>>63734/vip/ has grown since October from 10-12 normal lurkers to about 50-60 ones. For a relatively small and slow board whose novelty is essentially a classy form of shit-posting, this is actually impressive.
However /vip/ will continue to be "le worthless board" to most of 4chan because of its small size and small userbase, at least until those planned upcoming features get implemented.
In the early days of /vip/ there were attempts to outreach to other boards that got quashed pretty dang quickly, so that's why its a bit isolationist; for regular fags the board is too slow to get a giggle from shitposting, as most of the threads don't populate until days later.
It's a slow and small board, and its why it is one of the best, even if its in a little corner all by itself.