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Zatsus are most of the way to a podcast, and podcasts are almost universally crap. There is a reason i prefer vods to live, so i can skip the blathering.
Some people are genuinely good at being interesting talkers. One of Gura's big strengths is being able to natter on about random things in a way that's good for both engaged listening and background noise.
 

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Good to know. If you trademark yourself as your own brand/corpo can't you do the same and complete the verification with your Vtuber brand? Pretty sure thats what I did with Paypal to avoid doxing myself.
I guess these workarounds would depend on where you're based, especially since they want documents to prove it, rather than PayPal where (in the UK at least) you just tell them your business's name and they take your word for it. In the UK setting up a limited company for your online work would expose your legal name and address, as people could look up your company name on the Companies House website.
 

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The Virtual Asylum Thread Recap
Pages 3050-3100

Other Recap parts can be found [HERE]

Ᵽ PHC: Phase Connect
♨ FVR: FlaVR
▷ HLO: Hololive
☆ HST: Holostars
◷ NIJ: Nijisanji
₪ IDL: Idol Corp
Ⓥ VSJ: VShojo
ⓘ INF: Highly informative


Pochi Calls Out Idol Corp thread
post | ₪ IDL | Reminder - Fen @fenriruvt (Pochi's PL account) was vagueposting, seems like trouble. Refunds are mentioned
post | Later - Graduation - Pochi Wanmaru. Idol stated they came to a mutual agreement

***


post | Report - Saxy (@SaxyForArt) does in fact promote Skeb artists with REALLY affordable rates


post | ▷ HLO | Big Prism/Vee Among Us collab. Also Keekihime Dearsqn photo discussion continues
post | Question - Where's the Naomi appellation come from again?
post | Dearsqn is self conscious about her thighs


post | Kaheru is back, plays Genshin Impact

post | Giri talking about her vacation in Okinawa


Project F Disintegration Watch thread
post | About Rima & Lorelai Project F stream. Info about lawyer incompetence


post | Recommendation - suiyo, JP EN singer on Twitch

post | Recommendation - Pona karaoke

post | ▷ HLO | Kiara accidentally soft-doxxes Utano Pandora/GX Aura
post | Question - Which hololive girl has the highest percentage of female viewers?
post | Ᵽ PHC | About female audience in Phase



Tora Karu thread features Akka Rui attempting to cancel Smunch thread
post | Akka Rui attempts to call out Smoosh/Smunch, fails horribly
post | She was 19, and pedo accussations are based on a loli dakimakura
post | She also retweeted the Pippa AI callout

post | Akka Rui is not getting a response she was hoping for
post | Smunch responds. Kung Fu Man retweets him
post | Question - Who was on the daki?

post | Fontina by Nyamoriri, apparently
post | Looks a lot like Smoosh's own vtuber avatar
post | Proctor with a stream on topic

post | Akka Rui tweets got community noted
post | She doubles down
post | Akka Rui deleted her Twitter account, Smunch deleted his response

***




post | Clip - Superchirami calls Proctor a weirdo

post | ₪ IDL | Aviel's talking about their "expense coverage" and some changes to it, teases bigger budget for talents



Runie roommate info
post | Ᵽ PHC | Alleged Runie PL photos, cosplay of Buggy the Clown
post | Re-upload
post | Alleged TV show she was part of revealed as a puzzle

post | Looks like Sarah Beth Steagall, forensic scientist
post | TV show is a Big Brother
post | Voice comparison videos

post | Her Instagram
post | Her Facebook
post | Her wikifeet page

post | Other Instagram accounts, idol Calina. Also a photo from her Depop shop
post | Info from /cgl/, idol group "Mosuri". Vtuber Linya, name Sarah Beth. Also potential identity for the leaker @ram, stalker?
post | Sarah worked with law enforcement

post | Her linktree
post | Links were dumped on /pcg/

***



post | Lisa with some announcement
post | She is not graduating
post | Lisa's going to be taking a break to rest and do some vocal therapy
post | Notes on the announcement stream


post | ₪ IDL | Rin is alive


post | V4mirai has revealed the name and logo of their 3rd gen

post | ☆ HST | Liminal Lark is hanging out with Tempus boys' PLs


post | Ᵽ PHC | Reviews for Pippa's feet
post | Merch collab, Phase & luwud
post | Sakana fucked up by leaking the merch



post | ▷ HLO | Fauna's Birthday stream
post | Merch is good
post | Towa got a coach to help her for Botan's SF6 tournament, Tachikawa
post | Official translation of Billboard Japan's interview with Bae about her album, ZODIAC
post | Marina got over 3 MLN subs

post | Bijou climbing game stream was botted
post | Info on botting
post | Apparently he's botted all of Advent and a few NijiEN

post | Kiara to meet some Niji girls
post | More info about it, also other notes from her members stream
post | Later - It was Enna
post | Keeki shows loose socks and shoes, later posts someone joining her with the same footwear

post | Nyaru is drawing emotes for 2.0

post | Reticule got banned and Schizobot returns. Coincidence?!

post | Recommendation - Hiyori and Meimi doing tier lists


post | ☆ HST | Axel's new outfit reveal stream
post | Interesting mozaic censorship there
post | Screenshots


post | Mavia got an update on Yugoslavia

post | ⓘ INF | Recommendation - Morino Kodoku, the vtuber with actual schizophrenia is back from a short stay at the hospital


post | ▷ HLO | Suisei Anniversary 3D Live
post | Announcements

post | Watame's new outfit reveal
post | Screenshots

post | Looks like Ollie's PL is teaching English
post | Moona plays Stronghold Crusader 2
post | HoloH3ro plans for their anniversary week
post | Lamy health updates


post | Pochi sensei stream

post | Ᵽ PHC | Muyu with 9MM x Loli Shigure Ui cover


post | A massive indie and small corpo vtubers collab, Fall Guys
post | Milky is fluent in Spanish apparently


post | Recommendation - Nako Ryu on Twitch

post | Shxtou Quinn collab


post | Namie on the joy of being an (art) mom
post | About her 3-part interview on Pixiv's Youtube channel


post | New vtuber Hibasa Akari, JP

post | Ⓥ VSJ | Kuro is planning a stream on YouTube

post | V4Mirai's manager is having a Q&A twitter space

post | Sena with MRE tasting stream

post | ♨ FVR | Clip - Nyana clipped Cody's Legal Mindset talk about Nyanas of FLaVR


post | Ⓥ VSJ | ▷ HLO | Ironmouse's Speak of the devil with Nerissa
post | Shiori with Lord of the Rings watchalong
post | Aura teached Kiara how to be British

post | Kronii, Bae, Okayu are really sick
post | Mori Calliope joins JP VAs for Suicide Squad Isekai on stage of Warner Bros Anime Japan promo event
post | Screenshot


post | Brown Woman Update


post | Dokibird vtubing advice stream
post | The most important takeaway here


post | Recommendation - Tomomi (ex Woozie), playing God Hand

post | Alien Mixture (ex Amano Serafi) Karaoke

post | Zhuni Excel's anniversary Karaoke with an announcement later



Rosemi 3D reveal
post | ◷ NIJ | Rosemi 3D debut
post | Message from Harada
post | Recommendation from Calm Lurker

post | Sony Music blocked the VOD
post | List of Rosemi misfortunes

***


post | Ᵽ PHC | Sayu, Airi, Clio, Renniesaurus with a hag collab
post | Unrelated - Seems like kanpainiki were misbehaving in Tenma's chat. Also Clara was not aware how long the membership review process takes
post | Nevermind, membership open
post | Membership perks


post | ▷ HLO | Question - Is Anya actually gonna sign something sometime or is she a legit Cover made AI?
post | Mori Calliope holds a civilized discussion with an in-game white supremacist
post | Kaela wants to rest, management agrees

post | Life-size papercraft model of Gura is complete, new plans of Rays PaperCraft and Tech Stuff (@GenBumbleBee on YouTube)
post | Guutara's journey to Chiba
post | About caning as a punishment in the one Sharia law city of Indonesia. Also about YouTube demonetizing Aki for ASMR
post | More about Indonesia, moderate/tolerable islamic teaching (excluding Aceh)


post | Mikeneko with a lottery stream

post | Archive - Meimi Majokko - 【Unarchived Karaoke】 Speedrunning DMCA - Request OK

post | Neoporte's 1st gen 3D debuts got delayed

post | 774inc's Amaui 3D showcase, Hinata Mashu will have hers later

post | Recommendation - Babutaro (@babuch.7133 on YouTube, ex. Gibara), playing Elden Ring



post | Ant-hime beefs with Parrot4chan, provides his leaked mod chat
post | Archives
post | Apparently person behind BannedVTMemes is Chilean
post | Ant-hime's Froot crusade started from Varis forum, allegedly



post | ☆ HST | Archive - Gavis Bettel - [UNARCHIVED KARAOKE] RETURN KARAOKE!


post | Ᵽ PHC | Panko with Twitch meta of greenscreen shenanigans
post | Tenma shows Jelly how it is done


vReverie Implosion Watch thread
post | Nova from VReverie is debuting a new outfit
post | Graduation - Rana Ianna from VReverie
post | Resurrection - Rana is redebuting under her PL, Amaya Whisper

post | Nova is going to be solo talent after the upcoming Akiko graduation
post | Graduation - Akiko Sushi

***



post | Globie's Reina with an announcement

post | Bao is attending the VeXpo

post | V4Mirai's Abi has another real-life clip


post | Fat people have discovered Bao and her inflation toggle
post | Futakuchi Mana puts it into the perspective


post | Recommendation - Monoh Behavior on YouTube, creates tutorial videos for Unity

post | Charlotte postpones her stream, allergies


post | ▷ HLO | Ina plays Balatro, earlier io made a post on the game
post | Haachama is up to something again
post | There is a countdown
post | Seems like pfp was a missclick


post | Update - WhimZ (@whimsiez) claims to be extorted and blackmailed, stops streaming for some time. "My personal information has ended up on the dark web".

post | Spectra from V&U pushes the tech boundaries of her new PC


post | Ᵽ PHC | Memory and Phase JP got a new clipper, Kannad
post | animal friend part II have a longer clip of the moment
post | Mold is spreading, Uruka needs help
post | Nasa hand cam stream


post | Recommendation - Rezuul on Twitch

post | Lisa reports on her day 1 of hiatus - "I can't do it"


post | Hexa learns about tax deductible commissions
post | Hexa is playing The Witness, claims her autism makes her good at puzzles


post | Debut - YanchaGoGo, the third member of Digital DropOuts (Megu's VTuber group)
post | Live reactions follow, Manananggal is a mythical creature in the Philippines, capable of severing its upper torso with its intestines trailing out. Rad!
SEA mythological creature discussion follows
post | Apparently she has a history with Sleepy and Megu


post | ◷ NIJ | Scarle is getting her 3.0 brush up

post | Hinabobina is sick

post | Tetel stream notes

post | ₪ IDL | Coni posts feet

post | ▷ HLO | ◷ NIJ | The Baseball tournament, Neoporte vs Indie, Niji vs Holo. Also a set of interviews with former Niji talents COO Iwanaga and Dokugai Chinami
post | Website with the brackets info


AkioAIR company thread
post | AkioAir is closing down and selling assets. "Unresolved disputes" were also mentioned


post | BunhongTokki claims to be 15 years old

post | Lucid's teasing vtubers

post | ▷ HLO | Notes from Kronii's stream
post | Holocars by ToastyBun, template by itsuyo (@itsuyoooo)
post | ReGloss celebrated their half-year anniversary

post | Naomi (dearsqn, ex Pomu) met Kanauru, also met Ally & Sally
post | Twins posted the photo
post | Reminder - 100% white

post | Mikeneko got Pekora t-shirt
post | She got it from a fan
post | 佐藤希 (@masimasi0) (Not-Matsuri) shows a baby bottle


post | Clip - Geega explains why most vtubers open their streams with zatsus - a lot of audience is there for zatsu part. Discussion on audience and content follows
post | Ᵽ PHC | Clip - Clara membership stream. The discussion moves to engagement

post | Patra finally finished FF7, notes from the stream


post | Clip - Krimbo justifying doxing Stonetoss, feat Proctor in the background
post | Krimbo draws loli art
post | Question - Wasnt this dude one of Marina orbiters?
post | Yep, was attacking Taiga. Also Taiga is having a hard time


post | ₪ IDL | Clip - Rin about her dad
post | Idol is looking for talent managers


post | Bagman on the importance of networking


post | ⓘ INF | PSA - Google Ads will be mandating all advertisers to verify their legal identity, which will be publicly disclosed


post | Recommendation - Chinchilla girl Natsumi Hanamori

post | ☆ HST | Tactical Elysium fan group is working on a Tempus SRPG fangame

post | Bao & Maxor collab, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes


post | Possible reincarnation - Momo Nanchara (@momonanchara), Japanese dog girl who wants to learn English. Beatani?
post | Momo is a character Beatani created with chat then made a model and rigged on stream
post | Future info - Looks like it was just some gay ops


post | Ᵽ PHC | Pippa is looking for artists for phone wallpaper collabs, Clara's artwork for Happy Easter is free to download

post | ▷ HLO | Ame is back



DM me about mistakes, missing info, with general feedback
 
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Beatani Chisato


Thanks. Curious though, why new persona? (if it's her)
Oh wait.
>She designed and rigged her Live 2D model herself
and never made proper backups i guess like most people and pipple, that would explain things
 

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I think it is a false flag operation
Yeah audio in twitter clip is really shitty and not enough words in general, can't really tell if voice is the same.
For now i'm only interested in evolution of bilingual streaming after PikaHenya's trailblazing.
 

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THEY WERE STILL AROUND?

I find it very funny they went through all that shit to hire a minor, got blown up over it, and the minor has since gone and quit vtubing anyway. They died for literally nothing. Masterful showing, 10/10. Nijisanji needs to take notes on how to die this hard.

Sometimes i find it hard to believe they're supposed to be 100% white (dont tell Uki)
Huh, i swear i read they were Swedish/Canadian at some point
Edit: apparently 100% white, i was right

I certainly don't believe it, I think there's some lies of omission being made if they're saying like "Oh yeah our parents/grandparents are from Canada/Sweden" but leaving out the fact they're swedish/canadian born half-asian or something. Either that or they don't know the whole picture of their genealogy. "Canadian" in particular doesn't really have any kind of inferred racial heritage baseline to it given the melting pot history of the country unle-

... :pochiidontlikeit: Are they part First Nations and they're handwaving it as Canadian? That might explain their vaguely asian features without identifiable asian ancestry, and they just literally lucked into a genetic blend that looks like that.

She's scared of showing her face but she had zero problems showing her full naked body to randos on the internet hue

Yes, congratulations, concern over possibly confirming it was her that posted underaged nudes of herself could indeed be why she's worried about posting face now that she's no longer an idiot child and instead just a normal idiot.

Must be a surreal experience to have all that freedom and happiness after being held down for so long in a black company. Hope she does return to streaming, but only if/when she chooses to. Until then, love seeing all these Twitter vids of her geeking out and enjoying herself.

I too hope that she comes back to streaming at some point, but like with all these dumb girls in this industry, I want them to do whatever makes them happiest, and if that means we get another year or two of goofposting before she just moves on and ghosts her current accounts to disappear back into the world then it is what it is and I hope she continues to be happy with whatever she goes onto next.

Idol wants talent managers


Question for Aviel: Do I get to fuck my charge, or did you just retire that benefit after Tomar or whatever his name is, despite having grandfathered it into your structure by hiring your girlfriend?

This clips kinda proves my point of interacting with fan content

I don't know if Clara knows how to play the game but she's on track to be one the top girls when it comes to ccv and I think a part of it is her willingness to get in the trenches and have fun with her fans. If you follow her on twitter, once a day she will be retweeting clips, fan art, memes and shitposts. She also makes sure to drop a comment on her clips. It's early to tell but the girl has 3 dedicated clippers already when shiina, lia and uruka might get a clip once in a while and they're top talents.
Don't suck their cock, just show that you care. :kaelaapprob:


The ability to interact with viewers more directly is why I think the groomcord unironically can be a positive thing. Being able to talk shit directly with your indie oshi(s) and participate in random off-the-cuff shit they decide to do is how you can cultivate some very dedicated fans. So long as they keep their shit together, don't actually get groomed (unless they want to), direct fan interaction is the key to building a loyal following and giving good optics on how engaging you are. It's not an experience your average corpo can give you, it's a unique thing that only independents can reliably get away with.

Just have to deal with the 80% of the rest of the faggotry in the groomcord. The concept has potential, but the execution is lacking.
 

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Here's an interesting couple of posts that deserves to make it outside of the Pippa thread:





This is a pretty cool way for Pippa to get people interested in other Phase Connect talents and give some small rewards to her fans as well. Good job, Pippa.
 

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This clips kinda proves my point of interacting with fan content

I don't know if Clara knows how to play the game but she's on track to be one the top girls when it comes to ccv and I think a part of it is her willingness to get in the trenches and have fun with her fans. If you follow her on twitter, once a day she will be retweeting clips, fan art, memes and shitposts. She also makes sure to drop a comment on her clips. It's early to tell but the girl has 3 dedicated clippers already when shiina, lia and uruka might get a clip once in a while and they're top talents.
Don't suck their cock, just show that you care. :kaelaapprob:

Yeah she's great she's commented on all but one of my clips that have her and she has retweeted me every time too. I'm gonna be clipping "KA-Ching Up" as they come out so I bet I'll see a lot of growth just from her retweeting me tho I do find Airi lurking in contrast adorable she says she watches all her clips but she rarely comments
 

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Here's an interesting couple of posts that deserves to make it outside of the Pippa thread:





This is a pretty cool way for Pippa to get people interested in other Phase Connect talents and give some small rewards to her fans as well. Good job, Pippa.

Honestly this has been one of the more creative things a vtuber has offered, and they're even free
sasuga pink rabbit
 

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Clip tax: Geega explains why most vtubers open their streams with zatsus rather than just jumping into a game


The gist of it is that she points out that when she starts the game, about 40% of her audience dips. To hold their attention for as long as possible, she tries to keep stalling for as long as possible before starting the game


And before someone says "hurr Talos Principle 2 is boring!", it's arguably one of the most backseatable games out there. Some sperg will always be shouting out the answers to puzzles and then get upset when the streamer ignores them and tries to figure out the puzzles themselves

This is actually insane to me; the whole reason I watch a streamer, VTuber or not, is for the "show," so to speak. If their stream is playing a game, I'm tuning in to see them play that game. That's the whole reason I always tune in late to Lia streams, since she takes so long before getting into the topic of a stream.

Is it a lonely parasocial thing? Do they just dip after the VTuber is paying attention to a thing that isn't them? Seems bizarre to tune into a gaming stream just to bail when the gaming starts.
 

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This clips kinda proves my point of interacting with fan content

I don't know if Clara knows how to play the game but she's on track to be one the top girls when it comes to ccv and I think a part of it is her willingness to get in the trenches and have fun with her fans. If you follow her on twitter, once a day she will be retweeting clips, fan art, memes and shitposts. She also makes sure to drop a comment on her clips. It's early to tell but the girl has 3 dedicated clippers already when shiina, lia and uruka might get a clip once in a while and they're top talents.
Don't suck their cock, just show that you care. :kaelaapprob:

The EN junkies lucked out that Clara set memberships to yen. Since it's still getting bent over a barrel, I'm able to do a higher member tier then normal.
 

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This is actually insane to me; the whole reason I watch a streamer, VTuber or not, is for the "show," so to speak. If their stream is playing a game, I'm tuning in to see them play that game. That's the whole reason I always tune in late to Lia streams, since she takes so long before getting into the topic of a stream.

Is it a lonely parasocial thing? Do they just dip after the VTuber is paying attention to a thing that isn't them? Seems bizarre to tune into a gaming stream just to bail when the gaming starts.
Some creators are funner when they're just yapping or talking about a topic they like with or without a script
Some are kinda meh at speaking while playing vidya or the game isnt that fun to watch someone play
 

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Thanks. Curious though, why new persona? (if it's her)
Oh wait.
>She designed and rigged her Live 2D model herself
and never made proper backups i guess like most people and pipple, that would explain things
Yeah audio in twitter clip is really shitty and not enough words in general, can't really tell if voice is the same.
For now i'm only interested in evolution of bilingual streaming after PikaHenya's trailblazing.

Momo is a character she created with chat then made a model and rigged on stream. Bea used a voice changer when playing her character. So it's likely Bea, but im not going to get my hopes up on a return.

 

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Could also be the "hype" of waiting for the 3D. It wouldnt be as exciting over time for both the viewer and the vtuber. It also wouldnt feel as rewarding for the vtubers if they get handed their 3D models right off the bat instead of having the pride of having worked their ass off for it. Thats how i see it atleast.
Pretty much this, in Holo 3D is a reward and a milestone, it means something. Also giving 3D to newcomers who might insta-graduate for whatever reason or may get cut in production is a waste of money. They don't need it from the get go.
Sakana got off the hook... this time.


BNUY STRIMMIN BUUY LOVE

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Is this like the NFL, where teams send coaches, coordinators, and even other players to butter up a high profile player in free agency?

Is Fishman going to send Muumi and Lia her way? What private flight is Idol going to send to pick her up? Is globie going to import food for their buffet?
Or maybe they're just friends because they're all white women trying to become asian. Holo doesn't really need to poach, I'm sure there's already a gazillion talented individuals lining up in the recruiter's DMs.
 

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Just have to deal with the 80% of the rest of the faggotry in the groomcord. The concept has potential, but the execution is lacking.
I've been against the idea of discord servers not because of faggotry but because of its reach. Their main platforms for putting eyes on them is youtube and twitter, isolating yourself to a discord does dick for reach. If they only want to shoot the shit with their fans having a discord works but if they want to increase their reach(they should unless you're Moe wanting to waste away for years) they need to get out of the discord and shoot the shit with the people outside of it and then lure them into the discord.

Yeah she's great she's commented on all but one of my clips that have her and she has retweeted me every time too. I'm gonna be clipping "KA-Ching Up" as they come out so I bet I'll see a lot of growth just from her retweeting me tho I do find Airi lurking in contrast adorable she says she watches all her clips but she rarely comments

I love me some Airi but the girl needs to stop being autistic and at least retweet clips. I don't know what guidelines they have for community posts but the girls should once in a while use their community posts like you and share some clips or memes. I want to slap them sometimes because these bitches can't even do community posts for memes or stupid shit. ENGAGEMENT is the name of the game :urtearingmeapart:
The EN junkies lucked out that Clara set memberships to yen. Since it's still getting bent over a barrel, I'm able to do a higher member tier then normal.
I think some niggas were using the argentinian strat to gift membership for days too I saw plenty of people dropping 50 memberships like candy
 

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