General Vtuber Discussion (V1)

[The Peanut Gallery]

Still holding out hope they find ESL girls for Dr Lolime and Paprika

Last we heard of Dr. Lolime she sounded like sourgrape.

 

[kestraline]

Lia reviews your shirts.

 

[El Rrata]

This was originally supposed to be on October 1st but she had to push it back because she wanted to do the merch and stage designs completely by herself. I can see what she means cause that stage looks impressive and has 100% Korone energy. Boxer dog works hard.

Watched the Korone b-day stream. Surprised that Sonic and Knuckles wished Korone a happy b-day. Man, this makes you really appreciate the doggo.

We all may have our own oshis, but DOOG is still the ultimate chuuba.

Phase 3.5
Kaburaki Doko?
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This will be something of an in-between post and a refresher. The amount of time this mini-series can continue is limited to the time it'll take for Nijisanji to churn out a new wave and put to bed the fate of VTA's bun-haired starlet; but with no clear gauge on when or where a debut may happen, I feel it's prudent to bring up new info as it arrives.

So first, let's take a step back and take stock of the events as they happened:

Spoiler: Timeline

• Oct. 7: VTA announced a two-week break from streams. Fans begin to assume that a new wave is on the way, with Kaburaki Roco chief among those expected.
• Oct. 21: VTA resumes activity. Three students in Kaburaki Roco, Kuramochi Meruto, and Warabi Raika are absent from the updated schedule.
• Oct. 24: The archives of the missing students are privated. Fans speculate a debut is imminent.
• Oct. 25: Hidekazu Tanaka of MONACA fame, and an active cooperator with Nijisanji, is arrested for allegedly stalking and committing sexual deviance on a minor in a Tokyo park.
• Oct. 31: Auditions for Gen 3.5 are announced, but will not become students. Instead, successful applicants will simply be trained behind the scenes and debuted.
• Nov. 5-12: Former VTA graduates may or may not have accidentally alluded to the imminent arrival of Kaburaki Roco.
• Nov. 13: The day that aligned perfectly with the debuts of Ranunculus and Voltaction. Many considered this to be the last week for their debut before all hope was lost. A debut never came.

At some point in the last week or so, however, a discovery was made that could very well have busted this case wide open, and I have attempted to the best of my ability to verify its legitimacy or, in the case I couldn't do so, dig further to see what I could find, here are my findings:

Recently, three YouTube channels were discovered:
Youtube.com/@KaburakiRoco
Youtube.com/@KuramochiMeruto
Youtube.com/@KoyanagiRou

We will get to the last one in due time. From hereonout, my explanations may become a bit technical. For now, though, take a look at the creation date of the first two accounts. October 24. The day their VODs were privated.

As some of you may know, YouTube @ Handles work more similar to Twitter than they do to Discord/Steam: only you can have that name. Some sharp-eyed people may have also noticed that, when changing your Handle, your channel defaulted to the name you used when you first created the account. It is also important to note that you can customise your Channel URL as you see fit. This is why pretty much every V-Tuber you look at has their original names as their handles - it's because that's the name they used to make the account, and therefore couldn't get sniped.

So what does this all mean? Well, even though I couldn't find channels beyond the three listed above, I did attempt to change my own username to VTA members using the same SurnameForename nomenclature Nijisanji uses. KusakabeAzusa, IshigamiNozomi, TsuyuzakiTsuyu etc. All 'unavailable' to be used, even though such a handle leads to a dead end. I believe this is because VTA preemptively save all of their usernames, and then veil the channels behind random URLs so they can't be found - in short, I believe these channels to legitimately belong to VTA, though I will hold out on the possibility they they may still be fake.

There is one student whose name was available, though: Warabi Raika. I typed in WarabiRaika, WarabiLaika, WallabyRaika, and WallabyLaika. No matches. It's possible their name was changed and that's why they can't be found, but it's also possible that they may have more to do with this mystery than it appears.

But what about the third channel? Koyanagi Rou is a 2nd Gen recruit and, objectively speaking, one of the less popular ones. He's a gamer that posts VALORANT montages on the VTA channel, and his channel was created on Nov. 16 - almost a whole month later.

So my verdict is this: On Oct. 24, the channels were made in preparation for an imminent debut. It is unclear if their channels were public straight away or if that is a new development. Something happened at the same time - either Tanaka's arrest, or the sudden quitting of Warabi Raika - that froze it dead in its tracks. If it was due to Raika, then it would make sense that Rou has been given the call-up to debut in his stead, and the time needed to prepare has thrown the whole fucking schedule way out of shape.

Can't wait for the next installment of

Also didn't know Bae was playing P5R today. Mainly curious to see if Atlus plans on keeping up their retarded streaming restrictions when the game is almost 3 years old.

We won't find out through Bae. No way she beats the game. Her zoomer brain can't handle a 100 hour game.

 

[Jealous]

Also didn't know Bae was playing P5R today. Mainly curious to see if Atlus plans on keeping up their retarded streaming restrictions when the game is almost 3 years old.

Waiting on Etrian series but I doubt it's gonna get requested.

 

[middle management]

Watching Tenma play Spelunky 2 on twitch, very enjoyable so far.

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Mumei on her way to corruption a marine collab nihongo jouzu:

 

[Godzilla1984]

 

[Charlemagne]

Pippas Chilean tomboy daughter is gonna flay a fighting game, possibly NOT Guilty Gear.

 

[Godzilla1984]

Pippas Chilean tomboy daughter is gonna flay a fighting game, possibly NOT Guilty Gear.

This is art.

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Happy birthday, Nepou.

 

[Praid]

The eel is live with cooking sim

I'm really liking the eel. Her voice, design, mannerisms, it's all doing it for me. I just hope I'm not too busy to catch her streams.

Anyone else having trouble being able to watch streams live? I feel like I've been busier then ever the last couple months.

 

[masterstocking]

For anyone a bit confused, the kiara video is a parody of this

Hey, Mariah Carey copyrighted being a Christmas Bitch™. Kiara's going to get sued!

 

[Zizara]

Also didn't know Bae was playing P5R today.

Is Bae zoomer enough to have not played Persona before? The description suggests yes. If so this could be a fun one.

 

[Shuba]

We won't find out through Bae. No way she beats the game. Her zoomer brain can't handle a 100 hour game.

I'd be surprised if she gets past the 2nd palace tbh. But I'm hoping she'll talk about the perms when at the start of the stream. Either that or we wait on Calli's playthrough.

Waiting on Etrian series but I doubt it's gonna get requested.

Etrian Odyssey has as much of a chance of getting played on stream as Digital Devil Saga lol.

Pippas Chilean tomboy daughter is gonna flay a fighting game, possibly NOT Guilty Gear.

Turned in for a minute and whatever this is, it's better than Guilty Gear.

Is Bae zoomer enough to have not played Persona before? The description suggests yes. If so this could be a fun one.

Fairly certain she hasn't but not 100% sure. Can't underestimate zoomer rat's inability to know something though.

 

[kestraline]

Now for something more horrifying, the British panda bear streamer Shizukou is going in another direction.....and damn what a waste.

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Imagine having a decent model (the one at the top), doing good numbers as a streamer (in the hundreds), and scoring some collabs with Nijisanji talent....and then she turns into another vshojo coomertuber look.

I fucking hate this shit, especially when I have watched her in the past. As far as I remember, no she didn't cater to the UOHH crowd, it's not that.

This is what happens when people like Ironmouse constantly change their models to stuff that looks way worse....everyone else has to jump on the band wagon.
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I wonder if she got that funded with all the bilibili money she was raking in, she had some sort of partnership going on there for a while.

Oh and of course people are NOT happy about the redesign, and she makes clear her disdain for those posters.

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It feels to me like she has done this partially because she is not getting clipped much, yet the fact is barely anyone does for small indies unless they get a fan clip channel that gains traction like what happened with fallenshadow's clip channel.

Most clippers only do the same few vtubers, or stick to the same few groups that are already clipped over and over again.

As an update she did explain the situation in her stream today - VOD available here, starts from the beginning:

She did try to walk back her comments that the model change was just because of the lack of clips but more to do with having a model that didn't fit with her voice, plus the original artist is barely around. She also told people who were there for the UOHHH look to just watch fallenshadow instead. But did say for a lot of years she wasn't interested in the lewd stuff....then she started looking at it.

Even then the design is a radical change, if it still looked like her panda model, just older, it wouldn't have had much of a backlash.

Also she showed off a "safe" version for use on Bilibili or during collabs when it's better to be covered:

 

[AO Cody]

Pippas Chilean tomboy daughter is gonna flay a fighting game, possibly NOT Guilty Gear.

Did not even bother with the voice changer, playing weird-ass kusoge fighter.

Top-tier shitpost.

 

[God's Strongest Mozumite]

Koko playing Minecraft with Liora

She also told people who were there for the UOHHH look to just watch fallenshadow instead.

Surprisingly based

 

[Latte'Ninba]

Is Bae zoomer enough to have not played Persona before? The description suggests yes. If so this could be a fun one.

I can't say it would shock me considering so far her track record is: All our evidence from the Boomer vs Zoomer stream with Vesper, her thinking the original PSP was the PS1, and not only not knowing what TF2 was, but not even knowing its characters from memes or anything.



In short, her not knowing virtually anything that isn't on a permanent TikTok rotation wouldn't be a surprise to me by this point lol

 

[Zizara]

I can't say it would shock me considering so far her track record is: All our evidence from the Boomer vs Zoomer stream with Vesper, her thinking the original PSP was the PS1, and not only not knowing what TF2 was, but not even knowing its characters from memes or anything.

Man, that video is like the time I realised that "20 year old Final Fantasy" referred to FF10 and not some pixel game from the late 80s all over again.

 

[Warspite]

3 minutes out, final reminder. Curious if Fox mom's singing can be fixed with editing magic, because live music from her has always been a mixed bag.

 

[Realticule]

"Please buy our coffee, I will not be paid until we sell our coffee, and I haven't been paid in six months because we haven't sold our shitty coffee." - Lia.

I'd normally assume this is a joke, but knowing Fish Fuck...

 

[Aka Split]

It's really disheartening that all fan-artists, no matter how they start, end up going down the lewd/NSFW art path. Do none of these people have morals?

Spoiler: NSFW