Just a little update on how her retirement is being received, since she has shut off all other indicators (I am surprised she has not shut off the subscriber counter yet; she has before)
Numbers are useless without some context, so here comes the context:
Chantal reached her peak number of subscribers ever on March 23, 2019, when she had 55,109. This was right before her Buffalo Wings muckbang debacle, which put an abrupt end to her first vegan run of 2019. A string of mukbangs followed, which cost her nearly 1300 subscribers until we got the tearful apology.
Since then, every time she has approached that 55,109 peak, she has reliably shot herself in the foot, either by chimping out or by doing her shit-story livestreams (and usually a combination of both). Once again, she was approaching her record this week and managed to gross out or piss off her subscribers again. She has now hit that 55K mark three times without busting past it. If this were the stock market, and Chantal's videos were a stock, that triple-high would be a sign to sell, if not short-sell...
Incidentally, if she has just done
nothing for the last 6 weeks, no uploads or anything, she'd probably be at 57K-58K by now. People usually don't bother unsubscribing unless they really
hate you, while new subscribes sign up every day based on old videos. Inaction by an uploader usually means a net gain in subscribers. So for her to keep hitting this brick wall at 55K is YouTube incompetence of the first degree; only really distasteful people manage to lose a subscriber base. Chantal is part of a very small but elite club indeed.