>>34783911I mean, CCVID appears to have actually started around Dec 15-20 2021 ish with a string of seemingly unprompted mild underperformances by everyone, and even the HoloJP Christmas karaoke relay didn't seem that awful at the time since several Holos inclined YoY (but notably Rushia didn't clear her waiting room). Then shit got a lot worse.
The slight oddity with the reclines over the past week is that if it was just a "touch grass" issue you'd think it would've happened a month sooner at the end of Summer vacations, not on the border of the Fall season. There's also the mild anecdotal evidence that Susan shuffled the algo a bit recently; granted, she's been doing that mid-late December the past two years, not early October.
So I dunno, it might not be algo fuckery, but there's enough to chew on that it can't be ruled out yet.