VTubing (or content creation in general) is not an easy activity. You need time, you need patience and you need determination to even persevere let alone thrive doing it - even then, strong will and dedication might not be enough sometimes.

We all have our oshi or just creators whose content we enjoy but sometimes those people vanish. Maybe they got bored or tired and decided to quit. Maybe they disappeared suddenly without a trace. Either way, they’re no longer active and the only thing left are the archives.

I’ve been thinking about one of such VTubers recently and thought this could be an interesting topic to reminiscence and learn about people you’ve never heard about.

The one I’ve been thinking about is Vasuki, a French streamer who used to be active on Twitch. She streamed variety of games, with FFXIV as a regular “filler” between them. While she wasn’t huge, she seemed to be doing fine and nothing really indicated she’s planning to stop her activities. She was even working on an AI powered partner to use during streams. One day she simply vanished. No more streams, no more archives, no more tweets - she’s just gone.

I’m sure some of you have a similar story so I’d like to ask you to tell me about the VTubers of your past. Who were they? What did they do? What was your favorite thing about them?

Let’s go through a memory lane together.

  • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m cheating a little bit because my memories of Vasuki don’t really come with any clip worthy moments or anything like that. She wasn’t a huge storyteller or a natural born comedians like some of the biggest names active today.

    My favorite thing about her streams was just hanging out with a small number of other viewers and chatting about games and such. I’m not a huge fan of crowds, whether virtual or real ones, so I tend to just hang around in the background whenever big number of people show up in chat. This wasn’t a problem with Vasuki.

    I know this might sound kind of shitty (“hell yeah, streamer I watch isn’t blowing up so I can keep chatting!”) but small channels are the only places I feel comfortable in - there’s enough people to actually interact with but not enough to change the whole thing into a bunch of monkeys looking for attention (yes this is an overreaction, not a serious feeling).

    I kind of stopped looking for new small streamers after that. I have a hard time entering existing groups so joining the chat can be a challenge. There was one other streamer since then but YouTube decided to block my account until I gave them more data and since I’m not doing that I can no longer chat so once again I’m stuck watching from the shadows.

    I hope some of you have more positive stories.