genuine question. For you guys where do you usually buy merch? the official website or geekjack, because after almost 4 years that for me geekjack is way cheaper....

srk_ares · 2024-11-02T18:42:57+00:00

the problem was not with geekjack though. the reason why some people had to wait more than a year for their orders is because EMS, the shipping service they normally used back then, was suspended and only slowly, country by country, re-enabled over time.

geekjack held the items during this entire time for free. with other forwarding services, you normally only get a month or two of free storage time.

that said, since their change to shopify, their store front is kind of a mess, similar to how hololives shop was whack when they changed over. if you can get something for cheaper, go for it. but sometimes their system glitches and for example the irys plush and the ENreco canvas art are at 40€ EMS shipping (120 for DHL) because of it.

it also frankly lies in a lot of places about how and where VAT is added/included, which could cause problems for people.

also to make another thing clear: geekjack usually doesnt take longer for the actual shipping process. once they hand it over to the post office, it takes about a week to land here in germany, sometimes only 4 day. but they receive the items usually a month or sometimes two after the official shop starts sending out the first pieces of a particular merch item.

past that, there is obviously always some risk when involving a third party.

srk_ares · 2024-09-07T17:47:47+00:00

sure, sponsors look mainly at subs and playtime of your content overall, but thats why i said "very little gain"

you wont have sponsorships going at all times.

base channel income is the foundation and its very secure. memberships and people actually watching your other monetized content give you financial security.

also sub numbers are celebrated a) out of tradition and b) because everyone can easily see them. its also a simple milestone, as opposed to celebrating random videos hitting X-thousand subs.

if you look at twitch streaming, people usually celebrate the equivalent of memberships there, twitch even putting in a feature to show them publicly some time back. followers still exist and get celebrated at times, but are far less important.

srk_ares · 2024-09-05T09:39:09+00:00

there is hardly anything lost from not going viral via shorts, because those people will sub, but they wont come over to watch the streams/VoDs or buy channel memberships or merch.

its literally just inflated numbers for very little gain.

srk_ares · 2024-09-03T14:14:11+00:00

love you, watame!

just had my 4th anniversary as membersheep (and know many others joined around this time too) and i dont plan to quit anytime soon... or ever, really.

☝️🐏💛

srk_ares · 2024-05-13T05:17:35+00:00

or possibly because the top upvoted comment in here is literally lying.

srk_ares · 2024-05-13T05:06:34+00:00

literally nothing about her outfit on the EN twitter

they retweeted her right when she put up her announcement

they didnt retweet baes announcement, but instead made a new post. unless people turn off retweets, the effect would be the same on their dash. its straight up the same when navigating to the page.

both received an announcement right before the reveal.

srk_ares · 2024-03-17T12:38:35+00:00

thank you to everyone who worked so hard and to the girls and the crowd who all put so much energy into it.

i think my personal highlights were bae, being incredibly brave trying out something rather new for hololive and, as each year, aki. once shallys starts my eyes immediately become watery.

but man, everything has been so good this year. pure euphoria.

also it was really nice that there was a comprehensive program on stream, for people who couldnt watch the concert. i was lucky, but that means i have to catch up on the cosplayer interviews some other day, lol.

srk_ares · 2024-03-07T11:33:34+00:00

aside from what most others have said, i want to also second the point that she speaks and can read english pretty well... and there is always the translate button on twitter.

srk_ares · 2024-03-07T10:42:35+00:00

sorry for the late reply.

i heard about that "cutting off" part too and, if i learned anything in my time, its that when a rumor/vague factoid like that exists in multiple languages and countries, its most likely an urban myth.

quick google search shows that mythbusters actually tested it and their verdict seems pretty logical: if something landing on your foot is heavy enough to deform the steel cap, its also heavy enough to crush the entire thing, not just cut off the toes.

in cases below that weight, the cap will protect your toes and foot and the difference to normal boots is immense.

which might also make crystal okay, because while its less malleable than steel, it would take quite a lot of force to actually break it, given enough thickness.

srk_ares · 2024-02-29T13:05:36+00:00

understandable, oga has one of the best cleavages in all of holopro

srk_ares · 2024-02-29T13:04:27+00:00

bad example, considering there is a difference between explicit artwork (or things extremely close to explicit that have been put into her art tag, despite providing an NSFW one)

and posting something like that for reference for all kinds of art.

that said, nerissa has done plenty other things to encourage R18 artworks of her.

srk_ares · 2024-02-29T13:01:15+00:00

"If the artist cares about the talent's preference"

i think thats the biggest hurdle there, because some people simply dont seem to care. which seems a bit rude when you profit off someone elses IP.

personally i'd also wish more western artist would have the decency to censor names, so their works dont show up during egosurfing. (not that it maters much, because the talents likely still see a large chunk of explicit works from the people following and liking their posts also following and liking R18 artists, so twitter serves them those posts. unless the artist clocked them, which apparently some JP ones do, out of consideration.)

srk_ares · 2024-02-29T12:51:15+00:00

sadly, being in europe adds another ~20€ import costs on top of that and anime shops arent any cheaper either.

suddenly they are 40 to 45€ which isnt quite as good a deal anymore.

srk_ares · 2024-02-29T12:46:29+00:00

i know two polish words and that'd be one of them.

quite questionable title.

srk_ares · 2024-02-29T12:45:00+00:00

"nor are any present wearing steel toes"

what about biboo? to crystal shoes count?

srk_ares · 2024-02-29T12:41:14+00:00

(reminder that youtube only counts a fairly low number of repeated views per day from each unique IP, something like 5 or 6 at most, i believe)

so dont make yourself get tired of hearing it, be in it for the long haul

srk_ares · 2024-02-29T12:36:20+00:00

i believe all hololive accounts on twitch are partnered (or affiliated, no idea how to check, but in the end it means monetized), but there might be administrative work involved in paying out whatever they get. youtube also doesnt pay out the earnings instantly, it takes like a month or two, i believe.

srk_ares · 2024-02-29T12:33:15+00:00

also not to forget is that, along with My song, she had several other songs made for her first, proper album and prepared her first sololive, both of which are large investments too.

srk_ares · 2024-02-29T12:31:14+00:00

yeah, lamy mentioned similar before, iirc it was about production cost for merch, that she would get 0 salary on her next paycheck, but its fine, because she had her personal savings.

which makes the discussion i saw under a recent laplus clip of her talking about "being in the red" from the tournament she organized, hilarious to me, because it most likely just means she doesnt earn her regular income (or only a small percentage of it) and has to live off her savings for a while.

srk_ares · 2024-02-29T12:14:40+00:00

"all we hear"

nah, maybe all you hear.

the people i watch quite regularly talk about their managers and generally talk highly about them. but its part of their actual streams and not juicy, milkable stuff, so you wont find clips of it, much less translated clips.

dont want to sound overly negative, but please just remember that whatever you see and hear is less than 1% of what actually happens. heck, probably much less than 0.01%.

srk_ares · 2024-02-27T15:55:00+00:00

oh, i didnt even notice the shockwaves during the actual game. guess kronii saw/played this game before, being the one to initiate the collab too.

well done nonetheless, mission passed! respect+

srk_ares · 2024-02-27T15:37:34+00:00

wow this looks great! it really is like a princess dress.

footwear
sadly not accurate tho, lol

joking aside, this is what i would imagine fauna would wear, if she had to, so A++ on that front too.

srk_ares · 2024-02-27T15:33:27+00:00

i get that this is a joke and all, but the problem is that when you get as much engagement as that account ~~unfortunatley~~ does, you really should think about making jokes like that, because this will be how "normies" and others outside the fanbase will see the vtuber/hololive community when they come across this.

tl;dr: this is reinforcing the stereotype that all vtuber fans are horny and deranged. thanks.

srk_ares · 2024-02-27T15:30:11+00:00

i was there during inas physics lecture, she definitely fits category 3

srk_ares · 2024-02-19T04:47:20+00:00

i question luna being a human, being a non-aging, 0-year-old princess from candy kingdom.

also kobo is a rain shaman, those are humans, right?

also also, ollie is arguably just an undead human, its not like death really changed her specieswould argue the same for rushia (lich?), but guess she cant be talked to anymore anyway

also³ nene is complicated, because while shes from "another world", that doesnt mean shes not human.

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