>>59029779Okay, no deep analytical rentry because this thread is mentally ill and needy enough. Maybe at some point in the future when people mellow out more and won't go all schizo for a crumb.
Preface for neurotic anons
>AIIIIIEEEEEEEE NOOMBERS, my oshi is a stone cold killa and wouldn't mind it if she had 1 viewer (me)Delusions about average vtuber’s mental stability aside, the point of this is not to get big numbers and then go “my oshi mogs, everybody else sucks.” It is to try to give your oshi and the fan community the best possible experience throughout the journey. Having more fans means a more secure position, more opportunities, more fan content, and just more people watching in general. She wouldn’t be a streamer if she didn’t want people to watch her.
Being a vtuber is a Red Queen’s race. Every day viewers move on due to age, circumstances, schizo meltdowns, changing tastes, or just looking for new toys. The chuuba has to attract new people all the time just to maintain status quo. Her having to worry less about it is better for everybody.
>I don’t even know what a digit is, when I see # on my keyboard I have to smash itCool. Do you feel good about psyopping yourself into not helping your oshi for no fucking reason?
>I want my oshi to have 20 viewers and interact personally with ME ME MEOgey. We both know this isn’t happening in Hololive though. If you decided to watch a chuuba from the big number company you might as well do right by her.
>b-but I am just one tiny speck of anonymous viewer dust, what could I possibly affect?It’s good to think about these things in terms of probabilities. Entertainer’s career lives and dies by chance. One day they are nobody and the next day the world decides to play a prank and give them a clip with millions of views. No talent or effort increment separates the two points. Most of the time these changes are small but happen often. All the chuuba can do is load the dice in her favor by trying her best every day. And you, as a fan, can help your oshi with that a little bit.
Also consider that the average HoloEN VOD has about 100 comments.
>I am too shy to engage with my oshi’s content in a visible way/I think the community is cringe and don’t want to participateIt’s fine. Do your best.
Baby shit
This is the tl;dr section. The bare minimum you can do to give more visibility for 10 seconds of your time per stream/video/community post. Most of you reading this watch streams for more than 10 hours a week and then shitpost on /vt/ about her for another 10, so just do it.
>If you are not subscribed for some reason, do it through the most watched video on the channel after watching it.>Leave likes. On everything. Videos, shorts, streams, community posts. Don’t forget old ones if you are going to watch them. There are metrics for channel overall. Do not spam likes on videos you didn’t watch a second of.>Leave comments. See above. Say something nice. You have a couple of sentences to say about your oshi, right?>Watch videos and streams. Actually watch them. Embeds on other sites do not count for YT’s system, tabbed out streams do not count, muted streams do not count. What youtube can’t check is if your browser is the active window (it can tell if it’s minimized) and if your system volume is turned down. Rule of thumb: if you can see and hear a non-embedded stream on one monitor while posting “this girl sure is cute today” in a separate browser window on another one then it probably counts; if you can’t then it probably doesn’t. Having another window over the youtube window is fine.>Prioritize watch time per view. Try not to click your oshi’s videos just to bail a few seconds later if it’s not a short. If you want to rewatch some moment, try to watch for at least 6-7 minutes. Works for raids too, btw. If you are not going to watch the stream, leave before you get redirected.>Participate in community polls.That’s it, you are good. Don’t be the guy who sends a supa every stream but never gives engagement.
At this moment I was hit by a strong wave of déjà vu and decided to spare you further schizophrenia. Maybe next time we will have a deeper dive into youtube algo, the concepts of box and YT's semantic network, why viewfarming bad, learn how to be a better clipfag, how to skeb, and ponder what are organic growth, mind share, and signal boosting.
