My favorites were Fly Me To The Moon, Deja Vu, Gas Gas Gas, That's How You Know, Threw It On The Ground, A Whole New World. (missed Sugar, We're Going Down but it probably would've been on there). You might think "that's like half the list", exactly it's hard to choose just 1 or 3 or 5.
Marine seems to be reading lyric from English with her stumble on hard word like "sincere". If so, I'm impressed. She can read most of the lyric correctly. I hope she pick up language class again.
Also, the BaeMio EN saba tour is very cute. These two vibe off each other so well. The sudden development of Mio becoming mother-in-law of BaeIRyS is so funny.
IRyS was in Bae's chat and heard Bae calling Mio "mama". Somehow this spiralled into IRyS logging in to meet her "mother-in-law" and acting as their bodyguard against phantoms and Kronii's Endermen.
I follow some potential cow vtubers in case they have a meltdown and lock their accounts, but I swear to fucking god its painful to have to read their trash everyday.
Fuck me bao tweets so fucking much
you can mute accounts you follow so that you'll remain "following" but not actually get them on your feed, just go to their profile and hit the 3 dots next to the notifications icon above their profile
Don't know if she's been posted before, FearSona a Polish True Crimes presenter/animator that turned vtuber.
First saw her today with a reddit self promo on r/virtualyoutubers.
Now that it was mentioned, I got curious about what the Vtuber situation is over here; it's probably safe to say not to expect a NijiPL anytime soon. Hell, I can't even find any Holo/Vshojo clips other than "holy heck, she said the funny kurwa word/someone dropped a hundred dollars for the funny anime girl to struggle to say a single word, this is so epic".
Now that it was mentioned, I got curious about what the Vtuber situation is over here; it's probably safe to say not to expect a NijiPL anytime soon. Hell, I can't even find any Holo/Niji/Vshojo clips other than "holy heck, she said the funny kurwa word/someone dropped a hundred dollars for the funny anime girl to struggle to say a single word, this is so epic".
Two of the biggest things are happening to the vtuber market from what I have seen, an over-saturation due a low bar of entry as everyone discussed before and a return to normalcy so less time. Less time to watch, less time to engage. Any notable clippers are mostly following the bigger corpos like Niji and Holo. It takes a lot of work and a lot of bodies to build a community as strong as Holos. I wish those vtubers all the best.
Hell, I can't even find any Holo/Vshojo clips other than "holy heck, she said the funny kurwa word/someone dropped a hundred dollars for the funny anime girl to struggle to say a single word, this is so epic".
Two of the biggest things are happening to the vtuber market from what I have seen, an over-saturation due a low bar of entry as everyone discussed before and a return to normalcy so less time. Less time to watch, less time to engage. Any notable clippers are mostly following the bigger corpos like Niji and Holo. It takes a lot of work and a lot of bodies to build a community as strong as Holos. I wish those vtubers all the best.
I really don't buy into the idea of oversaturation in the market. Some are bigger than others, sure, but what else is new? I've been keeping tabs on WoW streamers that now play FFXIV and there's so, so many of them; but that doesn't mean the smaller fish are saturating and audience, it just means there'll be wildly varying degrees of success as the viewerbase is given more options.
Similarly, that also means that numbers aren't an indicator of quality, and therefore we shouldn't encourage a scenario where we are telling all these 2-view Indies that they're only muddying the waters for our corporate Oshi to breathe in. No one is being forced to engage with a single V-Tuber. If the ccv numbers end up going down because more people = more chance of a viewer finding that perfect V-Tuber, then isn't that for the best?
No one ever talks about an oversaturation of Twitch streamers, ASMRtists, Minecraft LPers etc because no other community really places as much onus on watching as much as you can, fixating on the numbers they're pulling, and being so emotionally attached to the career of a V-Tuber. That's the community's issue, not the market.
therefore we shouldn't encourage a scenario where we are telling all these 2-view Indies that they're only muddying the waters for our corporate Oshi to breathe in.
Choco-sensei and Suzuka Utako, part of the infamous SKB quartet of Njisanji, had a collab a few days ago. It turned out exactly as you imagined. They even did some borderline roleplaying, watch it on your own responsibility.
And as nice as iam i made a full archive of it. https://archive.org/details/hololivesingsfullarchive (Of course if you dont trust me or anything you can download his videos yourself but it took me a bit since he has 1077 videos and its around 40GB lol.)
Some of you have been shitting on Justin Bieber's virtual live, but from a few clips I skimmed through I thought some things were decent. Review below, but first, the marketing for this shit is confusing as fuck. Every article labels this as his entry into the metaverse so I thought this was a Facebook Meta Metaverse™ thing, but turns out it's from a company called Wave which is also hosting other virtual events.
Disclaimer: Most of my experience is with Holo lives and Niji has better 3d so, some comparisons might only apply to Holo. Also, all the clips I am making my judgement on are probably lower quality than the original.
Apparently, this was a free concert which explains how shit some of this is despite being a concert with one the world's biggest celebrities. With that said, if Yagoo or Tazumi ever got their hands on some of the rigging from this they would without a doubt cream their pants.
The rigging, mainly for his jacket, is levels above anything Holo/Niji(corpos) would be able to afford. From the clips I saw there was also no clipping on any parts of the model which makes it even more impressive to me. The rest of the model's movements seemed to be about equal with corpo standards. The only other notable exception seemed to be the face. The mouth actually moved - in time too - and I'm not sure if it's me, but the eyebrows seemed to slightly move as well.
Whatever face tracking app they used did its job. I'm not sure what tracking corpos use so I can't say much on that front, but JB had a phone mounted on his head which tracked his face. I assume it's not much different from what corpo chuubas use, so the difference in face movement probably has to do with rigging. Something that really caught my eye is a clip where there was stuttering as the camera and model moved simultaneously, just like it usually does in Holo YT lives, but that was the only instance I saw of it. Even so, I guess this is a much harder problem to address than I thought. I just thought Holo's tech sucked ass.
The last positive thing I have to say about this is that I liked the lighting/other special effects. The lighting scattered around nicely and the shadows it produced looked good as well, like in the face rigging clip. There were also some neat effects like pixie dust that came off him at times(seen in tracking clip), sort of like in Nene's live, and as far as I could tell it didn't bug out. The following clip has multiple light sources going on/off around the model and nothing bugged there either.
The rest is mostly meh.
Marketed with "Interact directly with Justin during the show." Interactive my ass. The most interactive thing I saw was sending hearts to Justin's model which I doubt the real Justin even knew were there. Though, once again, props for the lighting. The other things you could do was have your epic username above some animated backup dancers like seen in the tracking clip and have your lovely comment appear live.
For me however, the biggest problem is the uncanny valley effect that is produced when you try to have a realistic model. For me, the chuuba models work because they look like cartoons so, I don't expect them to mimic human movement one to one. Particularly, the face, which can make or break the experience. This is meant to be like a concert where you get to meet the JB, but instead it feels cheap because one of the most important parts, the face, is just not up to par with one on a real human. There is also the issue that his model feels/looks floaty at times, like his movements lack the proper weight/force behind them which cheapens the experience even more. There's a lot more things that when added together can make the live feel cheap and creepy, but this is enough spergery already.
Despite that, I had no expectations coming in and there was one or two times where I loosened my focus and the event seemed real for a sec. I even found some things to be interesting/cool and would like to see them applied to my chuuba oshis one day.
Wave has done other events like this since last year for other popular artists, bringing them into the virtual space, but chuubas are artists created in the virtual space and exist only in the virtual space. Once the screen shuts off, they stop existing. Even if not chuubas in the traditional sense, celebrities working with western companies for VR content is worth keeping track off, They'll probably start to become a driving force for tech/practices/other stuff in the virtual reality space in general as interest in VR continues to increase. Who knows, maybe in 5 years we have a corpo chuuba perform a Wave concert themselves. Also, thanks to those who give the art source. Makes finding other similar art so much easier.
