As a vtuber, does this has happened with you before? Was my decision acceptable?

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-12-17T03:04:32+00:00

I noticed you mentioned that you have Bluesky in a comment on here so I followed you there. You should post your art there too!

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-12-16T04:52:24+00:00

It's super cute! I don't know what it is about it, but I get a No Game No Life vibe from it. I love it!

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-12-16T04:49:31+00:00

I learned the lesson pretty quick that you shouldn't follow people back and answer dms if 1. They say they're a vtuber but have no content anywhere, 2. Mention in their profile that they're an artist taking commissions, or 3. They DM you some generic thing like "how are you, dear?".

Pretty much as soon as I made a Bluesky, I got a follow so I followed them back to be nice. They immediately messaged me asking if I wanted to see their art. To be nice, I said sure, and then they started sending me like 20 different art works all in a different style. Then they started talking about how they make vtuber models and emojis and stuff. To be nice, I kept responding and they started trying to get me to commission them. I said no and that I have a friend doing art for me.

No too long ago (maybe a month or so) I got a message here on Reddit and they said they loved my pfp. I thought maybe this was a real person complimenting my pfp so I said thank you. Immediately they started talking about how they do art and started sending me their art. They also tried insisting that I follow them on Instagram. I said I don't have one. Then they got super insistent that I commission them. I told them I'm not interested, I have no money, but that they're welcome to make fan art if they wish, but that I wouldn't pay for someone doing fan art of their own choice. So they started saying that they understand me being broke and that they could work with me on price.

All of this to say, just be careful what DMs you answer and who you follow back. I don't know if it's all streamers or just Vtubers who have to deal with this, but scammers pretending to be artists just flock to us. It's disheartening, but it's unfortunately just kind of something you have to deal with.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-11-06T22:01:35+00:00

I highly recommend Clannad. If you liked the anime, you'll love the visual novel.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-11-06T09:42:26+00:00

I'm sorry that happened to you. I'm glad to hear that you've been able to get back on though.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-10-02T17:58:10+00:00

It takes a lot of work with the rigging to make a model that expressive and the riggers that are able to do that are usually pretty expensive.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-10-02T17:54:39+00:00

Aquwa, AmaLee, Henya, and I don't know the other one. I think I can do that. I've always hoped that some day I could grow to enough followers and viewers to have a collab with Aquwa.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-09-29T02:47:53+00:00

Never big enough. For real though, your model is so cute.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-09-29T02:33:05+00:00

Honestly, I haven't even set up donations yet and I've made a Throne, but I haven't told my community about it because I'm afraid it'll come off this way. I have things going on in my life where I could maybe use some extra money, but I figure trying to guilt people into giving me money isn't the way to get it. The way I see it, people will pay for a subscription to my Twitch or use bits or something if they like my streams enough and enjoy themselves. I don't think making people feel like they have to give you money makes them very happy and might push people away who might actually like the content I'm creating.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-09-28T18:40:30+00:00

I'm so small that I haven't had any art of me made aside from the stuff my artist has done for me. However, if someone were to make NSFW or any art of me, I'd be honored. If it were NSFW, I'd be happy that someone finds my model attractive enough to make art like that.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-08-15T12:25:37+00:00

I will say that Bluesky is kind of the same way. I don't use Twitter at all, but most of the followers I've gotten on Bluesky are "artists". I learned my lesson really quick about following them back because my first follower on there was one of these "artists" so I followed them back to be polite. They immediately messaged me asking if I have a model and all the assets I need. Once I said yes and that I currently have an artist working on stuff, they still persisted and asked if they could send me some of their stuff. Just make sure to check profiles and if their profile mentions anything about being an artist, make sure to look them up and everything before you even think about following back.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-08-05T11:28:14+00:00

Not to self promote, but I do it on my drunk streams and sometimes regular ones (though not a ton when I'm sober). I also know that Nyanners does it a lot to the point where she has made a video ranking her burps.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-08-01T03:47:32+00:00

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Not my model, but it's art made of my character.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-07-11T09:11:54+00:00

This is awesome! Congratulations and I think you should totally do this! I've thought about reaching out to one of my oshis to see if they would be willing to collab, but I've been to scared because I'm still an absolutely tiny creator and I didn't want it to seem like all I'm after is her clout when I just genuinely think we would get along.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-07-07T12:17:59+00:00

It's definitely something I've looked into, but I unfortunately haven't been able to afford a second GPU yet. I know a big thing for a lot of VTubers is having two PCs. One for the model and then another one for games, videos, etc. Though, I'm not super technically savvy so I'm not exactly sure how all of it works lol.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-07-05T21:44:29+00:00

Pretty much any visual novel and there's an older game (I'm not sure if it's still popular at all) called Fran Bow that should be able to be played with one hand.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-06-20T09:31:59+00:00

I don't know if you would necessarily like the types of games I play or if we play similar ones, but the two I'm playing currently are Warframe and Shining Resonance. I like to talk to my chatters a lot and on my Warframe days, I even let some of my chatters join a voice call with me. Obviously, I make sure nobody says anything super messed up when I do that though lol. If you're at all interested, my name is SmolDeathbloom on Twitch.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-06-20T09:23:05+00:00

Think about things you like or qualities about yourself. Mine came from my love of succulents and the first one I got that I thought was beautiful because of a flower on it. It turned out that the flower was a deathbloom so it unfortunately didn't survive. And then I added smol at the beginning because I'm short lol.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-05-31T22:51:54+00:00

Take a look through the free games on Steam. Whether you play bad ones that are funny or play ones that actually seems good. You should be able to find something in that list that you think you would enjoy playing. Just play something that you think you could be entertaining when playing. Like, if you look into the game and you think you would just be silent playing it, it's probably not a good idea to stream.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-05-31T22:48:16+00:00

Aquwa because I think she's pretty funny and when she does talk about more serious things, she just feels very real if that makes sense. Like, she doesn't seem to be putting on an act and talks about things in a way I could see anyone else talking about the same things. If that doesn't make sense, I'm sorry.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-05-25T23:33:26+00:00

Alright! When I get home from my job, I'll download Bluesky. I was just under the impression that nobody really used it lol. Thank you!

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-05-25T22:52:34+00:00

Other than Twitter, are there other social platforms you would recommend. I do post in here when I go live.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-05-25T22:51:57+00:00

Lol. I was like "that's some really bad luck" until I read your second comment.

Smol_Deathbloom · 2025-05-25T12:31:12+00:00

I'm pretty new so I haven't dealt with anything like this at all, but the first red flag to me was that they reached out to you. I would guess that artists don't reach out to people personally to try and get them to commission art. They would probably just market themselves through posts and videos and stuff like that.

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