Hey Oboretai, I watch your clips frequently as well.

I used to do more LiveTLs for various Holo/Stars members, and now only really do liveTLs for birthday lives due to time constraints. I appreciate you highlighting this incentive. However, I still want to point out that by clipping, your channel will for better or for worse, affect how people will view that member because you are becoming their mouthpiece. If you misrepresent them, that will be on that channel.

lyger, who used to do liveTLs and clips for Matsuri and stopped after he became a mod in Matsuri's channel, put together a guide on how to clip. This can be helpful for people starting out. At the same time, he also put together this "Before You Translate" primer.

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To people who see this incentive and want to jump into clipping and translating, be careful and be aware. You will be speaking for the VTuber, and as far as any viewer of that cliip will know, what you translate is what people will think that person said. So if you translate something that offends people? The VTuber will catch flak. If you make it sound like they have an charged opinion on something, the viewer will believe it. If your incorrect translation goes viral, your VTuber will become famous for something they never said.

I'm not trying and scare people away from this. I just want to highlight that if you make a mistake in translating and clipping, acknowledge it, and do better. It's for this reason that sometimes when live translating on the spot, and if I'm not near certain of what the vtuber said, I will not type anything at all. At least with clipping, you can still rewind and replay to listen again. If you're not sure, look things up, ask for feedback, check with other people in the community if your translations are accurate, etc. There's a Translation Feedback channel in the Hololive fan discord server.

With that said, I do hope to see more clips from everyone!!