Several observations:
1. I watched the first two hours of the vod for Adam Crigler's tell-all stream yesterday about why he left TimcastIRL and about his experiences in that house with all of them. The way he described it, it sounded very much like the place was filled with spooks, surveilling and manipulating people and relationships. Which, given the popularity and seeming influence the brand has, and the fact that it is almost entirely related to politics, it makes perfect sense for MULTIPLE entities with the ability to engage in psychological operations of that kind to target in such a way.
2. I mention this because, even though Pippa is merely a small-potatoes 4-view with almost 100k subscribers, and even though she avoids politics, she still has a reputation for speaking her mind and for resisting efforts to get her to conform to the narrative (we don't see pippa following a vshojo model, nor getting venture capital dumping cash into phase connect or astroturfing for it). Not to mention her promoting and normalizing conspiracy theories which are very uncomfortable for certain entities with malicious intent.
She has also overtly become the target of "cancellation" by at least some portion of the twitter/discord moderator mob, being compared to all manner of horrible evil-doers like joshua moon and the hacker four chan, among others.
In short, she has enemies whether she would like them or not.
3. In her zatsu stream just earlier, Pippa was recounting some of the elaborate psychological manipulation and harassment tactics she herself engaged in online in her past, e.g. creating a complete website with fake reviews, and creating one for her perceived competitor which was just slightly negative, because she knew that was the best way to have the appearance of legitimacy while still getting under the skin of her target.
4. Pippa has previously mentioned that other streamers do not like her fans, or are afraid of them. I believe she is very self-conscious about this, because she does not want to upset people and feels responsible for autists who happen to be fans of hers (a minority, like most fandoms). She mentioned this in the azehara clip above, saying it is a problem. She even commented on that low effort clips video 1 hour after it came out, just before her stream today, "LOVE LUMI, HATE PIPPA".
5. Lumi has a reputation, whether true or not, for being manipulative, and a wrecker of guilds and companies. Just from the few times I've listened to her in her collabs with Pippa and a few streams of her own, its apparent she's very intelligent, very good with language and in particular lying. She still slips up sometimes and contradicts herself. Pippa seems to hold her in high esteem, which makes her vulnerable to lumi's opinion of her moreso than other vtubers/streamers.
From these observations:
It's established that Pippa has known enemies with greater capacity for harassment than her own past self, and potentially much bigger enemies who have exhibited a proclivity to employ all manner of tactics to disrupt potential threats.
We have identified at least one weakness - her fear of her fans being a nuisance - which stifles her ability to grow her numbers and generate revenue for fishman by actively avoiding collabs instead of following Tenma's model. She has found a philosophy which allows her to be okay with doing her own thing instead of chasing numbers, which just adds to her endearing personality imo, but it still means her growth is stifled.
Lumi did not have to go as hard as she did on that autist. Maybe she's been dealing with autistic capippalists a lot - I don't know. But clearly she's primed to cause emotional damage.
If I were going to target Pippa with this weakness, I'd create a lot of sockpuppets and begin posing as capippalists and doing the very thing she's anxious about them doing, to the point that it pisses people off enough that they flip out and bitch at her for it. It'd be even more helpful to have a man on the inside to do the bitching and manipulation, like with the tim pool house situation, to ensure it has just the right level of subtlety and pain, tailored to her response to it.
Don't think Pippa has collabed much outside of her company recently so there is the real possibility that she will go full Amelia-wallflower mode as she usually did about 10 months ago on a few of her collabs.Let's be honest, if pippa got a collab with one of the big 2 she would be too fucking scared and freaking out to even interact properly, many of you point out her past yabs but pippa's regular personality and humor (or at least how she presents herself on stream) is pretty edgy and offensive to normies (which is why she's so liked here). So in a collab, she would be too passive to satisfy her regular audience but still radioactive enough to anger the unicorns and gachis. There is nothing to gain from this.
If they want a successful small corpo chuuba to collab with there's plenty of choices. I would like to see Shiki Miyoshino from prism for example.
Don't really know much about her but it was pretty cute that people pushed her to 100k before she graduated. Very talented singer.
Tenma, you fed the joke. Don't get pissed it got too big. This is the same community that finds spamming "BOIN BOIN" jokes hilarious whenever vtubers have no tits.
She also just dropped this. Her cover is great but this song needs a ton. I think my favorite is probably Athena Nightingale's version. Though the mix is less developed I think the song just suits a lower female voice. Athy stepped everything down to meet the range of her voice better too.
She mentioned that she had to stretch this as much as she could and try to hit the 2-hour mark. Guessing it was a management decision to keep the numbers up and not lose momentum going into Nina's outfit reveal.ENNA PLEASE IT HAS BEEN OVER AN HOUR.
I swear some of these outfit reveals are like pulling teeth when they could be done in half the time.
I feel like most forget about this.Do you guys realize they are told by management to stretch it out as far as inhumanly possible to get the highest PPV.
But you knew that already.
partly that, partly because people just want to see just how everyone with new outfit is trying to stall for the inevitableI feel like most forget about this.
She’s going off the rails, she’s on a crazy trainView attachment 6511
well, she is now interviewing herself to stall.
Imagine you legitimately don't know what Pokemon is somehow and you play fucking Vietnamese Crystal as your first Pokemon game. That was probably a real situation back when this first existed.This is amazing. Her accent makes it even funnier and she's reverting to the level of english she had at debut. She also doesn't know the game mechanics so it's a big guess game
Pippa should just kill flavr at this point, she could make it into a joke like the company got raided by the feds or whatever, but she also gets to invalidate all of the tards using her characters and anyone trying to push the joke after that will just be ignored.View attachment 6515
Seems Tenma wasn't the only one finding the joke a bit more than stale. Tbh they probably do need to make a lot of distance at this point because it's been taken over by people who, as she said, mostly seem to be riding on it being Pippas meme, but who aren't actually involved with phase connect. The longer Yabbits meme keeps going the higher the chance of blowback on Phase if things go wrong.
Plus, sorry guys but given the troon infestation the joke got stale after the first two voice changers imo
Wtf is up with her chest?View attachment 6520
Okay, it looks rather neat. Long hair is cool
I wonder whyMy favorite of the Ethyria outfits ngl.
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Kirsche has been talking about the FlaVR thing too. She says it's been abused and run into the ground and that people like Sena need to stop being FlaVR and move on with a completely new character.
Eventually, the joke will run to the ground. Honestly, Baker Girl and Home Depot are pretty great. Gen 2 seems like a bit too tryhard but maybe we get a gem in there. I don't think they should fully abandon the character or at least they should only do that once they look into making a new one around that concept. Eventually, drop the FlaVR name and do their own thing on the side.Pippa should just kill flavr at this point, she could make it into a joke like the company got raided by the feds or whatever, but she also gets to invalidate all of the tards using her characters and anyone trying to push the joke after that will just be ignored.
Wtf is up with her chest?
Probably exactly what Tenma is complaining about. People using the joke to contact PC talent unsolicited.Yeah, it's been run into the ground.
But at the same time, I wonder what has happened behind the scene.