A bit early for this but yesterday was pretty big for the community.
Cover Corp fully released their own social media app, Holoplus yesterday, initially with zero moderation, which resulted in dozens of posts of porn of their talents' avatars, as well as posting the IRL identities of their talents, to the point where they had to shut down the creation of accounts for several hours just to clean it up, but supposedly this was the result of a brigade of anti-Hololive individuals as well as fans of other agencies such as Phase Connect, as some of the posts I personally saw were people posting pictures of talents of other agencies and saying this was their new oshi (industry term for favorite vtuber).
I think this was also Cover being naive because their subreddit is also basically unmoderated, and speaking of the subreddit here is a thread of them discussing the launch of Holoplus.
Also yesterday, Twitch Ambassador EvilToaster a 'non-binary, autistic PNGtuber', one of the main people pushing Twitch's new Drop In feature, which allows people to unpromptedly collab with others among other things (here is a FalseEyeD video where the first 5:46 is explaining the feature and its issues with vtubers, where among other things, the moment you click Knock, your camera automatically turns on if you gave your browser permission) was accused of sexual harassment by several other vtubers.
Original accusation tweet: https://x.com/ciernaVT/status/1826829230442795288
Original Google Doc of accusations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AkdUddk6Md1xsHaE6bSchp-ceBDZlRpB4CR2_dRkgGo/preview#heading=h.z52fwydlvudu
Archive of the Google Doc: http://web.archive.org/web/20240823045836/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AkdUddk6Md1xsHaE6bSchp-ceBDZlRpB4CR2_dRkgGo/preview#heading=h.z52fwydlvudu
4chan thread on /vt/ discussing the accusations: https://boards.4chan.org/vt/thread/83488645/eviltoaster-a-nonbinary-pngtuber-thats-well-known#p83496893
Reading this last night, in my opinion, this is partly a weird autistic person being awkward and weird, partly them being pushy as fuck, partly some of them giving conflicting signals and partly everyone involved just not being direct with one another.
I started watching some compilations of vtubers after talking with some of you guys previously. The compilations are top tier and honestly a pretty digestible version of the content, watching a stream seems impossible, especially for the JPtubers...and they seem to far and away be the most entertaining of them in my very limited experience.
The EN vtubers seem to just be less funny or entertaining but maybe I am just a giga weeb so I am biased against them.
I've only seen hololive stuff I know there are other groups and independent people and such but they seem to be the most popular for a very casual compilation viewer like myself.
Yeah clips of the JP vtubers are the best.
I got introduced to the Vtuber concept in general via subtitled clips of Inugami Korone in 2020.
Good lord, she's so adorable. As an actor myself, that is NOT easy to fake--and if it's not genuine, she could seriously pursue acting.
And yes, I know she had that cameo in a Yo-Kai Watch episode.
You can always tell when girls like that are lying or acting. They sound so much more stilted, just check them doing ad reads or promotional streams. Normally at most they speak with a bit more energy than they usually do, but that's to be expected when you're trying to entertain thousands of people.
Many of them are awkward or shy, which helps that they can use a virtual avatar instead of their actual faces.
In one of Korone's first collab streams, she talked about how nervous she was to be doing this. I can't find it anymore, but I remember the date was before the videos where I first found her.
ONE OF US, ONE OF US!
Dont like Fuwamoco?
They seem pretty funny/interesting in some clips I've caught. I watched a handful of other stuff and I just literally do not get who their audience is supposed to be, with the over the top cutesy/childlike behavior they show. But it does make for some pretty funny stuff sometimes, the spelling bee highlights definitely got me.
I'm surprised Phase fans would be involved given how many of the talents there look up to some of the talents at Hololive. Nijisanji I can easily see since a lot of the better talents have already left leaving more of the toxic ones to remain.
Other than that and Twitch being retards like usual, I'd say the quiet week thankfully especially after that suicide last week.
Phase community are shitposters. I fully believe they'd go into a hololive app and declare their love for non-hololive entities, just for the lolz and to see the reactions. The problem with lumping a disasterous launch all-together is the component parts aren't going to be the same. The porn-posters are likely actually holo gooners and /vt/-posters sincerely posting their favorite gooning material. The competitor-oshi posters are probably actually just oshi-posters shitposting. The past-life/forbidden-lore posters are likely a third, different group of trolls.
But then all three get blended and you get the headline of "Phase is attacking Cover!"
Yeah, I heard about that but didn’t post on it last week mostly because I didn’t have enough info, but FalseEyeD did a video on it so that’s good enough with me.
Hex Haywire’s graduation stream is today and Aqua’s is a few days after so I can’t wait for those, especially if they’ll start posting on their PLs.
...what suicide last week?
https://youtu.be/VDHKsVs1dKU?si=WGXf_sa6J4B0MfX_
Oh dear God...I had never heard of this Vtuber or the agency Re:Act, but that is a tragedy no matter how you look at it.
And those accusations she made before offing herself...man, if it's revealed that Motoaki "YAGOO" Tanigo is just as bad a person himself...well, I'll move on, but I have trust issues as it is, man!
I think this is why I dislike vtubers so much.
FalseEyeD video starts off with a bunch of people playing oppression olympics because of a poorly implemented Twitch feature. "We're way more oppressed than anybody else!" Fuck off with the manipulation bullshit. Just say that the feature should changed, don't act like you're personally targeted when it's not happening.
And then the fucking weekly twit-longer whining about somebody. It whines that he "psychoanalyzed somebody without consent." stfu. He didn't rape anybody. Shut up with the emotional manipulation. Then the proof is a Discord screenshot of him asking if somebody has ADHD. They both probably do. Don't try to destroy somebody's life over it, just move on.
Who has the mental energy to be around people who can summon an online outrage mob on a whim and are less mature than high schoolers?
Stick to the hololive vtubers. It's way less drama.
That's just the salt in the wounds for some trolling. Remember the early days of GG? We got blamed for some heinous shit by a 3rd party. It's the easiest addition. You've already trolled, why not get a 3rd party blamed and create more drama and drag a whole other community in too? It's a 2-for-1 for very little additional effort. So I don't believe that that's really phase fans, or any other corp unless they are nutso idol-brained. Only pippa herself is unhinged enough and she loves holo so wouldn't. Walmart yes, holo no.