Hololive General

[Poyoyo & Jill]

I'll need some subs on this one, because it was way too much for my current JP skills. But Bae won going away. Shuba spent a while in shock about the stream, as far as I can tell.

There was a prize for this stream but i cant remember what it is

I am glad that Bae won

 

[Scoots]

I don't really want to watch a Twitch VOD. Do you have a YouTube clip?

The vod was timestamped in the description of the reflection clip 50:07

 

[Netscaper]

Gura and Kronii's talk before the end of their final collab.

Made me think inmediately of this, I don't know why:

 

[GenericName11]

Rat is back today it seems.

 

[Koronesuki]

Was Mori living in Japan at the start? Hard to remember the personal details back then.

Calli and Kiara were both living in Japan when they debuted, but Kiara later moved back to Austria. (I think that she couldn't get her visa renewed, for whatever reason.) After that, Calli was the only EN member in Japan until IRyS debuted.

The vod was timestamped in the description of the reflection clip 50:07

It's jork!

 

[Ensok]

I wouldn't be surprised if somehow Sakura Miko of all people is unlucky enough that she takes longer to find a Golden Magikarp than Fubuki.

 

[Hotdogs Aplenty]

Calli and Kiara were both living in Japan when they debuted, but Kiara later moved back to Austria. (I think that she couldn't get her visa renewed, for whatever reason.) After that, Calli was the only EN member in Japan until IRyS debuted.

Kiara was there on a once in a lifetime non renewable visa that so she could work as a translator during the Olympics. Then COVID postponed the Olympics.

 

[Aquatic Novellite]

Kiara was there on a once in a lifetime non renewable visa that so she could work as a translator during the Olympics. Then COVID postponed the Olympics.

I'll never forgive the Chinese for robbing us of the 2020 Olympics opening with an Akira motorcycle race.

 

[Koronesuki]

Kiara was there on a once in a lifetime non renewable visa that so she could work as a translator during the Olympics. Then COVID postponed the Olympics.

That's what it was! Thank you. I knew it had something to do with the China virus, but I couldn't remember the specifics.

 

[NeneLOVE]

Call me an asshole, but you have to stream to be called a streamer. This wasn't even vtweeter behavior because Gura didn't tweet. The rare times she streamed over the last couple of years, yes she was amusing as ever, but once it became weeks, even months, at a time with her MIA, she fell off my radar completely. Maybe she'll shock everyone with a huge comeback, but I don't expect her to beat her brainworms. Perhaps an occasional meme song.

Gura could beat the brainworms if she was allowed to return in peace, but she won't be. As I have said, gura is not allowed to be just a normal content creator ever again, her rabid mob of fans will track her wherever she goes and gladly broadcast her location and current identity to the even larger cloud of normies and dramafags that will then all tune in to see what the legendary galu gola has in store this time. She is forever cursed to be famous, if 3ish years of almost no activity couldn't shake these people off, then nothing will. Even if she puts on a brave face and tries coming back in a blaze of glory that will only result in people wanting to use her as some twisted corpo vs indie symbol or to shit on holo for "letting this talent go" and the expectations will be higher than ever.

Sorry sharkgirl but you are CURSED with success.

 

[frz]

Was Mori living in Japan at the start? Hard to remember the personal details back then.

Completely redundant and useless since people already answered
Kiara was stuck at Japan and couldn't return due Covid Lockdown

Calli was one of those many weebs who moved to Japan because they are weebs, the only thing they can do is being an English teacher since weebs who move to kaigai usually don't own an IT diploma. Most of them found themselves moving back home (or to a SEA country) after 2 years as the Japanese society at large rejects all kaigai, expat society themselves are always full of drama and Japan started collecting taxes from 2nd year onward.

It actually has gotten a lot worse after Covid, there is an influx of Pinoys and Indians out to the rest of Asia to teach English and salary for those jobs took a nose dive as brown feet ruins everything and will take any pay. There's also closing of a lot of English centers as they didn't survive covid and online teaching now became the norms
You basically get paid enough for 1 meal a day + onigiri for the rest + a small ass apartment (no pay during spring break and summer break), you can live a lot more frugally if you also work part-time as a waitress at night (or a react youtuber lolw) and that pay doesn't increase, only decrease as more brown feet enter the english teaching market

If holo didn't accept Pink Woman maybe "end of a life" wont be a hypothetical

 

[NeneLOVE]

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One of the guys who got promoted earlier last month speaks about stuff, take with a grain of obvious corpo PR but it is interesting.

This guy is essentially the replacement for whoever it was oversaw many of the project cancellations from before, so you can blame him if your oshi gets her shit canned.

 

[Not Important]

Has the definition of failure changed to being: If you could have been even more successful than you already were in some way, shape, or form, then you have failed altogether?

She was still around for most events, her only 'problem' was streaming consistently and being too perfectionist to the point of detriment as we have come to find out, but I even hesitate to call the streaming a problem. There are hundreds of large youtube channels that put out videos once or twice a year, do millions of views, and then return to slumber (aka work on next video). I really don't know if Gura's priorities were ever streaming first. Seemed she liked doing music and lives more than anything. She sometimes felt like she had an obligation to stream as evidenced by the couple of times she said she should stream more, but it was clearly never at the top of her own list. Even in 2024 she had around 30 streams until her last big absence starting in September and lasting until the new year (and that number is discounting EnReco along with her bday live).

Once she started streaming less I personally just went and adjusted my expectations to be more like those channels that only post every now and again, but it was still better with Gura because she still always showed up for events and would usually stream once or twice a month before not streaming for a few months and then coming back and doing it again. People act like she abandoned everything because they lose track of time (and also weren't members so they missed the member streams too), but go and look for yourself and you'll see the streaming is inconsistent but nowhere close to abandonment.

For me definition of failure, in this case, is having an enormous talent and not capitalizing on it, even if you have all opportunities to do so.

If she decided to (mostly) stop streaming in favor of producing music, like Suisei, I'd welcomed it. Likewise, if she chose to stick to streaming as opposed to making music, I'd welcomed it as well. But she chose neither.

It was all compounded by her promises, that "she will return" and complete lack of communication before another disappearance. At some point it stopped looking like another "tummy hort" and started looking like "I don't give a fuck about my job and fans". Yeah, I know she has some inadequate fans, but there are also a lot of people who genuinely liked her (in a normal way) and who were buying memberships and merch.

 

[Willemshaven]

Fubuki announced Final Fantasy XIV JP collab event with art from Hyde:


I'm sure if ENReco wasn't on, Ina, Biboo and Gigi would've loved to join in.

Follow-up tweet with more information about HOLO XIV.

Spoiler: Translated schedule

Member roles:

• Tanks:
  • Fubuki - Gunbreaker
  • Noel - Paladin
• Healers:
  • Iroha - Scholar
  • Ririka - White Mage
• DPS:
  • Kanata - Monk
  • Aki - Dancer
  • Botan - Reaper
  • Lui - Red Mage

Lamy is the next holomem to be added to The Eminence in Shadow gacha game. Previously featured holomems Nene, Lui, and La+ have a re-run.

 

[Poyoyo & Jill]

If you order merch trough these guys they decided to suspend shipments to the U.S. for products originating from China for some time

 

[La+ de Central Norte]

Follow-up tweet with more information about HOLO XIV.

Spoiler: Translated schedule

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Member roles:

• Tanks:
  • Fubuki - Gunbreaker
  • Noel - Paladin
• Healers:
  • Iroha - Scholar
  • Ririka - White Mage
• DPS:
  • Kanata - Monk
  • Aki - Dancer
  • Botan - Reaper
  • Lui - Red Mage

Lamy is the next holomem to be added to The Eminence in Shadow gacha game. Previously featured holomems Nene, Lui, and La+ have a re-run.

GOZARU BROS WE ARE SO BACK

 

[ValkyrieAce]

If you order merch trough these guys they decided to suspend shipments to the U.S. for products originating from China for some time

They said if people really want it and are willing to pay whatever tariffs are added, they're send it if requested.

 

[mismatch]

I'll need some subs on this one, because it was way too much for my current JP skills. But Bae won going away. Shuba spent a while in shock about the stream, as far as I can tell.

Subaru's watchalong stream had a live translator, which isn't exactly the same thing but I'm guessing a big chunk of this will get clipped:

https://holodex.net/watch/_DG8EymRrlw

 

[Aka Split]

I just watched ~3 reactions to Ash Again (by people with some levels of musical expertise, so their comments aren't vapid like the normal slop), and two out of three described her ad-lib vocals at the end as 'spazzing', and they meant it positively. Is this some new common thing that they both decided to use 'spaz' to describe it?

 

[AO Cody]

Gigi will be taught the fundamentals by one of her old friends.

I'm absolutely loving this little Fatal Fury arc with Gigi and Kronii, but god I wish someone would get them to switch the stage music from Collaboration to SNK.

Mainly if they insist on playing in the bar stage so much. The collaboration track for that stage is ass, but the SNK theme for it absolutely fucks.