Man, she really knows how to pull at our heartstrings.

Something that got me thinking after I’ll Still be Here, and now even more, is that a lot of Holomems (or VTubers in general) usually have a very “standard” first Original Song, with a bit of lore and maybe memes, depending on what you’d expect from them (it’s also good marketing, in a sense) but Gigi, the “chaotic gremlin”, subverted expectations not once but twice, putting out very intimate and emotional songs instead. I could see a lot of people unfamiliar with her being caught off-guard by the choice and maybe discovering her more introspective side, and that’s probably one of the things she was aiming for.

To borrow the theme of the song, she’s both the overexcited goofball that people might find out first from clips and the introverted, insecure and caring girl that she tries not to show too much, but still comes out in more personal talks and anecdotes from her friends. Neither is “a fiction, a fright or a trick of the light”, she’s just “her” and that’s more than enough.

(Even more blatantly in sight from the community post constantly flipflopping between talking about self-acceptance and yuri selfcest lmao)

Also, the library is still out there. You still can ignore the rent-seeking middle men and use it directly with your own natural neural network.

…but you have to jump between a billion hoops to get there because now it’s all buried between AI results and SEO crap.

Assuming it’s even still there and accessible in the same way, if its site was enshittified (did someone say Reddit?) you might need to go through additional hoops even after you actually find it.

The Bau Bau has brainrotted us all. There is no escape, not even in the deep ocean.

Btw if you’re interested, it’s still mostly speculation on his part, but Meika did talk a bit about the problems with IP transfer (specifically from 2:08 onwards)

I still haven’t interacted with anything ENreco because it feels like way too much stuff to try and keep up (also as an ESL I really struggle with non-captioned lives with a lot of people talking over each other).

Boubon Clipper was doing a compilation series but I think it’s still not even halfway through Chapter 1… I think at some point I’ll probably bite the bullet and do what I can with this site (which honestly seems very well done for what it’s worth), but I still think that they should have official compilation videos on the main channel (yes, I know they did it a bit with Chapter 1, but I doubt they managed to fit 394 hours of content in just 2 hours without skipping almost everything)

Definitely malicious compliance from chat lmao

I’ll admit I’m not that knowledgeable about Idol Corp, but from what I know they had a simil-VShojo approach (they signed multiple indies without redebuting them), and they’re not based in Japan, so contracts and copyright law might’ve been different.

I’m pretty sure transferring copyright would still be possible, but as you’ve mentioned it would definitely not be for free, probably even too costly considering how high-profile Cover often goes for illustrators and riggers and how much merch/advertising they already got so far.

Would’ve definitely been a good precedent for the industry, but I don’t know how hard that would’ve been, we can only theorize at this point.

And hopefully, their careers don’t end up being “destroyed”. We’ve seen plenty of holomems go on to be successful as indies, though we don’t have a “sample size” big enough for stars, among the 3 examples in the past 5 years, one of was already more popular (Magni) and another apparently had some personal issues (Gamma). Vesper seems to be doing okay, but definitely less popular than in holo (which happened to girls like Ame and Shion as well).

We’ll see what happens with these six, I personally think Aruran has a huge chance of having an indie popularity as big, if not bigger than before, and the others are definitely not incompetent either. I think one of their biggest hurdles is that they don’t get clipped enough, and when redebuts rely almost entirely on word of mouth, that’s a huge disadvantage.

From what I understood reading around, that might be a copyright issue. Barring VShojo which had a very different contract from the start, I’m pretty sure no other company ever allowed talents to walk away with their IPs before shutting down completely.

Maybe it’s a mess from a legal standpoint, maybe it’s something shareholders might complain about, maybe it’s something else entirely. But either way, (to my knowledge) it’s not something that ever happened in standard VTubing companies, so I think there might be valid reasons behind it.

Ouch, they got cut in half… though I guess it’s understandable considering how bad the deal seemed, at least from an outside PoV.

Wish them all luck, they all have genuine singing and/or streaming talent and it would be a shame if it went unexpressed from now on.

Bottom right illustrates the two types of Takodachi

That stream was 4D chess, sasuga not-into-petplay warden

Completely missed the stream(s) but once I have a spare hour and a half will definitely check them + the MV, Autofister is always a treat

“Doctor I need help, my rock started barking halfway through the stream”

I guess that was to be expected. Rather, it would’ve been kinda upsetting if they kept it going after cutting the Stars support.

Dear god, I already saw some of them but the full compilation just stunned me lmao

Judging from the cover it’s probably fiction, Takodachi anatomy studies found that the single shared braincell can’t possibly be that big

Glorious 3D Immerrage 🙏

My god, Tomodachi Life has been such a goldmine for clips, at this point I think I’ve seen funny stuff from at least 20 different talents lmao

I think the ![text](link) syntax only works with pictures, you should probably remove the “!” to get a video link

And this would probably fit !vtubers@sh.itjust.works more

That being said… holy shit what kind of black magic is that

I haven’t followed much of Flow Glow but from the little clips I’ve seen (including this one) Vivi did seem pretty funny, yeah.

As for me, not much specific these days, I recently caught up with the April Fools shenanigans and the Holostars situation and now I’m just watching whatever clips seem interesting, for example Subaru’s Tomodachi Life “arc” struggling with Mii Fubuki’s love life (1 / 2)