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

[Nolan Crush]

The memelords are collabing together, this'll be good

 

[NuPerezzorcjunmunospolkos]

Kronii sounds a full decade older than Gura.

Edit: Aaaaand shes barely a year older. Whats with 24/25 yr olds sounding like boomers and everyone 23 is zoomer af. Does a year or two really make that much of a difference?

 

[Godzilla1984]

Wait, you people are not just banned from the PCG Discord; you're banned from Discord itself? Jesus Christ

Internet master race, y'all.

 

[Just a Basic Plebian]

Spoiler: some catching up replies

Here you go

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Also the legendary Otoro Battle
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Their battle was legendary

My favorite Pokemon nickname has got to be Subaru's Bidoof named Justin.
The joke is that Bidoof is called Beaver in Japanese.

Justin Beaver

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KSON joining VShojo confirmed?

It wouldn't come as a shocker if she is. But for now, meinkraft toor.

Someone made an interesting mashup of two popular fan projects that work pretty well together

Can't wait for the complete animation, so we can have some voiceovers.

Bae taking a week long break starting next week.

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Also, she's drooping some kind of new project (kinda like a TV show apparently); first episode will be on the 30th.
She's been working on it since shortly after debut so should be interesting.

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I wonder whose silhouette are those

The memelords are collabing together, this'll be good

They smashin

Kronii sounds a full decade older than Gura.

Edit: Aaaaand shes barely a year older. Whats with 24/25 yr olds sounding like boomers and everyone 23 is zoomer af. Does a year or two really make that much of a difference?

Yes, couple with lifestyle and maybe genes

 

[takowednesday]

The memelords are collabing together, this'll be good

"get ready to get konkey donged" - Gawr Gura

 

[thhrang]

Tweet Link | Reddit Post | Archive

Spoiler: Contents

We at VShojo wanted to make a statement about our recent Cybersecurity efforts.

TLDR: VShojo has invested greatly into the safety and protection of its talent. We want to clear up some recent misconceptions in the community, and below is an incident report that goes into the details of what has been happening with cyberattacks against VTubers this year. VShojo's cybersecurity expert helped write this, so there's detailed technical information presented.

Earlier this year, VShojo retained a 3rd party cybersecurity firm to help deal with the sort of swatting and doxing that many top livestreamers have to deal with. Working with the experts, VShojo could tackle these important issues at an industry-leading level of proficiency. Working together, we achieved something unique to this industry. Thanks to our experts, we were able to find authorities willing to take online harassment seriously and treat it like the criminal matter that it truly is. Working with our experts and our talent, we documented evidence and helped law enforcement put together cases that they will ultimately bring against the perpetrators of numerous swatting, doxing, and harassment incidents this year.

This has been happening since Spring of 2021 and these recent days signal our first public acknowledgement of these efforts.

It is important to know that investigations involving online crime almost always take a very long time- a year at least. This is true even for cases like swatting where law enforcement is also a victim. So if your end goal is an arrest, you have to be quiet and wait so you don't tip off the attackers that you're pursuing them. While it can be counter-intuitive, this is the unanimous advice we received from both cybersecurity experts and law enforcement. Maintain a poker face outwardly, but document *everything*.

VShojo has been breaking new ground in this arena, and for many in the community, the world of criminal investigations may be completely unfamiliar. That's okay! We're here to help the community and our cybersecurity expert has offered to help too. In response to some of these misconceptions about recent cyber incidents, our expert has written some bullet points below. It can get pretty dense and technical but we hope that you find it educational, especially if you are interested in technology and cybersecurity.

For reasons pertaining to safety, as well as protecting law enforcement investigations, there are still things we can't tell you. Our cybersecurity experts and law enforcement contacts unanimously agree that any form of taunting or bragging directed at threat actors is highly likely to inspire retaliatory attacks that otherwise would not have happened, and they also emphasize that excessive public disclosures could allow them to cover their tracks. Additionally, publicizing the names of harmful communities helps their recruitment and helps more people find harmful personal information. Because of this, we ask for your understanding. We share what we can to show that we are trying very hard to protect the safety of VTubers and respect the dignity of victims of harassment, but when we can't share, we ask for your trust that it's for a good reason.

FAQ and Misconceptions:

Concerning Endorsements

• VShojo does not endorse any statements or views by parties that have no official affiliation to VShojo.
• During these incidents, VShojo has proactively reached out to assist numerous victims unaffiliated with the company, including moderators, independent VTubers, and their families. While we express gratitude to all who could assist by providing their information, and we sincerely hope they are doing better now, this gratitude is not a blanket endorsement from the company concerning their statements.

Various speculation about whether or not any individual is arrested

• Due to ongoing law enforcement investigations, VShojo will not be confirming whether or not any individual was arrested. Any statements made here should not be taken as a confirmation or denial that any arrests happened.
• The only people who know the true current state of the case are those who were informed about it directly by law enforcement. Because of laws in particular jurisdictions, this arrest will not appear in any public records.
• VShojo has been working on building other deterrents- separately from law enforcement investigations- so decreases in swatting activity should not be taken as proof that an arrest happened.

Various inquiries about a VShojo impersonation phishing campaign

• At this time, VShojo does not believe this specific campaign or domain presents an ongoing threat.
• VShojo's aggressive response severely limited the reach of this phishing campaign.
  • The attack infrastructure was taken down rapidly
  • Assistance from network service providers confirmed only 2 victims.
  • Activity has not resumed.
  • VShojo took additional deterrent steps that won't be detailed here.
• Forensic analysis determined no breach to VShojo's systems.
• The contractual language used in the phishing lures does not resemble genuine VShojo contracts in any way. It is not clear where the threat actor obtained that language, but it was from somewhere else.
• Given the facts of the situation, and that harm could be reduced without giving attention to attention-seeking criminals, it was agreed upon that giving public notoriety to this was inappropriate, and that giving any attention could spur additional campaigns. For a while, all parties followed this, and so far no further campaigns happened.
• Technical timeline of events:
  • The phishing emails were sent from a newly registered, highly convincing, impersonation domain.
  • Created over a month ago at 23:30:13 on October 14th, 2021 and ultimately survived less than one week.
  • At the start, all it did was display harmful personal information.
  • VShojo submitted complaints to the registrar (a company that sells domains) on October 15th and got it disabled same day.
  • The perpetrator opened a dispute and got the domain back, tweaking things to be more resistant to takedown.
  • This is when the phishing began.
  • As soon as VShojo learned of this, it immediately reached out to both victims to obtain information necessary for takedowns(the registrar requires email headers), and to support them in any way possible. VShojo ensured the federal agents working on the broader case received the local police report for the one swatting attack so this victim could see justice. Using the information provided by victims, VShojo was finally able to get the domain taken down again on October 20th.
  • To prevent a third recurrence, VShojo worked with law enforcement to go one level above the registrar, which is called the registry that controls all domains ending in ".org", so the registrar can't give it back at all. Thankfully it never came to this, but this is how far we were willing to go.
  • Domain's total lifespan: less than one week.
  • No similar activity has been observed before or since.

A misconception that the impersonation domain was used to "dox 12 vtubers"

• The methods used to attack the other VTubers were confirmed to be unrelated to phishing and impersonating VShojo.
• As mentioned before, the fake domain was created on October 14th, 2021 and survived for less than a week, and the other VTubers' incidents happened outside this time window.
• As mentioned before, thanks to partners, VShojo confirms there are only 2 victims of this campaign.

Various speculation about the identity of the perpetrator

• VShojo received information from a phishing victim about purported personal information belonging to the perpetrator of these acts. This information was already familiar to VShojo as these bogus identities were frequently used as an intentional misdirection. The true identity of the perpetrator is different from all the information provided by this source. VShojo informed the source of this fact.
• Claims that information used on an 18+ adult website identified the perpetrator. This claim is impossible because the perpetrator is, in truth, a minor. Any identity information provided to such a site is bogus. The only party VShojo has shared the perpetrator's identity information with is law enforcement.

Claims based on information provided, videos shared, by a friend of the swatter

• As soon as VShojo was aware of the claim of a video provided by a friend of the swatter, it warned the victim who provided this that they were being socially engineered.
• This is a common tactic used by the group behind these attacks. During their attack, the swatter will send a friend of theirs to reach out to the victim and pretend to provide aid, comfort, information, and try to get close to the victim. It is a form of emotional manipulation. Anyone under attack from swatting, doxing, and harassment should be wary of outreach from unverified accounts from strangers.

General Safety Advisory
Swatting and doxing are, unfortunately, a job hazard experienced by many streamers especially when they reach larger audiences. VShojo urges streamers as a general practice to work with local law enforcement about potential risks due to the nature of the work. It is important to control your personal information and be aware of how it may appear in public records and database breaches. The physical address of your current residence should be closely guarded.

If you fall victim to swatting, be aware that swatters are usually "spree" style criminals, and that you were likely not the only victim. It is important to notify federal law enforcement about such incidents, even if you have already filed a report with local law enforcement. Local police do not always notify federal police about swatting incidents, and until the US government catches up to cybercrime, this task falls to the victim.

 

[Takodachi]

Brother, life is so much easier when you dont even pay attention to the Vshoujo/Nux shitfest.

In other news
Ina is stil streaming Pokemon
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

 

[NuPerezzorcjunmunospolkos]

@thhrang tldr that sounds like a "Fuck Nuxfag" to me.

 

[Godzilla1984]

Based rabbit.

Rise up, Turtle Gang.

 

[murdered meat bag]

Got a response back from Discord regarding being banned. Yes I did use a phone number that is mine that I've had for an extremely long time and this is the answer I got:

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It would be nice if there were future meet and greets on there or events to be able to participate but I guess discord figured out I'm not the type of people they want on their site. Honestly given the site's shit layout and the level of faggotry that goes on there I can't say being blackballed really upsets me too much.



In my case maybe Discord fears the slav. If I were a more clever man I would figure out how to profit off of this.



Not a Pokemon fan but I wonder how fast the stream will get derailed.

have you tried setting opening a discord account with lolcow.email?

@thhrang tldr that sounds like a "Fuck Nuxfag" to me.

when did the vshojo phishing start? a few weeks ago or earlier in the year?

 

[sashimi]

Morning jumping, bois

 

[Godzilla1984]

have you tried setting opening a discord account with lolcow.email?

My sin is ProtonMail.
They probably autoYEET anything other than Gmail or Outlook.

 

[Takodachi]

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Reverse image search is refusing to work with this pic for whatever reason, so no sauce unfortunately.

Ina shared it 6 hours ago

 

[masterstocking]

Haachama's cooking attempts are becoming more interesting, to say the least

 

[murdered meat bag]

My sin is ProtonMail.
They probably autoYEET anything other than Gmail or Outlook.

lolcow.email works fine.

 

[Godzilla1984]

lolcow.email works fine.

Too late anyway, the one number I used, and the one number @Sopmod Senior used are on their ban list now.

 

[Takodachi]

Too late anyway, the one number I used, and the one number @Sopmod Senior used are on their ban list now.

How do you manage to get banned.
I still use discord and I call people niggers and trannies on a regular basis.

on an unrelated note
anyone has anything to watch? I dont wanna watch Pokemon, and I'm persona non-grata on Pippa's chat

 

[Godzilla1984]

How do you manage to get banned.
I still use discord and I call people niggers and trannies on a regular basis.

Fuck if we know.
Too much chad energy, I guess.

 

[Diya]

@thhrang tldr that sounds like a "Fuck Nuxfag" to me.

Yes, basically saying whatever his heroic acts he think he did isn't actually necessary, at least for the Vshojo phishing situation. A league away from the initial thank you letter from a few days ago. That aside, what the hell with that language? "Bogus"? I mean, yeah it's a Reddit post, but I thought they said it's official-official.

 

[sashimi]

anyone has anything to watch? I dont wanna watch Pokemon, and I'm persona non-grata on Pippa's chat

You like Smash?