>>8482355>but it is certainly connectedIt is connected, I agree, but through a common cause: popularity.
A streamer in a popular streak will have both his subs and VOD views increasing at a certain pace. Think Kuzuha right now.
A stream that fell out of that streak will lose VOD views much faster than they will either lose or reduce growth in their subs count.
During the "incline" the correlation is there, more popularity = more subs = more VOD views. But during the "recline" the correlation disappear. Less VOD views does not necessarily imply fewer subs
That's the core of my objection: there is no correlation between high subs and high VOD views, there is a correlation between
>high popularity, high VOD views and high subs which is confused as a correlation between subs and VOD views in the incline.
But as it disappears in the recline it was never there in the first place, the correlation was always between popularity and VOD views and popularity and subs, independently.
There are cases when popularity doesn't even result in a high subs count even if the VOD views grow significantly (think a popular meme video or sort series of videos), only in a high VOD count for the duration of the popularity streak
