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
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.