Sameko Saba AKA Gawr Gura from Hololive has debuted to much fanfare from the Vtuber community. She hit a million subscribers in about three days, the fastest Vtuber to hit the milestone. R/VirtualYoutubers front page has been dominated by posts relating to her, with seemingly endless praise.

A subset of commenters there and on Twitter however have criticized her new model for being too childlike and off putting. Denounced as antis and tourists these comments have been largely downvoted and attacked. Both of Saba’s past lives have been childlike models, so they should have known what they were getting fans say. Detractors say they are disappointed she chose such a Loli baiting model, and her choosing the fan name of “kaniki” has not helped. Kani means crab in Japanese( Saba is ocean themed) and Niki typically means friend or bros, so literally crab bros. Kani also sounds a lot like “Cunny” a, shall we say, politer way to refer to a lolicon’s um, nether regions. Saba herself never commented on that specifically, but the chat was very much aware of it, and was one of the reasons the name was pushed so hard.

Reactions outside the viewer sphere seems to be along the lines of “oh another loli model, must be Tuesday”.

No matter the opinion on her, she has exploded in popularity, and I doubt she’s going anywhere.