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Aya Kajishima of Up Up Girls (2) has started a YouTube channel. She launched it after personally negotiating with her agency’s president, setting a goal of 1,000 subscribers. So far she’s posted videos including one where she tries her hand at running a takoyaki catering stall.
On 5ch’s Hello! Project board, some skeptics argued that “Hello! Project fans will just subscribe without ever actually watching,” but the channel actually passed 1,000 subscribers shortly after launch, prompting reports that the goal was “achieved in just 2 days” — a direct rebuttal to the doubters. With a base of over 9,000 Instagram followers already in place, thread discussion also touched on how low the target was, as well as a comparison to MC Ishida, who took a full year to cross 1,000 subscribers on his own channel.
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Kajishima's YouTube
ps://youtu.be/AW4pab2kbfI?si=jf-ma2hdjp_lDTvX
That one was fun
MC Ishida's "Mori no Miyako" (Sendai-themed) channel took a full year to finally pass 1,000 subscribers
She hit it in 2 days
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
YouTube’s monetization requirements are widely known to be 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 total watch hours, which >>42 references in the thread. Up Up Girls (2) isn’t technically part of the Hello! Project family, but belongs to an agency of the same lineage, and Aya Kajishima is a member of the group. The thread split between a skeptical view that “it’s just insider fans subscribing, and view counts won’t follow” (>>32, >>49) and the actual result — that, bolstered by her Instagram follower base (over 9,000), she cleared the goal in just two days (>>50, >>51). One point the thread doesn’t address: subscriber count and actual view/engagement numbers are separate metrics, so the skeptics’ concern that people might “subscribe without ever watching” can neither be confirmed nor ruled out by these numbers alone.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread ‘Up Up Girls (2)’s Aya Kajishima starts a YouTube channel, aiming for 1,000 subscribers.’
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