>>27456376What about Gura? She's experiencing the same plateauing like everyone else, it's just that because her previous growth was so much higher than her coworkers, the "level of her plateau" is higher too.
Let me explain - look at the data for monthly subscriber gain, and divide that by the number of total subs a vtuber already has (for example here
https://holo.poi.cat/youtube-channel ). Most of the Holos, especially when they're out of their exponential growth phase and into their steady stable dripfeed growth phase, average around 1 to 2 percent monthly subgrowth (that means that for example, a 1 mil subs channel gets around 10k to 20k new subs per month). That's the "normal", baseline rate, the "plateau" that every big channel eventually hits once their exponential boom period is over and they just coast along on institutional inertia.
Now, Gura for example got 70k subs in the last month. That's great right? Biggest sub gain in all of Holo, for a fact. But now consider that she also has a channel that's already at 4 mil subs, and divide the former number by the latter, and you find out that's "just" a 1,7 percent monthly subscriber gain and falls right in line with the rest of Hololive who also hover around the same range of around 1-2 percent monthly new subs relative to existing subs, so by that metric she's not quite as extraordinary anymore and her actual growth rate is nowadays quite "average".
If you are more visually inclined, you can track that phenomenon for example here
https://trackholo.live/en/The pattern is always the same - high explosive growth in the beginning (as is natural - Hololive comes with a massive inbuilt fanbase nowadays that basically guarantees new talents to get a six-figure subcount before even having their first stream) because that's the period where the most "new" people are interested in you. And after a while the subgrowth trails off into a more flatter slope. Not exactly zero, but instead of the honeymoon hype double digit growth rates where masses of new people are discovering you, it falls back to the same 1-2 percent rate trickle that every established channel gets by simple inertia.
