I'm not really sure if this is the best place to talk about an obscure semi-lolcow of a bygone era that caused a fair amount of drama on the Japanese side of the internet, but I can't really think of anywhere else it might fit. Still, Kiwi Farms is nothing if not a repository for retarded internet drama, so I might as well drop this info
somewhere.
If there was ever a Touhou-equivalent of
Sonichu, it would probably be
Marisa and Alice's Cookie Kiss, more simply referred to as "COOKIE☆" (クッキー☆). It's a Yuri-themed fan-fiction story involving Marisa wanting to make a batch of cookies to repay Alice for some brownies she made. The story is told in slide-show form with artwork by
20 different artists whose quality ranges from "decent" to "chicken scratch," and voiced by
8 amateur voice actresses who couldn't sound more wooden if they tried.
If you can't or won't bring yourself to sit through this travesty... I don't blame you. I required a few breaks myself just to power through this garbage. However, like all lolcow-produced works, the story surrounding the work is far more interesting than the work itself.
Sadly, it seems as though the guy who archived the drama
has deleted his page on it within the last six months for unknown reasons, but from what I recall, the mastermind behind this project was a 30-year-old man posing as a lesbian online, which people had discovered via some 2chan gayops. After the video was posted to Nico Nico Douga, the poor quality of the work attracted the attention of a group that enjoys making YouTube Poop Music Videos involving old gay porn VHSes, who then proceeded to troll the creator by editing his video's tags to that of the gay porn group.
They also decided to harass others who had worked on the project, such as the voice actresses. The girl who played Marisa was doing a live stream of some kind when the trolls started asking her about COOKIE☆. She initially refused to talk about the subject, but after some more prodding she broke down into tears and revealed that the person who orchestrated the project had sexually harassed her during recording while she, at the time,
was still in high school.
With controversy rising, the creator of COOKIE☆ completely disappeared from the internet, never to be seen again.
In the end, COOKIE☆ is something of a hot-button topic for a lot of Japanese Touhou fans, but it's legacy lives on in the heart of Japanese shitposters who continue to make YTPMVs of COOKIE☆ that are frankly far more entertaining than the source material.
