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 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.