Which is totally fine by me, I don't subscribe to a service or creator to get their pity/love back, I do it because I feel like they deserve it.
What I meant with my comment is that, you can't be surprised if a specific creator, being DPC or not, gets new subcribers even when they have not released anything recently.
People find out about VNs when they find out about them and in some cases, if they feel like it, they decide to reward these creators.
Personally I tend to subscribe to smaller creators, but that's old commie me.