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[Hotdogs Aplenty]

4chan hasn't even been down for a week and look at what has happened to this place.

 

[Planetary Bombardment]

This is terribly off-topic but since we're in a rush to hit page 1000 I'll indulge myself. Here's my favorite Bible verse:

2 Kings 2:23:25
And [Elisha] went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

As a Christian, I never saw this.
As an edgy pre-reddit insufferable redditor anti-theist, I liked it because of how absurd it was to kill children with bears.
As an atheist, I like this verse because I know it's just translation fuckery of the Hebrew naar and should be read in the same way one might read an article about youths beating an elderly woman to death during a carjacking.

In conclusion bears are awesome and Sena and Uruka and Charlotte should do a police bodycam collab.

 

[Zizara]

To change the context, if we just made the same two or three jokes about Chinese people on every single platform, on television and movies and books and everywhere else, and didn't joke about any other country or ethnicity, and did that for the last fifty or a hundred years, I'd say I was a bit bored of mocking the Chinese too. I don't think that's an amazingly hot or controversial take.

Yeah, like, imagine if we did that. Just took a joke about a particular ethnicity or group and kept running it into the ground for like, years past the point it was funny or people even remembered what the joke was. Imagine.

It's whatever. She can make her jokes, people can get pissy. She doesn't need to start a checklist of other religions she needs to mock before she's "allowed" to out of some retarded sense of hypocrisy though, she can just personally be mad at Christianity and made her edgy posts about them without caring about any other faith she has no history or care for.

 

[RestlessRain]

 

[Willemshaven]

If you're into hololive, you might've come across Thai Chinese fanartist Felutiahime's evolving ensemble fanart of all the holomems and staff members with official depictions from the girls' branches. (Unless it's from holoCN and Hitomi Chris.)


Felutia was recently credited with designing Shiori's outfit for her members-only Novelkinght video for March.


Well, she got into trouble.

Spoiler: How I became aware of Felutiahime

Felutiahime's name only came to my attention via this (now-deleted) post on r/hololive asking to donate to her and linked to a Tweet of hers. From what I can parse from the broken English and comments; Felutia's grandma had passed away from old age. (Note that Felutia is apparanlty actually referring to her grandma when talking in Thai.) Felutia got to inherit her mom's wealth, but likely due to inheritance dispute fuckery, the house had to be sold off so Felutia only gets her mom's car and empty land. She didn't have money left to settle in a new place because it was used up on medical treatment for her mom prior to her passing.
The fundraising goal Felutia set out got reached within hours [Felutia's Tweet]. It was a wholesome story that I didn't got to post here and I moved on. I came across this post of hers [Archive] with fanart of Fubuki, Miko, Mio, Subaru, and Suisei laying in the field. But then I read the comments and realized that Subaru is actually Felutia's avatar. The way she looks is similar to long-haired Subaru in the outfit that introduced it.

Spoiler: The drama

On March 28th [Archive], a severe earthquake hit Myanmar that was also felt in parts of Thailand. Felutia tweeted out that she got affected by the earthquake and had to abandon her home. Her friend's home also was affected, so she took refuge at a McDonald's. She posted some photos showing the damage of her house and posted her Ko-Fi to gain financial support for renting a hotel room.
Oh, the tweet with the photos is gone... Here's a screenshot of it. You can probably see where this is going.

It turns out that the photos were of the house belonging to a friend's private Facebook page. Around April 19th, said friend called out Felutia. Friends of said friend also called her out. According to this friend, Felutia PM'd him to ask for permission to use those photos. Here's someone else translating the conversation.

Spoiler: Image

Felutia made an excuse that her posting those photos was just a mistake due to being in the heat of the moment. There also was another tweet, but it has been deleted with no archives. She later made another tweet that implied that he was considering suicide before deactivating the account as well as her Facebook. Her Ko-Fi page was apparently left up but has been deleted by now.

It turns out that Felutia, who I will now refer to as "her" other online handle "Fate", had accumulated a shady history spanning over a decade. It just hasn't been this egregiously bad and isn't known outside of Thailand. Fate was posting on his Facebook whaling in Honkai Star Rail [Enka.Network link] and Gran Blue Fantasy during the time he was soliciting donations to rent a place following the earthquake. Most of the drama surrounding Fate came from the Facebook side.
It also turns the Felutiahime account is run by multiple people. The one doing the actual artwork is Putty, who was a well known artist in the Thai otaku circle decades ago. Within Thai circles, it was already known that Fate didn't do the actual art. Putty coming forward was apparently his first sighting in over a decade [Thai Facebook post, archive]. He said what happened to lead up to this situation, detailed how Felutiahime came together, and touches upon Fate's personal background, such as being non-binary male. Though he also tries to justify Fate's actions.

RoseThai Jimmy WeebShooter, who has been online friends with Fate for many years pre-hololive, came out informing international viewers about the situation [JP version]. He wasn't happy about Fate's dishonesty. He confirmed that Chonburi, Fate's actual place of residence, had no damage from the Myanmar earthquake. He also details what he knows about Fate's personal background. I will detail it here along with some information Putty said:

• Fate is from a well-off family that had a factory. With the wealth he did commissioned a bunch of artists, which is how he became friends with Putty.
• The COVID lockdowns drained financial resources and made the factory go out of business.
• An inheritance dispute caused a lot of delay to gain the family assets.
• Fate claimed that he had some form of cancer while also taking care of her elderly (grand)mother, who eventually passed away.
• To cover costs, Fate began selling off belongings. He also lost his job and turned to soliciting online donations.

A few hours later, Fate reactivated the Felutiahime Twitter account and made a post admitting to his wrongdoings. [More apology tweets: one, two, three, four,]
Fate stared to refund donations received following the earthquake. He made another tweet where he's sorry for pretending to be a girl despite being male but wants to still live as a girl... and everyone clapped in the comments (and the tweet hasengagement than the other recent tweets).

Time will tell if I will be revisiting Fate at some point when he gets caught red-handed again. Judging by this comment, it might be more likely than not.

Twinota said:
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I don't follow hololive or even vtubers in general, but I have been following this drama for the past couple of days both on facebook and twitter as a Thai person. I just want to give some tidbits I know about this whole situation, just remember to take it with a grain of salt since I can't provide source for most of it and its from just from me reading comments and/or observing.

• The Earthquake pics thing was the thing that really started off this whole mess (or rather, shed light on it, if I'm being honest?). Fate has been doing tons of shitty stuff before this whole incident happened, but using other people's pics to solicit donations was the straw that broke the camel's back since it was undeniably illegal.
• Said "Shitty stuff" includes attacking and bashing people who he/she doesnt agree with on facebook while acting nice on non-Thai platforms. Instigating and manipulating others to make then hate individuals Fate themself doesn't like. It was also said that they decline commision requests from Thais and only accept ones from foreigners, which was seen by the Thai community as looking down at their own people.
• Felutia has been a long-time artist, for decades. So some oldheads(not me) knew that Fate wasn't the one drawing, but for the new people, especially people who knew them via Hololive, they knew nothing about this fact.

-The first time I knew about Felutia was from an incident on the start of the year. Someone accused Them of not drawing their own LINE stickers, which they had drawn and sold around a decade ago, a very successful sticker set. Felutia(Fate) admitted that they had commissioned artists to draw those stickers, saying the reason that no credit was given was because they could only be one person registered as the creator and they were drawn by many people and whatnot, and ending with "yes, I didn't draw them, but then the later ones you see until this day was all my work"
Some more stuff and gossips about his spending, since I believe the only thing mentioned here is about their HSR account
-Fate was flexing their GBF pulls on their facebook a couple of days before this shit went down. (I don't know about GBF but from the comments I remembered it was clear to others that they whaled?). When the drama happened Fate justified that they won the lottery and that wasn't the money from donations/borrowing. Fate later provided proof on Twitter that they actually won a lottery, earning them 10000 in Thai Baht. (Just to put in perspective, the minimum monthly wage in thailand is around 9000-12000 THB)
-I saw comments saying that they also bought an RTX 5090 around the time it got released, costing six figures. (one million Thai Baht equivalates to around $30k USD )
-Unquestionably, Fate was very well-off. They were able to commission people many years ago, but covid, misfortunes (and Fate's own habit tbh) made their life a turn for the worse. I find it kinda ironic since the first drama I heard about them was for them being "rich but unresponsible/lacking honesty", but now the current one is about them being accused of being a begging criminal.
Finally, I do hope Fate really changes their ways, even though its gonna be hard considering everything that has happened, and hope they don't fall back to their old ways.

since I'm commenting here I guess why not just let out more of my thoughts lmao

Putty's either a ride or die true friend who just doesn't know that doing this won't make his friend a better person ,or is afraid on trying to go up against Fate, or is just tolerating Fate's behavior for some kind of gain for a decade lmao.

I don't know how the duo makes or splits money behind the scenes, but Putty has mostly been defending Fate, even admitted that he has helped Fate on lending money for gacha, and has been telling people that Fate isn't as irresponsible or shitty as everyone has seen for the most part.

Like, holy hell. I personably wouldn't even be able to stand someone claiming that my own art is drawn by them, let alone let them be my best friend, lend money to them to roll gacha , and keep seeing them cause drama after drama

Additional links:

• Discussion on r/VirtualYoutubers. [Update]
• Dedicated thread.
• Archive of discussion on r/hololive.
• Jimmy suspecting that more people run Felutiahime than currently admitted)

Note: The Tweets I've used are archived on Ghostarchive.

EDIT: This was posted about previously in the Twitter thread, but this goes into more in-depth.

 

[La+ de Central Norte]

Ruka got her full design revealed and Yes her artist its still the same as Chloe : Parsley

 

[Stunned But Dumb]

All vtubers and vtuber fans are going to Hell anyway. After all, Idolatry is a sin...

 

[Phantasm]

All vtubers and vtuber fans are going to Hell anyway. After all, Idolatry is a sin...

Don't worry me and the Lord are good like that

 

[lakyus]

More bad news for any americans with holo figures on order:

Goodsmile is halting all pre orders on its US site and delaying shipments into the US due to tariff fuckery. After shipments resume hey will also be giving people the choice to either pay the increased tariff fee or cancel their orders.

Spoiler: Notice in regards to U.S. Tariffs

We would like to inform you of important changes to pre-orders on our site.

Due to the rapid and ongoing shifts in international trade policy and the resulting uncertainty around U.S. tariffs, we have made the difficult decision to temporarily pause all new pre-orders on Goodsmileus.com. In addition, we will be delaying shipments of products entering the United States until further notice.

This decision was not made lightly. The unpredictable nature of the current tariff environment has created significant challenges in both cost and logistics, and we want to ensure that we can continue providing the level of service and transparency you expect from us.

If any of your existing pre-orders are delayed beyond their expected release timelines, we will contact you directly with more details and available options.

You may have noticed recent price adjustments on our site. These reflect the current tariff conditions. However, should the situation improve before your item is ready to ship, we will adjust your order to reflect a lower price accordingly.

As noted, we are temporarily holding off on outbound shipments for future pre-orders that have not yet arrived in the United States. Once this situation becomes more manageable, we will resume normal fulfillment. Should tariffs still be in effect at the time of shipment, and if a fee must be added to your order, we will provide ample notice — including the option to cancel should you prefer not to proceed. However, there is no action required at this time.

We truly appreciate your patience and understanding during this unpredictable time. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to our customer service team at help.goodsmileus.com.

Thank you for being part of the Good Smile community.

The Good Smile Company U.S. Team

Meanwhile, my Amiya Aranha keychain just shipped from the Netherlands. Feels good.

 

[Unseiso Dragon]

>MFW my country switches between Shinto, Buddhism, and Christianity depending on what consoomer event holiday needs to be shilled at the time of year


Anyways, friendly reminder that Memory will have her birthday countdown in less than 2 hours

 

[UberSoldat]

Onolumi plays Rainbow Six


Jorunna plays God of War

 

[ZerroDefex]

Yeah this bitch is just trolling. "Love thy neighbor" doesn't mean you're not allowed to call them out over shit. While we're at it "turn the other cheek" doesn't mean to let people walk all over you, in the correct historical context it means "I dare you to try that again and find out."

The best worst thing people can do to this dramawhore really is to put her on block and move along, don't take the bait.

 

[Phantasm]

Yeah this bitch is just trolling. "Love thy neighbor" doesn't mean you're not allowed to call them out over shit. While we're at it "turn the other cheek" doesn't mean to let people walk all over you, in the correct historical context it means "I dare you to try that again and find out."

The best worst thing people can do to this dramawhore really is to put her on block and move along, don't take the bait.

That's the response that convinced me she knew what she was doing one hundred percent. It's the standard playbook mock and belittle The Christians and when they get mad accuse them of not being Christlike it's this meme all over again and again. Like there are some comments being assholes to her but a lot of the ones she's responding to are of Christians trying to extend an Olive branch that she than shits on with snarky responses

 

[Superduper Samurai]

This trend of counter cultural Christian Vtubers is going to be interesting, if only to see which ones are geniune and which ones are larping and how/when will people find out
I miss Sister Abigail...

 

[Phantasm]

This trend of counter cultural Christian Vtubers is going to be interesting, if only to see which ones are geniune and which ones are larping and how/when will people find out
I miss Sister Abigail...

I've seen several Instagram reels of girls where its a before and after thing with girls who several years ago where alt/punk and then transitioned to removing the piercings and tattoos and going to church

 

[CalciumAnimal]

4chan hasn't even been down for a week and look at what has happened to this place.

improve slightly? can't have that,

 

[Ginkgo Balboa 🌾🗡]

You know, as much as I loathe Flork and his tourist bullshit, I can recognize he made the right choice firing her ass.

 

[Phantasm]

You know, as much as I loathe Flork and his tourist bullshit, I can recognize he made the right choice firing her ass.

Is it confirmed that he fired her because while I found it hilarious she gave off the impression that she couldn't wait to get out of there

 

[GOD'S STRONGEST BUILDERBEAR]

Where is that Proctor quote about Shiina feet when I need it

that was supposed to be a milestone? I got them for free half a year ago

Spoiler

 

[lakyus]