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On 5ch’s Hello! Project board, a thread took off after Juice=Juice’s official Instagram account passed 210,000 followers. The jump came just over two months after a previous thread reported it hitting 200,000, and it now puts the group almost level with Morning Musume.’26, whose count of 212,000 was posted around the same time. Commenters pointed out that individual members’ personal accounts, like Haruka Kudo’s and Maria Makino’s, actually beat the group’s official account, and someone posted year-by-year data tracking Morning Musume’s official account since its 2018 launch. The discussion ranged over how fast the numbers were climbing and the overall scale of Hello! Project’s social media presence.
What people said
Juice=Juice's Instagram follower count has hit a whopping 200,000!!!!!!!!!!
https://kizuna.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/morningcoffee/1784682728/1
1 No Name Yet… 2026/07/22 (Wed) 10:12:08.53 0
https://www.instagram.com/juice_juice_official
Loses badly to Makino on TV exposure too
Dec 2018 Launch
Dec 2019 134,000
Dec 2020 177,000
Dec 2021 197,000
Dec 2022 200,000
Dec 2023 204,000
Dec 2024 209,000
Dec 2025 207,000
Sep 2026 212,000
What an achievement — a whopping 15,000 more followers in five years
Hello! Project's fandom operates on such a low bar it's almost funny — iLiFE!, formed in 2021, has 370,000 followers despite posting almost nothing but promo photos
And on Twitter they just keep leapfrogging back and forth with 'Furuppa' too
Thought 'there's no way Juice=Juice's growth curve looks like this'… oh wait, that's Morning Musume
Compare this to Juice=Juice's growth curve, please
Angerme 144k
Tsubaki 84k
BEYOOOOONDS 113k
Ocha 57k
Rosy 31k
The group account won't grow unless people get interested in the unit itself ('hako'), not just individual members
Juice=Juice has gained 100,000 followers since I (old 2ch slang: 'ore/me') started watching
Sorted by follower count, Hello! Project members only
9/1/25 9/30/25 Change Posts
207,286 206,950 -336 26 Morning Musume.'25
143,656 143,475 -181 7 Angerme
128,463 129,398 +935 20 Juice=Juice
105,848 105,836 -12 12 BEYOOOOONDS
79,323 79,317 -6 4 Tsubaki Factory
51,243 51,484 +241 1 OCHA NORMA
21,522 22,228 +706 36 Rosy Chronicle
So it was already climbing before the 'more' clip? (idol slang: a photo/video where a member looked unusually flattering)
It's not even your achievement, so bragging about it here just gets a 'huh, okay' from me
There's always someone above you and someone below you — that's just how the world works
Thanks to the 'more' clip, Juice=Juice gained roughly 100,000 followers across YouTube and other social platforms, but there's still a long way to go
Wonder how many of them will actually go as far as joining the fan club and showing up to events
That shows up in things like their higher like/engagement counts too
Background and Key Points
Underlying this thread is an informal tally some 5ch users keep of official social media follower counts for each Hello! Project group. In the log from late last September posted as comment #25, Morning Musume was in the low 200,000s while Juice=Juice was only in the 120,000s — a substantial gap — which suggests that reaching 210,000 now represents a sharp jump in a short span. Commenters repeatedly mention the ‘more’ clip as the trigger for the follower surge, but the thread never explains exactly what event this refers to, and it can’t be pinned down from the material in this article alone. There’s also a split between those who treat the raw follower count as proof of rising popularity and those who argue that how many of those new followers are genuinely ‘active’ accounts is a separate question — a point plain numerical comparisons can’t settle. The fact that personal accounts like Haruka Kudo’s and Maria Makino’s outdo their own group’s official account is likewise a recurring topic within the Hello! Project fandom.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Juice=Juice’s Instagram follower count has hit a whopping 210,000!!!!!!!!!!“.
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