/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

fubuki 357k
sora 269k
aqua 268k
haato 194k
matsuri 194k
hololive 181k
noel 180k
choco 172k
korone 155k
marine 153k
okayu 153k
roboco 153k
ayame 141k
subaru 138k
miko 134k
pekora 133k
coco 132k
rushia 131k
mio 126k
shion 117k
mel 98k
suisei 90k
azki 83k
kanata 76k
flare 72k
watame 69k
aki 63k
luna 58k
towa 50k
choco (sub) 35k
haato (sub) 24k
aki (sub) 19k

>>2497315
>1 year ago
>soul
Pfft, the soul ended with gen 1's debut. As much as I love Hololive, I miss the days when indies were just as popular as the few corporates there were.

>Every Video was different not just the same shitty games
>No Retarded GFE garbage.
>No EOP's at all
The 4 heavenly king area was peak soul. Hololive is Souless

Wouldn't it be crazy if all of these girls joined nijisanji instead?

>>2497473
Blame the japanese for that anon. As much as faggots on here love to whine about EOPs/ESLs all damn day, it is we who have open minds and give indies the chance to grow while the samurai stick to Holos and Nijis like glue.

>>2498006
Not to mention JOPS are the reason they play Apex Ark and Minecraft so much. They're just as bad if not worse then EOP's

>>2497582
>No EOP's at all
You fucking wish, lol. Kizuna Ai got popular because of EOP. No one in Japan cares about her for months after her debut, until foreign viewer noticed her videos.

>>2497473
>>2497582
You're living in the past, die just like your 4 heavenly kings.

>>2497315
hahaha!! Aqua never got the chance to be number 1, that's why the onionfags always shit on Pekora

most of this board wasn't around when Gen 4 debuted let alone gen 3 and im tired of people lying about it

>>2498736
If Peko wasn't such a bitch she wouldn't make so many enemies. Also, that rrat about Aqua and Peko isn't even true to begin with.

So this is the nostalgia thread?
Rushia is basically Siro, but worse. Fight me.

I started watching just before gen4 debut and Pekora is my oshi. I'm happy for her to have gone from middle of the pack to the top, but at the same time I hate the fact that she's become the go to face for shitposters.

>>2498812
This is how 4chan works. Everyone pretends they're an oldfag to avoid getting called out as a newfag.
t.definitely and oldfag

>>2498824
Aqua has weapon grade autism and Pekora doesn't even function as a human being without free internet money.

>>2498953
Yes but the rrat about them hating each other is based on a video with friendly banter that is taken out of context. And to be honest, Aqua is constantly targeted by other fandoms for some bizarre reason despite being a sweet girl who nobody seems to dislike within Hololive. But rrats are that powerful.

>>2498824
What rrat...........

>>2499025
Griefers and antis love reactions more than anything. Aqua's "particularities" makes her low hanging fruit. I think she's learned to ignore the fags but her fanbase hasn't.

>>2497315
I thought Choco used to be at the top, might be wrong tho.

>>2497315
And thanks to EN's rapid success, their subscriber growth rates drastically increased too

>>2497315
How did you all fall in the rabbit hole?
For me it was at the end of march 2020.
One of the first Vtuber clips I saw were of Ars and Miko's GTA Highlights, as well as Aqua's Minecraft streams.
Can't believe it's been a year already. I still clearly remember Korone hitting 500k while streaming Doom 2016.

>>2499123
I first subscribed to Fubuki because of her Scatman video. However, I never knew what a vTuber was until the summer.

>>2499123
>rabbit hole

>>2499123
I'm new, I caught Subaru's stream of Ass Creed 4 in a /v/ thread.

I always knew of vtubers and could name a lot of the most popular ones but I never sat down to watch anything before that.

>>2499123
My friend showed me a clip of korone and I began watching her then branched to other holos and indies and I fucking hate him for it I want to get out of this hole

>>2499172
Problem?

>>2497468
>>2497315
Sui-chan is the most talented of them all in all aspects of life and has been around almost the longest but somehow she isn't very popular. I want her to get her 1 million really badly but I feel she will fall short.

>>2497315
Looking back (up to Dec 19)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXW-_3w7dc8

>>2499123
Super Bunny Man clips around the same time.

>>2499123
It was 2018, I saw an interview with Nekomasu on Pixivision. I read it and the whole idea of watching ordinary people behind anime avatars seemed really alien and bizarre. I couldn't understand the appeal at all. It kept nagging at me, so I watched a few Heavenly King videos, and somehow it sucked me in. I used to be a huge NojyaNora fan back then. It's astonishing how quickly the landscape has changed, most people here won't even know who those two are.

>>2498812
Anon, most of this board wasn't around when Gen 5 debuted. I've been watching since last March and that's most likely older than 98% of the board, hell I even sent a superchat to my oshi to say I've been watching her for a year when the anniversary happened and a couple of the JOPs in the chat called me dai-senpai lol, most of them are new to this too

>>2499123
I was big into Kizuna Ai since her debut, but less interested in her as an idol as I was into the technology and the concept (the same kind of "this is the future we chose" autism I had with Hatsune Miku, kind of). Got into hololive rather late because I HATED livestreaming.

And the Holodomination has just begun.

The numbers in terms of views

>>2499123
February/March 2020, a clip from AsaCoco led me to the Matsuri band-aid story, which in turn led me to Pekora's Halloween trap house compilation, which in turn flooded my recommendations with everything else

>>2499454
Of course a huge number of people are brand new. Look at sub count shifts. Mikochi was under 1000 for a long time.

>>2499464
>I HATED livestreaming.
But Hololive IS livestreaming

>>2499543
Which is why HATED is in past tense. I've softened on it considerably. I realized I mostly hated streamers.

>>2499123
miko said nigger

>>2499543
>>2499464
Livestreaming was always so boring to me. Crazy how much a simple anime avatar can change that.
The human monkey brain really is predictable.

Does views/sub numbers means anything for the girls, beyond bragging rights? Isn't it all about superchat and membership?

>>2499123
The clip where Rushia said Nigger

>>2499606
I like to think it's the personalities behind them, but yeah, the eye candy definitly helps. Though I couldn't look at any BOOBAtubers for a long time, funnilly enough.

>>2499611
Yes and no, from a business perspective fans that give SC are worth more than ones that don't on an individual basis, but for getting sponsorships it's the total number that other companies will look at.

>>2499526
That traphouse video and the Hololive Fukkireta Chorus made me discover all the members and Hololive as a corporation. Never realized they were all in an agency together. The concept of corporations having streamers on YouTube was so foreign to me.

>>2499659
Boobs themselves aren't interesting. I mean you can just google pics and find some of the best pairs of tits humanity has to offer. There is just something more appealing about a character that is pretty, clean, and is divorced from our reality. An actor of sorts plays them but isn't them.

>>2499733
Consider Pan Piano. Hidden face, boobs, and piano playing talent. Regardless, she's a one-trick pony.

>>2499733
No, I mean they actively detracted from my ability to enjoy a stream.

Lots of newfags pretending to be here since the beginning and reciting some biased history that fits their narrative.

How much money did rushia launder away?

>>2499123
i was watching Kizuna Ai already since 2018 and i was there when upd8 was fucking up with the multiple VA controversy and that "ahegao" thumbnail debacle. ironically that was when i entered my dark ages on vtubers. i slowly got reintroduced by seeing a clip of the Haachama feet review and got back fully during the Fall Guys fad

>>2499786
Does Hatsune Miku count?

>>2499810
The ahegao video still makes me want to rip my eyes out because of the cringe.
What the fuck were they thinking?
I blame Belle Delphine for this coomer trend.

>>2499810
>>2499938
Seriously, wtf were the managers doing during all this?

>>2499123
>Ars
Fuck off Nijinigger

Anyway, to answer your question. I've been watching vtubers since Kizuna Ai started going viral for saying FUCK. Branched out to ones like Siro and Kaguya Luna and watched them for a while. Then I stopped watching vtubers until Miko went viral for saying NIGGER. Been watching Hololive ever since and started watching Kizuna Ai and Siro again as well. Never watched Niggershitty though, not even once.

>>2499782
>Pan Piano.
Serious question for the anons here.

Pan or Ru?

>>2499123
I randomly remembered kizuna ai was popular like 3 years ago and wondered how she was doing. Searched her up on youtube and saw the decline so thought it was just a fad. Next day youtube recommended me scatman and i realized vtuber streaming was a thing

>>2499025
>despite being a sweet girl
SPOT THEM

>>2500211
I thought they were the same people...I guess whoever started doing it first?

>>2497315
garbage because there is no fps lion

>>2499123
Arknights stream.
FUCK china fucking fuck I wanted a hololive collab and I was willing to wait forever.

>>2500478
Same with azur lane. Quit that shit after that china incident

This is more than one year ago lol this is their subs count during January 2020, where is the updated version for April 2020?

>>2499123
Rushia rage clips got me back in the day, especially when she did fallguys and the infamous Minecraft shaft stream.
Then it was Pekora clips
Then it was CoCo clips
Then it was full streams of Watame (my oshi get your fucking own)
Then eventually I realized I was subbed to basically everyone and watching them almost on a need to watch basis.
Hell even got my buddy to start watching Suisei. Wild ride bros...wild ride.

>>2500478
>>2500536

Hololive will never stream Majsoul ever again

>>2499025
I want to bully the onion like how a girl who had a crush on me bullied me

>>2500717
At least we have Sio for that! Wait...

>>2498884
Rushia doesn't learn German to a level where she can say Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft (and yes that's a real word
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizit%C3%A4tenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
and means Danube steam shipping (+ interfix) electricities main maintenance shop building under officials' association )

so clearly Siro is superior.

Also tits.

>>2500678
>back in the day
>Fall Guys
I hate you so fucking much

>>2501054
Why anon, what did I say?

>>2499251
The more talented ones (when it comes to doing actual idol stuff like music and concerts) don't stream as often or have the worst luck when it comes to things.

>>2500000

>>2498006
>>2498062
This is true. JOPs just don't watch indies at all unless they have ties to a damn corpo. When a chuuba leaves things up to a vote on what to play next these dudes always vote apex and minecraft without fail even though they've streamed it 100 times over...

>>2499123
I watched some Kizuna Ai playing video games to improve my Japanese and also heal my soul from the knowledge that whatever you do, there's an asian doing it better. So asians potentially doing worse is a nice thing to see. Should've been around early 2019 shortly before I quit my job. I know I watched a certain Miko saying NIGGER in a clip and she was the most into it so I looked for the source and decided to watch her play. Nothing special but the way she apologized after killing people was endearing.

Now I'm a 35P and watch lots of Tubers across the board. Last time I watched Ai-chan was when she collabed with Tamaki. Strange how things go sometimes.

>>2499539
It's been a quantum leap every gen since Gen 3 who started out what we'd now consider humble at around 50k each with the exception of Flare.
Going back, Miko was in business for almost a year back when she played GTA the first time, her goal back then was 30k and peak streams had like 900 viewers.

>>2499123
I watched Kizuna Ai for some time soon after her debut but she was a boring bitch so I stopped
I watched Miko for some time soon after she said nigga but I was too EOP so I stopped
got hooked on hololive late 2019 when I tried using them for reps

>>2498006
yeah, most groomers are EOPs wanting to be japanese

>>2499213
This is why I never try to introduce my friends to my interests. I wouldn't wish this life on anybody.

>>2499123
Was watching a guy playing a rhythm game on Twitch around the end of 2019 when he played a fan-made chart for that Scatman remix with Fubuki's voice

>>2498812
I started watching before gen 4, thats like two years into hololive, idk how ignoring roboco and sora for years makes you and oldfag.

>>2499123
First came across clips of korone playing the old doom but didn't really stick for anything else
Then the fall guys arc began and I got hooked
I can't remember when these events happened, days already flew by without notice but the rona cranked the effect up to 11
The only thing I can clearly remember is going full gachikoi for Marine at the start of this year

You all faggots and china haters need to thank hololive moments, bilibili and all chinese fans who made hololive popular between 2019 and 2020 with their clips. Have you all thought about that?

>>2502775
Sorry Zhang. I watch Holo only after (YOU) bully Coco and Hachama. Kys.

>>2500153
Oh so you are those Mikoniggers back then who shitted up old virtual youtuber thread on /jp/, you niggers really were cancer

>>2502775
Sorry zhang they are better off without you

>>2502775
I thank Miko for saying nigger, I thank Fubuki for singing scatman, I thank Pekora for being a stupid retard who threw her Sword on lava, and I'll forever thank Coco for being BASED

>>2502897
>>2503295
>>2503374
im not chinese retards. But i was there and if hololive didn't go with china they would be much more niche as this helped them a lot and made chinese faggots to try to share it to the west.

>>2503414

>>2502775
>be thankful to traitors
As thanks please accept this free helicopter ride

>>2503414

>>2503414
as expect, holoniggers and holowhores are all ungrateful bitchs

>fubuki above sora
>soul
>coco
>soul

>>2498812
I watched Pekora's debut. I thought she was shit and I have yet to be proven otherwise.

>>2499454
Really? Shit guess im a dai senpai now lol.

>>2499172
facts, its the term youtube niggers use for this

>>2499123
It was like in June 2020, I saw a video of Suisei in project winter and from there I started watching clips and later her streams

>>2499025
but what about THE CHEST

>>2499123
First learned about Holos from the AL collab but only fell in proper with the EN wave in like October. Between then I had a lot of second hand exposure thanks to Miko briefly being /v/'s darling thanks to nigga~ and the boat and ZUN art Marine showing up in Touhou threads.

>>2497582
>4 heavenly kings era
>any of the statements
Anon's Facts
[ ] Truth
[x] It's false.
[x] No way.
[x] Not this time.
[x] We created it.
[x] Not this time.
[x] No.
[x] Not this time.
[x] It's totally made up.
[x] Pure fiction.
[x] It's fiction.
[x] It's fiction!
[x] We made it up.
[x] We made this one up.
[x] It's a made up tale!
[x] It's a total fabrication!
[x] It never happened.
[x] It never happened.
[x] This one was invented by a writer.
[x] Not this time.
[x] It never happened.
[x] It's false!
[x] It never happened.
[x] It's a fake.
[x] It's fiction!
[x] It's an urban legend that never happened.
[x] No way!
[x] We got'chu!
[x] Not a chance!
[x] Not this time.
[x] It never happened.
[x] It never happened!
[x] We made this one up.
[x] It's fiction.
[x] We made up this one.
[x] We made it up.
[x] Not this time.
[x] Wrong.
[x] Not this time.
[x] Not this time.
[x] You're wrong.
[x] Not this time. It never happened.

>>2500211
Ru because she doesn't rely on boob bait thumbnails.

>>2499123
I was alone on 2019 Christmas or maybe new year watching jewtube videos and I stumbled with "Miko burning her house on minecraft".

How do the girls feel about their meteoric rise? 1 million is common place now, well beyond their imagination. Many are empty subs but they are still wildly more popular than most streamers on youtube.

>>2499123
I spend too much time on this site and watched some of Coco's Asacoco videos full of drug references. I thought it was pretty funny and novel coming from a japanese woman, so I kept watching.

I don't watch much Coco anymore but she'll always be the woman that proved to me that women could be funny.

>>2499251
have faith in our comet

If you're going to simp out and donate to chuubas, at least do it to the ones that get less superchats, so that they don't get discouraged and graduate. Rushia doesn't need your 10 dollars.

>>2511647
Also $10 isn't enough for Rushia. Youtube takes $3.00, Cover takes $3.50, Rushia's take home is $3.50. Rushia then has to give the tax man $1.50. Rushia gets a total of $2.00. To give Rushia $10 you need to SC her $50.

>>2498812
>>2499454
based
this board is full of newfaggots who pine for the old days that they never even experienced. I don't claim to be some oldfag (only started watching around Feb/March of last year), but I also fully know that a large chunk of /vt/ anons didn't get into this til as late as HoloEN's debut.

And then the youtube algorithm fell in love with Aqua and Rushia translated clips...

>>2499123
The clip of Coco spanking Marine during her 3D debut showed up in my recommendations and me being a spanko ate that shit up. I watched Miko's "stay home" clips and Pekora torturing and getting shot by the android the same night and Hololive sort of replaced anime for me after that. This was maybe a month or two before 5th Gen debuted, I don't remember exactly.

>>2499454
I was too busy watching Kizuna AI, Kaguya Luna (rip), Siro, Ponpoko & Peanut, and that guy with the horse head.

>>2498006
Not FPBP but close

>>2499454
considering i saw someone ask what guras A meme was in a thread i have to sadly agree with you there. there is also so much spoonfeding going on everywhere

>>2498006
Now that EOPs are such a huge part of the audience it’s only a matter of time before your oshi becomes irrelevant, sorry shoulda studied English like other civilized people

>>2511822
I'd be surprised if there were at least ten other people here besides me who's been around since the 4 kings era. I've been following VTubers since early 2017 starting with Ai and picking up VTubers over the years.

>>2499261
Fubuki vs Korone to first 1 million, and then BOOM Gura shows up.

>>2499251
Honestly popularity within regards of hololive is kinda of a meme
It's just a race to the bottom of reducing their personality to be as one note as possible to make sure every clip of them goes viral

>>2518304
There's plenty of people here who watched Kizuna Ai for sure, the thing is that 99% of them (including me) dropped her when the fad wore off and only got back into v-tubers when Hololive blew up last year.

>>2498812
What year did Choco get her new years outfit?
I believe that was my first time ever watching hololive
Too bad the VoD of that is probably gone

>>2499251
Of course Suisei will get to 1M. Who cares if she does it sooner or later, when you have 1M you've made it.

>>2499123
Probably around that time too. Saw some clip of Miko throwing tridents at Aqua (I think) and just got recommended more and more after

>>2521754
Peko...
Doggo and Friend seem fine still. Marine sometimes is a bit much but most of her content still has soul.

>>2499123
I was beating my meat to trans girls on chaturbate when I noticed Melody, clicked on her, followed her for 2-3 weeks and then she talked about Coco. Now im a Marine/Rushia fan.

Sue me

>>2497315
>Gura beat all of these people to 1mil

>>2499123
Knew about chuubas for a long time, watched a little bit of Kizuna but never really got that into her. Was aware of hololive but the language barrier kept me from really caring that much. Gave EN a shot for shits and giggles around Halloween last year, ended up loving Ina.

>>2499123
was aware of them since around kizunas debut, saw the big holo clips, korone doom, miko bnoat and miko nigga, gura in general but only really started watching them when I got sick of my regular streamers endless among us streams

>>2522621
>dead subs
>Sub boosting fags in the background
Yea...great.

>>2522908
>dead subs
these people keep on saying dead subs like it matters

>>2499123
Saw Rushia's cola clip and got interested. But it wasn't until like a month or two after ID's debut that I became a big fan of Risu and eventually started watching the other girls whenever she wasn't streaming or a clip was in my reccomended

>>2524547
They are coping or too dumb to make up something new.

towa...

>>2503501
English motherfucker, do you speak it?

>3 years ago

>>2527500
I remember the first video I watched of her started with that gyari song...

>>2498824
>wasn't such a bitch she wouldn't make so many enemies.
the fuck ur on about?

>>2499123
my dumb friend kept spamming the clips and i ignored for months then i watched a peko clip and it happen to be the first time a girl streamer made me laugh
quite incredible how its a world diferent compared to twitch e-thots, she is eons ahead of any of them.

>>2527500
still the best 2021

>>2501097
The popular ones get boosted by memes and clips. For Suisei the only things that come to mind is psychopath Suisei and Tetris, but neither thing really exploded in popularity.

>>2530416
Her music is good and she just had a pretty nice 3D live with a good original. I'm hoping that will help her out since she hasn't done something like this during the hololive boom.

>>2499251
yeah thats just like your opinion, man

>>2499123
Rushia going "no bird" was my introduction to Hololive, but I had watch Eilene before that and some Kizuna Ai and Kaguya Luna when they were big.

>>2499123
Kizuna AI (2017), never cared much for the others earlier ones.
After that, Sora actually, although only because I'd heard the VA from the Flying Witch drama CD was doing covers, besides that only the ASMR shit (Mel, Choco, Haato) until gen 3 when I actually started watching livestreams.

>>2499782
Why the fuck can't I escape from that bitch even on /vt/?

>>2498006
For Niji it doesn't matter because their members can stream whatever they want for the most part. It's only Hololive that has stupid restrictions and it's the EOPs/ESLs that made them popular, not the Japanese.

>>2522621
Gura used to be a really popular indie. Even as HER she had more subs than any Hololive at the time. When people realized she had reincarnated her old subs came running while also promoting it as "HER is back"

>>2539409
senzawa wasn't really a vtuber though

>new subs per week down massively compared to several months ago
How do we save Hololive?

>>2497315

I just miss the swim suits and the stuff they used to do with them. It's a shame we will never get fun stuff using them like this or beach type videos again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-SXhtYjprc

>>2499123
Discovered "virtual idols" around the time Kizuna made videos taking intelligence tests and left by the time of the 3 Kizunas. Came back because I saw that clip of Miko saying nigga

>>2498812
>>2499454
>>2511822
It's so much worse than that. Most of the people here weren't even here for EN's debut.

>>2497315

>>2499123
3 clips
Rise of Usada construction (rest in piss hololive moments)
Matsuri bandaids
Asacoco skit about Watame's bad internet.

>>2499123
Fucking tourist

>>2544874
Exactly the same for me. Where are you now? Who are you watching?
Aqua for me.

>>2499123
No one but me is willing to admit it, but the first vtuber I saw was Calli in a clip where she was being cringe. I was hooked.

>>2545013
Someone should edit this with vtubers as the hobby, and ironic weebs/EOPs as the females. Although, it’s hard to argue that watching streamers is a real hobby at all.

>>2559951
I stay for Ina, Botan, Kanata, Noel and Koopa streams, though I watch clips of all of the holos and some Nijis

>>2497736
Just IMAGINE the collab potential