TL;DR AT BOTTOM.
Haven't seen anyone talking about this absolutely pointless bit of internet drama yet, and it's been a few days now. It's some of the most retarded drama ever, so I thought people might get a kick out of it.
It also serves some valuable lessons. Lessons we all know already, so it's preaching to the choir, but it still really illustrates how you NEVER BOW TO THE MOB. This person I'm about to talk about canceled themselves. If they'd just ignored the retards instead of crashing out, everything would have been fine. This was some of the most brutal one-guying I've seen.
Anyway, there's a VTuber named Zentraya. There are some issues with her too, but I'll save that for the end, as I want to focus on the current drama first. Zen debuted a new model, which probably cost her $15k or more. It looks amazing, and the technical aspects are crazy good. An example of the new model here. If you want to see all the toggles and stuff, here's the actual debut clip.
Well, like two freaks on Twitter - pronouns in bio and stuff - kicked up a storm saying she was "Nazi-baiting" and "fascist coded" and stuff. It's basic anime military, Azur Lane, military commander stuff. It's also a remake of an older model of hers. Plenty of VTubers have military-themed models, and some even use Nazi models. Zen is big, though, and has caved to leftists in the past, so the tourists saw an easy mark. And were right.
Zen crashes out. First mistake was addressing the issue, but then it gets so much worse. She at least stands up for herself at first, calls her haters "snowflakes" and "woke." Which would be fine, if she could stand by it. But she can't, the rest of the cotton candy brigade (I love this term for the trannies, saw it recently and need to use it more) and other alphabet people start piling on, doing the classic "bad look" thing. Zen apologizes for her "language"...and it's all fucking over from there.
She apologized, but then they're still piling on of course, so she's also lashing out in response at them. But also caving, saying it's too much drama. Claims she's getting rid of the model. Again, we're talking more money than most people have in savings. And she claims - I say claim because she's been less than consistent - she's scrapping it.
It's ridiculously pointless. Everyone but a few freaks had her back. All the biggest VTubers who dared to touch the issue are on Zen's side. All the comments are on Zen's side. A bunch of VTubers - big and small - are donning officer caps and uniforms. If this isn't all an attention farming op, this is one of the worst cases of getting one-guy'd I've ever fucking seen. It's a small group of people trying to farm Zen for Virtue Points, while everyone else is just like "badass model." All her fans thought it was really cool. Again, if this isn't an op, it's absolute weak bullshit, and really, really, really poor mental.
All the haters got blown out over and over, most deactivated replies, and most fled to Bluesky. And Zen is still somehow losing to them. Self-inflicted wound.
Here's some more of her crashing out. And, again, she goes back and forth.
You are one of the reasons why this is still going you fucking shit head when I already said the models being changed or scrapped, or are you incapable of reading anything above a 1st grade level you illiterate fuck
The only mistake I made was apologizing apparently because holy shit what was the point.
Anyway, brutal fucking one-guying. You can see why I call it the dumbest drama ever. There was no reason to pay any attention to the tiny amount of haters in the first place.
Lastly, I did say I'd address Zen's past failings. It's not the main focus, but I know people will want to know. Firstly, yeah, "Zen" is almost certainly piloted by a dude, as I understand. Personally I don't care. That's just good business, and the tech aspects are really cool, like the TTS (Speech-to-Text-to-Speech, technically) is an interesting effect. But, yeah, that's probably a dude farming the internet. Which makes the weak crash out even worse, though.
More relevant, though, is that Zen has shown shitlib signs in the past. People change, and 2020 was a weird time, but she made some tweets about BLM and St. Floyd because, something like, "some things you just need to talk about, even if you're apolitical." So, yeah, it makes perfect sense why this is happening.
We'll see how it all shakes out, and if the model is really scrapped or not. The funniest outcome would be a huge shift to the right out of frustrating. Not the likeliest, but people do change, and drastically.
TL;DR: Big VTuber Zentraya got a new military-themed model, a tiny number of freaks lost their minds and called her a Nazi before getting ratiod and fleeing to Bluesky, Zen lashed out, then apologized, even though everyone but the haters backed Zen, and now the model may get scrapped. Thousands of dollars down the drain because of weak mental and inability to handle the internet. One-guy world championship candidate.
Jan 6. "This isn't political! All the guns and racism in our CAPITAL!"
When I learned about this post, I stopped following. You can't claim "apolitical" then immediately regurgitate partisan lies.
Yup. Zen was never one of the ones I watched, but I like to keep track of the cancel culture nonsense, so I care about the current drama.
I will say, people change. I know Floyd cultists who are based now. It sounds like a lame excuse but, honestly, 2020 fucked with a lot of people. Generally weak people, but the fact remains. 2020 was just such a fucking anomaly it's hard to quantify.
I'll just wait and see what happens here. If Zen actually caves and scraps the model, I have zero respect for them. I'd still feel bad, as it wasn't deserved...but this was self-inflicted.
Ewww. There's an old W.C. Fields quote, "It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to that matters."
If your not a NAZI why accept the premise you are from some faggot on the internet?
Did you already forget Charlie Kirk? "Nazi" is what they call you when they want to kill you. They don't care if you answer to it or not.
Yeah. Like I said, the real problem here is pathetically weak mental.
Again, unless she's actually farming attention and going to do the "far right pivot grift" the haters are accusing her of. Which would be hilarious.
You forget how PERSISTENT the shitlib side are in their virtue signalling, plus wouldn't surprise me if they tried to dox her.
This comes right off the heels of Ironmouse being banned from her own subreddit by a power drunk mod but this Zen one is EVEN stupider.
Let's just get elephant out of the room, military asthetic in general usually has an appeal but so long as you are White or drawn White in this case, you wear anything in black and the shitlibs will cry Nazi. I hope for Zen's sake she just listens to her less give a shit friends, keeps the outfit and learns to ignore the Bluesky trolls since they have a WORSE predator problem than Roblox.
Ah, Reddit. Retarded as ever.
VTubing is also from anime, and anime loves the military aesthetic. Like I said, this is basically an Azur Lane skin. It's Esdeath. It's so many things before it's anything close to Nazi.
If the Nazis looked like this, WW2 would have gone VERY differently.
As shown by how many people are waiting for our 'evil' little blonde haired girl next season lol
"War is an inefficient, and therefore evil, act. It doesn't take the Chicago School Of Business to see that."
It's kinda funny. If Tanya weren't so based, she'd be a trans icon darling like Ranma (despite neither of them being trans, just body-swapped).
Zen was a couple that used texto-to-speech, apparently the girl is gone now
Zentreya was always a guy, but I would not be surprised if a past girlfriend was involved too.
I think he used her once to "prove" it was a girl behind the avatar with a like 10 seconds voice recording saying as much.
That's what he's get for hiding behind the tts, he gave the impression there's no real person behind the model, nobody cares enough to defend him other than couple lines on Twitter when he can't even speak to plea on a personal/emotional level like a girl
Zen was the only one of V.S. to publicly apologize to Nux. The only one to own up to its own fuckup on a fairly massive corporate scale, fueled by the corporate bugmen. Had more done so, perhaps they would have found the rot decaying their company from within much earlier, and either fixed it, or jumped ship before the whole yacht sunk. Zen is clearly more aware and observant than the rest of them, but just not quite observant enough yet.
Some L takes, for sure, but I did enjoy the crashout "While I'm making thousands, you content farm just to get one measly like on your tweet".
Perhaps, but I think it is more an issue of overly trying to please everyone.
Case in point, I saw that, and the follow up was "for charity, of course!" To be fair, Zen is literally doing charity right now, but still. Just way too scared of being "controversial," when the bowing and scraping is just destroying them mentally.
Zen is obviously a dude. And thus is the only one not allergic to the concept of accountability.
Although this latest petty drama proves that doesn't mean he's necessarily good at it either.
Vtubers have earned the shitlib problematizing fuckwit audience they have.
I really thought I was going to come in to read some Zendaya Nazi drama to bring to work for the funnies.
Now I've disappointed myself for the far less useful vtuber knowledge.
Apologies.
Thanks for the tldr since this is all Greek to me. Less people are capitulating to the demons than before, which is great, but we all really need to continue to promote the idea of not capitulating. As with all communist systems (which unsurprisingly echo the sentiment that one needs to willingly invite demons/vampires inside before they can attack you), everything stops when people refuse to play along. Things improve with rope, but that's a conversation for later down the line.
Gecko Zen was funnier.