So who was it that brought you to the VTuber rabbit hole?
If you became one yourself, who was your inspiration?
I was there for the COVID lockdown boom of 2020. It was the news stories of Projekt Melody getting all the CB Girls all riled up and angry because Melody was eating into their audiences. That's how I discovered what a VTuber was.
From Melody it was a very short and direct line directly to Ironmouse. If Mel was the one to kick me into the hole, Mousey was the one that kept me from climbing back out.
After that, I backtracked and caught up with Hololive JP, particularly Coco and Haachama. A few short months later, HoloMyth debuted. Gura was the stand out favorite at first, but Amelia Watson eventually won that spot easily.
Right around that time is when Mel and Mousey started doing Lewdcast with Silvervale, and then the infamous Fall Guys collab with Nyanners happened. VShojo won me over hard and I knew I had to become a VTuber myself.
I knew I wanted to be a robot, something very reminiscent of The Terminator. I started scouring 3D Art shops online looking for the perfect robot body and found him. I waited months for it to be rigged and converted to VRM.
Once I finally got it back, I tested it out in a few discord servers and started getting comfy with OBS just by playing with the virtual camera. Eventually I did my debut stream.
Just a week later, Ironmouse announces that she was going to do another one of her "VTuber Deep Dive" streams specifically for male VTubers! THIS WAS MY CHANCE!! I FINALLY GET TO "TALK TO" MOUSEY DIRECTLY! I Submitted my video and she actually saw it! Her reaction was HUGE! I was only "one week old" and I had already scratched off a major milestone because "Senpai had noticed me".
The following day, that clip was referenced in an episode of "Things VTubers Say" with FalseEyeD. So I had crossed off another "bucket list" item.
Here I am nearly 2 years later. I still stream when I can (at least once a week), I've made some dear friends in the Indy VTuber community, and I still love this genre of content creation. So glad I decided to fall in.
So, what's y'alls story?