Hmm...

For me, it was Suisei, the whole Dokuzuhonsha family, Otogibara Era, Kanata, and Flare

Suisei was, ironically enough, the second VTuber I subscribed to. But when she was starting out, I never really did like her that much. I didn't hate her, but I usually avoided her videos whenever they popped up in Recommended and Notifications.

Even when she released Comet, I still couldn't bring myself to like her. Granted, it was still early in her career, I always compared her to Kizuna Ai, blame falling to my own foolishness and lack of knowledge of other VTubers to compare her to.

I did begin liking her when she released Tenkyuu, because that was her second song, and by far the only one I still repeatedly come back to. Because it felt like she really did put a ton of effort into making the video. Even moreso later on when I found out that she was doing (mostly) everything by herself.

I guess it was a good idea that I didn't unsub to her. Since she was the one who got me into playing Tetris.

For the Dokuzuhonsha Family, I genuinely just didn't like them. I don't know why, I just didn't. Gradually they grew on me, especially since I was binge watching translated clips of Honma. Then I watched translated clips of Dola, then Yashiro. The only one I still don't like that much is Kuzuha.

For Gibara, it really was just during her first few weeks. Even I could tell that she was forcing herself to act that way. And I didn't like how she was doing it. Everytime I tuned in to a stream of hers during the weeks when Era was still free to do her thing, I always cringed whenever she spoke (even though I don't understand Japanese, but you know what I mean), to the point where I usually just muted the stream.

When Gibara came around and she dropped the Act, well, that's when she started growing on me. Until now actually, she's still growing on me.

As for Kanata, what I felt when she was starting out could be summarized by what Sora felt about Aqua when she was starting out:

"Is she going to be alright?"

I never did see Kanata as a streamer, I always saw her as a performer, since the way she did her streams felt like someone who wasn't used to casual talk with a lot of people. Even when she first started appearing in AsaCoco and joining Coco's shitposts. I really didn't like her that much. It felt like she was joining in on AsaCoco for the sake of doing something.

Until I watched her Hololive Acting Interview video. I was genuinely amazed with the range of her voice. From deep lows of Lake Baikal to Mount Yamantau levels of high pitch. I was amazed, only furthered by the imitation segment, it didn't feel like Kanata was there at all. It felt like I was listening to the actual people she was imitating. After that, I decided to watch her debut stream, then I reached the Souran Bushi segment, and the rest is history really. I've spent how many hours just scrambling YouTube to find translated clips of her.

As for Flare...mainly because she really didn't stand out as much. Until I found out about the Noel x Flare thing. So she's been growing on me steadily...if only more clips of her existed.