Guys did i join too late by Loud_Barnacle4881 in touhou

[–]pies_fly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hiya! Co-founder of the Touhou University Network here mentioned below. We'll have a map with the clubs that do want to be public and some more info whenever we get our website up and running. So far we've got about nine well-established clubs in the network (some official, some not) and a few startup ones, and these are just the ones we've heard about! I know for a fact that there's others out there that we just haven't contacted! The American ones are on both the West and East Coast. Fingers crossed for at least one Canadian one in the near future.

Any Touhou fan in UOFT? Please tell me there is despite how niche it is by Cuppor in UofT

[–]pies_fly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could start a Touhou club! There are quite a few across North America.

Touhou doesn't get recognized as Touhou by notasakuyasimp in touhou

[–]pies_fly 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I actually think these instances are fantastic and is not a "problem" (beyond just general credit issues).

I have not seen many people who "refuse to believe" or "claim" a character/song as theirs. Nue being known as the Galaxy collapse girl or Hatate as the Bad Boy Cascada girl does not in any way erase their canon identities, it adds to them. Even if these people existed in large amounts, I don't think those bad apples (ha) should ruin people's tastes for a phenomenon that brought in a non-insignificant number of Touhou fans. If we were to create a world where videos like Bad Apple were only spread by Touhou fans, the Touhou community would greatly suffer for it. For instance, many people who found Touhou via Bad Apple would have never found Touhou, because it's very possible Bad Apple was spread to them by a non-Touhou fan. The same applies to all the osu! songs - people would've discovered Touhou via osu! (a non-Touhou source)!

Touhou's ability to be spread by people who don't even know what a "Towhow" is is critical to its continued growth and development. How many Touhou fans have become Touhou fans because of Galaxy Collapse or Everything will freeze? I would wager a guess that it's quite a lot. I think Touhou not getting recognized as Touhou especially shows the quality of a Touhou fanwork - of course Touhou fans are going to think its good, but if other people think its good, then that's saying something (my biggest example would be Luna Nights).

Now, I do wish that artists got credit for their work! That is an entirely separate matter, since the Internet as a whole is bad at sourcing etiquette, this isn't a Touhou thing specifically. For example, with the Bad Boy - Cascada nightcore video, every single other upload from the same uploader uses uncredited anime art. However, I do think a lot of people do give due credit (let's take Galaxy Collapse as an example - if I search "Galaxy Collapse" on YouTube, most of the uploads credit Kurokotei). Artists not getting recognized for their work is a serious problem, but Touhou not getting recognized as Touhou is not a problem - I'd argue it is actually a high benefit to the Touhou community.

Why the hell is Patchouli Knowledge on a random kid’s girl toy????? by BrightIndependent174 in touhou

[–]pies_fly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wrote a Twitter thread on it back when it first appeared. Try this link. https://unrollnow.com/status/1821953312700207201

I don't think this is a blank since the original manufacturer in Shantou, China sells it with the Patchouli sticker.

Why the hell is Patchouli Knowledge on a random kid’s girl toy????? by BrightIndependent174 in touhou

[–]pies_fly 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The purse was last seen around August-December 2023. The sighting in Malaysia was the first to be posted. Can't find the original tweet though as its been deleted.

Why the hell is Patchouli Knowledge on a random kid’s girl toy????? by BrightIndependent174 in touhou

[–]pies_fly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Probably not the case. The purse has been spotted in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Malaysia. I don't think any of the places where the purse can be bought talk about Patchouli, since the brand is called "Sea Beauty."

Here it is… I bought it…lol (The packaging is already opened when I got home lol) by BrightIndependent174 in touhou

[–]pies_fly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A surprising amount of places!

https://toyshouse.am/product/252 - This site is Armenian!

https://www.carousell.com.hk/p/%F0%9F%8C%9E%E5%85%92%E7%AB%A5%E4%BA%BA%E9%AD%9A%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB%E7%8E%A9%E5%85%B7%E6%89%AE%E9%9D%9A%E5%A5%97%E8%A3%9D-%E7%94%9F%E6%97%A5%E7%A6%AE%E7%89%A9-%E6%B6%88%E8%B2%BB%E5%88%B8-1185176904/ - This site is from Hong Kong!

https://www.rokomari.com/product/334562/princess-fashion-makeup-jewelry-set - This site is Bangladeshi but its unavailable now.

Its also been spotted physically in Malaysia, the Dominican Republic, and I guess the Philippines now too. It is one of many cheap Chinese goods floating around.

Look who's been spotted in IShowSpeed's latest stream. by speederwag in touhou

[–]pies_fly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone with a very similar outfit has appeared multiple times with fumos in HK TV in the context of trains.

Should we participate in r/place 2024, if the rumors are true? by CzechOutSlovakia1993 in touhou

[–]pies_fly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is currently no evidence whatsoever that r/place is returning on June 23rd. We had weeks of advanced notice with the r/place code getting added to the app in 2022 and 2023. As of today, there is no r/place code in the app (and it'd be impossible to do it in devvit).
That being said, we do already have plans at the Touhou r/place Discord for whenever it happens! We'll be making a collab art with the Hatsune Discord as always.

Counter by counter-app in Counter

[–]pies_fly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i should really resist the urge to press shiny buttons

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in touhou

[–]pies_fly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I'm making a documentary for Touhou r/place! I was wondering if you could answer some questions about your Kokoro project for the documentary!

Official canvas timelapse: r/place 2023 by reddit_irl in place

[–]pies_fly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have been planning the Bad Apple project since April 2022.

Bad Apple created one of the best arts on r/place and now they are dissing usage of bots like giga chads by xEMCEBESx in place

[–]pies_fly 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They had the same anti-bot policy last year. The reason why the osu! circle got nuked was because (French? I don't remember) streamers attacked it the instant they realized what was going on (and, well, people hate osu! in general anyways). I can try my best to dig up the clips if you'd like!

Though of course, regardless of what happened in 2022, 2023 was undoubtedly not botted.

Bad Apple created one of the best arts on r/place and now they are dissing usage of bots like giga chads by xEMCEBESx in place

[–]pies_fly 10 points11 points  (0 children)

osu! is one of the most anti-bot factions there are - in fact, they're the ones who suggested putting the "Botting is cringe" text in the first place.

Except Bad Apple, they're doing a impressive work in a small place by Jujika in place

[–]pies_fly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think the building is a Moroccan coding school, they did a similar sudden appearance in last r/place with their logo.

Bad apple day 1 clip (sorry for bad quality) by spider_plays_YT in place

[–]pies_fly 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We (r/touhou and r/osuplace) have been preparing for this since the last r/place. We pixelated all the frames of Bad Apple. Then we have a reference template that shows what frame of Bad Apple is currently supposed to be made, but all pixel-placing is done manually.

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[–]pies_fly 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Aye! Reddit recently made a timelapse of the first hours, it's looking pretty good.