Been a few weeks since I made one of these, but I went on vacation so I didn't get to do much, but here's the highlights:
Outside of the announcement of Minato Aqua's graduation from Hololive JP, Hex Haywire of Nijisanji EN's 7th wave, XSOLEIL is graduating on August 23rd. The reason that this is notable at all is because this is the generation that debuted Zaion LanZa, now Sayu Sincronisity, who was the first termination that sparked questions about Nijisanji's practices, leading up to the termination of Selen Tatsuki, now Dokibird. In addition, he has a fanbase that's quite parasocial because a large portion of his content is based around BFE (boyfriend effect) content, which lead to among many other incidents, a fan faking their suicide in order to get attention. Ex-Nijisanji talents have popped up in his stream chats such as Michi Mochievee and Matara Kan, so many people have speculated that the previous rules preventing Nijisanji talents from publically communicating to ex-Nijisanji talents have either been relaxed, or Anycolor no longer cares about the EN branch and aren't enforcing the rules.
Nijisanji is debuting a new Japanese wave, called Speciale. This will be their fourth new wave this year when taking into account all of their branches.
Dokibird and Mint Maid performed a concert at Anime Revolution this past weekend to a maxed out crowd who had a massive line beforehand, proving even further that Nijisanji/Anycolor fumbled the bag in the way that they handled Dokibird and Mint.
Over the past several weeks, a now suspended Twitter account by the name of Vintage_Fender has been falsely reporting VTubers and their clip channels on Twitter, Twitch and Youtube, and has 'successfully' managed to take down clippers for SkyLily and SquChan among others (can't find archive links so posting the tweets to see if people can find the archive links and/or screenshots), but the VTuber he managed to do the most damage to is TaigaHolic/Bungou Taiga, who has already had a stalker dox him and threaten to kill him, but now he's been deplatformed and has already made attempts on his own life due to this before, but 'dramatubers' such as Nux Taku have spread the lies pushed by Vintage Fender.
Keekihime, the IRL content account of Kiara Takanashi of Hololive EN's 1st wave, Myth is currently in Japan for Comiket and was grabbed by a stalker of hers who has allegedly been stalking her for over 12 years. Keekihime is currently 29, which would make her either 16 or 17 when the stalking began. Keekihime's story is a long one; she is born and raised in Austria, but decided around that time that she wanted to become a Japanese idol, and auditioned for the group Tone Jewel, which she got in and was a part of for only a year or so, as an 'anti' (the industry word for haters) pretended to be the owner of one of the venues that Tone Jewel performed at, the people at her label fell for it and she had her contract terminated, which meant her work visa was also terminated and she had to move back to Austria. Then before COVID, she applied for a 'Working Holiday Visa' which is only open to 25 countries not including the United States, but COVID happened right in the middle of that VISA's duration of 1 year and she was stuck in Japan for a very long time, during that time was when Hololive announced the auditions for what would be their first English wave. Out of desperation and the want to accomplish her dreams, she applied for Hololive and here we are today, three years later with millions of subscribers on Youtube. This stalker started following her around back when she used to stream on the Japanese site Nico Nico Douga (NicoNico or NND for short), confessed his love to her, and she posted pictures of him so that people would find him and know who he is.
The Japanese police and the people running Comiket (which I'm assuming are volunteers) both told her that they couldn't do anything about it and that she would need to go to the Austrian Embassy first, hence why she posted the pictures showing his face so that there's no question who this is.
Edit: I forgot to mention the entire reason she was at Comiket was to cosplay, and the specific outfit she was cosplaying as at the time of the incident was Asuka Langley Soryu from Neon Genesis Evangelion wearing a French Maid costume.
Edit 2: Another thing I forgot is what Comiket even is. Comiket is short for Comic Market, and is a convention that started out primarily for artists to sell doujinshi. Doujinshi is more than just hentai, the word itself is just fanfiction through the medium of manga, it just happens that the largest genre of doujin so happens to be porn.
Below will be links to Reddit threads which have links to more, because separating the links is a lot of copying and pasting.
TaigaHolic/Bungou Taiga situation: https://old.reddit.com/r/VirtualYoutubers/comments/1ehbbh1/deplatforming/
https://old.reddit.com/r/kurosanji/comments/1eoypx6/rev_says_desu_talking_about_bungou_taigas/
https://old.reddit.com/r/kurosanji/comments/1eiej2h/update_to_my_update_the_guy_whos_been_mass/
Nijisanji JP's new wave 'Speciale': https://old.reddit.com/r/kurosanji/comments/1er3k39/a_new_nijisanji_jp_wave_speciale_has_announced/
Keekihime stalking situation: https://old.reddit.com/r/kurosanji/comments/1eqbk5n/cake_princess_attacked_by_old_stalker/
Discussion about the above: https://old.reddit.com/r/kurosanji/comments/1equcl8/if_the_police_cant_keep_her_safe_then_we_should/
FalseEyeD video with the first two segments being a discussion about the issue and audio of the Twitter Space she did afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQXJrybs_-A
I got to play CWIME BAWBS (Crime Boss: Rockay City, a mediocre but kinda entertaining heist FPS) with Kirsche Verstahl this past weekend. Her "favorite" mission too.
The stalker shit is WILD considering I STILL remember Christina Grimmie because of a recent SunnyV2 video. Stalkers are no fucking joke and this one got close enough to kill her.
The worse part is because she's a gaijin, the police are barely gonna help, and because this is outside of her activities as Kiara, I doubt Cover's gonna up her security or anything, but at least this stalker is known, 4chan doxxed him the moment she put his picture out there.
Oh shit, I know just from Parrot4chan's videos how RABID 4chan are about vtubers, he's in for quite the ride..
https://x.com/Rick_Phoenix_
https://x.com/Mirror_Rick_
https://x.com/keekihimedesu/status/1044592493105483777
These are his twitter accounts and her posting about him stalking her in 2018. I do hope he's never been to Austria before, but apparently this is the first time he's done this ever since she became Kiara, so hopefully this amplifies things more.
Can somebody give me a quick rundown on this vtube thing? Starting to feel old.
At it's base level it's just people doing video content behind an animated avatar.
This particular post is the gayest subset of that, with parasocial weirdos, consoooome marketing suckers, and drama queens being drama queens.
To play devil's advocate, this is somewhat inevitable because of the way that Western media is going, people are going to turn to Eastern media, and vtubers as a whole started out in the East to begin with.
Thanks, so it is like the regular grifters, only drawn.
Vtubing is people using a digital avatar to talk through instead of showing their face typically.
Because it's a digital Avatar, people can make it look like anything like a monster girl, a robot, a gangster, a ghost etc but typically their designs tend to be attractive females/males
Not sure I get the appeal, but thanks anyway.
Weirdo dudes and girls do twitch/youtube/tiktok/etc content using anime girls as their avatars ("rigs"?) and voice changers. Content ranges from cooking streams to karaoke to commentary to twitch game streaming, etc.
It's weird shit, I don't get it.
The important part is that Hector Martin, programmer of Asahi Linux (Linux for Apple computers), turbo-autist, tranny chaser, and possibly trans himself, does vtube streaming as "Asahi Lina." Watching a fat, middle-aged, autistic, balding, Mexican programmer code for the Linux kernel while acting like a giggling anime teenager ("teehee") is my idea of A+ content.
Here's Hector singing a duet with xerself/"Asahi Lina"
https://uploads.kiwifarms.st/data/video/5328/5328174-3b0c055876fcd3f38d53a3abd3d157d8.mp4
My gift to autists everywhere: You're weird and socially awkward because you're autistic, not because you're a woman. Transing yourself won't give you the social life of a teenage girl in an anime, it will give you the social life of an autistic man who frightens children because he now looks like an AI image generation accident.
That’s really the answer. There’s almost 100% likelihood they’d have lumped me into high functioning autism if it was a popular thing when I was a kid. I fit like a perfectly to both that and undiscovered adult autism.
I never moved on and felt like an happy until I got your point in my head. All I had to do was move on, accept there are times I’d never fit in, and not worry about it. After a few years it was night and day. The answer wasn’t dick surgery it was ignoring everyone else feeling the need to solve me.
As a stealth autist until adulthood myself, I am glad you felt "an happy" rather than "an hero", and I agree with accepting who you are rather than pretending to be something you are not is the best way to live.
Ah shit, I shouldn’t type on a touchscreen. I do that a lot when not on a PC.
Lol No worries.
Like 90% of the vtuber girls I've seen are hot as fuck they're just mentally ill low self esteem idiots. Not really weird just pathetic
Do you actually see them or just their avatars? I thought they were forbidden from revealing themselves.
No, only corporate VTubers are forbidden from saying publically that they are said VTubers, but two things:
The way Youtube's algorithm works is that it includes the metadata of the videos themselves, ala if a corporate VTuber uses the same computer for both her VTuber channel and her non-corpo channel, the algorithm will occasionally recommend the non-corpo account. That's what happened with a lot of people.
The other thing is that voices are very recognizable, which is why for example it was very easy to tell that IryS of Hololive was Namirin as an example, who has one of the most viewed cover songs of all time on her channel.
But having seen multiple VTuber's IRL accounts, he's right, the majority of vtubers who have IRL accounts are very attractive, they chose vtubing either for the sake of security, the low self esteem bit, or just because they like anime a ton. Kson, formerly Coco Kiryu of Hololive has said the reason she ended up as Coco was because she wanted to be able to stream without doing her makeup first, and she's hot as fuck, to the point where she went to audition for a cameo in the latest Yakuza and got in over several models and JAV actresses.
The non-corporate ones are pretty loose about their identity, and a lot of the corporate ones have gotten "discovered" and its just discouraged from being talked about.
And the majority of the time its in fact just a very autistic shutin girl that would be very attractive if she wasn't in fact an autist shutin with all the dirty and awkward that brings.
Its just e-girls for a new generation.
Fair enough. My genX sensibilities don't understand the vtubers, and most of what I've seen has been the Hector Martin/Asahi Lina variety of vtuber.
"It's weird shit, I don't get it."
"Watching a fat, middle-aged, autistic, balding, Mexican programmer code for the Linux kernel while acting like a giggling anime teenager ("teehee") is my idea of A+ content."
I also don't get it, but to each their own.
everyone has given you the surface level stuff
The missing part is the 'idol culture' shit. Yes it is on the surface just people with an animated avatar rather than showing their face. And for some that's all it is. Just a normal gaming or reaction streamer but with an animated picture. We grew up on png-tubers doing that, fairly static pictures that would maybe light up or have a few expressions. Just take that and make it more animated.
But a lot of it came out of japan. There's a lot of 'idol culture' bullshit that suffuses a lot of vtubing as well. From constant drama about a couple of 'black companies', parasocial behaviour, and just general weebery.
And that is what vtubing is. Take the old anonymous youtubing with pngs, now it's better animated, but for most of it (not all, but a lot) add a load of 'idol culture'
Thanks for the added detail, can't say it feels like I have missed out on anything as an old fart.
The others have told you what vtubing is. Here is where the technology behind it is going:
https://rumble.com/v1bo6ib-simon-cowell-sings-on-stage-metaphysic-will-leave-you-speechless-agt-2022.html
Other demonstrations of this technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QA_mfhLvq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr8yEgu7sHU
After seeing that, I question whether or not the person who recently gave an address from the Oval Office was actually Joe Biden:
https://communities.win/c/TheDonald/p/17tebsn0lU/live-biden-address-to-the-nation/c
There appears to be several Bidens, including the really tall one.
"If you don't like that, vote for the other Biden!"
What difference is this between a host, haha
Still are they all not operating on the parasocial by default?
BFE: Men taking advantage of women, which is bad.
GFE: Women taking advantage of men, which is good.
(* according to clown world, obviously)
Ehh, it depends on your definition of parasocial, because there's a difference for just being a fan of someone versus the talent actively baiting the audience into considering themselves in a pseudo-relationship with you, which a lot of Hex's content is the latter, hence why I mentioned the fake suicide to make my point.
I appreciate the updates, I suspect that we have some of the "Matt Walsh" types that think the vtubing industry should be ignored on this forum but with 30+ upvotes for your thread, I think people understand the significance.
VTubers are already mainstream in Japan, with cameos on various TV shows, appearances on the Japanese equivalent of Good Morning America/The Today Show/etc, promotions with Japanese 7-Elevens, and I can keep going on, but I think it's inevitable for the industry to go mainstream in the west, which is what Motoaki Tanigo (Yagoo) wants. There's no point in the Dodgers night otherwise.
Are there any videos of the stalker incident? And isn't IRL Kiara a turbo-misandrist?
The FalseEyeD video linked in the post has screenshots of the pictures + a video of the perp and his Twitter accounts, but AFAIK she isn't, or at least I haven't seen evidence that she is but I am open to seeing any supposed evidence.
I'm not into that scene, sometimes they come up in youtube recommendations for my background noise, but her voice is absolutely insufferable so I don't even use her videos for that. I'm basing it on literally one reddit comment I read in an unrelated thread, where the poster said that during covid in Japan she was roped under false pretenses into a show which turned up to be men beating women (?) and that cemented her already existing antipathy into hatred (?) I'm just here for the drama, truth be told.