General V-Tuber thread

IT BEAT OUT BENNY THE BUTCHER

It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.

Isn't that how getting #1 works? You beat the people below you?

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The person doing the beating usually isn't a pink haired anime girl grim reaper though.

I did download the album this morning on Spotify the minute I heard it was available, so I guess I contributed to this.

That is also a fairly uncommon sort of thing to make an attempt to chart.

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She started from the bottom now she's here.

"Have a good day. Have a good week. Have a good month. Have a good year. Have a good life." ~Civia

TBH it's not that uncommon for weird things to top iTunes charts. FFXIV Shadowbringers' OST topped the album chart and DMCV's "Devil Trigger" topped the rock singles chart to my knowledge.

The real test is seeing how far it gets on the Billboard 200, if at all.

Do you need Spotify Premium to download music?

It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.

Calliope just hit 500,000 subscribers.

It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.

And Gura hit 1 million.

Appropriately, they're doing a Minecraft collab.

Edited by RainehDaze on Oct 22nd 2020 at 3:51:32 PM

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So Amelia is streaming the Witcher 3 today. How long before she trades her minecraft addiction for a Gwent one?

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet Unless I grew it. In that case, throw it in the trash.

Calli's success went a bit beyond the rap charts.◊

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Collab with Daft Punk when?

I think a collab with Gorillaz would be even better.

Jason has come back to kill for Mommy.

Didn't K's produce for Vocaloid tracks at some point? Maybe she could have Miku feature as a guest singer on one of her tracks. Or Luka, lean into the joke about how similar they look.

...fuck, I don't think I can unsee that now.

It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.

Oh wow, I'm so happy for Calli right now. For a formerly independent musician youtuber, topping a global album sales chart so soon after getting wider exposure must feel like a literal dream come true.

Relevant:

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Speaking of singers, in the wake of their accidental duet Kiara and Nene are doing a real collab in about two hours. Looks like it's a concert of their own.

Tentative, but it looks like a decision is being reached by Cover Corp on what to do regarding hololive's Chinese division following the whole "two talents innocently mention an island nation that's in Google's analytics when talking about their audiences' distributions; cue the rabid nationalist cyberharassment" debacle:

• holoCN is getting disbanded;
• Cover will complete work on any in-progress things (e.g. Civia apparently being due for a new outfit) and hand over the rights & assets (live2D models, etc.) to the former holoCN talents;
• Cover will try to help them based on what they want to do (i.e. become independent, join another agency, or graduate); and
• The company won't take its share of revenue for the remainder of the negotiation period.

There hasn't been a written statement published by hololive/Cover to, say, their Twitter yet, but many of these details were apparently explained by Artia during a recent stream.

Really sucks that things played out this way. That said, honestly, being involved in the PRC's entertainment market is kind of a Faustian bargain whichever way you slice it, so it feels like this was a 'when' more so than an 'if'...

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The point at which it required putting two of the most popular JP members on suspension is the point it's really not worth it.

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Especially when the two of them bring in more money than the entire Chinese branch combined. Which wasn't something the CN talent could help. Only two of them were able to get on platforms outside of the CCP approved ones.

I wish them better days ahead.

Unrelated, but I think Gura has proved that almost anyone can build a computer. If the person that doesn't know what a router is and can't remember what any of the components are actually called (she was forgetting what RAM is right before this) can get it working, anybody with the requisite motor skills can do it.

EN and 5th gen are doing an Among Us collab. Whoever guessed that was right in the end.

Edited by RainehDaze on Oct 23rd 2020 at 4:11:44 PM

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Maybe that one misplaced loaf of bread got slotted in somewhere on the motherboard by accident... the plot thickens...

Speaking of Gura, I'm kind of wondering: has she taken the time to properly affirm the stream-audience etiquette/rules yet? There was that incident around two weeks ago where people were saying 'Countdown to Gura Stream Start' in Amelia's Minecraft stream, announcing that they were leaving to go watch Gura, yelling about whatever Gura was doing (still in Ame's chat), then spamming "GURA RAID" when Gura was done. Basically, there was a big spell of time in which Ame's chat was dominated by people who just wanted to talk about Gura.

It's in pretty much every hololive V-Tuber's rules (and possibly V-Tubers in general) that audience members shouldn't bring up other streamers unless the streamer themselves brings them up. Gura sort-of brought it up the next day, but in a "uh small important thing, but uh, not very important, but kind of is, but not really, uh, there are rules at the bottom of the video, so uh, you can read those maybe" sort of way which had people in chat disagreeing, brushing it off as "triggered Karens" or what-have-you rather than, as Pikamee of VOMS once described it to her English-speaking audience, a "biiig no-no".

I'll be worried if Gura isn't able to come down on her audience where it might become necessary... maybe I'm just a worrywart, but I do get Eternal September vibes from the boom that's in full swing right now.

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Yes.

EDIT: If that's not enough, I'm not sure what you're... really expecting? "Please obey the rules" is pretty much the limit of the influence she can have beyond reading rules out, which wouldn't really... do more.

She's already ignoring anyone who tries to turn it into a competition and mentions sub counts, obviously.

Edited by RainehDaze on Oct 23rd 2020 at 5:13:00 PM

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Ah, that was the bit I was talking about. I suppose when I first saw that clip I worried that her explanation seemed kind of wishy-washy, given that she seemed at pains to actually say “don’t do that”, and you had people in chat interpreting it as some kind of Forced Bit which she’d been wrongfully put up to or something.

If the like hasn’t happened (at least to near the same degree) since, then I’m happy.
EDIT: Good point. Maybe I’m mixing up notions internally, and half-thinking ‘is what she did enough’ when what I should think is ‘could anything she do be enough [given the magnitude of the audience]’. Streamers can’t do more than a certain amount to bring chat in line; that’s what mods are for (and mods of course will struggle with anything sufficiently large).

Edited by coruscatingInquisitor on Oct 24th 2020 at 3:33:51 AM

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