RaidFollower Master Archive
Monthly reports, data notes, and stream recaps built from RaidFollower tracking.
This archive is the main index for the public Rentry articles. It collects the long-form monthly reports, smaller data observations, milestone writeups, and topic-based summaries around vedal987 and the wider tracked channel network.
Last updated: 2026-05-01
Monthly Reports
| Month | Status | Article | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Planned | March 2026 baseline report | Early project month; some tracking categories started partway through March |
| April 2026 | Published | The Rewrite, the Million, and the Month It All Happened | First near-complete month; hype train tracking began April 14 |
| May 2026 | Upcoming | May 2026 full-category report | First month where hype train tracking is active from day one |
April 2026 is the current anchor report. It is the first month where raids, streams, followers, subscriptions, and late-month hype train data can be discussed together.
May 2026 will be the first clean comparison month, because every major data category will be active from the start of the month.
Topic Index
Milestones
| Date | Highlight | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-24 | vedal987 crossed 1,000,000 followers at 9:54 PM UTC — minute-by-minute data captured | April 2026 → The One Million Follower Spike |
Streams
| Date | Highlight | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04 | 18 vedal987 streams; VRChat, dev stream, LIVE NEURO TEST, and 3D karaoke | April 2026 → vedal987's Stream Month |
Raids
| Date | Highlight | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04 | 26 outgoing vedal987 raids carried 185,739 viewers; laynalazar most frequent target | April 2026 → Outgoing Raids |
| 2026-04 | Incoming raids averaged 80 viewers vs outgoing average of 7,144 — network asymmetry explained | April 2026 → Incoming Raids and the Asymmetry of the Network |
Subscriptions
| Date | Highlight | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04 | 8,710 subscriptions; Week 16 produced 3,354 subs — over 3x a typical week | April 2026 → Subscriptions |
Hype Trains
| Date | Highlight | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | Two consecutive hype trains in the VRChat stream: levels 17 and 19, 350,000+ pts combined | April 2026 → Hype Trains |
Development / Neuro-sama System
| Date | Highlight | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-27 | First dev stream of 2026; full rewrite of Neuro-sama and Evil's system explained; Unity memory leak resolved | April 2026 → The April 27 Dev Stream |
| 2026-04-27 | 3D karaoke, neurosama blog launch, and branding discussion | April 2026 → 3D Karaoke, Blog, and Branding |
Current Baselines
These are the current public baseline numbers from the April 2026 report.
| Metric | April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Tracked channels | 52 |
| Total raids across tracked channels | 3,085 |
| Total raid viewers | 1,342,302 |
| Largest single raid | 21,271 viewers |
| Unique raiders | 1,643 |
| Unique raid targets | 364 |
| Streams started | 692 |
| vedal987 streams | 18 |
| vedal987 outgoing raids | 26 |
| vedal987 outgoing raid viewers | 185,739 |
| vedal987 subscriptions | 8,710 |
| Network hype trains from April 14 onward | 601 |
Data Coverage
RaidFollower was built in stages, so the early archive has uneven coverage.
| Data type | Coverage note |
|---|---|
| Raids | Active for March and April; April has full-month coverage |
| Streams | Active for March and April; April has full-month coverage |
| Followers | Started March 22, 2026 |
| Subscriptions | Started March 30, 2026 |
| Hype trains | Started April 14, 2026 |
Because of this, April 2026 is the first near-complete month, but not the first perfectly complete month. Hype trains are missing from April 1 to April 13.
May 2026 will be the first month where the full tracking set is active from day one.
About RaidFollower
RaidFollower is a tracking project for Twitch community activity around vedal987 and the broader Neuro-verse network. It records raid movement, stream sessions, follower counts, subscription events, and hype trains in real time.
Most milestones in a Twitch community — a raid, a sub surge, a channel crossing a round number — happen fast and leave no permanent record. RaidFollower exists to fix that. The archive preserves the exact moments: the minute a follower count spiked, the stream where a hype train peaked, the week subscriptions were three times normal.
The data is continuous and automatic. The articles are written when something worth reading happened.