General Discussion for Virtual Youtubers / Vtubers / Chuubas - it's okay to be a simp for 2D, just don't thirstpost.

[Scuttle]

Anycolor has finally shared more details on their 'Virtual Talent Academy' (VTA) that they announced about 4 months ago.

They will be debuting 9 members — 5 men and 4 women — in 30min relays on Nov. 4. It's unknown if they'll get their own channel or if they'll all be operating under the main YouTube Channel for the sake of brevity.

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(From left to right starting from bottom: Misono Satoshi, Amagase Muyu, Fuura Kanato, Ponto Nei, Watarai Hibari, Kaburaki Roko, Shikinagi Akira, Suzumiya Sonata, Umise Yotsuha)

The goal is to give people who are brand new to streaming the opportunity, education, and experience of a V-Tuber, so that they can either go on to join Nijisanji, or at least have the professional experience of working under Anycolor on their résumé to join other corporations. This accomplishes a few things:

1) It alleviates the unofficial 'Experience required' bar to entry most big corporations have; as the likes of Nijisanji and Hololive tend to favour people who already have a history of streaming or content creation.
1a) This essentially protects all of them from having their past lives and identities found out by conventional means, as there is no past life to find.

2) It allows Anycolor to trial people they think have potential in a real streaming environment towards a live audience (it'll probably be much smaller than Nijisanji debuts by design, so I wouldn't expect much cross-promotion).

3) It adds more stability to, and improves the health of, what is a young, 'Wild West' industry by offering literal training programs free of charge (Anycolor is fronting all the costs, it seems).

Overall I think this is a really good initiative. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of skepticism but the worst it can do is not work out. It gives the 'normal' person an opportunity to make a career of themselves, rather than be the unfortunate souls who applied for the same spots as, say, IRyS and Millie Parfait, and didn't stand a chance.

UPDATE:
Found more info of this from its initial application form.

• Japanese nationals only (duh).
• Promising students will have an offer extended to them to join Nijisanji.
• Anycolor will be paying for everything (except maybe their own equipment).
• The members will have a management team behind them.

Second update to this:

Applicants had to be available for 5 days a week, and they will be attending the studio to perform their streaming tasks.

In other words, Anycolor probably only needed to front the costs for 9 PC setups and 9 iPhones that won't leave the studio. Based on the illustrations, it seems at most the males and females respectively were all drawn by the same in-house person as kind of a 'base' design, so they really didn't have to invest THAT much relative to what they'll make back when recruits join the company.

It's going to be very interesting to me watching a grassroots talent make their way into Nijisanji in real-time. We get to see their first ever attempt at streaming and how they develop.

 

[Rhialtokourai]

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https://twitter.com/hololiveALT/status/1454778900223905800

Late, but is this THE lyger?

Kiara‘s schedule. Separate collabs with Flare and Aqua, and a very busy Saturday.

We have the merge (and Kiara ambushing Flare during her "solo" visit) to thank for Flare telling Kiara that she tried to learn German.

 

[Fukkboi]

Kiki a.k.a bunnyonvt is the one getting canceled not Lumi, These are the clips of Kiki that a tranny sent to Phasecon management to get her and Pippa in trouble:
https://streamable.com/ewl455
https://streamable.com/oxbpsz
https://streamable.com/vbvbt9
https://streamable.com/ssu0kp
https://streamable.com/waxg6p
https://streamable.com/b6379z
https://streamable.com/kku3so
https://streamable.com/s8ehzz
https://streamable.com/vj2msb
https://streamable.com/pdpll8

Thanks for sharing this. She just earned herself another sub

 

[Hmmpf!]

Late, but is this THE lyger?

"Wait where's Matsuri in the manga? YOU LIED TO ME HOLLOW LIFE!" - Lyger

 

[IdenticalPlateaus]

Late, but is this THE lyger?

Based on how rare it is for Holomem to have translators subbing on their official channel this isn't too surprising, lyger most likely has already been put through the bureaucratic gauntlet that Cover requires to trust someone.

 

[Airihead]

Does Mori count as undead?
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According to Fra in graveyard shift yes

My introduction to Nijisanji was actually Roa too

Also was Ryugon's past life ever discovered? He's really been making the rounds

I think hes fresh meat he claimed to have no streaming experience whatsoever and applied on a whim

 

[I am not here]

hold on to your nuts farmers.. the squirrel is gonna be too stronk for a whole month

stolen from leddit

 

[Tatsunoko]

Marika seems to be screwing around in VRoid Studio. As someone who never tried it, it's pretty interesting seeing someone use it on stream.

Also more PekoMiko going on:

All the rrats seething.

 

[kadmckool]

More people show up for the owl “studying ASMR”.

Consider how rip off and over inflate US higher education is, the owl is smart to invest in her future. She was probably in her junior or senior years Uni base on her age (23). She could turn this into a long series from College arc to grad school arc and have her simps pay for it all. Smart move.

 

[paule]

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Late, but is this THE lyger?

Mainly lyger, IAmVisco and fts did the translation of the lore for HoloAlternative in the Holonometria. So yes, it's him

 

[mandatorylurk]

Kinda offtopic. Sponsored stream is very lucrative. Crazy that you can get $150k for 4 hours. This guy averages 21k ccv on twitch btw.

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Since holo is getting alot of sponsorship now i hope they get good money from it.

Am I the only one who feels like the concept of money and value has just been totally destroyed in recent years? Roughly two years salary for 4 hours of a saturated game, what the fuck. Whenever Finana does Genshin streams I assume she's getting something like 2,000 a stream, which would be roughly a buck fitty a live viewer but maybe she's getting more than that even after Niji's cut.

 

[DrStupid]

Thanks for sharing this. She just earned herself another sub

Links removed because of "ToS violation"

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

The glowies got Nenetan.

 

[Witthel]

 

[Scuttle]

Am I the only one who feels like the concept of money and value has just been totally destroyed in recent years? Roughly two years salary for 4 hours of a saturated game, what the fuck. Whenever Finana does Genshin streams I assume she's getting something like 2,000 a stream, which would be roughly a buck fitty a live viewer but maybe she's getting more than that even after Niji's cut.

It's all about franchises and advertising now. Sports players and actors get obscene amounts of money to do their job. A streamer I watch said he turned down a $5,000 offer to advertise one of those shitty Final Fantasy F2P games for a stream, and he only streams to 50-150 people at a time. That's a few months rent.

I do agree with you, though, the nature of streaming has become a lucrative marketing/advertisement vein, but the money makes millionaires of individuals rather than other companies. People can donate their own money however they want, though, as it's theirs to spend — as long as people maintain perspective on it. I will say that I find 'SC Opening Celebration' streams to be disgusting, though.

I, for one, will only spend money on Memberships, as I know I'm getting a product in return for my spending. I would do the same for merch, too, but I wonder how sad I'd feel about having all this physical merch for a streamer who has graduated, vanished, and their media lost, so I tend not to. I did buy Towa's Bibi cap but that's it.

 

[Slowie Joey]

Edit:

 

[Swingletonthesimpleton]

Kiki a.k.a bunnyonvt is the one getting canceled not Lumi, These are the clips of Kiki that a tranny sent to Phasecon management to get her and Pippa in trouble:
https://streamable.com/ewl455
https://streamable.com/oxbpsz
https://streamable.com/vbvbt9
https://streamable.com/ssu0kp
https://streamable.com/waxg6p
https://streamable.com/b6379z
https://streamable.com/kku3so
https://streamable.com/s8ehzz
https://streamable.com/vj2msb
https://streamable.com/pdpll8

Apparently the tranny that sent those made a twitter account, funny part is all their evidence got deleted LEL.

https://twitter.com/kikiexposed?t=gYS-yap4fi0g79PutHbI_Q&s=09

 

[EliteDoragon]

Also more PekoMiko going on:

All the rrats seething.

She is in voice with Kanata now. Miko is the queen of minecraft collabs right now.

 

[lakyus]

Thanks for sharing this. She just earned herself another sub

Links removed because of "ToS violation"

Spoiler: Good thing I backed those up

 

[Azchan]

There are people here who don't know IronMouse has a kid? Huh.

I mean given her condition and the stories about her not being able to leave her room (which we can assume are true), the way she talks and acts its just something you would either expect people to bring up a bit more or not something you would assume.

Marika seems to be screwing around in VRoid Studio. As someone who never tried it, it's pretty interesting seeing someone use it on stream.

If you edit the standard textures you can create something that doesn't look like ass. Yuni also did a few VRoid studio streams while she just ranted about weird shit. Those are always fun.

Am I the only one who feels like the concept of money and value has just been totally destroyed in recent years? Roughly two years salary for 4 hours of a saturated game, what the fuck. Whenever Finana does Genshin streams I assume she's getting something like 2,000 a stream, which would be roughly a buck fitty a live viewer but maybe she's getting more than that even after Niji's cut.

I agree. I would chill so fucking much and do sponsored streams if I had the opportunity. Don't care if people call me a sellout.

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When I get home from work I will work on the rejected Holo models.