>>6503472That isn't even everything, you forgot stuff like Miko being out on haitus as well, and the general explosion of interest going off just a few weeks before Gen 5 got announced, and how that one Korone DOOM video set off a chain reaction of explosive interest booms in Hololive that lasted all the way up until late November.
Seriously, in terms of catching people's interest, we had:
>Korone DOOM blowing up>Pekora minecraft clips and her laugh in general going viral>second Korone boom with Banjo-Kazooie>everyone picking through the mountain of clips that had piled up by then and sharing around gold nuggets of streams>Coco starts Meme Review and pulls a massive audience from it, also kick-starting Cover's own platform for discussion off of Twitter>Gen 5 gets announced at the peak of that>Gen 5 sets new records for engagement>everything with Aloe sparking MASSIVE saviorfag instincts in the EOP community that just got pulled in, linking them to the place for the long term>THEN EN gets announced a few weeks later>EN fucking explodes even higher than Gen 5>THEN the Taiwan shit sparks the EXACT SAME saviorfag trauma bonding in the new EN audience, bonding THEM to the hobby for the long term, tooThat shit was like watching a rocket get to the moon via nuclear explosive propellants, with each bomb being bigger than the last.