>>103027302They sub but don't watch. The typical life of a shorts fag is 99.9% or more will watch for 5-60 seconds, maybe sub, then move on and never come back. That's why when they decided to allow that retarded format for streams, so many people were doing it. Putting a retarded format with #shorts in the title put you in the youtube shorts doomscroll, and some people got a significant sub boost from that over the course of a few months, with no change in average viewer level on other streams.
I'm not even a numberfag, this is just my observation and I dropped every vtuber that decided to do those streams beyond an arbitrary threshold, including my former oshi.