So I just went down a bit of a rabbit hole and ended up with more questions than answers:
I recalled that an artist whose works I would occasionally come across was planning to become a vtuber, so I decided to check them out, only to find that they have been inactive for several months.
This is Nana Nanatsuki otherwise known as the artist Ex-Pulse:
Their situation is similar to Juniper's as they made their own model and have made it evident that they are simply an artist portraying their OC, though unlike Juniper her model was rigged by brian_tsui rather than herself.
Here are some examples of her artwork;
Her now inactive Twitch: nana0957 (would link but this site seems to want to turn it into a video) and her Twitter where she appears to still post:
https://twitter.com/nana0957.
Naturally, I wanted to find out what had happened to her but couldn't find anything as to why she stopped streaming. Instead I found that they were apparently part of a vtuber group known as Atelier Live. I back searched the thread to see if there was any information on this but all I found was that they were more of a friend group rather than a real company and collective befuddlement as to why Artemis of the Blue was also in this group surrounded by mostly artists who had made their own models. My search lead me to
lolcow.farm where I found that they were affiliated with a very familiar face:
That's right, Ina/Naguri was apparently part of this group and rumored to be in some kind of managerial position.
I couldn't find too much more on Atelier Live, their twitter still seems to be active, but their Reddit hasn't been touched in about a year and is 90% about Artemis (Does this count as a "Reddit Moment"?).
Looking further into Ex-Pulse/Nana herself I found that they are a vtuber mama:
https://www.expulse.moe/collection ( I can't decide whether I love or hate the name Midwest Raven) and they wrote a web comic featuring her Nana character:
Four Quarters (I haven't read it so I have no idea of its quality but you can tell how long she has been working on it simply based on the progression of the art quality).
This is just from a couple of hours of searching and I'm not sure how much further I am going to go down this hole but my journey has presented many different directions which my inquiry can continue to venture.
What happened to Nana/Atelier Live?
Why was Artemis in a group mostly comprised of talented artists?
What was Ina's involvement in the group?
Did Ina study geology in Calgary?
Will Yuni stream later today after several months of hiatus and a busted computer?