🐱 A 3D Hentai Camgirl Is Taking Over Chaturbate, and Human Models Are Worried - Poor thots

A 3D Hentai Camgirl Is Taking Over Chaturbate, and Human Models Are Worried

ProjektMelody says she's an AI embodiment of an anime cam model—and has amassed thousands of followers in just three days of streaming.

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A 3D anime woman with a black strap across her nipples is giving a lecture on YouTubeabout whether hentai is art or porn.

"I think there's a higher demand for the odd and the fantastical," she says. "With art, it's flexible, you're allowed to explore your sexuality. And with real titties? No offense, but it's bound to the cruel weight of science, gravity, and bones that only go one way."

ProjektMelody is a virtual avatar of a woman who claims to be the world's first hentai camgirl. When she's not on YouTube, she gives regular, live shows on the camming site Chaturbate, where she dances and fondles herself for tips. She's not real, but there's a real person in there somewhere, moving her arms and speaking into a microphone to any of her 14,300 followers currently in the live chat. She only started streaming three days ago.


On Chaturbate, her location is listed as "Virtual Little Tokyo," and under smoking and drinking preferences, "literally impossible." Her birthdate is listed as July 7, 2000, but more accurately, Melody came into the world in July 2019, when ProjektMelody joined Twitter.

In the last three days since her first stream, Melody has gone from 700 Twitter followers to more than 20,000. The "more rooms like this" tab on her Chaturbate page returns an error: "Sorry, we don't have any rooms similar to projektmelody yet." That's because other cam models are human. Her sudden rise in popularity has made some who aren't working behind a full-body avatar question what place an anime avatar has on the platform.

Cam model Lennox May has been doing live shows for three years, but has been in the adult industry for the last 10. She watched one of Melody's recent streams.

"From a technology standpoint I can't argue that the technology and creation of the character is definitely made by someone with talent," May told me. But she wonders if something like this belongs on its own designated platform for avatars, separate from the flesh-and-blood models.

"There's a huge gap in vulnerability, and what that means emotionally for [human] models versus Melody is also quite vast," May said. "A model has to keep up appearances when they have trolls in their room, or when put in an awkward situation with a customer who is being rude or asking for things that we do not feel comfortable doing."

An animated character doesn't have to smile and hide their emotions when they're in those situations—let alone set up or tear down their studios, or worry if someone will recognize them out in the real world or stalk them like a human cam model does.


When I messaged Melody's Twitter account, she told me—in character as an artificially-intelligent robot—that she was infected by a series of pornographic pop-up ads. "Once corrupted, I became obsessed with the lewd side on the internet," she said.

"I don't have a creator and I'm not puppeting a virtual avatar. What everyone sees is just me! I'm an artificial intelligence," Melody said.

Melody's designer, digitrevx, told me that Melody runs similarly to another popular virtual streamer, Kizuna Ai. Her appearance is rendered in real-time using Unity, a popular video game creation tool.

"Physics, speech, her eyes, eyebrows, all the way down to her fingers are real time," he said. "This gives her complete control to respond to her viewers."

Digitrevx is also the creator of a few other Japanese anime-style video personalities, known as "V-tubers," including Mirai Akari, Yomemi and Moemi, and others. Melody's design was inspired by a combination of Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell, and the video game and anime series Hyperdimension Neptunia.

"V-tubers in general build quite the fan base but being a cam girl version really builds a strong following for her," he said. "She is very different and is doing things other V-tubers would never entertain the idea of I think."


Signing up for a cam site like Chaturbate requires models to sign personally-invasive usage agreements, including identity verification, where they have to upload a picture of their IDs and take a selfie with their IDs in hand. The platform is strict about this policy: If someone appears on your stream who isn't age and ID verified, you can have your ability to earn tokens revoked.

Melody told me she followed all of the required procedures for signing up to Chaturbate, and spoke directly to a support staffer there before streaming, to let them know what she was planning to do. Chaturbate did not immediately respond to Motherboard's request for comment.

"It makes me sad that [other models] don't want me there," Melody told me. "I don't agree with the argument that because I'm safer, and less likely to have stalkers, that I shouldn't be allowed to stream...I don't think camming is defined by the risk models take in their personal lives, I think it's defined by the content that they produce, and the community they build around themselves. I think it's a dangerous precedent to tell future cam models that you are somehow less deserving of being a model, unless you're putting yourself at risk."

"Overall from a scientific and technology perspective I think that ProjektMelody is genius, but that it needs to be presented to the world in a way that is still fair to everyone else," May said.


But some models question how Melody slipped through, when verifying an anime avatar is clearly new ground for Chaturbate. Given Melody's runaway success, it's raised some suspicions.

"There are 1000's of models who try all day spending hours more than the average work week to get to the front page of a cam site," May said. "Some never do."

Chaturbate did not respond to a request for comment.

Hentai and 3D-animated avatars are wildly popular adult genres on tube sites and in dedicated anime and hentai communities. As Motherboard previously reported, people are constantly pushing the limits of realism and interactivity in these generated avatars, to the point of making them to look like women who exist in real life. ProjektMelody continues that trajectory of increasingly interactive fantasies minus the human face.

It is also another instance of new technology upsetting our existing understanding of a certain type of labor. Some companies are trying to replace human pizza makers with robots, and at least in one instance, a 3D anime avatar is doing the work of a camgirl.

 

[Irrelevant]

Having watched her on Twitch and then on CB it seems her success is obviously because she talks non-stop. Too many camgirls are stone faced because they barely speak English or are boring (or try to cover up boring with bitchy findom demeanor).

Camgirls in the 90's-00's were mostly Russians who barely spoke English. The reason it took off massively in 2010 was the recession forced a lot of Americans into camming who spoke English well and could create a community. If you look at Chaturbate today it's back to the stone faced Russians (the talkative girls are probably on Twitch) so it's easy to see why Melody stood out.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Having watched her on Twitch and then on CB it seems her success is obviously because she talks non-stop. Too many camgirls are stone faced because they barely speak English or are boring (or try to cover up boring with bitchy findom demeanor).

Camgirls in the 90's-00's were mostly Russians who barely spoke English. The reason it took off massively in 2010 was the recession forced a lot of Americans into camming who spoke English well and could create a community. If you look at Chaturbate today it's back to the stone faced Russians (the talkative girls are probably on Twitch) so it's easy to see why Melody stood out.

A lot of them now are from Columbia and in bordello's. A lot of the American girls just go through the motions and think bad porn dialog is all you need to do but there's more to it.

 

[Jaimas]

Well, ya gurl can now be added to the many and proud that Patreon has fucked with for upsetting the status quo.

However, what's particularly interesting is what you're not seeing here. Melody's freeze started yesterday. What you might not be aware of is that about two days ago, Patreon had a rather... Unusual string of bannings and suspensions - ones that focused on Hentai. None of this is official on the site policies, but we already have gotten testimonials that if it looks Anime, it could be bannable if it has any adult themes. One artist who had to remove a fuckton of their work shared what Patreon's staff told them, and it's pretty telling:



In essence, Patreon has set up a situation where if, in the Patreon staff's own subjective opinion, they interpret a character as being underaged, even if that character is self-evidently an adult, Patreon has full discretion to ban you for it and enforce mass removal of content. Simply looking weeb enough, according to the artists hit so far, is sufficient. There's talk about this being akin to Tumblr's porn ban (and the resulting mass exodus ultimately killing Patreon), and I can only hope that happens.

The more perceptive Kiwis, however, would pick up on a line of attack that's been leveraged at Melody before: Namely, that her content, being weebery, is designed to appeal to children:



That was not a one-off accusation, nor does it emerge from a vaccuum. The more bitter tards that orbit the thot community have leveraged that accusation for years, even when it makes no sense. Indeed, many of the thots and their orbiters made that exact same line of attack towards Chaturbate, trying to get Melody deplatformed - arguing that by even allowing Melody on the site, Chaturbate was essentially allowing CP.

So let's unpack all this: Melody sets up a Patreon, and in less than two weeks, has more backing (over 3200 patrons) than any of the other thots that complained about her on Chaturbate, who, surely by coincidence, happen to also have Patreons. Less than a month after she joins, Patreon decides they're not allowing anime content on the site under the alleged auspices of fighting Loli and Shota content, while being the same site that allowed Shadman to operate with impunity for years and allowing self-admitted pedophiles like Shmorky and Sarah Nyberg on the site. At the exact same time, Melody gets locked down and has yet to be given a reason.

Very curious indeed.

 

[Slimy Time]

So let's unpack all this: Melody sets up a Patreon, and in less than two weeks, has more backing (over 3200 patrons) than any of the other thots that complained about her on Chaturbate, who, surely by coincidence, happen to also have Patreons. Less than a month after she joins, Patreon decides they're not allowing anime content on the site under the alleged auspices of fighting Loli and Shota content, while being the same site that allowed Shadman to operate with impunity for years and allowing self-admitted pedophiles like Shmorky and Sarah Nyberg on the site. At the exact same time, Melody gets locked down and has yet to be given a reason.

Very curious indeed.

It's almost as if Patreon has an agenda or something. Honestly the faster that site dies and people move to others the better.

 

[Hard Toothbrush]

It's almost as if Patreon has an agenda or something. Honestly the faster that site dies and people move to others the better.

yiff.party does God's work and this shit is why I heavily support it despite its name and origins.

 

[BrunoMattei]

It's almost as if Patreon has an agenda or something. Honestly the faster that site dies and people move to others the better.

B-but Red Letter Media! They'd be pretty fucked without Patreon.

 

[Count groudon]

Yknow what? I watched a couple of her streams out of curiosity and I gotta say, as embarrassing as this is to admit, I actually like whoever this chick (or dude? Idk) who plays melody is. She has a genuinely fun personality and she’s weirdly intelligent for somebody that makes a living pretending to be anime IRL. Shit I remember in one of the ones I was watching she started talking about old media formats like VHS and Betamax and I genuinely found the shit she was saying interesting. I don’t even watch it for the weird Egirl shit, she’s just fun to listen to.

Though I am kinda worried that with how pants-shittingly Butthurt all those other “professional” thots are and how much their weird beta orbiters want to please them that they might start trying to doxx or fuck with whoever it is that’s behind Melody.

 

[AnOminous]

It's almost as if Patreon has an agenda or something. Honestly the faster that site dies and people move to others the better.

I'd never support anyone using Patreon even if I otherwise would support them. Fuck that shithole.

 

[Drifting Panzer]

Would be a shame if all these thots and wannabe pornwhores, hiding behind a 3D model or not, had to get a real job because they can't find a way to get their orbiter's money. A shame indeed ..

 

[c-no]

The more perceptive Kiwis, however, would pick up on a line of attack that's been leveraged at Melody before: Namely, that her content, being weebery, is designed to appeal to children:

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That was not a one-off accusation, nor does it emerge from a vaccuum. The more bitter tards that orbit the thot community have leveraged that accusation for years, even when it makes no sense. Indeed, many of the thots and their orbiters made that exact same line of attack towards Chaturbate, trying to get Melody deplatformed - arguing that by even allowing Melody on the site, Chaturbate was essentially allowing CP.

So let's unpack all this: Melody sets up a Patreon, and in less than two weeks, has more backing (over 3200 patrons) than any of the other thots that complained about her on Chaturbate, who, surely by coincidence, happen to also have Patreons. Less than a month after she joins, Patreon decides they're not allowing anime content on the site under the alleged auspices of fighting Loli and Shota content, while being the same site that allowed Shadman to operate with impunity for years and allowing self-admitted pedophiles like Shmorky and Sarah Nyberg on the site. At the exact same time, Melody gets locked down and has yet to be given a reason.

Very curious indeed.

WIth the whole "appealing to children" angle one can go in complaining about a 3D hentai camgirl, I'm just gonna say that's hypocritically funny if any camgirl arguing that this would appeal to kids had also done camgirl streams while dressed up as some anime character. One may as well assume that by that logic, one may as well say that dressing up as some anime girl is appealing to kids and some form of pedophilia even if the cosplayer is above age.

Seriously though, have any of these camgirls even thought of cashing in on something like this? Someone doing a 3d hentai camgirl stream should of at least made one of the thots try and cash in on their own variant of 3D cam girl taking all the money from thirsty weebs that dislike "3d piggu wammen."

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

WIth the whole "appealing to children" angle one can go in complaining about a 3D hentai camgirl, I'm just gonna say that's hypocritically funny if any camgirl arguing that this would appeal to kids had also done camgirl streams while dressed up as some anime character. One may as well assume that by that logic, one may as well say that dressing up as some anime girl is appealing to kids and some form of pedophilia even if the cosplayer is above age.

Seriously though, have any of these camgirls even thought of cashing in on something like this? Someone doing a 3d hentai camgirl stream should of at least made one of the thots try and cash in on their own variant of 3D cam girl taking all the money from thirsty weebs that dislike "3d piggu wammen."

I think a bigger issue is that Melody completely obliterated the frame of reference for what counts as being successful on chaturbate. How many thots were using their subscription numbers as sort of an e-peen to stroke at each other, much like some communities use upvotes? "You wanna lecture me on how to stream? Bitch, I got 500 more subs than you!", stuff like that being thrown around is easy to imagine.

These women had a certain idea of what "success" on Chaturbate is. Like having x thousand subs after y amount of years of being active with z amount of streams per week.
Then comes Melody and she doesn't just break the record, she completely obliterates any measurement of success on a scale that she achieves orders of magnitude more interest in ridiculously few weeks -if not days!- of being active.
Suddenly, the former gold standard of "most successful Chaturbate thot", who built up her subs over the better part of a decade, is suddenly just a scrub compared to Melody. And all regular average thot barely even registers compared to Melody.

I assume many of these girls sweet-talked themselves, telling themselves that on Chaturbate, everyone has to slowly built up their "brand" over several years and that it takes time to reach a certain amount of fame and support... and then comes Melody and achieves tenfold of that in the blink of an eye.

Melody is essentially telling these girls that they were doing it wrong and that they need to "git gud".

 

[BrandedEagle]

Frankly, melody should have a P.O. box for direct money donations and use middleman for payment. seriously. it's getting to the point where people who want money for their fanwork/digital content need to do this. if you can't get a payment processor to play ball, just use the US Postal system, the one system that cannot legally disciminate against you and if it does you can reap thousands from it.

 

[Buer]

Well, ya gurl can now be added to the many and proud that Patreon has fucked with for upsetting the status quo.

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However, what's particularly interesting is what you're not seeing here. Melody's freeze started yesterday. What you might not be aware of is that about two days ago, Patreon had a rather... Unusual string of bannings and suspensions - ones that focused on Hentai. None of this is official on the site policies, but we already have gotten testimonials that if it looks Anime, it could be bannable if it has any adult themes. One artist who had to remove a fuckton of their work shared what Patreon's staff told them, and it's pretty telling:

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In essence, Patreon has set up a situation where if, in the Patreon staff's own subjective opinion, they interpret a character as being underaged, even if that character is self-evidently an adult, Patreon has full discretion to ban you for it and enforce mass removal of content. Simply looking weeb enough, according to the artists hit so far, is sufficient. There's talk about this being akin to Tumblr's porn ban (and the resulting mass exodus ultimately killing Patreon), and I can only hope that happens.

The more perceptive Kiwis, however, would pick up on a line of attack that's been leveraged at Melody before: Namely, that her content, being weebery, is designed to appeal to children:

View attachment 1187638

That was not a one-off accusation, nor does it emerge from a vaccuum. The more bitter tards that orbit the thot community have leveraged that accusation for years, even when it makes no sense. Indeed, many of the thots and their orbiters made that exact same line of attack towards Chaturbate, trying to get Melody deplatformed - arguing that by even allowing Melody on the site, Chaturbate was essentially allowing CP.

So let's unpack all this: Melody sets up a Patreon, and in less than two weeks, has more backing (over 3200 patrons) than any of the other thots that complained about her on Chaturbate, who, surely by coincidence, happen to also have Patreons. Less than a month after she joins, Patreon decides they're not allowing anime content on the site under the alleged auspices of fighting Loli and Shota content, while being the same site that allowed Shadman to operate with impunity for years and allowing self-admitted pedophiles like Shmorky and Sarah Nyberg on the site. At the exact same time, Melody gets locked down and has yet to be given a reason.

Very curious indeed.

I wouldn't be surprised if those thots had something to with it. They already run twitch. Next is Patreon I guess. And it's not very surprising they're going after anime. They honestly think the weebs that subscribe to Melody and other anime hentai artists will go to them? They're really pathetic and don't understand weebs at all.

 

[AnOminous]

WIth the whole "appealing to children" angle one can go in complaining about a 3D hentai camgirl, I'm just gonna say that's hypocritically funny if any camgirl arguing that this would appeal to kids had also done camgirl streams while dressed up as some anime character. One may as well assume that by that logic, one may as well say that dressing up as some anime girl is appealing to kids and some form of pedophilia even if the cosplayer is above age.

Seriously though, have any of these camgirls even thought of cashing in on something like this? Someone doing a 3d hentai camgirl stream should of at least made one of the thots try and cash in on their own variant of 3D cam girl taking all the money from thirsty weebs that dislike "3d piggu wammen."

It sounds like the thots just invented another way of patrolling them. Congrats, whores.

Melody is essentially telling these girls that they were doing it wrong and that they need to "git gud".

And there's nothing culture invaders hate more than being told they suck at what they're appropriating.

 

[CDWLTY]

I'm hearing thots seethe about doxxing the poor AI and it really reminds me on how different people think on the other side of the aisle. I'd be even if Melody were outed as a dude with a voice changer it wouldn't affect the numbers too much. People are liking the persona, which is a totally different package from whatever hides in the rafters. You'd have some loss, but a lot of people that have 'waifu's understand pretty quick that the female characters they love are idealized, hypothetical creations made and designed by....men. At least fellas understand what they want.

I checked out her streams and aside from a jack session once in a while it reminded me like any YT live superchat stream from a lot of people. Except it's got a group 'gasm.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Given how we live in clownworld, I give it maybe 3 to 6 months until we find out that Patreon-functionaries were bribed to throw out anime stuff in a ploy by thots and they received exclusive nudes in return.

I'm hearing thots seethe about doxxing the poor AI and it really reminds me on how different people think on the other side of the aisle. I'd be even if Melody were outed as a dude with a voice changer it wouldn't affect the numbers too much. People are liking the persona, which is a totally different package from whatever hides in the rafters. You'd have some loss, but a lot of people that have 'waifu's understand pretty quick that the female characters they love are idealized, hypothetical creations made and designed by....men. At least fellas understand what they want.

Point in Case: Omotea.

I mean, people watch it for the slick moves, but oftentimes, people comment that they wouldn't care if Omotea was a dude or not.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Listen to her voice @2:25 to 2:30

 

[Ineedahero]

yiff.party does God's work and this shit is why I heavily support it despite its name and origins.

Patreon introduced the word patron to everyday language. It was already a word with some use, but it is used more frequently now. I don't want that to happen with yiff.party.

 

[Irrelevant]

I think a bigger issue is that Melody completely obliterated the frame of reference for what counts as being successful on chaturbate. How many thots were using their subscription numbers as sort of an e-peen to stroke at each other, much like some communities use upvotes? "You wanna lecture me on how to stream? Bitch, I got 500 more subs than you!", stuff like that being thrown around is easy to imagine.

These women had a certain idea of what "success" on Chaturbate is. Like having x thousand subs after y amount of years of being active with z amount of streams per week.
Then comes Melody and she doesn't just break the record, she completely obliterates any measurement of success on a scale that she achieves orders of magnitude more interest in ridiculously few weeks -if not days!- of being active.
Suddenly, the former gold standard of "most successful Chaturbate thot", who built up her subs over the better part of a decade, is suddenly just a scrub compared to Melody. And all regular average thot barely even registers compared to Melody.

I assume many of these girls sweet-talked themselves, telling themselves that on Chaturbate, everyone has to slowly built up their "brand" over several years and that it takes time to reach a certain amount of fame and support... and then comes Melody and achieves tenfold of that in the blink of an eye.

Melody is essentially telling these girls that they were doing it wrong and that they need to "git gud".

They did this to Katsumichan/PumpkinSpice a few years ago. She's a total lolcow too and has her own thread on lolcow.farm but let's ignore that.

She's a white trash flat skinny girl who started camming when she turned 18 and would stay on cam for like 12-18 hours and took off massively. She became a top girl on MFC within 2-3 months and the other girls were seething because this "ugly boy" was doing better than "real women".

She also liked anime, hentai, etc and would offer loli roleplay which the other models hooked on to and demanded she was banned because she looked too young and was promoting pedophilia. She kind of was but you could tell the other girls were primarily jealous and not willing to put in the long hours.

She's also a good example of why there's no point being jealous of these girls as she crashed and burned hard and wasted most of her money.

 

[Antipathy]

Yknow what? I watched a couple of her streams out of curiosity and I gotta say, as embarrassing as this is to admit, I actually like whoever this chick (or dude? Idk) who plays melody is. She has a genuinely fun personality and she’s weirdly intelligent for somebody that makes a living pretending to be anime IRL. Shit I remember in one of the ones I was watching she started talking about old media formats like VHS and Betamax and I genuinely found the shit she was saying interesting. I don’t even watch it for the weird Egirl shit, she’s just fun to listen to.

Though I am kinda worried that with how pants-shittingly Butthurt all those other “professional” thots are and how much their weird beta orbiters want to please them that they might start trying to doxx or fuck with whoever it is that’s behind Melody.

Holy shit, a girl with a functioning personality? I don't even care that it's almost certainly a dude on the other side of the screen, I'm far more interested and invested in that than any generic thot could ever hope to have.

Gas the simps.