtuber content. which means the furthest theoretical reach of vtuber content isn't just people who like vtube, it includes weebs who watched portugese-subbed higurashi clips on youtube once, or literal children.
