>>49927792Timeline for what I believe to be her reason to incline;
n°1#: Nousagis mention AZKi being Pekora's new kouhai, she refutes that and uses Azu-chan instead of AZKi senpai like every other Holomember besides one or two exceptions did at the time
https://youtu.be/tvsQjCbt4ZA [Embed]
n°2#: 14th of April 2022, AZKi debuts officially as a Holomember, Pekora greets her as Azu-chan(why would she use that even though they barely ever interacted to each other before, and AZKi is Pekora's senpai?), PekoAzu is the most viewed moment of the stream
https://www.youtube.com/live/wZFcLzt4Rgc?feature=sharen°3#:PekoAzu Totsu 51games out of nowhere
https://www.youtube.com/live/ulE2zYowKEo?feature=share at 1:11:45
n°4#: 17th July 2022; the prior interaction just was a foreshadowing regarding AZKi singing with Pekora at her 3rd anniversary 3D live
https://www.youtube.com/live/Di8D8BvZZp0?feature=share at 39:45
n°5: 22nd July 2022; a blooper shows Pekora calling AZKi Azu-chan instead of AZKi senpai as this became a meme to laugh at for these two
https://youtu.be/9Y11YeBV8rc [Embed] (most viewed blooper, even more so than PekoLuna's)
n°6: 3rd July 2022; AZKI 3D anniversary live, Pekora for once actually streamed before a 3D live instead of catching the tourists afterwards like she usually does(PEKOAZU FUNNEL theory starts)
https://www.youtube.com/live/y3Ed1eCwuOA?feature=sharen°7: numerous collabs happening with AZKi; Hachi, Amogus, utawaku duo streams etc... This reinforced her place in the Holobox
n°8: early September of 2022 PekoAzu RUST interactions(there are plenty); them meeting each other at 4am
https://youtu.be/fs8M5dJow7s [Embed] , Pekora and AZKi both being the demons of the Holoservers according to JPfans(matomes) and Kanatan
https://youtu.be/01ybpR8bG3I [Embed] , interaction between Anya and AZKi too
https://youtu.be/0JNChklvzN4 [Embed] . Every event that happened in RUST with Zaki just added more mystery to her character, as absolutely nobody besides two or three Holomembers knew what AZKi was capable in RUST.
n°9: 15th of November 2022; kino 4th anniversary live
https://www.youtube.com/live/SrUT9pCLlcY?feature=sharen°10: 25th of December 2022; kino Christmas relay
https://www.youtube.com/live/AFuWd9mDaAg?feature=share which is what reinforced her place as a Holomember even more imho
n°11: 15th of January 2023; first KinoGuessr live from AZKi. No need to delve too much into it(plenty of 100/200k clip streams, some of her best VODs ever, recognized among the other Holomembers as the ZeroGuessr goddess fairly quickly)
https://www.youtube.com/live/VpSHOsTeVNo?feature=share https://youtu.be/8IxoVEtBK2o(nearly [Embed] 300k views clip)
https://youtu.be/JyJ8TCWoM5k(170k [Embed] clip posted 9 days ago)
https://youtu.be/u0g1I85qt04(200k [Embed] meme)
https://youtu.be/zDxXSgGtPFE [Embed] (260k animated AZKI that she started using as her GeoGuessr intros very quickly)
n°11: 18th of January 2023; SubaAzu Collab, AZKi admitted she was a Nousagi and loved the interactions between Pekora and PekoMama
https://youtu.be/KwLIFwuLDp8 [Embed]
https://www.youtube.com/live/UpJn5YTpYvo?feature=shareTLDR; Nousagis and Pekora tremendously helped her growth when she first joined Hololive solely due to the mystery of Pekora calling AZKI azu-chan, because the senpai/kouhai is very important among the Japanese and Pekora straight up threw that to the garbage, showing how close she actually was with AZKI right from the start despite her saying they aren't close. Several kino interactions between the two later, AZKi started collabing much more with Holomembers other than her usual PekoSora Minecraft collabs, other fans from other fanbases started noticing her. After her anniversary 3D live and her Christmas relay, her karaoke numbers inclined a whole lot and she used that to her advantage by doing an utawaku stream once per week. The nail on the coffin was GeoGuessr being her game of predilection, lots of tourists came to her and stayed as a pioneer.
You can all check my theory with this
https://vrabi.net/channel/UC0TXe_LYZ4scaW2XMyi5_kw . Her January/February 2022 numbers were awfully low, and it was only after the PekoraAZKi interactions after joining the box that she started to incline.
Other pioneers will come whining and say that AZKi solely climbed by herself, but I believe I provided enough proofs like that to say that Pekora and Nousagis helped a lot in making AZKi the monster that she is nowadays. This actually happened a lot in the past(PekoBae, PekoAki ARK, PekoMoona), but AZKi was by far the smartest of the bunch as she used Pekora to her advantage, Collabed a lot with other Holomembers, found her niche game, and started being a lot more consistent in her streams.
PEKOAZU TEETEE!!!!
