So Kiara did a call-in stream of pick-up lines last night, and it turns out Biboo can cook when she wants to.

Other highlights include Nerissa trying to claim she'd pin Kiara down (Nerissa is many things, but a top she is not), and spicy Fuwamoco, which I didn't know they could do.

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

Did *they* know they could do it for that matter?

>Did *they* know they could do it for that matter?

Did they know they were doing it at the time?

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Well, they did start off with a pretty sultry "bau bau", so they're aware of the concept, but they immediately reverted to their regular form. Kiara kept trying to coach them back to using the sultry voice, but they couldn't be convinced.

Also a little disappointed Shiori didn't join the call-in, both to get a full Advent roundup, and to see what kind of insanity she would get up to outside of Henmama's reach.

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

We now have video evidence that FuwaMoco are at least aware of the concept and know how to try, courtesy of their off-collab karaoke with Nerissa, where they sang "I'm Your Treasure Box". Obviously, Nerissa carried, but the puppies were giving it their best.

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

Coming in late, but they did a HoloGra about getting tickets for the Fest, and it's pretty good.

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

They're really working in those in-jokes lately~ Like Fauna and her truck driving skills. :3

>Coming in late, but they did a HoloGra about getting tickets for the
>Fest, and it's pretty good.

I can't sum it up any better than one of the top comments: "You can tell Achan is 120% done with everyone."

--G.
also, oh my, Okayu
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Not surprising that she's at her limit, considering she's the resident cat herder.

Not actually an Okayu joke!

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

Found myself sort of wondering this evening if what attracts people to certain vtubers is their habits or quirks. The reason for this question was because YT has started throwing me Hololive clips now that I've caught up on all the weekly/monthly episodes from my other favorite channels and two of them were from Kaela Kovalskia*. And what I realized I loved about her is her silent laugh, the way her model mimics the motion even though it's so quiet you can only barely hear her make a sound. It's almost the complete opposite of Kiara's laugh which can endanger any exposed glass if you're not careful.

* Aka "Biboo's Mom" or "She Who Never Sleeps"

I think that's the major part of it- there's also a certain appeal of an entertaining presenter showcasing the kind of games you like, but the quirks are are a big draw, at least for me.

Along with the quirks is the "lore", not so much the originally written characterizations but what comes up along the way. Like Kronii is my favorite in HoloEN, because she's portrayed as narcissistic and sadistic, and she tries to be, but then has epic charisma breaks, leading to the memetic GWAK! and her fear of spiders. But then at the same time, she does pull out the sadistic side especially in competitive multiplayer, and it's a riot.

To use Kaela as an example for where I'm coming from, you have her denying her true nature or the pre-Advent-debut bit where she wanted to mine Biboo, which segued beautifully into their current relationship.

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

For me, it's their personalities, plus (and more often) the games they play. I admit that I can't watch some of them for very long, because their voices just kinda claw at my brain like a rabid squirrel but that's a 'me' problem.

I'm not versed enough on the JP side to know who else is like that, but FuwaMoco is definitely a "love it or hate it" experience for the ears and the brain.

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

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>Along with the quirks is the "lore", not so much the originally
>written characterizations but what comes up along the way. Like Kronii
>is my favorite in HoloEN, because she's portrayed as narcissistic and
>sadistic, and she tries to be, but then has epic charisma breaks,
>leading to the memetic GWAK! and her fear of spiders. But then at the
>same time, she does pull out the sadistic side especially in
>competitive multiplayer, and it's a
>riot.

SALT walked into KroniiSweep so that Promise could run face first into KroniiSweep in Uno.

>Along with the quirks is the "lore", not so much the originally
>written characterizations but what comes up along the way.

I think that kind of organic injoke continuum is a really important part of how long-running performers like YouTubers and livestreamers (both virtual and not) interact with their communities. Not only do they provide nice "I was there" moments for viewers who saw them originate (e.g., the people who were watching the Kronii vs. the Spider stream live), recognizing callbacks to them later on helps later arrivals feel like they're getting the hang of the place.

Both factors feel like part of the rationale behind HoloEN3DRepeat, which COVER just announced has been so successful that they're going weekly with it. How's that for a segue? :)

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>what I realized I loved about her is her silent laugh, the way her
>model mimics the motion even though it's so quiet you can only barely
>hear her make a sound. It's almost the complete opposite of Kiara's
>laugh which can endanger any exposed glass if you're not careful.

Now that you mention it, quite a few vtubers I can think of have endearingly particular laughs. There's Kaela, of course, and Biboo, whose laugh has been compared to a window squeegee and Flipper. Calli laughs like Mio Sakamoto, Doki laughs like a Honda Accord that won't start, and Bae (a personal favorite of mine) is a fire alarm.* And of course there is Pekora.

Upon reflection, I guess it stands to reason that vocal distinctiveness is an important part of the job for a lot of these performers, and that extends beyond laughter for a fair few of them. Kronii's alarmed goose honk is probably best known; there's also Fauna's "uuuu," Calli's "guh!" (which is signature enough that it has its own subscriber emote) and "prrroink!", the many WAHs of Ina, and of course Ame is renowned for her wide range of goblin noises.

--G.
* Fun fact: when she gets going, Bae laughs a lot like Mae from C&Rsenal. Coincidence?**

** Yes. Yes it is.
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There's also Pekora with her HA⬈HA⬈HA⬈HA⬊HA⬊HA⬊HA laugh, though she apparently doesn't do it much anymore because it hurts her voice.

I especially love it when clippers actually drag a window wiper across the screen with Biboo laughs.

Then there's the catchphrases, some of which might as well be vocal tics- Kaela's "Get Some Help!" and Kiara's "YOU LITTLE SHIT!" come to mind.

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

>Then there's the catchphrases, some of which might as well be vocal
>tics- Kaela's "Get Some Help!" and Kiara's "YOU LITTLE SHIT!" come to
>mind.

These often end up getting made into subscriber emoji (Ina's "humu humu" and Calli's habit of saying "big ups" in response to superchats come to mind).

--G.
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Ouro Kronii.

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

Just making a random comment that I tried to give Shinri more of a shot recently and really enjoyed his Pacific Drive streams. You can tell he really loves the game, just constantly gushing over it, and he also demonstrates a passable level of competence as a bonus. (I tried watching a little bit of Fauna but anyone who's watched her trucking streams knows that she really just can't drive.)

As part of Holoh3ro's anniversary week, Kaela has scheduled the Apocalypse for our viewing pleasure, tonight (3/25) at 10pm Eastern.

Seriously though, it's going to be an 8-player multiplayer bash featuring a mix of sweaty tryhards (Kaela and Biboo), actual sadists (Mumei and Kronii), punching bags (Bae and Calli, who aren't really good at these kinds of games, but make for hilarious reactions), a simp (Nerissa), and garnished with some straight-up derangement (Shiori). I don't know exactly what will happen, but I expect it will be hilarious.

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

>As part of Holoh3ro's anniversary week, Kaela has scheduled
>the Apocalypse for our viewing pleasure, tonight (3/25) at 10pm Eastern.

Oh gods, they're playing Party Animals. This is going to be... something.

--G.
Or, to quote the Imperial City Arena announcer from TES4 Oblivion, "This! Should! Be! Interesting!"
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"IT'S THE PIIIIIING"
—Bae, less than a minute into the game

--G.
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"WOOOOOOOOOOI'm not OK."
—Ouro Kronii

--G.
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Well, that was certainly one of the streams of all time . . . I, uh, don't foresee Kronii and Kaela going on another 10-hour date like the one they had at Fest again anytime soon. Calli seemed to have some unfinished business with the clock woman too.

Also Mumei needs to change her name to "Own Goal" for how many times she whacked her partners.

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

>Also Mumei needs to change her name to "Own Goal" for how many times
>she whacked her partners.

Like Honey Badger and Hand Grenade, Towl does not care; she only destroys.

--G.
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I've found a sneezing compilation (Because of course those exist) of the twins, and geez, is Mococo allergic to her sister or something? :3 This one I found is six minutes long.

>I've found a sneezing compilation (Because of course those exist) of
>the twins, and geez, is Mococo allergic to her sister or something? :3
>This one I found is six minutes long.

I think she said once that she's very sensitive to dust, and their place in the Northwest Passage was pretty dusty. IIRC, the official unofficial Moco-sneeze count (because of course someone was keeping one) stopped at 200 shortly before they moved.

--G.
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Mococo goes for quantity, but Korone goes for quality.

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

Mococo bulk mailing out sneezes, while Korone just has one sneeze addressed to 'grid coordinates'.

(This makes sense in my head.)

Basically, this meme?

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

Yes, exactly, thank you~

Earlier today on Twitter, Kaela and Biboo were having a friendly argument over eating and sleeping at reasonable times and in appropriate amounts, which led to one user accusing them of "flirting".

Hence the title of the thread: Do, uh, do either of those two know how to do that? I mean, Biboo did do the White Day call-in with Kiara, but that could be put down to rote repetition of material. Likewise, would either of them recognize they're being flirted with, if it happened?

Also I'm mildly impressed that Kaela didn't burst into flames from the hypocrisy of telling someone else to sleep properly.
"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>Earlier today on Twitter, Kaela and Biboo were having a friendly
>argument over eating and sleeping at reasonable times and in
>appropriate amounts, which led to one user accusing them of
>"flirting".
>
>Hence the title of the thread: Do, uh, do either of those two know how
>to do that? I mean, Biboo did do the White Day call-in with Kiara, but
>that could be put down to rote repetition of material. Likewise, would
>either of them recognize they're being flirted with, if it
>happened?

I believe this is one of those times when the term "useless lesbian" might be appropriate.

Yeah maybe, but I think what I was going for was one step even more oblivious than that, more along the lines of "Romance? No, I don't play that genre of games."

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

Kanade was doing an English only stream playing Dude, Stop, where the goal is basically to obviously screw up as much as possible to punish the poor NPC whose test you are taking on their behalf.

She had some great justification for answering science questions

I had a thought after Mumei's "me against everybody" performance in Party Animals:

We need another Among Us cross-branch collab . . . so we can get Mumei and Suisei in the game together, and they can fight for the crown of Murder Princess of Hololive. I'm trying to think who else should be in the running for that, so feel free to drop suggestions!

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

Even when consuming things in foreign packaging, there are usually things you can use as guides to figure out what it is if you pay attention. Flayon ignored this to his chagrin.

I was expecting something semi-obscure, like there was a chance that somebody could make a mistake.

But no. That's straight-up cat food.

I feel morally obligated to make the following response:
https://imgur.com/a/CDne6i6

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

Suisei has fucking had it with this director and his fucking plexiglass heels.

>Suisei has fucking had it with this director and his fucking plexiglass heels.

NGL, I was half-expecting her to haul out an axe when he threw the script at her.

--G.
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As the jokes have gone, other people's idol oshis throw kisses and smiles. Our oshi idol throws hands.

>As the jokes have gone, other people's idol oshis throw kisses and
>smiles. Our oshi idol throws hands.

That moment when you have to go back to the OP to see which oshi you're talking about . . .

(My oshi being Kronii, so not throwing hands is out of the question.)

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

>(My oshi being Kronii, so not throwing hands is out of the
>question.)

"Kronii, no! It's not worth it!"

--G.
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I'm not saying my oshi has anger issues, just if I see on the news "famous vtuber arrested for instigating 20-person brawl", I'm checking on Kronii first.

of course, "dismembered corpses found in famous vtuber's basement" means Mumei
"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

There are days I truly worry for the sanity of the staff over at HoloGra.

Takane Takane!

All I can think is, "wait until Advent gets their 3d models"- yes I know that HoloGra is based off of character lore and maybe intro videos, but that's the problem: Bijou and Nerissa were imprisoned for causing insanity in people, plus Nerissa made her declaration of no pantsu in her intro.

tl;dr- there's a lot of material to work with there (and Shiori will be there to archive it).

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

I am *so* glad that cover has been pushing everyones 3Ds after Myth had to wait so long for theirs thanks to plague-based travel restrictions. Advent shouldn't be too far behind Re:Gloss~ I think it's just the newer Holostars, ReGloss, and Advent who need them right now.

???

>???

*blinks*

*shakes head*

*eyes cup suspiciously*

*pours contents in the sink*

So I'm a week late posting about this, but we got one step closer this April Fool's to the promised "HoloMoms": Pekomama got her Live2D avatar!

And she proceeded to do what all moms inevitably do: Embarrass her child in front of others.

The kusogaki energy coming off that Beejoe is astounding.

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

<Nature Documentary Voice>And here we see that when exposed to sufficient pressure, the common Ouro Kronii will "pop".</Nature Documentary Voice>

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

><Nature Documentary Voice>

I choose to use the voice of Steve Irwin.

-VR
"Crikey..."
"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."

>"Crikey..."

Gura: "I can't believe he thinks he can just wave a pizza at me and get me to be in his stupid nature documentary!"

Ame: "Yeah, well, I can't believe it worked!"

*camera pulls back to reveal Gura hanging by her tail from a snare trap*

Gura: "Hey, pizza is pizza!"

(Yes, I know Steve didn't actually use traps on the creatures he worked with. In this case, I imagine Sana convinced him to use the snare "as a sign of respect". She was good at being a sneaky troll.)

Meanwhile, Bae's response was "Oi! Point that camera over here and I'll give you 'crikey', right up in ya!"
"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

For Shiori's birthday, we got her rendition of Kyoufuu All-Back, and it's hilarious.

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