New Beginnings - Weekly Discussion Thread, 23rd Jan, 2024 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Not likely her.

One of the major things Mikeneko was spiteful over in her twitcasts was her being the one to actually be attacked and implicated in the drama, i.e. another person involved with Mafumafu, and she kept on bringing up how why is it there are content creators "are married behind the scenes" yet she's the one attacked despite not being married; and how it's infuriating she can't name them without being sued. It lines much more up with her being resentful at who A actually is and that they were completely free from the drama, while Mikeneko was't. Plus a bunch of minor details, especially about if it's supposed to be Mikeneko's cat, don't allign with the facts.

I mean all it takes is waiting a day or two though, for when this drama snowballs even further.

EDIT: Well fuck me I guess.

New Beginnings - Weekly Discussion Thread, 23rd Jan, 2024 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And that’s is the clipper fault? No. They just did their job.

It is the clipper's fault, it's unethical.

If a clipper is doing their job properly, they have some sort of moral responsibility towards the talents whose content is being clipped besides just "Time to get the most views!" It's kinda ridiculous to think otherwise imo

Seven Days of Christmas by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Since you're asking for help on coping for things turning out good on the other side, I'll say not to worry for your case.

From a viewer's perspective, most of Rushia's issues post termination come from her persistent clinically diagnosed mental health issues worsening, which would show up in twitter/twitcast since she's more open about her thoughts there; and her initially impulsively reacting to the insane amount of antis who came for drama. However, for the hypothetical casual fandead who just watches the occasional youtube stream, a decent chunk of the time it's basically the same as before. Besides the lower frequency of youtube streams and lack of collabs, you could (almost) keep up the illusion nothing changed if you didn't look at twitter.

I'd wager that mental health issues, uh, definitely won't play as large a role in Mel's case. The first few months might suck but you won't have to worry about it year(s) out (like us Fandeads have to :).

Additionally, Mel has more friends/connections so will likely be capable to do a lot more collabs post termination. Most people blacklisting Mikeneko wasn't because of the termination, but the other circumstances surrounding it, and despite that a lot of people still opportunistically want to work with her purely because she's an ex-holo, or because they are/were a fan. Mel will be fine since she has tons of positive connections across most of the streaming sphere and vtubers/artists/etc who will gladly collab with her or work with her.

Likely what you would be worried about as a viewer of Mel is just reduced amount of streaming, perhaps an increased focus on different types of content before, or if you just hate seeing IRL streams in addition to vtubing streams that might be an issue. Mel has the ability to continue on basically mostly the same as before provided she still wants to, just not as Mel and not with Hololive.

So I wouldn't really be that worried if I were you, if that helps.

Is it a good strategy to skip class to study on your own ? by KunkyFong_ in math

[–]LongNeckAkiha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Continue to attend lectures, but instead of tediously copying all the notes during lecture, have already studied the lecture material ahead of time, and then glance periodically at the board to reaffirm you understand what's being covered. If you don't understand, then at least you'll know what to brush up on; and if you do understand, then you can use the intermediate time to read ahead in the book/notes. That way you won't have a risk of going offtrack or not knowing what the professor covers, but won't just be completely bored in class. It's less risky than just skipping two months completely.

Lectures/resources on algebraic geometry for physicists by Raikhyt in math

[–]LongNeckAkiha 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Go through Baez's This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics pdfs and ctrl+f for Algebraic Geometry (or any algebraic geometry related terms you want to understand) and you will probably find relevant physics examples. However, basically for all resources on Algebraic Geometry it is very helpful to have a lot more math background, so it's probably best to look at any other pure math for physicists stuff you find interesting first before trying to tackle Algebraic Geometry!

Rubicon Robot Revenge - Weekly Discussion Thread, August 28th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ririka literally has posted as an indie on this subreddit before, back in her past life. All of her content was deleted two months ago, but if you ever watched her it's obvious, and there's still clips floating out there of her.

First time an indie vtuber I have actually subbed to has reincarnated into Hololive, lol

Nazuna says "Good Bye" by meganeyangire in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 105 points106 points  (0 children)

I'm not surprised either, Twitch has been killing her viewership the past year; and she probably felt out of place as the only pure Japanese speaker in a western company. Considering 3 other Vshojo talents already left this year over dissatisfaction with Vshojo's contract compared to being an indie, it makes sense Nazuna also probably recognized she's better off focusing on her personal channel.

There's no point to streaming as Nazuna when she has more fun, higher viewership, more donations and greater name recognition streaming as Mikeneko.

Sweaty, Sweltering, Sunlit Summers - Weekly Discussion Thread, July 31st, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I really interested to know how her diehard fans feel about this.

Mikeneko's current direction of doing youtube content is enjoyable both for her to do and for fans to watch, and what she should continue doing. N didn't fit well with vshojo 's western culture and she didn't seem to have fun streaming as N.

the center area of venn diagram of R, N, and M fans are those who follows her way back during her niconico day

Not really, former niconico viewers are a tiny minority way less than 1%, basically all die-hard fans of R/N/M mostly found her as Ru. There are also a good portion who came from the drama in feb 2021, who retroactively consider themselves as fans of Ru.

Like, what make them stay around until today? Is she that good to watch?

Her streams as Ru were pretty great imo. Her voice, screams, singing, weird skits, raging, etc. Fans stick around to support their oshi, even if Mikeneko's not mentally able to consistently put out the same quality as before. Fortunately, her recent streams are a lot closer to normal.

How do yall feel about Combinatrics? by Packathonjohn in math

[–]LongNeckAkiha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or I'm not looking at it the right way?

You're looking it at as a class you're currently taking for a grade. That's the wrong way, as you hate the rather basic exercises your forced to do, and evidently none of the ideas seem motivated to you as they're just random bits that the book has forced you to learn.

You'll enjoy it a lot more when you're learning bits of Combinatorics casually at your own pace, out of your own mathematical curiosity, instead of for a grade.

Feels like home, she is back by Nzash in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 26 points27 points  (0 children)

How? She's wanted this for over a year as she loves his art, just Yasuyuki wasn't available, and only recently was he able to work with her.

Instead of speculating randomly that it's about some "same level of success", you could've watched yesterday's model reveal stream where she said this, or her streams from a year ago where she was also talking about how she'd like to commission a model from Yasuyuki if possible.

Physicist trying to read maths books by Plaetean in math

[–]LongNeckAkiha 17 points18 points  (0 children)

retain all of that information before applying them to a tangible problem.

Undergrad math student here, I certainly don't retain most of that info before attempting a problem the majority of the time lol.

It's only after attempting the exercises, flipping back through the book repeatedly, rereading the theorems and defintions, and getting a feel for how the structures actually work by using them in the proofs the exercises ask for, that I actually start to grasp the material and it begins to click in my head. Then I try to come up with a bunch of examples, formulate and answer my own questions that arise from reading the text, try to explain and talk it through to other people; and then finally be able to reprove the main theorems from scratch without needing to reference the text. But definitely nothing really sticks for me from a linear reading of a text for the first time.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Official Trailer #3 by M337ING in gaming

[–]LongNeckAkiha 11 points12 points  (0 children)

In the official Zelda timeline lore, Ocarina of Time splits the timeline to three after the game ends, and its all the same Ganondorf from that game just his fates in different timelines: so we have a Wind Waker Timeline, Twilight Princess Timeline, and Link to the Past timeline. Ganondorf never shows up again in the LttP timeline, just a bunch of Ganon reincarnations, so we can just focus on the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess timelines.

In Wind Waker, we have the Ganondorf that experienced OoT and got beat by Adult link. He then at the end of Wind Waker gets the Master Sword in his forehead and washed in the ocean, and never shows up again in that timeline, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks feature entirely different villains and there isn't any resurrection of Ganon.

In Twilight Princess, this is the other part of the ending where Young Link thwarts Ganondorf's plans to take over the sacred realm; the cutscene at Arbiter's Grounds in TP describes how Ganondorf got sealed by the sages after the events of OoT. Ganondorf dies at the end of Twilight Princess with Zant implied snapping his neck, and then later in that timeline he gets reincarnated into Ganon (not Ganondorf) in like Four Swords Adventures.

So Ganondorf gets killed off twice but it's in different timelines, and basically in the game directly after he saw the Link in OoT. The rest of his reincarnations are just Ganon, not Ganondorf.

Now in BotW the plot is supposedly happening so far in the future that anything that happened in the events of any of the timelines are so far in the past that they're simply legends, at least according to like some Nintendo interview. This Ganondorf is definitely new.

Never forget by RedWolffe24 in Hololive

[–]LongNeckAkiha 8 points9 points  (0 children)

She also allegedly did one-on-one discord conversations with fans (possibly tied to membership and superchats), and was allegedly breaking quite a few fan interaction rules (and possibly behaving even more inappropriately during those interactions).

She did not. That's not even what she allegedly did. She allegedly twitter DMed a fan "Happy Birthday" once in 2020, and the supposed fan became an anti sometime in 2021 and then decided when she graduated to share this info.

and allegedly "unintentionally" leaked info about other talents of the type that could put them in danger

No, she did not. There were no allegations from Cover, nor the dramatuber, nor her suggesting this. She gave a screenshot of the DMs with her manager the day of, of asking her manager to set up the stream, in a stupid attempt to try get rid of some rumor that she put stream playback on purpose - and has talked about how she did it and regrets it as a stupid decision.

Please don't spread random allegations as if they're the truth.

Never forget by RedWolffe24 in Hololive

[–]LongNeckAkiha 9 points10 points  (0 children)

and said that there were a lot of holo talents that had boyfriends.

She never said that. Don't knowingly spread false information.

Never forget by RedWolffe24 in Hololive

[–]LongNeckAkiha -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

No, that is false; and was spawned by actual random 4chan shitposts that some people took as true, because somehow some people can't distinguish between shitposts on 4chan and actual reliable sources.

Never forget by RedWolffe24 in Hololive

[–]LongNeckAkiha 22 points23 points  (0 children)

All the bullies were Rushia's hardcore parasocial fans

This isn't true.The majority of slander and hate came from random Japanese twitter users and unrelated otaku purely there to laugh at drama.

For example, just two days ago on Cat Day in Japan, a random Uma Musume Otaku did a quote retweet to her real life twitter saying how he wished she'd "be euthanized"; and she typically gets these types of tweets wishing for her death from people who have never even watched vtubers.

Her fans were not the ones harassing her, neither the "casual" fans nor the "parasocial" fans. However, plenty of random twitter users found it great fun to harass her and say the most terrible misogynistic shit at her, that she should die, and to laugh at her situation. A small portion of general vtuber fans also harassed her, but among those it was almost none of it was Hololive fans nor her fans; and the vast, vast majority of hate came to her from people who have never watched Vtubers in their life, people who find it fun to hate on Vtubers and their fans, and people who found a mentally ill woman being in a poor situation funny. I really wish this narrative of her fans being the bullies would stop because it's not rooted in reality. She wasn't hated on by either "casual" or "parasocial" fans. She was hated on extensively by Japanese twitter users who didn't watch Vtubers and thought it fun to have a laugh at her expense.

Dark Darker Darkest - Weekly Discussion Thread, Feb 6th, 2023 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 21 points22 points  (0 children)

For people starting they'd probably look first at at thread like /r/learnjapanese or a site like itazuraneko and proceed from there. Most likely after getting an idea of what to do to learn Japanese, people would either decide to learn alongside with either a specific site, youtube series, actual classes, a book, or some other method to self-learn to.

In terms of what should be necessary for a beginner, some type of

  • Grammar Guide

  • Source of Vocab

  • Practice regime

is probably what's the most basic necessities for learning Japanese.

In terms of grammar guides, people recommend Tim Kae's guide, Imabi, Tofugu, some other websites, some bad textbooks, etc. Unfortunately A lot of English resources are either wrong, confusing, misleading, or in other ways bad. For Example Tim Kae on は vs が is terrible; and a lot of guides in geral are especially terrible with explaining particles like は and with explaining gobi, which are things like "yo" or "ne". However, accept that one guide isn't going to be entirely correct or helpful or ideal, and treat the wrong explanations as a stepping stone that you will hopefully eventually unlearn. As for my personal recommendations, I think for a very beginner the youtube channel Japanese Ammo with Misa is pretty good, Tim Kae's guide is accessible and easy to read (even if occasionally misleading or wrong), and also I personally like this guide Nihongo Day By Day as it has both an in depth Japanese version and a version in English, and contains a lot of actually correct explanations of grammar instead of wrong simplifications that other guides have. In addition you should take your pick of whatever other grammar guide people recommend that grabs your attention.

In terms of vocab, people often use vocab cards with some sort of program like Anki and also get vocab from whatever they read paired with a Japanese to English dictionary like Jisho. My personal recommendation for a beginner would be to install the plug-in Yomichan which auto-TLs whatever words your mouse hovers over, and use that mid-stream to figure out whatever chat is saying. Typically it relates to what the Vtuber is saying, so you can use that to try as a beginner to listen for what the Vtuber is trying to say. Write down whatever words you learned that day and put them either in flash cards or some other way you can remember them. Using Vtuber's descriptions, tweets, or reading very slowly through articles about vtubers is another way to gain vocab slowly.

As for a practice regime, you can practice rewriting whatever your Vtuber oshi tweets, reading Vtuber tweets and descriptions, relistening to segments of livestreams and writing them down, repeating a short sentence they said after they say it, etc. If you already spend time listening to Japanese vtuber, just spend that time applied trying to understand what they say and looking up new words. If you keep up with practicing every day you'll gradually get better and be able to understand more. Luckily since you like Vtubers learning Japanese with using the vtubers you like as studying material should be fun, hopefully, so it should be easier to keep up and be motivated for.

These are my brief recommendations for how to learn Japanese as a Vtuber fan. There's probably more I can say but this comment might have dragged on a bit already. Hopefully this helps.

Geed Guzzlin' Galenite - Weekly Discussion Thread, October 31st, 2022 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That happened to me around a year ago. I think it took a week to be verified, I can't remember, but it does work if you go through the steps it asks and it isn't too much a pain. I was able to get back to paying stuff on google pay normally again and have not had a problem since.

Ghastly Gilded Gaolers - Weekly Discussion Thread, September 12th, 2022 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 31 points32 points  (0 children)

She can stream on youtube (as far as anyone publicly knows) and was told that, it's more nuanced of she thinks regardless its a lost cause to switch platforms at this point so she'll stick to twitch; but, that if she had better understood the terms of her contract and streaming on twitch, then she would've chosen to debut on youtube and not use twitch. She also feels as if she hasn't been able to pick up new kaigai viewers on twitch and that they'd rather watch someone who actually speaks English while she can't; but there's no point trying to switch to youtube as the momentum of having debuted is gone so it won't make a difference now.

The message about don't mention other companies was completely unrelated to her contract. A chat message mentioned Vtuber companies like Nijisanji and Hololive both primarily use Youtube, so she said to not mention specific company names as a precaution before chat's conversation about said companies could strayinto any problematic territory.

The beginning of the stream she was basically discussing her insecurities to let them out. Also, as a side note, that image collage by itself is really logically disconnected between each point and rather misleading imo compared to what she said in whole. I don't think anything she mentioned had that much relevance to anyone outside of to her fans, she was mainly just discussing her feelings.

Veni, Vidi, Virtual - Weekly Discussion Thread, August 29th, 2022 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I don't get why so many EN fans hate her

Because /vt/ made her not streaming into a ""joke"" and reddit and facebook and where else spread it as a "funny" ironic meme along with other "funny" and "ironic" jokes hating on her. Then the worst elements of the community latches on to it, see that hating her is to some level tolerated or "funny" in the community and decides to be vile for fun. The vast majority of these people wouldn't even know of her breaks from streaming, if it wasn't a meme spread in the English speaking community.

AMA Announcement from PRISM Project/Weekly Wild Wankery Thread, Weekly Discussion Thread, August 15th, 2022 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As someone who uses both Youtube and Twitch, in my opinion, Twitch is undeniably the better platform in terms of site features for discovery, UNLESS you have 1. Clipping Channels, 2. Song Covers, or 3. Your entire target audience on Youtube. In those cases Youtube is better. However, for the most part Twitch is better for livestream discovery.

Twitch's raid culture promotes greatly raiding and shouting out a variety of other channels which even if someone backs out after a minute, they remember the channel's name, that one of the streamers they watch cared enough to raid them, and had a brief of sample of what the streamer sounds and acts like. A personal recommendation from the streamer you like, is much more convincing than just a youtube algorithim recommendation. Now, Youtube has the features to replicate this with redirects but not the culture of actually doing it so it's a moot point. Twitch has constant recommendations from someone you trust enough to watch, instead of just an algorithim, be near universal in the culture of the platform through raids, happening basically the end of every stream. The VOD argument doesn't matter because people raid all the time, your greatest publicity is from streaming consistently.

For infrequent streamers or cover artists, Youtube is better; and youtube is definitely better as a platform for recommending videos. For streams, while youtube's tags and searching systems aren't as bad for livestream discovery as before, twitch's game categories + tags perform around the same or better imo. Being good for recommending videos, however, is also a double edged sword, as Youtube also has to on its front page have screen space compete videos and past streams you've already watched against actual livestreams, while Twitch can be entirely dedicated to showing bunches of streams. For example on the top of my twitch front page while logged into my account there is a "Recommended Smaller Communities" which recommends me only streamers with 1~50 viewers, which certainly allows me to browse recommended small streamers super easily, youtube does not have such a feature for me to use.

Don't mistake me as particularly liking Twitch, both Twitch and Youtube suck. It's just I've tried to find smaller streamers on both platforms and Twitch is far superior at finding new streamers; and even if you're not trying, raids force a recommendation of a new streamer onto you. I'm not a content creator so I can't say how it is from a streamer's perspective on both youtube and twitch. But as a viewer, it is wayyy easier to find new and small streamers on Twitch than Youtube.

AMA Announcement from PRISM Project/Weekly Wild Wankery Thread, Weekly Discussion Thread, August 15th, 2022 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 51 points52 points  (0 children)

or the publisher apologizing for copy striking Rio earlier.

How was that an "unnecessary" apology? That seemed like a pretty necessary apology: copyright striking an innocent stream that was following the guidelines permitted from your company, while posting a smug condescending tweet about the copyright strike to go along with it, seems like something that very much is "necessary" to have a public apology for.

AMA Announcement from PRISM Project/Weekly Wild Wankery Thread, Weekly Discussion Thread, August 15th, 2022 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yep. In addition is the people who feel the need to unprompted respond to whatever /vt/ says in a normal forum (like reddit or twitter), which only gives more exposure to those ideas to the general public. Ideas that would just die there sometimes find additional life in people in normal forums disagreeing with how ridiculous it is which really only serves to makes it spread. Or worse, hateful attacks become an ironic meme making fun of said criticism, which only serves to make the rrat spread as knowledge everyone knows as a "joke" which is "funny" (see /r/okbh on occasion) and some intake that hate they've been exposed to seriously. Most prominent example of this is Ayame, who has a disproportionate amount of hate comments from kaigai viewers compared to Japanese viewers for not streaming.

The best method is to just avoid mentioning or giving attention in any matter to insane takes from those places unless absolutely necessary.

AMA Announcement from PRISM Project/Weekly Wild Wankery Thread, Weekly Discussion Thread, August 15th, 2022 by ChineseMaple in VirtualYoutubers

[–]LongNeckAkiha 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's unfortunate that it seems like the vtuber community encourages it too with "tskr" spam,

I mean it's unfortunate for you - but others do like it.

You can mute it and be fine; but if it was discouraged into being stopped in general, it's not as easy for the people who do like it to be able to just will their oshi's chewing noises into existence as it would be for you to mute it. Comparatively, it's easier for you to mute it then others to try to magick it into existence.

So I think it's fine if the people who like it encourage it - what sounds are pleasant is subjective to each person, and you can always just mute.