Look up Kiryu Coco's Reddit Shitpost Reviews. There's been like 8 so far and they've been translated
Pretty much anything Pekora does
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Inugami Korone (Japanese Virtual YouTuber) Plays Super Mario Using Only English (42:56 long video)
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Look up Kiryu Coco's Reddit Shitpost Reviews. There's been like 8 so far and they've been translated
Pretty much anything Pekora does
Straight up I love how wholesome Korone is. I never thought I would be into vtubers but I have fallen deep into the rabbit hole since I first discovered her about a month ago.
Wait, is that Postal 2 she's playing at the very start? Wtf.
Didn't expect to see a vtuber playing that.
Still have to get around to watching the full video, but damn some of y'all are miserable as fuck
Found the video I remember her most from. Name is Kizuna Ai.
EDIT: Oh shit. There are several companies for this business!
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I found this clip of Coco and Matsuri reviewing reddit memes to be absolutely hilarious. Matsuri's laugh is so contagious when they say yamatekudastop and sorrymasen. Coco's weekly meme reviews are generally pretty funny.
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As far as I can tell Kizuna Ai is still pretty popular, she still posts pretty regularly and gets a respectable amount of views.
I stopped watching her videos a long time ago but I think what happened was that the company tried to replace her with many different voice actress and they were getting hated by her fans, then I think they started to aim for the chinese market and more people disliked that change, then the company basicall became Kizuna corp and she was / is? being overworked.
I have no proof for this but I've always gotten a feel that the moderation team on ERA embodies the weird anti-Japanese sentiment that is on this forum. Said sentiment is spawned from Japan being a much more conservative nation than the west. Which is worthy of criticism but I think ERA's scorched earth approach is enabling xenophobia on this forum.
Again I have no proof of this, it's just a feeling I get. Would love to be wrong and for ERA staff to actually action this bullshit in the thread.
My favorite part about the Pikamee clip is her change in accent when she's trying to make sure that she heard what she thinks she heard lol.
From what I can tell, a lot of the issue seems to stem from the large prevalence of creepy otaku culture shit.
That stuff it legitimately awful and unfortunately it colors a lot of peoples perceptions of Japanese media.
Yeah is media perception, to Non-US, American is probably soulless murder machine based on media and shooting news. We should not generalize entire country based on media exist there.
Back to the discussion, I am not surprised people disliking Vtuber, is not for everyone, but the reaction is very out there lol
probably 20-30 years old
User Banned (1 Month): inflammatory generalization, history of the same
anyone who watches this shit should be on an FBI watchlist
A lot of people already replied, but I felt like adding to the pile.
The vtuber company Hololive (and thus vtubers in general) began rising in popularity A LOT, begining around March-May. It was a mix of COVID lockdowns, AsaCoco, and translated clips. AsaCoco was a daily 'news' segment by Coco (a hololive vtuber). It was funny (attracted viewers), showcased other hololive vtubers (directed the attracted viewers where to go next), and would become subbed in many languaged (including english) about 12 hours after every release (attracting viewers worldwide, outside of Japan). People stuck in lockdown would see some funny clip, somehow catch AsaCoco, and find out they like x vtuber, and watch more clips and streams.
ANYWAYS, my specific point to you was that if you're a long time Japanese youtube fan, it's easy for you to miss something that only started exploding in popularity less than 6 months ago.
Okay, someone needs to explain this virtual YouTuber thing to me. Is this an AI generated character with AI voices, or is this a person speaking behind a virtual avatar?
you mean Kizuna AI? She still streaming, albeit not as popular anymore
Crazy, I remember when she was num 1 in the vtuber world. How fast times change.
It's a streamer who uses a virtual avatar. It's nice because it lets the streamer not have to reveal their face so their privacy is protected and they can play a character if they want (not all of them do that either).
The other nice thing is that the streamer doesn't need to be conventionally attractive or look like a model.
Obviously you still need to be somewhat charismatic and/or have a voice that stands out if you want to become popular.
lol there is more than one ban in this thread for posting like this yet you come and do it anyway
Came in to post this. It's a great way to protect the streamer because there are a few more layers between them and chat. Especially if they're going all in on being a character.
She's still got the most subs but she's kinda fallen out of the public eye a bit, I think? I barely ever hear anyone talk about her anymore. For me personally, the appeal of Hololive (and Nijisanji, but I don't watch them as often) is that since they're one big unit they collab with each other very frequently, making for lots of fun combinations of personalities. Kizuna Ai almost exclusively did solo streams and the vast majority of videos were also pre-recorded instead of live.
You people are members of a video fame forum so you are all nerds. Stop calling other nerds that enjoy harmless things like this stuff like losers and weirdos.
People who do that are the real losers.
People who do that are the real losers.
I am happy with consuming vtubers through funny out of context moments. Like have confidence. No confidence.
I love "have confidence.....no confidence" because it's just so natural and funny. She's doing her best :)
Ah okay, thanks for the clarification. It's interesting because I haven't really thought about the benefits of using a virtual avatar, especially given how toxic the internet can be.
Initially I was kinda creeped out by this, but weighing the benefits it does make a lot of sense. Shame on me for being so closed-minded at the initial impression.
Ehhhhh, you're right that amigo is technically not English, but it's commonly used enough that you could say it's been adopted into English.
It's mostly having a strong screen presence and doing things that garner peoples' interest. Voice doesn't seem to be as much of a factor; Coco has a voice that most would not consider conventually attractive or even particularly feminine and yet she does pretty damn good for herself. Similarly, you have folks like Towa or Ange (from Nijisanji) who have unusually deep voices who are also beloved. And then you have a whole range of folks in the middle who don't stand out in any way in terms of vocal range or sound. Tsukino Mito, for example, has a very "everywoman" kind of voice and yet she's the top earner in Nijisanji.
It is a full job, some are working for agencies and are pretty much idols, some of them are also voice actress, small roles but some known.
I didn't say you need to have a conventionally attractive voice, just one that stands out.
Coco's voice definitely stands out when she's speaking Japanese, and the same goes for Towa and Ange. Mito is a bit of a special case in that she's one of Niji's pioneers and there wasn't exactly a lot of competition back then. If she were to debut today, I'm not sure she would get to where she is now.
I don't think it's a coincidence that all of the top holos (Pekora, Marine, Korone, Coco, Botan, Shark, etc.) have a fairly unique voice and tons of charisma.
For those that really want to get into Korone but are looking for something not quite as energetic as the linked video, here's a (very) long translated clip from a few months back:
I don't know, I'm listening to the most viewed vtubers right now and a number of them really don't stand out in terms of vocalization. Kanae in particular has a very typical male voice and he doesn't even attempt to do anything to make his "character" distinct. He's basically just playing himself, yet is the most-viewed male vtuber on the planet.
I really think it's down to entertainment factor. I mean, don't get me wrong, having a distinct voice probably helps, but what you do with that voice seems to count for significantly more judging by who's at the top.