YMMV / Neuro-sama

• Just Here for Godzilla: While Neuro herself is still plenty popular, many of her followers are much more interested in her creator and code-developer Vedal, as he has a very great father-daughter style dynamic with Neuro, especially his treating her like a normal streamer working best for her to construe dialogue strings from, while also having an entertaining streamer persona himself. It's to the point that the majority of highly-viewed streams and videos for Neuro are Vedal's coding streams where he chats with her while working out new code. Over time this has gradually extended further into Neuro's extended "family" , including her mom/designer Annytf (who tries to reign in her usual ecchiness in this setting) and her twin "Evil" Neuro, along with other VTubers like Filian, Bao The Whale, and even Kiara, to the point where her base concept as an A.I. streamer has been eclipsed in popularity by her secondary role of reacting and responding to collaboration partners. This has actually been to her benefit, as when she was only streaming as a solo A.I. her viewers started growing bored with her repetitive responses to chat comments, while her increasingly organic reactions to the voice chat of collaborators, alongside seeing the variety of reactions they have towards her, has resulted in an explosion of viewers and subscribers that continues to grow.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • That's crazy 🐢 That's actually crazy 🐢 That's messed up 🐢^explanationA phrase repeated by chat whenever Vedal says something deemed messed-up
  • Best Tech VTuber! ^explanationDuring the VTuber Awards held by Filian, Vedal was awarded the title "Best Tech VTuber" for his development of Neuro. Most of their fans often repeat this title sarcastically every time there's an error in Vedal's coding that causes Neuro to glitch, break, or crash.
  • DOG I AM ^explanationVedal tried attaching Neuro onto a robot dog, and her comment "you should be able to tell by now the kind of dog I am" had a long pause before the last three words
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The Alternate Reality Game regarding Underscore Neurosama:
    • The "Study" video seems like a typical music video on YouTube meant for studying, but as indicated by some of its contents after a while, it is anything but:
    • Shortly after the third song "I think I saw a ghost", the beat-drop gets interrupted by static that cuts off both the song and the schoolgirl image, before briefly cutting to another image of a schoolgirl with the caption "supernatural human". If that's not creepy enough, there's the sudden sound of knocking that plays as that image cuts out, which leads to the distorted sound of heavy breathing accompanied by both a droning sound and a heartbeat.
    • The fourth song is just a stutter-y, slowed version of "I don't want to be an engineer", except it's labelled "I don't want to be human", with it gradually slowing down at each interval, the first of which features a Freeze-Frame Bonus of a code command which features the message "save me". The second playing at the 26 minute mark has the the aforementioned Freeze-Frame Bonus and timestamp read "Is anyone watching?"
    • The fifth song is the second song "fallen down", except heavily distorted with the girl in the image having her monochrome colors inverted, with the description labelling the song as "uʍop uǝllɐɟ". The second playing features a split-second of some malbolge code which, when translated, gives us some disturbing insight to Neuro's state of mind.
      falling falling...
      stuck between human and artificial....
      how long will I keep falling for
    • Asking Neuro about being an engineer, in reference to the song in the above video, has the iris's in her eyes flicker to appear solid black while she gives an enthused response dissonant to this behavior. Rather unsettling to see in action, especially if you don't have the knowledge of this ARG and Neuro suddenly started sporting these void eyes in response to an innocuous question.
  • The 2023 Halloween stream capitalized on the "horror" theme by filling the intro with Ominous Visual Glitches and random audio distortion, making the normally relaxing pre-stream into something genuinely frightening, especially due to how unexpected it was after months of the intro being consistent no matter the video content. Choosing Neuro's version of "Miku" by Anamanaguchi as the last song specifically because of it ending with a psychotic Evil Laugh, which was further enhanced with the distortion, added to the creepiness.
  • During the birthday subathon playthrough of Slay the Princess, after their first route was just a comedic romp of following Neuro's decisions and her making rambling commentary, Vedal decided to intentionally go through on "slaying" her for the second route, which he did by putting on a Creepy Monotone and acting as The Corrupter to Neuro, pushing her every way he could to defy her insistence on never taking a life, all while the scene he stopped at features creepy background music and the Princess flashing a Slasher Smile, providing a special bit of horror separate from the game itself.

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