Starting off with:
Iida Pochi's 3D Debut, with daughter Pavolia Reine guesting

There's been an interesting development in Sinder's discord server.

From Ikeman:
>Just to give a small update to everyone.

>The remaining team is currently working on getting some stuff ironed out to allow a slow unlock of the general channels. We are still planning how we are going to do the unlock but it will be gradual starting with intermittent unlocks or slow mode increasing in duration over time. Currently the team is working on onboarding some help to actually get some more eyes on the server to allow us to unlock it.

>Thank you for your continued patience.

Now, that doesn't say anything about Sinder specifically, but it's something, anyway.

-IA.

(received information not interpretable)

Wasn't quite sure to believe this until I'd looked into it myself, but now I checked and was able to confirm it:

There's a screenshot of a conversation between Nano and Red that appears in both Nano and Bao's google docs. It's got to have come from Nanoless directly or indirectly.

But the one in Bao's doc has a line that isn't in Nano's doc. So one or the other has been edited, and it's pretty hard to imagine it being Bao's, seeing as it's at least a little exculpatory.

From the beginning, I've been assuming that Nano's screenshots were legitimate, even if I felt some of her conclusions were flawed. But if the screenshots can't be trusted either... seriously, what the hell?

-IA.

(received information not interpretable)

>From the beginning, I've been assuming that Nano's screenshots were
>legitimate, even if I felt some of her conclusions were flawed. But if
>the screenshots can't be trusted either... seriously, what the hell?

That's the irritating thing when it comes to vtuber drama that rests almost exclusively on DMs and texts, that unless all the parties involved come clean then you have to choose who you trust and go with their version of events where the holes leave room for interpretation.

There were calls in the early days of this brew-up for Sinder to speak up and show "her side" in the hope that there was a context to comments made that would absolve her or at least soften them such that she could receive forgiveness. The longer she's stayed silent, the less convinced I've become that there is any context that could achieve the former and more convinced that the best she could hope for at this point is they're at least willing to accept her apology if not forgive her.

>There were calls in the early days of this brew-up for Sinder to speak
>up and show "her side" in the hope that there was a context to
>comments made that would absolve her or at least soften them such that
>she could receive forgiveness.

Other than saying she wasn't aware of everything that Red was saying to Nano? Which, yes, she didn't post any proof of, because it's still impossible to prove a negative. If she's telling the truth, what more can she do? (Also, it'd be entirely understandable if she's just taking a full break from the internet right now.)

Well, that's basically what my position was a few days ago. But now... at this point, the only thing that inclines me to give any credence to Nano's screenshots is Sinder corroborating some of it. But unless Sinder has access to Red's discord account, even she would have no way of being sure just how much those conversations have been carved up to support a narrative.

Between this and some of the rather disturbing things Shylily has been saying, it doesn't seem like there's much left against Sinder that I can even trust. The Silvervale stuff holds up, more or less? And the Numi concert thing... assuming one can figure out which version of the thing is real? (It *sounds* like what happened is that Sinder pulled out of the concert over a week in advance, did the Vcard collab with Shylily in the morning on the day of, then was in the audience of the concert in the evening.) But it doesn't sound like Numi considered this something Sinder needed to be called out for either.

And I don't really *like* not being able to trust Nanoless*, but... unless there's some other way to explain the difference between those two screenshots, it's all poisoned.

-IA.

(received information not interpretable)

From a Numi tweet the site decided to throw at me:

>michi’s gone my heart is broken can’t stop crying the second i turned around i shriveled up into a little ball soaked in my own tears who knows this one

(Followed by heart eyes emojis that I COMPLETELY MISSED the first time.)

Dammit Numi! Add me to the list of people who had to go digging just to get reassurance that Michi wasn't dead or something! o.o

-IA.

(received information not interpretable)

>From a Numi tweet the site decided to throw at me:
>
>>michi’s gone my heart is broken can’t stop crying the second i turned around i shriveled up into a little ball soaked in my own tears who knows this one
>
>(Followed by heart eyes emojis that I COMPLETELY MISSED the first
>time.)
>
>Dammit Numi! Add me to the list of people who had to go digging just
>to get reassurance that Michi wasn't dead or something! o.o

Vtubers be a sickly bunch.

LAST EDITED ON Jun-09-25 AT 10:35 AM (EDT)
 
>Vtubers be a sickly bunch.

Michi had her wisdom teeth yanked just before the trip, and apparently managed, through a lack of proper oral care with the stuff she ate on the trip, get the sockets infected so badly she needed hospitalization.

The scambers are making bets how long until she takes a trip to the US after she heals up.
 
--
Jen Dantes - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lady of Sith Tech Support.
"This may not be a good idea, but it's the only one I have."

>Michi had her wisdom teeth yanked just before the trip, and apparently
>managed, through a lack of proper oral care with the stuff she ate on
>the trip, get the sockets infected so badly she needed
>hospitalization.

This ranks up there with Calli's "It's just a cough, I can keep working."

>The scambers are making bets how long until she takes a trip to the US
>after she heels up.

I would pay good money to see a Numi/Michi/Matara in-person collab. Bonus if guest star Bao makes an appearance.

>>Michi had her wisdom teeth yanked just before the trip, and apparently
>>managed, through a lack of proper oral care with the stuff she ate on
>>the trip, get the sockets infected so badly she needed
>>hospitalization.
>
>This ranks up there with Calli's "It's just a cough, I can keep
>working."

Or Kronii's "well, I'm in terrible pain, I can't open my mouth, and my sinuses are full of blood, but you know what, the show must go on."

--G.
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>I would pay good money to see a Numi/Michi/Matara in-person collab.
>Bonus if guest star Bao makes an appearance.

Michi and Matara have met a bunch of times and were good friends in their previous life.

But I feel a collab like that would just end up as badly as Matara trying to get Henya and Mint to talk.

--
Jen Dantes - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lady of Sith Tech Support.
"This may not be a good idea, but it's the only one I have."

>Michi had her wisdom teeth yanked just before the trip, and apparently
>managed, through a lack of proper oral care with the stuff she ate on
>the trip, get the sockets infected so badly she needed
>hospitalization.

Inside I'm screaming.

-IA.

(and i only had one tooth taken out at a time... mostly)

So if you're at all familiar with Filian, the cause of her involuntary and indefinite hiatus should not come as a surprise.

For those who don't know Filian, the lesson of the day is DON'T let the intrusive thoughts win when within earshot of a TSA agent.

She is lucky she wasn't just flat out thrown in the gulag, what the Hell Fillian

Yeah that was kinda reckless of her, really.

LAST EDITED ON Jun-05-25 AT 05:26 PM (EDT)
 
Bit of an update on this...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LhSjLTVYDSM

>Bit of an update on this...
>
>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LhSjLTVYDSM

Dear Zod, I want that kind of luck. Made a bomb joke at an airport on the way to an international flight and not only avoided a trip to Club Fed but actually made the flight, got her PC back intact, and whatever search they did for illicit substances/files left it in a better state than she left it.

Filian, get thee to the casino!

Unnamed 3D Concert - Embers We Hold

Man arrested at Nashville protest for brandishing was a fan of Nazis, mass murder, and Pippa Pipkin. His X PFP is also Kirsche Verstahl.

This is my complete lack of surprise face.

I read the article.

>But the industry around Pippa? That allows bad actors to hang out in fanbases, communities, and conventions across the industry.

And how are they to kick out these bad actors? Use extra sheets as necessary.

-IA.

(received information not interpretable)

>>But the industry around Pippa? That allows bad actors to hang out in fanbases,
>>communities, and conventions across the industry.
>
>And how are they to kick out these bad actors? Use extra sheets as
>necessary.

Assassins.

--G.
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>Assassins.

Since we're living in the dystopian future and all, can we crowdfund a hit or 10?

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>Assassins.

Instructions unclear; removed good actors.

-IA.

(received information not interpretable)

This is a brand new blue fish girl who for some completely unknown reason has 500k subs pre-debut

saba
Teaser 1
Teaser 2

"it's a mystery to everyone"

Teaser 3

A check of the usual suspects confirms that yes, the "Ame/Gura love child" jokes have already begun.

>A check of the usual suspects confirms that yes, the "Ame/Gura love
>child" jokes have already begun.

Meanwhile on Dooby's Twitter (paraphrased a bit):

DOOBY
I just found out I'm getting something really cool for my birthday!

BASICALLY ALL OF CHAT AT ONCE
Is it a pet catfish?

--G.
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With the massive winging-out tails, her hair reminds me vividly of Mumei's.

200k watching fishfishfishfishgirl debut

>200k watching fishfishfishfishgirl debut

If she got out of the business last time because she found her numbers too intimidating, I think I might have bad news for her... :/

--G.
"I call this one... 'the smolder'."
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She didn't name her artist or rigger (unless that happened while I was out of the room and she just didn't put it on screen), but I wonder if either or both were involved in the making of Minto 2.0. The eyes are very similar, both in design and animation.

--G.
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>She didn't name her artist or rigger (unless that happened while I was
>out of the room and she just didn't put it on screen), but I wonder if
>either or both were involved in the making of Minto 2.0. The eyes are
>very similar, both in design and animation.
>

Character Designer (Shouu, noted Blue Archive loli fanartist, be careful browsing their work) - also designer of ChromaSHIFT's Poko Rakun, Stellar Verse Production's Niku Nanako, and a few others out there in indie land
Live 2D Illustration (Tousaki Shiina) - they're a pro, they've also done illustration work for some holo girls in the past for birthday streams etc
Primary Rigger (cillia) - Mint's current Live2D, Bounty Dokibird's Live2D (so yes you are correct)

Also I'm brave enough to call a spade a spade, so I'll say that she is loli-pandering to an extremely uncomfortable degree.

That fan name remark...yeesh.

>Also I'm brave enough to call a spade a spade, so I'll say that she is
>loli-pandering to an extremely uncomfortable degree.

Oh, it's not just me, then. Hm.

>That fan name remark...yeesh.

I must've missed that.

--G.
I kinda like "Sabateurs", although it does make me want to create a second crab-themed supervillain called Craboteur
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>>That fan name remark...yeesh.
>
>I must've missed that.
>

She opened remarking about 'kani', and then obviously the target fandom in chat (and elsewhere) ran with it and by the end she listed it as a potential fan name.

For the blessedly ignorant: <kani (the JP word for crab) rhymes with cunny, the slang term for female underage privates. this is also why you may see emoji spam of crabs. As a related note, you may also see spam of a certain laughing and crying face emoji, because on certain OS's the name for that emoji was 'cute and funny', relating back to the same dogwhistle. You may also see people just call the appropriate girls/art/situations that.>

>loli-pandering

I finally figured out why this was bothering me so much (besides the obvious)- she's got not one, but two earth-shakingly successful PLs, she doesn't need to pander like that or any other way. Makes it even weirder, it's not like she's some ~10k sub indie who's trying to fill a niche to get views.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

She is, by all reports we've heard, a very small woman. She may simply want to look a bit like herself.

If you can't be comfortable in the body you *literally had designed how you want it* then what's the fucking point?

>She is, by all reports we've heard, a very small woman. She may simply
>want to look a bit like herself.
>
>If you can't be comfortable in the body you *literally had designed
>how you want it* then what's the fucking point?

Sure, but did you miss the loli-baiting dogwhistling terms like kani? She knew what she was doing.

Fair that, but look back on what she used to pull before. Remember the Chumbud in the jar? I think she had herself in there at least once.

She may simply be too memed and shitposted out to realize how it may appear to others. She didn’t exactly start her publicly online existence being stable and/or “pure”.

"You can't escape from your own sense of humor"?

-IA.

(received information not interpretable)

>200k watching fishfishfishfishgirl debut

One of those quirks of corpo vtubers going back to being indie that I always notice is how comfortable they feel in their (re)debut stream. It never feels like they're a totally new character that we're meeting for the first time, it feels like the vtuber you've been watching for years performing yet another "new skin" stream.

>One of those quirks of corpo vtubers going back to being indie that I
>always notice is how comfortable they feel in their (re)debut stream.
>It never feels like they're a totally new character that we're meeting
>for the first time, it feels like the vtuber you've been watching for
>years performing yet another "new skin" stream.

Nimi's debut definitely felt like a new outfit reveal rather than a new character debut to me

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

Well in her case it was a double redebut, she had already been Lemonleaf, and was repurposing her existing channels, and everyone knew that part even aside from her corporate activities.

>fishfishfishfishgirl

Who looks like a cat.

Seriously, her debut popped up in my youtube recommendations so I poked in, without having looked at any of the previous teasers or anything, and went "Serval? Is that you?"

What's with that?

-IA.

(received information not interpretable)

For other mysterious reasons, this Vtuber also has a lot of attention pre-debut. A mysterious Friend who used to be an office worker but is now a barista: Yubari Rei
Teaser video (turn on CC)

Debuting 7/4, 19:30 JST

>For other mysterious reasons, this Vtuber also has a lot of attention
>pre-debut. A mysterious Friend who used to be an office worker but is
>now a barista: Yubari Rei
>Teaser video (turn on CC)
>
>Debuting 7/4, 19:30 JST

Somewhere, a kohai quietly wipes a tear from her eye, happy to see her senpai has achieved her dream.

And then she sighs and goes back to the pile of bills for property damage and insurance claims.

>Somewhere, a kohai quietly wipes a tear from her eye, happy to see her
>senpai has achieved her dream.
>
>And then she sighs and goes back to the pile of bills
>for property damage and insurance claims.

You would think they'd replace that window with something more durable.

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>>Somewhere, a kohai quietly wipes a tear from her eye, happy to see her
>>senpai has achieved her dream.
>>
>>And then she sighs and goes back to the pile of bills
>>for property damage and insurance claims.
>
>You would think they'd replace that window with something more
>durable.

But then they’d have the increased liability from the talent’s injuries from hitting the immovable windows.

—- Philip
(Whereas if they get hurt after going through the window, it doesn’t count as it’s not on company property)

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This is a SURPRISE. But I guess it has been a good year plus since then...the general belief was that she was pregnant, I think, or getting married or something along those lines? So maybe things have settled enough that she's decided to join her friends without all the staff baggage~

As the saying goes, I shall follow her career with interest~

>This is a SURPRISE. But I guess it has been a good year plus since
>then...the general belief was that she was pregnant, I think, or
>getting married or something along those lines? So maybe things have
>settled enough that she's decided to join her friends without all the
>staff baggage~
>
>As the saying goes, I shall follow her career with interest~

I don't think we'll ever know but the top speculations were:
1) Elderly relative that needed taking care of
2) Family business that needing inheriting/stepping up in
3) Pregnancy (and lifestyle/career change)

Any one of them (but especially 1 or 3) could be...resolved with a break this long.

And of course, her trailer PV has her breaking a window. She has become what she once vowed to destroy. :D

Matara's latest outfit (clip) makes her human mostly and has a very forest princess kinda vibe.

God-Empress Matara Kan!

At least she's not a huge worm.

(I would, if I had been on that stream in the audience, used bits to send "Matara, we would love you no matter what the model, as long as you're not a sandworm from Arrakis.")

--
Jen Dantes - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lady of Sith Tech Support.
"This may not be a good idea, but it's the only one I have."

Okay, maybe I just woke up and all, but so many lines in the beginning of that sound like thinly veiled "but now I have big boobs!"

Except, uh, they don't look bigger? This is strange.

-IA.

(received information not interpretable)

Unnamed's Female Model Debut

LAST EDITED ON Aug-23-25 AT 04:06 PM (EDT) by Gryphon (admin)
 
[ just adding some non-breaking spaces so the formatting works as the OP intended --G. ]

Well, with all the scandals at major vtuber agencies, eventually there had to be something involving Phase Connect as well. And folks, it's finally dropped. The scandal that has rocked Phase Connect to its core is...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
h2oSakana was banned from Azur Lane for cheating back in 2018

The world of vtubing may never recover from this betrayal.

>h2oSakana was banned from Azur Lane for cheating back in 2018

1) how the fuck do you even do that?
2) "man of culture" joke redacted

--G.
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>1) how the fuck do you even do that?

I'd assume he was using an autoclicker to grind out event currency, because event grinds are very boring.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>I'd assume he was using an autoclicker to grind out event currency,
>because event grinds are very boring.

Yeah, especially back in the early days of AL before all the QoL improvements. Looking back, I don't blame the bros who used macros to get past the grind, but I draw the line at mods that borked the code in order to one-shot bosses or bury them under air/arty strikes.

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> for a high-energy singalong concert! The Big
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> and fun way, while celebrating British music,
> culture, and community!

> This isn’t just a concert, it’s a full-on
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Notable guest present for this singalong concert: Rin Penrose :D