>>21666781Hardcore vtubing fans are a minority, brand fans are an even smaller vocal minority. Most viewership over about 1000 is highly reliant on casual fans who just watch whatever catches their eye.
Even if Myth wasn't first to market, it's still an extremely appealing line taken at face value because all of the girls have immediate appeal with marketable talents except maybe Kiara, and the results of Kiara have been discussed to death. There're a lot of Deadbeats who're effectively just watching the person who made these songs they heard about in weeb circles, or people who watch a ton of content creators but open up Amelia's stream whenever they see her doing something weird. People who started following Ina because they were following her art first then never made an effort to find any anime girls that might've appealed to them more.
/vt/ is not the norm and it skewers perceptions of numbers and fanbases a lot. Honestly the biggest factor vtubers are rated on around here is just how strong of a parasocial connection you can form with them, and that's applied across every fanbase even though most people won't admit it. What makes a vtuber blow up isn't necessariily their quality either, but a combination of luck and marketing. Myth is infinitely more marketable than literally every other group in the western scene. I'd wager every member, including Kiara, was selected for their ability to pull in an uninvested audience, and in Kiara's case her strengths just failed to convert.
