>>37851901. Japan treats vtubing and anime girls more seriously than the West. Japan fans will always be more loyal and support their oshi more, Gura's sub count is just a meme.
2. Gura doesn't live in Japan where vtubers are actual celebrities, she's also too lazy or not allowed to have stream collabs with her JP senpai
3. There are literal male vtubers with better stream viewership and more subs than her, her popularity is overly exaggerated just because Hololive is the hottest agency around right now. Pekora and other Holos regularly beat her stream views and regularly earn more superchats.
4. Kizuna AI is a special case because she literally invented modern day vtubing, that was the first worldwide boom of the medium, there's been talking avatars in the past but Kizuna is the one that really made bank with the concept. No one is ever going to be that hot at a phase where modern vtubing was a relatively new thing worldwide instead of just a niche in one country.
Gura is popular more as a meme than an actual vtuber, most of her fans don't even watch other tubers, most of her fans outright stopped watching her. She has more than 2 million subs but her livestream watchers don't reflect that at all.
