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

[Todd's Mistake]

Not sure about Ame and Gura, but Ina sounds vastly different when she isnt putting on a uwu voice, so I dont think she would be easily recognizable, on top of looking chinky.

Spoiler: Ame

Looking past the pronunciation cues that match Ame's, I wouldn't immediately recognize the voice at a pass if I weren't listening for it, and this is in a controlled delivery environment. If this voice were talking in a group in public, I don't think anyone would notice.

Spoiler: Gura

Granted, this is pretty old, but it's also non-vtuber content so she's not putting on a character voice. Her voice has probably matured a bit from this point but I also don't think she'd have changed so much to be entirely different, I don't really know of a better, more recent example. The only way I can really hear the connection to Gura is in the way she speaks, similar kind of word patterns. I doubt anyone but severe autists (me) would even think of it, let alone non-native listeners.

Spoiler: Kiara

Despite some of her other Keeki content where she's basically still doing the Kiara voice, she does still have a more subdued/downplayed voice that isn't instantly identifiable. The vlog one is also a kind of good perspective of trying to hear someone in passing in the open, which would definitely make it harder to identify someone based on voice if they're just out in the city. So long as she keeps the cluck under wraps, though considering how widely known her face is among the lot of them she'd probably be the primary visual identifier to give them away.

Spoiler: Calli

I think the biggest detriment to a Mythblob touring Japan together would be Calli. She has a distinct sound to her voice that carries over even in Japanese since despite her general proficiency she still carries her vocal mannerisms that tinge her Japanese the same it tinges her English so she still sounds the same. I don't know what casual fashion trends are like in Japan/Tokyo, but judging from how she seems to dress more often than not she'd probably also visually stand out even more than just being a white woman.

 

[Takodachi]

Timestamped: @Flamenco makes an unexpected appearance in Pippa's stream and watches her for like twenty full minutes with chat. The shitposting on Jim's streams payed off, I suppose.

They're gonna try and get a collab set-up too.
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If you're reading this Flam, then I'd like to say that as one of Pippa's chat janitors, I really hope that everything goes well & that the collab gets to happen because it'd be funny as fuck. And good luck with your Guilty Gear fight against Jim later, too. Godspeed.

This year is off to a weird start with all these crossover episodes.

 

[Tor Lugosi]

Spoiler: Ame

Looking past the pronunciation cues that match Ame's, I wouldn't immediately recognize the voice at a pass if I weren't listening for it, and this is in a controlled delivery environment. If this voice were talking in a group in public, I don't think anyone would notice.

Why would you use her stiffly voice acting a character as a baseline for her real voice? Plenty of Sachiowo clips out there.

 

[Todd's Mistake]

Why would you use her stiffly voice acting a character as a baseline for her real voice? Plenty of Sachiowo clips out there.

I legitimately forgot about sachiowo.

 

[Tor Lugosi]

it's pretty much a 1:1 likeness with how she sounds as Ame

 

[Flamenco]

Timestamped: @Flamenco makes an unexpected appearance in Pippa's stream and watches her for like twenty full minutes with chat. The shitposting on Jim's streams payed off, I suppose.

They're gonna try and get a collab set-up too.
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If you're reading this Flam, then I'd like to say that as one of Pippa's chat janitors, I really hope that everything goes well & that the collab gets to happen because it'd be funny as fuck. And good luck with your Guilty Gear fight against Jim later, too. Godspeed.

The phrase of this year is "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

 

[Burnt Fish]

I thought of something and I haven't seen it discussed here.

What are the chances that HoloEN will be recognized in Japan when they inevitably go there? I understand that there are a lot of tourists and foreigners in Tokyo, but if they go anywhere all together (which Kiara said is the plan), is it possible that people would recognize their voices?

I guess it probably won't matter anyway because Japanese people might be too polite to do/say anything. But it's just a thought.

In pretty much 100% of scenarios I think there's more of a concern for them ever being recognized in the west than in Japan.

General Japanese social autism works pretty well in their favor when they're in Japan. Unless one of them goes full Jake Paul levels of unable to adapt to Japan there's practically a 0% chance of a rando stranger hearing them and recognizing it just because social norms dictate you keep conversation quiet and non-disruptive to others around you in public settings, preferably just not having them at all in places like trains and elsewhere.

Unless some random customer service worker interacting directly with them picks up on who they are while they're out to eat or something they'll be fine and even in those cases I doubt anything will come of it because of Japanese social autism. Consider how recognizable Coco's voice is and outside of a story or two about encountering normal-variety Japanese weirdos she hasn't seemed to have any issue.

Issues of random celebrity recognition I think are a more western issue, overzealous JP fans are more the type for long term stalking than random spur of the moment harassment, at least based on the types of horror stories you hear about crazy fans there. and since the girls would just be visiting those types of psychos just wouldn't be a problem.

 

[grenskul]

Japanese social autism

So you're telling me someone is going to try to grope Ame in a subway . I hope she calls them the gamer words.

 

[paule]

But can she beat Goku?

 

[augment]

Issues of random celebrity recognition I think are a more western issue, overzealous JP fans are more the type for long term stalking than random spur of the moment harassment, at least based on the types of horror stories you hear about crazy fans there. and since the girls would just be visiting those types of psychos just wouldn't be a problem.

This ties in with a point someone raised a while back. Why hasn't some deranged gachikoi figured out where the Cover hololive building is, camped a few blocks away the entrance with a telescopic lens camera and just patiently waited for the talents to go about their usual business.

 

[danny jr]

This ties in with a point someone raised a while back. Why hasn't some deranged gachikoi figured out where the Cover hololive building is, camped a few blocks away the entrance with a telescopic lens camera and just patiently waited for the talents to go about their usual business.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

 

[Rhialtokourai]

• Chloe was only pretending to be retarded

She became retarded again in time for the finals:

 

[kukkia]

The idea that random Japanese people are gonna see some white tourist-looking girls and think "oh wow, those must be Hololive EN" is pretty ridiculous. These are vtubers lol, not star actors or athletes. When you filter out all the people who don't watch vtubers - so, the majority of the population - as well as those who do but don't care about doxx posting - so, the majority of vtube watchers - you aren't left with many people. Enough that vtubers do occasionally get recognized, but not enough to make it overly likely in almost any given situation, especially not for foreign vtubers imo.

 

[Str8Bustah]

So you're telling me someone is going to try to grope Ame in a subway . I hope she calls them the gamer words.

Imagine you're on the subway watching some old pervert trying to feel up a woman only for her to spin around, punch him in the face and call him a nigger. I'd pay good money for that spectacle.

 

[EricHarris]

Vtubers are just a bunch of weeb soys for weeb soys, its just concentrated reddit energy.

 

[danny jr]

Rushia seems self-concious of her neck again lol.

 

[Scuttle]

I thought of something and I haven't seen it discussed here.

What are the chances that HoloEN will be recognized in Japan when they inevitably go there? I understand that there are a lot of tourists and foreigners in Tokyo, but if they go anywhere all together (which Kiara said is the plan), is it possible that people would recognize their voices?

I guess it probably won't matter anyway because Japanese people might be too polite to do/say anything. But it's just a thought.

Japan as a country typically do not like to speak directly or openly or make people uncomfortable. The ethos of customer service workers is to always give 110% and so outing a V-Tuber is inherently more trouble to them than it's worth if said V-Tuber elects to make a complaint.

It's very likely that V-Tubers aren't as stealthy as they like to think they are, it's just that they haven't been in a situation where it's ever affected them directly. Cover is based in Tokyo which has a high number of foreign tourists, and just as EOPs can't tell the difference between a Kansai and Aomori accent, JOPs are going to perceive HoloEN as a group of basic white American girls first and foremost.

I'm sure one or two autists may clock Calli or Kiara, but they're going to blend right in without issue for the most part.

 

[Renmai]

I thought of something and I haven't seen it discussed here.

What are the chances that HoloEN will be recognized in Japan when they inevitably go there? I understand that there are a lot of tourists and foreigners in Tokyo, but if they go anywhere all together (which Kiara said is the plan), is it possible that people would recognize their voices?

I guess it probably won't matter anyway because Japanese people might be too polite to do/say anything. But it's just a thought.

Slight tangent but I remember there was a clip of Gundou Mirei talking about a student recognizing her voice as a vtuber and keeping her secret. It looks like the clip has been privated so I'm going off my memory; it did exist tho. The Japs definitely seem way more respectful, in the states the students would likely have outed her for clout and gotten her fired.

 

[Scuttle]

Slight tangent but I remember there was a clip of Gundou Mirei talking about a student recognizing her voice as a vtuber and keeping her secret. It looks like the clip has been privated so I'm going off my memory; it did exist tho. The Japs definitely seem way more respectful, in the states the students would likely have outed her for clout and gotten her fired.

You're correct. She was mulling over if she should kill them and hide the bodies. I think she was considering bringing their parents in to sign an NDA or something but they told her they wouldn't say anything and cause trouble for her. She ended up moving schools shortly after anyway.

I think, of all the V-Tubers who wouldn't mind being identified, Gundou is definitely not one of them.

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Also, I know people are sick of Pokémon (and I am too), but please have this clip of Elira malding so hard that she actually left her seat and walked around her room.

 

[ChefKiss]

Quite a few hololive members have been seen and noticed at various comiket's over the years but people dont say anything to them and there are tons of other "celebrities" there and lots of security so it's probably different from a schizo seeing them on the street