History Trivia / YandereSimulator

* FollowTheLeader: There's a game on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} called ''VideoGame/YandereSchool'' that's trying to ape this games popularity before it even came out.

* ActingForTwo: Many examples.
** Michaela Laws voices Ayano Aishi (a.k.a. Yandere-chan), Ryoba Aishi, the Lust Demon, the Placeholder Club Leaders, and provides the screams of female students as they burn to death. She also voices the side-game characters Kuudere-chan[[note]] (''not'' the NPC Kuu Dere in the main game, who does not speak)[[/note]] and Tsundere-chan from ''Kuudere Simulator'' and its sequels, as well as Beldere-chan from ''Yanvania''. The audio she recorded for Kokona's screams as she burns to death is recycled for all the other girls who can be killed by the flaming ritual knife and Ayano's demonic pyrotechnics. Technically, this means Michaela voices all the female students, similar to [=Mom0ki=] mentioned below.
** Caitlyn "[=Mom0ki=]" Myers voices Midori Gurin and Oka Ruto, and is the most commonly heard voice for Kokona Haruka and Saki Miyu.
*** To a lesser extent, her lines as Saki are retained for any kidnapped female who gets tortured and brainwashed, so technically, she voices nearly ''every'' female student. This also extended to the teachers during the brief time when a [[GoodBadBug glitch]] in Cyborg Mode allowed the player to interact with teachers as if they were students.

** Dawn M Bennett is, as of the Rival Introduction, slated to voice ''three'' of the rivals - Asu Rito (Sports Club President), Muja Kina (Substitute Nurse), and Hanako Yamada (Senpai's Younger Sister).
** Marissa Lenti voices both Mida Rana (The Substitute Teacher Rival) and Genka Kunahito (The School Counselor).
** Cayla Martin is a borderline example: she voices Info-chan in the game proper and Dracula-chan in ''Yanvania''.

* TheCastShowoff: Michaela Laws, Yan-chan and several other character's voice actress, is also a talented singer, and [=YandereDev=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcS8d7wcEd8 occasionally]] posts official videos of her singing songs in-character.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Ayano's voice actor, Michaela Laws, is very afraid of knives, as she admitted on a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFPXKECjj74 live stream]].

** Ayano and several other character's voice actress, Michaela Laws, programmed and contributed to the script of ''Burning Love'', a DatingSim SpinOff for AprilFoolsDay 2016, which [=YandereDev=] dreamt up but didn't have time to work on.

* TheOtherDarrin: Despite the announcement in 2023 that the game would have no voice acting, at least one character (Info-chan) has been recast with a new actor. %% may need updates

* TheOtherDarrin: Despite announcing in 2023 that the game would have no voice acting, at least one character (Info-chan) has been recast with a new actor. %% may need updates

** Then, in 2023, many of his volunteers left the project in disgust when it came to light serious grooming allegations with an underage fan[[note]]Leaked recordings of his private messages and voice chats on Discord and Snapchat reveal that he engaged in sexually-charged conversations with a minor[[/note]]. Among those who dropped out included the entire voice cast, leading to the announcement that the game would have no voice acting and that development would be on hiatus as of October 2023 (at least for big updates).

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** Then, in 2023, many of his volunteers left the project in disgust when it came to light serious grooming allegations with an underage fan[[note]]Leaked recordings of his private messages and voice chats on Discord and Snapchat reveal that he engaged in sexually-charged conversations with an 16 years old fan, and he was fully aware about her being a minor[[/note]]. Among those who dropped out included the entire voice cast, leading to the announcement that the game would have no voice acting and that development would be on hiatus as of October 2023 (at least for big updates).

** Then, in 2023, many of his volunteers left the project in disgust when it came to light that he was grooming underaged fans[[note]]Leaked recordings of his private messages and voice chats on Discord and Snapchat reveal that he engaged in sexually-charged conversations with fans who were 12 to 16 years old[[/note]]. Among those who dropped out included the entire voice cast, leading to the announcement that the game would have no voice acting and that development would be on hiatus as of October 2023.

** Then, in 2023, many of his volunteers left the project in disgust when it came to light that he was grooming underaged fans[[note]]Leaked recordings of his private messages and voice chats on Discord and Snapchat reveal that he engaged in sexually charged conversations on with fans who were 12 to 16 years old[[/note]]. Among those who dropped out included the entire voice cast, leading to the announcement that the game would have no voice acting and that development would be on hiatus as of October 2023.

** Then, in 2023, many of his volunteers left the project in disgust when it came to light that he was grooming underaged fans[[note]]Leaked recordings of his private messages and voice chats reveal he engaged in sexually charged conversations on Discord and Snapchat with fans who were 12 to 16 years old[[/note]]. Among those that dropped out included the entire voice cast, leading to the announcement that the game would have no voice acting and that development would be on hiatus as of October 2023.

* TheCastShowoff: Michaela Laws, Yan-chan's voice actress, is also a talented singer, and [=YandereDev=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcS8d7wcEd8 occasionally]] posts official videos of her singing songs in-character.

** In Michaela Laws’s streams of the official demo, Senpai’s voice actor Austin Hively mentioned his headcanon that Senpai is a NiceGuy at school but a complete troll on the Internet. In the same streams, Laws stated that her performance as Ayano is meant to depict her as having Obsessive Love Disorder, while [=YandereDev=] has stated that he didn’t have a specific real life condition in mind when writing Ayano and that whatever form of insanity she’d be diagnosed with is a fictional one.

** Ayano's voice actress, Michaela Laws, programmed and contributed to the script of ''Burning Love'', a DatingSim SpinOff for AprilFoolsDay 2016, which [=YandereDev=] dreamt up but didn't have time to work on.

*** A couple months later, [[https://youtu.be/313cSVxTApk she did it again,]] this time enlisting [=Mom0ki=], Austin Hively (Taro/Senpai) and Patrick Seymour (Budo) to reprise their characters.

** Then, in 2023, many of his volunteers left the project in disgust when it came to light that he was grooming underaged fans[[note]]Recordings of his private messages and voice chats were leaked, showing that he engaged in sexually charged conversations on Discord and Snapchat with fans who were 12 to 16 years old[[/note]]. Among those that dropped out included the entire voice cast, leading to the announcement that the game would have no voice acting and that development would be on hiatus as of October 2023.

** In early July 2020, several of [=YandereDev=]’s accounts were hacked. The hacker leaked several of his emails, including all of his correspondence with tinyBuild which shed further light on what led to the end of partnership between them, along with the game's source code, and also commandeered the game's subreddit to, among other things, clear its entire ban list (consisting of over ''five thousand'' reddit users) and put the ''entire mod team'' and [=YandereDev=]’s account on said ban list. While [=YandereDev=] eventually regained his compromised accounts (and the subreddit itself, about three weeks later), and the event is certain to create further delays in development. Even before the hack, several fans have also taken it upon themselves to make clones of the game whilst trying to avoid his production pitfalls, including a game initially called ''Lovesick''[[note]]quickly renamed to ''Love Letter: My True Feelings'' to distance themselves from ''Yandere Simulator''[[/note]] (named after [=YandereDev's=] proposed official title for ''Yandere Simulator''). However, these games fell into their own troubled production cycles and became {{Vaporware}}.
** Then, in 2023, many of his volunteers dropped the project in disgust when it came to light that he was grooming a teenage fan. The volunteers who dropped out included almost the entire voice cast, leading to the announcement that the game would have no voice acting and that development would be on hiatus as of October 2023.