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Virtual YouTubers
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The Virtual Youtubers (or VTubers) fad is the latest trend of digital media to have been imported from Japan. A new generation of virtual entertainers that have captured the hearts of Japanophiles around the world with innovative technology and high-quality content.
Remember when some funny Anon in /pol/ said in a meme-post that "Trump will make anime real"? Well, towards the end of 2016, something weird started to appear on the YouTube community, something that forever would changed how content was created there. Yes - FINALLY, you are able to interact with your beloved animu waifu; She can respond to your tweets - and she will play your favorite vidya games, as well!!
Welcome to the world of Virtual Youtubers (バーチャルYouTuber)!
Why Is This a Thing?
The bane of YouTube's existence (and by extension, Twitch's) are camwhores. Despite many decent and talented people trying to use an array of gimmicks to attract viewers and sponsorship, the fastest way to attract potential subscriptions for many YouTubers is simply being female and flaunting their bodies. Nonetheless, when people eventually get fed up with their GOTIS and recognize they'll never see their actual exposed tits (much less anything else), they'll usually drink the commie kool-aid, dye their hair red and start to engage in "armchair activism" against the Toxic Masculinity of the Right.
There's no other reason someone that is sane could watch and invest time in such virtual trainwrecks (apart from just enjoying the lulz)... This is why many losers have taken the route of escapism and found in animu girls the reassurance they will never find with "3DPD wimmens,; because in meatspace (aka the real world), they know that roasties can put them in jail just by writing a tweet with the hashtag #MeToo.
On the other hand, The weeb market is sinking beyond salvation. It was in this moment of crisis that Japanese companies discovered (albeit too late) the success of Vocaloids and the dumbasses that make anthropomorphic "art" of them. One of the losers in business-suits realized this and proposed "What if we make a Hatsune Miku lookalike... but... doing the same things PewDiePie does?" And so, a solution for two of the most urgent contemporary problems was finally discovered!
Are you a Japanese woman? Do you have talent in voice acting and singing but are unable to get a job? Are you a sad and insecure tiny dicked herbivore man who's craving attention and pity from people? Are you comfortable with weirdos making fan-art of your character, depicting it in an array of revolting sexual fetishes? Are you okay with sad NEETs throwing tantrums and sending you death-threats on your twitter account because of anything they consider it is a transgression?
Worry no more! Now you too can feel what it is to be famous, without showing your face! Get your money swindled by opportunistic entertainment-middlemen and be forever under the shadow of your character, just like Mari Iijima!
Here are the list of these Japanese nobodies who are causing the other thousands of YouTube nobodies to tremble in fear.
Let's get started with the one that enabled the virulence of this disease: Ai Kizuna.
Ai Kizuna
She's retired! |
Her name Kizuna Ai (キズナアイ) means Love Connection, but it has a double meaning because Ai is also the acronym of Artificial Intelligence.
Kizuna's gimmick is to pretend she is the First A.I. to become a "Virtual YouTuber". Sadly, unlike Tay, there are no chances to turn her into a proud member of the Hitlerjugend. Her videos present an array of interesting topics, such as her failure to be decent AI software, her lesbian delusions, her "cute" Engrish, her crippling depression, her being trapped in a white space (unable to interact with other beings) - and mainly, her schemes to feed her vast greediness.
Albeit not being the first one to do this, she is the most successful and well known among the normalfags. Ai has more than one million subscribers to her channel, and she is the source of many memes posted by KYM and Redditors.
In her initial run, Ai was banned by ThemTube when she said that her whore clothes are in fact a hologram, so she's technically naked. That was caught by the phony algorithms of Google and her account was flagged. Her ban was lifted and she continued to prey on weebs with her fake bisexuality. Her strategies are the same ones used by a normal camwhore (livestreams, begging of likes, asking for subscriptions); Except for she doesn't have to be naked, because ASMR videos and talking like a retard are enough to work. With such tricks, she was able to build an army of cronies who translate all of her videos for free.
Some Jap businesmen recognized her as spokeswoman they needed to promote their crap and that's why 85% of Kizuna's videos are her shilling crappy mobile games that only can be played in Japan. She even advertised a shitty anime on Japanese TV, she has her own LINE-app stamps and even a TV Show. The desperation of weebs was evident when they bought paper bags with her face during the Comiket convention, prompting the promises of real plastic crap stamped with her face.
She later on created a gaming channel where you can see her failing miserably at playing horror games and trying to curse. The only explanation for why Ai Kizuna has so many subscribers, despite being such a shitty gamer, is because of her "being" a kawaii anime character. Her MMD model is available, so feel free to create low-quality Rule 34 "art" of her.
Media
- The video that made her famous worldwide, particularly the moment at 18:36
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"Unlike you, I get my news from reliable sources!"
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Why should some 56-year-old coot should be interested in anime gurls?
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Remember to sponsor my channel guis
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Coincidence?
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Last shred of Sanity
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3DPD eternally BTFO - how will they ever recover?
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The only thing Ai really cares about.
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She's aware of your failure as a human being.
The copycats
Once a fad has taken off, it is inevitable that competition and imitators will appear. In this case, each one is more idiotic than the previous one. As with any Coca-Cola, there will be a Pepsi, and with any AVGN, there will be a Nostalgia Critic. So these could be called the knock-off Kizuna Ai.
Luna |
• | Akari/Moemi |
• | Shiro |
• | Nekomasu |
• | Baacharu |
• | YUA |
• | Nijisanji |
• | Misc |
Media Gallery of virtual failure
- And despite she mocked you, you still subscribe to her, do you?
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The moment hearts were broken (click to play)
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Even the discount Banksy, Lushsux is jumping into this fad
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healthy at every size
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The artist is not exaggerating YUA's breast. She's that big
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Are you upset?
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I recognize that pool everywhere...
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How YUA tries to get more subs
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To this day Sora fans are still on denial.
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Akari wonders if she is a blonde down there too
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Releasing her model was not a good idea after all
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8/jp explains very well why Virtual youtubers is a thing.
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To this day Kizuna has eluded the Manhunt for her real identity
Rule 34
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Would you? (even knowing "she" is a man?)
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The only thing YUA is successful at
How To Troll fans of Virtual Youtubers
As with any subset of weebs, the baacharufags are very protective of their waifus and susceptible to any kind of negative content. So they vocally express their discomfort about it in the form of paranoid tantrums, full of conspiratorial nonsense. One of the easiest ways to get multiple responses is by using one of the following tactics:
- Ask them if they really believe AI and CG are advanced enough to post livestreams playing videogames.
- Ask them to translate Japanese material with "Translate weebs"
- Ask them when Funimation is going to release the official dub of Kizuna Ai videos.
- Tell them that the best way to know about the virtual youtubers is from Kotaku, Rocket News 24, Sankaku Complex, Lost Pause, Mother's Basement and The Anime Man.
- Ask them when the first Black American (or Latin American) Virtual Youtuber is going to be released.
- Ask when BaraKaren is going to release a new video.
- State that Ami Yamato is the best of the virtual youtubers because she is a functional person and speak a language almost 70% of the world can understand.
- Declare A.I. Channel videos as the Neon Genesis Evangelion of this generation.
- State that Kizuna Ai is the only Virtual Youtuber that matters and she's the PewDiePie of her category.
- State the above, but instead declare YUA as the queen of Virtual Youtubers.
- Pose the premise that virtual youtubers don't care about overseas fandom and the only moment they are important is when they throw money at them in the Superchat.
- Pose the theory that Moemi is not a Virtual Youtuber, because she don't have a 3D model, that's why nobody makes fanart of her and thus, Yomemi is superior in all aspects. Bonus extra if you deliberately mistake Moemi with Yomemi. Try to do the same by using Nijisanji Vtubers instead of Moemi.
- State that the Virtual Youtubers are nothing more that a gimmick for failed Japanese artists to kickstart their career using pity and crocodile tears.
- Ask them when Eilene is going to deliver the story episodes of Mirai Akari or the 3D Model of Moemi.
- Ask them why Eilene videos are not already reported for copyright infringement and plagiarism.
- Engage on debates that going nowhere about What is a Virtual Youtuber. Expect being accused of being either a Kotaku writer, a poster from /v/ or the writer of this ED article.
- Compare Tokino Sora to YUA, and state it will be a matter of time when Sora will be exposed as a company trying to get pity yens from lonely men.
- Create questions in Akinator targeting the failures of Virtual Youtubers.
- Make subtitles of the virtual youtubers videos with lots of grammatical errors and Engrish and then ask for approval, Then claim there were "vandalized" by SEAs (South East Asians).
- Inquire about why are they so overprotective of CG characters voiced by failed Japanese voice actors, if by considering the roles reversed, they would not care about them.
- Stop referring to fans of Shiro and Sora by their official names (Shirogumi and Soratomo) and instead refer to them as Shirofags and Sorafags.
- Post porn of Tokino Sora, particularly Yuri porn of her with Mirai Akari.
- Ask when Mirai Akari is going to post more bestiality porn.
- Shitpost on the virtual youtuber threads with only posting about Eilene.
- Shitpost on the virtual youtuber threads with only posting in Spanish (Anons of /jp/ are /pol/ hypocrites that demand posts written in 100% Perfect American English despite not speaking Japanese.)
- Tells them that pure Virtual Youtuber they love so much, is not a middle schooler or even a woman at all, but a scam to swindle their money. Prove that by posting R34 of them of that moment when their faces were exposed on a livestream.
- Denounce the rampant corporatism of the virtual youtubers market and try to use the elitist mannerisms of /mu/ at the moment of deriding vtubers endorsed by Kadokawa, Nijisanji and Duo/Entum. State you're only interested on "genuine Vtubers" and how the Vtubers with endorsements are nothing less but in name JAV actresses.
- Send them this article. This applies particularly to /jp/. They discovered an earlier draft of this article and they are deeply offended and hurt about it. As usual, they're acting in a defensive and passive-aggressive way and because of their Constructive criticism, this article was improved. Thanks for the Streisand Effect, /jp/!
See Also
- 80-year-old Chinese man in panties - What most VTubers are behind the screen.
- Dying Alone
- Findom
- Incel
- /jp/ — This article (and its notoriety) was not possible without them
- Love Shy
- Nekomi Fujiwara - Surprise! Vtubers are sex pests!
- Waifu
- Weeaboo
External Links
Note: Google and Youtube will give you reliant results if you want to find videos about your favorite Virtual Youtubers. Remember to use terms like "Baacharu", "baachaaru" or directly the name of the character you're looking for.
- virtual-youtuber.userlocal.jp — An informative ranking about your favorite and new Virtual youtubers
- The virtual youtubers Wiki — This ED article has more information that all of that wiki.
- Thads on 4chan's /jp/ — Remember to always tell them that you came there after reading this ED article
- r/virtualyoutubers — Chances are that you are sent to that place after telling /jp/ that you came there after reading this ED article
- The infamous article that alerted normalfags about this phenomena
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