/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>1534271
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>>1520196
The reclining viewership is mostly because of the youtube change since december that flag people as spam viewers and fucks up channels that are set to Japan as Home Country but have mostly an US audience. All HoloEN channels have Japan as home country because Cover gets the money first and then pays the girls.

I thought there was something fucky since somebody brought up the Pekora/Gura numbers, so I looked up some random gaming streams that are live on youtube right now, and this is what I found.
Aside from a stream that's been live for 10 hours, no other large streams I was able to find had a greater number of likes than views. From other channels I was able to find with roughly similar metrics to Gura's (similar subscriber count, live for roughly the same amount of time, and producing similar content), other streams had a pretty consistent ratio, with the average live views/likes ratio likely being something between 0.5 and 1.
Gura's stream has 3x that.

This is also something that's been observed with other HoloENs. I can't speak about HoloJP because I don't really watch them.
This can means one of several things:
-The problem is with the viewers: People who watch vtubers have vastly different viewing habits which causes youtube's system to pick up and generate weird stats
-The problem is with the channels: Vtuber channels are somehow getting flagged for certain unique attributes that skew their stats (could be localization, automated content detection, or even manual flagging for whatever reason)
-The data is accurate: People who watch vtubers just really enjoy leaving tons of likes on streams that they don't watch, in absolutely massive numbers

What's interesting is I went onto the few HoloJP channels that were live currently, and their likes/live views ratios were very much around 0.5 - 1. (Pekora even has a ratio of around 0.30 right now). So it definitely seems like the problem is affecting HoloEN more than JP.