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Mifu Kawashima, a member of Hello! Project’s Juice=Juice, has seen her personal Instagram account cross 100,000 followers. Thread posters pointed out she’d actually hit that mark two days earlier, and noted that only five current Hello! Project members have topped 100,000 followers — four of them from Juice=Juice alone, a lopsided split that drew plenty of comment. Talk also turned to Reon Inoue’s high posting frequency and speculation that the agency may be deliberately holding back some members’ social media activity, with the conversation shifting from the growth itself to the question of “why aren’t some members growing?”
What people said
[BREAKING] Juice=Juice's Mifu-chan's personal Instagram rocket-blasts past 90,000 followers ｷﾀ━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!! (classic 5ch "it's heeere!!" hype emoticon)
https://kizuna.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/morningcoffee/1788477557/
170,000 Reon Inoue
135,000 Ruru Dambara
119,000 Hisaki Ebata
100,000 Mifu Kawashima
64,000 Yua Kudo
62,000 Sakura Ishiyama
59,000 Ria Matsunaga
56,000 Risa Irie
53,000 Sakari Endo
43,000 Ichika Arisawa
Sakura-chi's numbers suddenly spiked
4 of them are from Juice=Juice
Guess you really don't grow without media exposure
https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2110381133540278272/img/RwEQtO0-txW-M2xM.jpg
Next month's music specials are where it really counts
It's all about how big a mark she can leave
even though Arisawa herself said in an interview that she wants to post her own content too
That's just because all the top-tier members graduated one after another
The other one is Nonaka, the Instagram old-timer
Huh, is that really how it is……
Nonaka's the only active member with over 100,000 followers
Oda doesn't even have Instagram, by the way
meanwhile Inoue Rei(on) just barely crossed 170,000
Kawashima did great
Now let's aim for a sold-out Budokan
The other members are slacking way too much
The only one who definitely posts more often is Reon Inoue
Inoue's already broken through so there's nothing to be done about her at this point, but the other members are apparently still told to hold back because they're being kept in check
So that's the twist behind why her posting frequency is weirdly low despite all her media exposure?? Seriously??
I thought she'd hit 100k by early October
but Mippuru posts quite a lot
Rei-rei's posting frequency is just insane
but Kawashima's special, so I want them to keep pushing her hard while Dambara and Inoue are still around
It's not that it's happening naturally, it's that they want it to happen — that's why they're deliberately holding others back
If they just managed things normally, every member would be able to pull numbers
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Within Hello! Project, fans often speculate that the agency adjusts members’ social media posting frequency and media exposure to balance out popularity across the group. The thread comment suggesting that “UP-FRONT is deliberately holding her back” is likewise just speculation drawn from the observed gap in posting frequency — not an officially confirmed agency policy, which readers should keep in mind. Follower counts are also just a daily snapshot that keeps shifting; as one poster in the thread noted, she’d already crossed 100,000 two days earlier, so it’s probably more accurate to read these numbers less for their literal value and more as a rough picture of who’s currently drawing attention. The thread was split between those who attribute growth to posting frequency and media exposure, and those who see it as deliberate suppression by the agency — worth remembering that neither side of that argument is confirmed.
※This article was excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “[BREAKING] Juice=Juice’s Mifu Kawashima’s personal Instagram rocket-blasts to 100,000 followers ｷﾀ━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!!“.
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