YMMV / hololive

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• Accidental Aesop: While the initial intent behind the HAACHAMA×Akaihaato arc will be known only to her, several fans have interpreted the whole arc as a metaphor for self love and accepting all sides of one's self, as Akai Haato struggled to deal with her more crazy side of herself, and vice-versa with Haachama, before they eventually learned to coexist.
• Accidental Innuendo:
  • Bae often unintentionally says something questionable without realizing until chat explains to her afterwards. On occasion, chat even tricks her into saying it. IRyS has the same issue by saying the most mundane things in the most unwholesome way, by complete accident, earning her the nickname of YabaiRyS.
• Adorkable:
  • Marine Houshou is a Pirate Girl (who's barely a pirate girl) known for her awkward attempts at dancing, general lack of stamina, and Lovable Sex Maniac tendencies. All these and more alongside her giddy enthusiasm are why she is beloved by fans.
  • Towa Tokoyami. From vocalizing a variety of noises that are only comprehensible half the time, to her more childlike curiosity, she's regarded as endearingly cute by many fans.
  • Nene Momosuzu is a very sweet and very strange girl who wears her influences on her sleeve and never hesitates to be fully herself. She's been part of a 3D collab as a 2D cutout, uses poorly-drawn hands to superimpose over her model for different things like riding rollercoasters or drinking, has given herself way too many titles, and is a shameless Fangirl of "mature romantic dramas" like Drake & Josh and Hannah Montana.
  • Calliope Mori swings between confident and panicky at the drop of the hat, usually sitting somewhere in between by being incredibly self-deprecating, laughing at dumb jokes she makes herself, as well as having a penchant for unusual musical instruments and sounds that she tries to use as samples for her music. She is also incredibly awkward around Kiara whenever she gets particularly flirty. Even Calli's attempts to maintain character apply, as it consists of hamfistedly putting "reaper" before normal terms and playing off her part of Hell as being close to Japan.
  • Shien Kageyama, despite claiming to be a tough mafia boss, doesn't do a very good job at cementing it. Some of his antics include:
    • Accidentally getting locked out of his Twitter account (due to putting his birth year as 2020).
    • Getting turned into a muffin on stream.
    • Being too into fishing in Animal Crossing to the point he remained streaming during Tokino Sora’s 3rd anniversary stream whereas everyone else left the spotlight for her.
    • His liberal abuse of the echo effect, from amplifying a sneeze to yelling random things with it on.
    • Clearing Eight Note using only animal sounds.
    • Getting depressed after breaking a bottle of sunflower oil, as well as the television prior during Cooking Simulator.
    • His ability to turn anything and literally anything into fanservice or NSFW because of his tendency to make suggestive noises. Check out the legendary Slither.io stream for proof, and of course, with earphones on.
  • Tenma Kishido's first attempt at doing ASMR has shades of this, with him zig-zagging between being pretty good and then doing random things and laughing, to the amused confusion of his viewers.
  • Pavolia Reine would like to present herself as a cool older sister-type but quickly shows herself to be an easily excitable and teasable dork. Fans like to say about her that she has the mind of a small child in an adult body.
  • Tsukumo Sana is generally very bubbly and excitable already, but also gets very excited when she gets to talk about astrophysics, taking her Genki Girl tendencies to a whole new level when she can geek out to her chat or genmates if the opportunity arises.
  • Ouro Kronii projects an air of cool confidence, but the second she gets caught off guard she's often reduced to a stammering mess as she desperately tries to regain control of the situation. A number of her genmates have admitted to trying to fluster her on purpose to get a rise out of her.
  • While all members of TEMPUS have been hit with this trope to some extent, the crown goes to Noir Vesper, who quickly endeared himself to his viewers for his combination of engaging storytelling, knowledge of older memes and trends, and his general excitability over his job despite being portrayed as the serious member of the TEMPUS crew. These factors combined with his Team Dad mannerisms have led fans to lovingly referred to him as "Grampire".
  • Shiori Novella is practically this trope's patron saint, being an introverted and nerdy Perky Goth who can go on for hours about books she loves and used to play with dead flies when she was a child because she had no friends.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: The entire HAACHAMA×Akaihaato storyline led to many speculative interpretation of the events, which brings with it different views of Haato and Haachama, both morally and mentally. For example: The Reveal of Haachama being Dead All Along back when they were both young. Is she living on through Haato after dying, or is she just a Split Personality born as a result of Haato refusing to move on from losing her sibling?
• Americans Hate Tingle: A sizable portion of the Chinese fanbase turned away from hololive after an incident back in September 2020 where both Coco and Haato mentioned Taiwan in one of their streams (see the Trivia entry for details). This resulted in their Bilibili accounts getting banned, and the vitriol in the subsequent months, including unsatisfaction at Coco's return from her suspension, led to the dissolution of that entire branch. In fact, as of 2022 the hate is so strong that it cost them one business opportunity involving ASUS. ^note Fubuki was supposed to promote the ASUS hardware until the Chinese ASUS Community Manager warned the company about Coco, using her as an example to justify the vilification of hololive in mainland China.
• And You Thought It Would Fail:
  • The idea of "hololive English" was mocked in some fan forums by people wondering why viewers in English-speaking countries would bother to watch new streamers rather than anyone in the gigantic existing Twitch and YouTube streaming world, with many predicting it would never happen. Once Hololive EN launched, it became a gigantic success; not only did it attract a huge amount of English-speaking viewers, but it also gained a lot of Japanese language-only viewers in much the same way that the non-English branches do. Their combined first day of monetization made nearly a hundred thousand American dollars in superchats alone.
  • Even before their announcement, the concept of holostars English came under fire from almost every direction. Supporters of the JP stars expressed worry over the English talents fragmenting their existing overseas fanbase between them or of the newbies being generally ignorant of their senpais in favor of the hololive side. Detractors of the stars wanted hololive English to maintain its Cute Girls Doing Cute Things status and feared of applicants only signing up to try and get close to their favorite member. People neutral to the stars thought any self-respecting male streamer would join Nijisanji English instead considering the success of their male talents in the Luxiem and Noctyx waves as well as a fanbase that welcomed them, rather than deal with the same sort of vitriol Miyabi had faced as the first holostar; not helping matters was Cover announcing open auditions for male English talents mere hours after Nijisanji opened their auditions for a mixed-gender English wave^note The permanent auditions for hololive English that opened three months prior in December 2021 actually did accept male applicants as T-chan confirmed, so the need for a reminder/clarification and the timing of it led to raised eyebrows and further doomsaying.. Once TEMPUS was announced, they immediately faced derision over their models and were compared to NijiEN's ILUNA wave who were not only announced during the same week, but were debuting the night after the second of TEMPUS' two debut nights. Despite all of that, the boys were met with roaring approval upon debuting with each of them attaining 100k subscribers within their first week and surpassing all the expectations set for holostars.
• Angst? What Angst?:
  • Astel Leda who despite having lost his ship, his crew and what memories he has of his past life, has been taking all of it in stride in his duties as a Holostar idol.
  • Kageyama Shien originally traveled to our world to find his lost friend, but then apparently he gets too into streaming to remember how he’s supposed to be angsty because of his friend’s disappearance.
  • Mumei Nanashi is a cheerful sort who always looks on the bright side of things, despite having lived a life full of loneliness that has caused her to lose much of her memory, including her original name.
• Animation Age Ghetto: The debut of hololive EN brought about some controversy with some streamers over the Really 700 Years Old characters that appear child-like (e.g. Gawr Gura) or hololive failing to label itself as a kids' show, mirroring much of the same misplaced "controversies" the anime medium at large often finds itself dealing with.
• Archive Panic: With over 50 performers with near daily streams lasting several hours, dozens of dedicated clippers, and a cast that keeps growing as more generations get added, it is impossible to keep up-to-date with every single talent. Even getting caught up on just one talent can take an incredibly long time. There's a reason why many fans refer to the process of discovering hololive as "going down the rabbit hole".
• Awesome Art: Everyone in holopro is this to a degree but there are a few stand out examples:
  • The talents who were animated by Keffiy ^note Aki Rosenthal, Watame Tsunomaki, Omaru Polka, Kiara Takanashi, Kureiji Ollie, and Ouro Kronii are the bounciest and most animated avatars among hololive. Their range of movement compliment their personalities very well.
  • On the other end of the spectrum, Botan Shishiro and Pavolia Reine, animated by tou_ilie, have much more relaxed movement but they are notable for having very expressive mouth movement.
  • Sakura Miko's new 3D model is a significant improvement over her old model (which was really good in its own right). It comes with distinct facial expressions but what really sets Miko above the other home 3D setups is she is the only one with proper eye tracking.
  • Roberu Yukoku is an interesting case among Vtubers as a whole, as his avatar isn't rendered to have soft shading. Instead his avatar is rendered with distinct brush strokes and directional lighting, making him more of a beautiful painting brought to life through live2d.
• Awesome Ego:
  • Calliope Mori. When she raps, all self-consciousness vanishes underneath an arrogantly smug badass that is very proud of being a Reaper—or as she puts it, a "workaholic business lady gettin’ shit done.”
    "DEAD BEATS" lyrics: We'll lock it down / So when you bitches need me, call / I'll make them never wish they never lived at all (I'll fuck 'em up, Gucci!)
  • Kronii preaches herself as the definition of perfection, and will pray for no one but herself. While her viewers simp her hard, she simps herself harder.

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• Canon Fodder:
  • The more ambiguous and intriguing details of the backstories of the English branch members is ripe for fan theories.
    • Is Amelia Watson from the past or future? If she's from the past is she the Dr. Watson? She has mentioned a "Mr. Holmes", but is that Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, or someone else completely? In one Q&A stream, she has also referred to how her Watson Concoctions were really liked by a Sherlock, but referred to Sherlock as a "she" instead, adding to the mystery. Her playthrough of There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ultimately answered one of those questions: John Watson is her grandfather.
    • Is Ninomae Ina'nis really human? What did she look like before touching her Eldritch Tome?
    • What did Calliope Mori look like before acquiring a human body to become a Vtuber? Is the nature of her human body a manufactured Empty Shell or is it a case of Demonic Possession? She has stated that she is "borrowing" it, implying the latter to be the case, but that raises the question of who it belongs to?
    • The Time Abyss history between Kiara Takanashi and Calli is also ripe for fan theories exploring past events between them.
    • What exactly is the exact nature of Gura's species? (As in, is her current form her true form, or A Form You Are Comfortable With?) What is the nature and history of Atlantis? What happens if her pet Bloop is released from its bubble? What has she experienced during her over 9000 years of life, and has she ever interacted with humans before (for reference, when Gura was born sometime in the eighth millennium BC, humans were still living in caves.)? Also, Amelia mentioned time traveling to meet Gura at some point in the past to tell her that the latter would be in hololive one day, but didn't reveal many details beyond that, leaving the door open to varied interpretations of said meeting. Gura has mentioned watching the 1989 movie Look Who's Talking after coming up on land for the first time (specifically phrasing it as "when I first came to land"), which dates her joining human civilization to late 80s/early 90s at the absolute earliest, which raises the question of what she's been up to before that.
    • IRyS outright encouraged speculation in her debut stream, even after gently Jossing the theories about her parentage. Why is her full name hidden? If this is her second awakening, what event caused her first awakening?
  • Omegaα, essentially the English branch's equivalent of A-Chan, likewise encourages fans to speculate on the lore of its members, even creating a hashtag on Twitter just for fan theories and lore-based tweets, rather than giving answers themself.
  • Kureiji Ollie has a lot of mystery to her backstory as well. How did she die? How did she come back to life? How much time has passed since she first died?
  • While holostars English has by far the most established lore, there are just enough gaps in it for the fans' imaginations to go wild. What befell Magni's old guild? Why was Altare's friend seemingly erased from existence? What happened in the real world to warrant people abandoning it for Elysium? Just what is keeping Flayon alive, and what are its intentions? Why did Xenokuni suddenly attain free will from the Records Corruption?
• Common Knowledge:
  • A rather persistent narrative that cropped up following the "Taiwan Incident" was that Coco's showing of her channel analytics for the September 25, 2020 edition of Asacoco, just hours after Haato had showed her's, was her way to Draw Aggro from the pro-CCP antis that were harassing the latter. This was unfortunately a narrative spun up by Coco's existing pro-CCP antis at the time, as she had a sizeable hatedom in the mainland due to her being American-born Japanese, for the express purpose of justifying further villification of her and Hololive in general. Coco had been asleep at the time of Haato's stream and, if her reaction to that morning's Asacoco archive being privated is to go by^note She was informed by the chat of this, while in the middle of an unarchived English-only karaoke stream on the afternoon of the 25th, completely unaware of what Haato had done the night before. Furthermore, the reason she was even bringing up the analytics in the first place was in response to an article by Bunshun Online, which talked about the success of Vtubers, but described them and their audiences as 'Japanese'. Coco brought up her stats to show that her viewership was actually pretty varied (only 50% Japanese, with the US and Taiwan taking the top 2 spots for non-JP viewership).
  • It's a well-established "fact" in gossip surrounding the talents that Kanata's relationship with her mother is very strained if not outright hostile. An analysis of the relevant clips indicates, however, that this is at the very least an exaggerated interpretation of her public statements, with the belief caused by clippers trying to Spice Up the Subtitles to dramatize more mundane misunderstandings between the two.
• Covered Up:
  • Suisei and the 3rd gen's cover of "Saga Jihen" from Zombie Land Saga has more views and comments than the original music video. This led to the hololive version appearing first on the search results for "Saga Jihen", and also made viewers think that Suisei's version is the original when it's actually a cover.
  • The same can be said with her duet cover with Sora with "Hanamuke no Tori" by D/ZEAL is also this, as it was from THE iDOLM@STER: Million Live!. Fans thought it was a Suisei original when it was actually by D/ZEAL. Just like Saga Jihen, both versions of the cover (the solo version being Members only) have more views than the original.
  • Ditto with Towa's "brilliant", which has a lot more views and comments than the original by VOCALOID producer niki with Lily. Search the song on YouTube, and viewers will find Towa's version being almost as relevant as the original as though it were a Towa original even though it's actually a cover.
  • Double with Towa's cover of niki's Error. Fans were unaware that Error was in fact not an original song. Although it does help Towa's powerful singing voice when she performs the cover.
  • Sora's cover of NayutalieN's"Alien Alien" and "Solar System Disco", unsurprisingly, get more views than the respective originals. This helps because of the colorful and more animated MV combined with Sora's VOCALOID-like voice for both covers.
  • Botan's "Will" by MeltyCat from her 3D debut. Though the two songs were uploaded exactly within 1 day, Botan's version gets more views due to her soft and cute voice when fans expected her to sing in a more mature voice.
  • Okayu's Shitsuraku Petri by Nanahoshi Kangengakudan gets double the views of the original song thanks to her smooth singing voice.
  • Suisei and Toko Inui's duet cover of Ensemble Stars!'s "Tonight in this Moonlit Mansion" gained over triple the number of views compared to Happy Elements' official MV, and is the top result when searching for the song. Being released for the occasion of Halloween, which the song is inspired by, greatly helped in this regard.
  • Matsuri's "Kokoronashi" gets more views than the original due to Matsuri's emotion behind her vocals.
  • Okayu's "Cat Eye Makeup" gets numerous views faster than the original thanks to her smooth vocals and the lyrics befitting her cat theme.
  • Suisei and Calli's duet rendition of "GETCHA!" got significantly more traction than either the original version or Giga and KIRA's self-cover. This isn't a bad thing, though, seeing KIRA definitely approves the cover and went on to compose Kiara's third original single, "SPARKS".
  • Following Coco's graduation, Kanata's cover of supercell's "Song of the beginning towards the end" immediately shot up to the very top of the search results for that song, reviving interest in the decade-old original.
  • Izuru's cover of "The Streetlight Remains Rusty" gets more views than the original that it would become the top searched version online.
  • Botan's cover of "Creation" sees a significant rise in views compared to the original by LUCAS, a VTuber and VSinger affiliated with LUMINOX.
  • When Amelia had her 3D debut at HoloFes 2022, she sang "Puru Puru Pururin". Many of her JP senpai thought it was original, only to be surprised that it came from an anime.
• Crazy Is Cool: Ever since Haato lost it and became Haachama, she became both infamous and very popular.
• Creator Worship: Thanks to his humble demeanor and friendly attitude, as well as his memetic status, YAGOO is very highly regarded among the hololive fanbase. This can best be seen during his appearance at the 2023 Anime Expo, where his mere appearance caused the crowd to explode into ovation and start to chant his name.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Coco's main source of humor comes from subject matter so blatantly against YouTube Terms of Service that it rolls back over into funny. Unsurprisingly, it's also the reason why she gets frequently banned from YouTube.
    • Her main shtick on AsaCoco revolves around drug abuse, with AsaCoco being a stand-in for various illicit drugs.
    • Shortly before her 300k subscriber milestone she held a livestream where she waxed her whole body. Nether regions included, with a Barbie Doll Anatomy scrawl of herself circling precisely where she was waxing the entire hour. Some detractors of YouTube's AI moderation couldn't help but think that particular ban was warranted, even if the concept of the stream itself was funny.
    • Her 3D debut retrospective has her claim she was getting scolded repeatedly by staff members over her earpiece for all of her "un-idol-like movements" (read: deliberate panty shots and insisting she wasn't wearing any in real life).
      Coco: (imitating staff) "Don't do that move, please. Don't do that move, please. Don't do that move, please."
    • Her 3D "dance lesson" collaboration with Marine was bound to have this happen, given their personalities. Highlights include getting Marine to say "I'm horny!" enthusiastically in English, as well as helping her use Insertion-type Asacoco twice; the first time the screen was blurred out, but the second time it was fully visible; it stands to reason that at that point the supervising staff just gave up on trying to stop them. They eventually revealed that the reason it was allowed was simply that Marine is already considered "impure" enough that it didn't matter that the content was quite sexualized. Had it been one of the more "pure" idol-like members such as Luna, Aqua or Sora, the managers would have put a stop to it.
    • She has stated her "tail" is actually a butt plug, and frequently uses a mouse cursor based off of it, with the plug part being the tip. For her birthday, she even released a plush version of it, and stated that the plug was originally plastic rather than soft, but it was changed (presumably so no-one would actually try to use it as a butt plug).
  • Ever since Haato started calling herself Haachama, her content baffled viewers so much that many associate insanity as her most known trait:
    • Haachama once decided to eat two bowls of instant super spicy Korean noodles, as part of her tradition of announcement streams being more than just the news. She's already suffering from just tasting the sauce with her finger, says that she thinks the actual noodles won't be that bad and proceeds to eat them. After the first one, she's audibly sick, and near the end of the second one, she finally throws up, which you can hear for yourself as she didn't mute her mic. The real kicker is that after she describes how she filled the cup to the brim with vomit (and a viewer quickly points out we didn't need that information), she cheerfully announces her new song release.
    • She also hosts fan submission review streams, which tend to be anything from singing, horror (either as illustrations or short movies), cooking or fan submitted hentai art of herself, with barely any censoring of the art unless it was particularly explicit, and even then she would show as much as she could within what YouTube allows.
    • Haachama's made a name for herself over her "cooking", creating sickly-looking food that she herself eats. The absolute crown-kicker being on December 19, 2020, where her subject food in question being a goddamn tarantula. Jokes from fans about Haachama picking up this habit from Australia for the sake of survival ensue.
    • One example that doesn't involve her insanity is her high school graduation stream ^note She successfully graduates from high school and is planning to go back to Japan after staying in Australia. What makes it not just a heartwarming moment but also crossing the line twice, stems from Aloe Mano's very serious harassment-induced graduation several months prior ^note which involves the word "graduation" used as a synonym for retirement in the idol industry, Haachama's involvement in the Taiwan incident a few months back and being the target of harassment for it, and the subsequent shutdown of Hololive CN and the graduation of its talents following said incident. The entire fanbase has grown fearful of any talent permanently retiring whenever the word "graduation" pops up, and understandably, the phrasing of the stream had the audience worried of Haachama's permanent retirement, until she clarified that she actually meant that she graduated from high school.
  • Anytime Rushia interacts with penguins, particularly in ARK: Survival Evolved, that results in plenty of Black Comedy Animal Cruelty.
    • The first incident has her come across "Penta" and tries to tame him via ARKs taming method for carnivores. That is, attacking them enough until they're unconscious just to feed them. The result? Poor Penta getting clobbered by Rushia as she gets more distressed from trying to tame them. While she did succeed in taming Penta, he died off in another stream separate from Rushia.
    • Rushia's attempts taming "Chataro" go as well one would expect with Rushia's track record. The kicker being she was casually discussing dinner with the penguin in question and at one point cuts off her video feed when she kills him.
    • The third time, Rushia actually tried to tame a penguin in a way that was, theoretically, humane. The only problem being she shot one too many tranquilizer darts at one penguin in a short time span, thus he dies anyway.
    • Her New Horizons steam, Rushia reunites with Penta ^note Actually a penguin villager named Norimaki. The video as a whole isn't that twistedly hilarious, but the idea she presented being that Penta was reincarnated after he died back in ARK is this when you take into consideration Penta's perspective, being forced to face her abusive "owner" after dying to get away.
    • Months after it all started, and she still has trouble with taming penguins, leading to her literally begging them to faint so she could tame them. Having killed 3 in the span of several minutes, she pretty much loses it.
      Rushia: Don't die, please! I've already lost two souls in just a few minutes! Penta, please... (Shoots the tranquilizer arrow that kills "Penta") WHYYYYYY!?!?
    • This doesn't seem like it's restricted to just penguins, either. In a Minecraft stream, Rushia had attempted to claim a fox as a pet. At some point, Konta threw himself onto a fire and died before Rushia could save him. She then pretended he was still following around before creating a small grave for him.
    • And in another Minecraft stream, Rushia tames and claims a Strider, and attempts to bring it home as a pet. While modifying parts of her home to give it a sheltered pool of lava to keep it healthy, she accidentally dumps her bucket of water while trying to open an iron door, and it pours downstairs and kills the freezing Strider.
  • Miko's Grand Theft Auto V streams basically run on this and then some.
  • During Suisei's Project Winter collaboration with Matsuri, Aki Rose, Roboco, Kanata, Coco, Fubuki, and Watame, after she kills everyone else save Watame and Matsuri, Suisei cripples Matsuri, steals Fubuki's clothes, imitates her, and continuously shoots her with a poison dart gun while Matsuri begs for her life and Suisei keeps shooting and finishing Matsuri off with her golden axe while laughing manically throughout the whole thing. And she wonders why people see her as a psychopath.
  • Amelia Watson's debut stream shows off the syringes on her thigh as part of her full body character model; when asked about it, her response is to inject the viewers with it without revealing the contents until they are already in the throes of a Mushroom Samba. Her audience justifiably reacted with horror once realizing they had been drugged. And then there's her various childhood stories, rattled off in an utterly casual tone that makes things like her nearly losing her entire tongue because she slipped in an ice cream parlor and nearly bit through it, or a friend of hers losing a finger to a shopping cart wheel, amusing much to one's chagrin.
  • Amelia's playthrough of Super Mario Sunshine is full of frustration, rage, and some clutch moments. After beating the game, she does one more stream to collect any Shines she missed, including the infamous Pachinko level. To celebrate her finally being done with the game, she ends that portion of the stream by drowning Mario, all while getting a Game Over in the process. She denies that he died though, he simply got "isekai'd into Oblivion" and proceeded to play Oblivion right after.
  • Risu's awareness of the Internet tradition of "No Nut November" had her tweet out towards the end of October that she instead prefers "Nonstop Nut November" as a better challenge, and has since decided to encourage her audience by releasing short daily videos teasing them with nut innuendos over the course of November 2020. And again in 2021.
  • Baelz caused a lot more chaos than usual when in May 2023, she streamed herself playing the game Genital Jousting, an extremely phallic party game where characters play flaccid penises. The simple fact that her management allowed her to stream the game left fans and fellow idols stunned, with Bae and her now-infamous "PP Stream" being recognized as one of the most flippant and hilariously blatant acts of tip-toeing around YouTube's TOS since when Coco was still around.
  • Everything about Jurard and Ollie's "son," Juned, qualifies for this trope in some manner — ranging from how badly the two are implied to mistreat him out of apathy (with Ollie repeatedly trying to spurn him and Jurard exploiting his undead nature to do things like bury Juned alive) to the fact that this is the first case of playing up a heterosexual pairing within the company.
  • Flayon's Akiba's Trip stream takes an already quirky game in which you defeat vampires and other foes by stripping them to another level, courtesy of casually mentioning the act without further explanation. His history of being labelled as a pervert only sends the hilarity even further.
• Death of the Author:
  • Calli was on the receiving end of this in regards to her song "Off With Their Heads", where she eventually got so upset with continually telling her fans that it wasn't a diss track at anyone that she eventually gave up trying to correct them and believes her ability to express herself through her lyrics had failed in that song.
  • When Mumei's "Dan Dan" music video was privated due to undisclosed concerns over something in its contents, there was some speculation that the offending scene was the one portraying the explosion of the Challenger shuttle given many people involved in the disaster and/or their immediate relatives are still alive today, unlike the Titanic and Hindenburg disasters portrayed earlier. Making matters worse was the fact that Mumei was holding a bottle of ethanol in front of the shuttle — ethanol breaks down rubbers^note The failures in the Challenger were connected to some of the rubber o-rings in the shuttle and (as an alcohol) chills surfaces, making it the perfect substance to sabotage the Challenger and Make It Look Like an Accident. However, the connection was completely unintentional; the bottle references a drunk karaoke stream and only said stream, which animator Kanauru eventually had to point out. Nonetheless, this was one of two scenes (the other being the Hindenburg scene) that was removed in the music video's revised version.
• Designated Hero: A Played for Laughs example. Quite a few fans like to treat HoloTEMPUS as a group of these due to various members' less-than-upstanding character traits (such as Altare's sadistic streak, Magni's moral ambiguity and penchant for cons and/or experimenting on his guild mates, Hakka's Blood Knight tendencies and Flayon's increasingly dark secrets) despite the fact the group are supposed to be heroes. This has become even more prevalent after the reveal of the more properly-villainous ARMIS.
• Discredited Meme:
  • Sora points out that she does not like being called a Goddess. It doesn't help given that due to her Lonely at the Top issues, she wants to become everyone's equal.
  • While Moona has expressed a dislike towards "HEY MOONA!" spam, saying that she only wants to hear the phrase from Pekora, she allows it under the situation where it actually belongs◊.
  • Due to how often some of the members end up making memes or jokes that the community falls in love with, it isn't that rare to see push back from people once things get taken too far or get overused. For example, poking fun at Gura and Rushia for being flat-chested tend to garner ire from some fans due to how overused the jokes are and how the jokes go from playful to coming across as rude towards the streamers (some of which are implied to be similar to their avatar in physical appearance). Others include things such as Suisei being called a Shotacon, which she has been very insistent on making clear is not what she meant, as she had said she liked Shonen.
  • Jokes about Ollie's heists have fallen into this territory, as chat goes abuzz (jokingly or otherwise) with accusations the moment she takes or breaks something that isn't hers, which is especially problematic when combined with the increasing amount of backseat gaming she's been receiving. She's gone on record stating that she has asked her senpais about which resources are okay to use, and requests that the jokes be toned down.
  • Fubuki doesn't mind the "Fubuki is a cat" meme when she's actually acting like a cat, but takes issue with people spamming it at her when it's irrelevant to the topic. She felt the need to talk about it after giving serious advice about drawing her fox ears and receiving en masse cat comments in return.
  • As pointed out by Suisei in her interview with Kiara, YAGOO is not good at Tetris and the "YAGOO" in Tetris streams are impersonators stream-sniping her, something she's not fond of.
  • Kiara found some of the commuunity in-jokes surrounding her content to be painting her in a less-than-favorable light so she discussed her aversion to a few of them after finding her footing as a content creator and feeling like she can provide more than just a few cheap easily clippable jokes.
    • She had started slowly hating the "bottom left" meme regarding herself due to how overused it is and how it flanderized her. While she doesn't mind with people using it when she's actually being bottom left like in her exaggerated The Sims 4 streams, just spamming it when she's talking about stuff that can be sort of interpreted as being lewd gets to her nerves.
    • She talked about her changing the on-screen dynamic between herself and Calli, putting an "end" to Takamori shipping. She clarifies that there is no bad blood between the two of them, but as both of them have grown as creators, she felt that Takamori shipping was getting a little out of hand and wanted to expand her content beyond that and be known for other things. She expressed that any future collabs with Calli will be, in her opinion, "better," which makes it seem like she felt like she had to force a character when around Calli in order to be entertaining and them being much more natural with one another will lead to a more interesting and different dynamic.
    • She's also put a stop to the "Australia" *wink* gag, mostly due to a real life incident where she met with a friend and her brother, and he was a fan of Kiara, but did not know that the real deal was right in front of him. When her friend pointed out that Kiara is from Austria, he denied it saying "No, she's from Australia!" Feeling embarrassed, she chose to end that joke.
  • Marine had also attempted to put a stop to her tendency to come off as a Lovable Sex Maniac by toning down her behavior somewhat, but this was more of a result of her getting tired of the gag. She doesn't mind it being pointed out to her when she's acting particularly shameless but in most instances she doesn't bring attention to it.
  • Two months after his debut, Magni reveals that he's never going to say "IT'S MAGGIN' TIME" ever again. Not only does he find it cringy when he says it, but he feels uncomfortable about it too. Considering that the meme was made around the time he and the boys experienced backlash before their debut, it's understandable
  • Axel's reputation as a harem protagonist because of his Real Life high school experiences has seen frosty reception by the man himself, as while a lot of his popularity was mostly harmless for him and something to be desired by others, it also led to some encounters that may have potentially endangered his younger self. As a result, Axel feels it wouldn't be right for the Axelotls to romanticize his tribulations, especially since it could get them hurt in the real world. He cites the real-life case of Yuka Takaoka from 2019 (a woman who stabbed a man out of love), pointing out that while he's never been stabbed before, he's had some close calls that were definitely not funny or cool. Driving the point home is how he addressed this during a stream of Doki Doki Literature Club!, whose Central Theme is how love and attraction alone can't solve everything.
  • Kaela is on record that she is mentally and physically tired of being called a penguin during her streams, since it had began to cross the line and come off more as bullying (to the point where she briefly stopped using her default model in an attempt to stem the constant jokes made at her expense). She may have succeeded as her chat has stopped referring her as such once she had her point across.

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• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Anemachi, Suisei's older sister. She has only appeared a handful of times but she's very popular with fans because of her funny interactions with Suisei. Many of Suisei's fans hope she gets to cameo more since whenever she does appear, it's a highlight of the stream.
  • In July 2021, Ollie created Olivia, an Alternate Universe and alive persona who also serves as a demure, Shrinking Violet Foil to the loud and hyperactive zombie. Even though she was designed as a character for the one-off stream, Olivia resonated amongst the audience for her peaceful, pacifistic demeanour, getting several memes and fan arts quickly after the stream, and even keffiy, Ollie's Live2D rigger, expressing interest in rigging a model for Olivia to the zombie's confusion.
  • The moment Omegaα showed up, they had over 150,000 followers on Twitter. Their dry humor and deadpan responses in their Marshmallow (a site where people asks questions to the host) made them one of the popular hololive managers, especially in the English branch.
  • Boros, Kronii's pet snake, is amazingly popular to her (joking) dismay. After her 2022 kimono reveal, fans had been attached to Boros since her kimono reveal, and Kronii becoming jealous of it.
• Evil Is Cool: Gawr, who made her debut on the cover art and the vocals of Gura's first original song, "REFLECT", was warmly received as an interesting and edgy take on Gura that explores the animalistic side of her that is never really discussed on stream before. Not even 24 hours after the song's premiere, Gura's fanart tag on Twitter exploded with artwork of Gawr, with most of these artworks depicting her in a fairly similar fashion to how the Haachama/Haato duality is portrayed (read: very bloody and disturbing).
• Fan-Created Offspring: In June 2021, fans of holoEN would come up with the hashtag #MythKids to share their drawings of theoretical offsprings between different pairings (and even One True Threesome ships) within the English branch. It initially started out with children created for Ame/Gura before branching out to all possible combinations and has even gone on to involve members from the non-English branches of hololive so long as an English member is one of the parents. The most popular offsprings that have received fanart of their own are Walter ^note Ina/Ame. The most popular male offspring created, Clara ^note Calliope/Kiara. Clara's status is semi-official as she is Kiara and Calli's child from Kiara's The Sims letsplay., and Sunflower and Lemon Drop ^note Twins for Ame/Gura. Designed by @MittsumiA on twitter, who started the whole trend.
• Fandom-Enraging Misconception: The topic of possible Hololive/Holostar collaborations, when left unchecked, is a hot-button topic and rife with misinformation & disingenuous argumentation, leading to a lot of these in moderated circles.
  • For a while, there was a popular gossip going around the vtuber community that Hololive talents were not allowed to collab with the men of Holostars - despite the fact that there had been several Hololive/Holostars collabs. Ultimately the choice to collab with members of the opposite gender is purely the talent's choice, and quite a few members on both sides have gone on record to say that their alleged "refusal" to collab has far more to do with personal shyness surrounding the topic or other preconceptions they possess than anything handed down by management. The Holostars fandom in particular outright despises this rumor, and only since the cross-gen collab ban being lifted from Tempus and them starting to do collabs with Hololive has it finally started to die down.
  • There is also a theory nicknamed the "invisible gun" that insinuates the lack of collab streams is solely the product of Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things. Not only is this factually incorrect for specific talents, it's speculative at best for those with no clear stance and exaggerates a real problem to unrealistic degrees.
  • Following the above rumors being dispelled or otherwise taken down a notch, the inverse began to circulate in its place as a continued dig at the branch, that certain interactions with Holostars were being "forced" on Hololive or that management is conspiring to astroturf their presence. No sound evidence exists to support any of these claims^note outside of the HLZNTL gaming project, which was shuttered anyway for being too stressful outside of this context, and attempts to spread them are frequently rebuffed as so.
  • Speaking of Tempus, some EN fans also inevitably stepped on a few toes when they mistakenly hailed the Tempus collabs with Holo EN as the first of such cross-gender branch collabs. This particularly annoyed the ID fandom since the ID girls are among the most frequent Stars collabers since before Tempus was even announced. JP fans were also vexed since Fubuki, Matsuri, AZKi, and the like had collabed with Stars onstream and even on-stage in 3D before any of the EN girls did.
• Fandom-Specific Plot:
  • High School AUs starring HoloMyth are fairly popular and frequently share similarities amongst one another.
    • Amelia is usually made out to be a delinquent in love with Gura, who is the popular girl at school initially oblivious to her affection. This mostly stems from a popular cover sung by Amelia, where she sings about Gura not noticing her. The other aspects are references to the former's crazy childhood stories and the latter having the highest subscriber count among Hololive.
    • Kiara either works part-time at a fast food restaurant, in service to her dream of opening her own fast food chain one day, or is a teacher, as a reference to her streams where she teaches the viewers or Gura German or Japanese.
  • Likewise, it's not uncommon to see fanart depicting HoloMyth as a family, with Calli as the stern, responsible father, Kiara as the caring, loving mother, Gura as the cheerful, innocent youngest child, Amelia as the troublemaking middle child, and Ina as the mature oldest child.
  • For some reason, the official backstory for Moona Hoshinova (the human girl Hoshinova is possessed by the ghost Moona while falling into the ocean, they both become moon goddesses thanks to the full moon) tends to be largely ignored by the fanbase, with them rather prefering to swap the positions of host and possessor, as well as make Hoshinova have always been a moon goddess. Atleast the "possessor has always been a moon goddess" part of it is implied to have become Ascended Fanon by the MV of "High Tide".
• Fandom VIP:
  • Several fan translators are very well-known by the community with some getting official acknowledgment by the girls themselves if they're dedicated to one specific person.
    • lyger, a clipper who dedicates most of his channel to Matsuri content and is responsible for translating her more well-known moments. Outside of his channel, he was also seen as a respectable source of information regarding the Taiwan incident and hololive's history with the Chinese market and has been acknowledged by Matsuri herself enough to be brought on as a channel moderator.
    • NexatG, who's considered to be Kiara's "(unofficially) official clipper", to the point that Kiara commissioned them to make her end of year highlights video.
    • Einnashu, a clipper who mainly clips Aki Rosenthal vids. Many current fans found out about her through his clips of her belly dancing lessons. He also was the one who clipped the video of Aki revealing her worries (which proceeded to ultimately boost her confidence as spark a new period of growth). As a result, a number of RoseTai speak his name with reverence.
    • Jin Teramachi is a clipper that mainly clips Okayu stuff and is seen as an authority on her, like when he stepped in to explain a moment that was clipped by another, but translated questionably at best. He has also made subs for some videos on the main Hololive channel.
  • PlatinumKnight, originally only making "A Special Message For Amelia Watson" (with Big Man Tyrone) as a joke, went on to commission several more videos for the rest of the Hololive EN crew and is recognized widely in the community as well as by official members; Calliope Mori has made a comment on most of his videos, and Coco Kiryu has mentioned and watched his content on Asacoco. When Coco herself was referenced in one of his videos, she was appropriately afraid of what kind of content would be in store for her parody. His content is regarded as the most expensive shitposts that anyone could make, with "A Special Message for Gawr Gura" costing over $1300 alone.
  • Brazilian animator 2Snacks entered the fandom's spotlight after releasing a series of animated shorts featuring Korone, with the most prominent example being of the infamous Eekum Bokum meme. His work quickly gained traction among not just the fanbases of the idols featured in the shorts, but the talents themselves, with Polka and Gura being particularly notable fans. To say that works by 2Snacks are wildly popular would be a severe Understatement, with many of them receiving millions of views at minimum, and lots of attention from Hololive's combined fanbases.
  • Independent artist Walf, originally an equally big-name fan within the Touhou community (and the creator of create.swf, a small Touhou comic-making program) has picked up on the Hololive EN talent and started regularly creating short animations using some of their more memorable moments as inspiration. The designs have been acknowledged by all the talent, with Calliope using several of them as part of her standby screen as well as the stream of her begging for permission to play Persona 3. He has a particular fondness for Amelia Watson ^note He's a big fan of detective character designs, and previously made a flash animation of the detective girl from the DJMAX song "In My Heart", something the fan community has picked up on and started incorporating his renditions of her into their own art, making "smol Watson" out to be a being of incomprehensible power. His designs were so well liked by the Holo EN girls that they even commissioned him to make models for them, showing them all off in the April Fool's collab in all of their chibi glory.
  • A minor one in well-known superchatter Eating Mike Tyson's Ass. First made himself known by donating to Korone (who thanks to her English studies knew exactly what his name meant), he started spreading around to other members with different results. He even got fanart (which was just a drawing of Korone biting Mike Tyson's butt). He is now considered a living legend among the fanbase, and his presence sends the chat completely nuts.
  • DuDuL has proven himself to be prevalent member of the community with his animations. During Gura's birthday stream on June 20th, 2021, he was among the 250 fans who compiled a book of fanart and letters showing their support for her. She read his letter and started to cry because she rekindled his passion for animation.
  • Kowkarot has been known for compiling clips from multiple streams, creating highlight reels that condense otherwise multiple hours' worth of content. These compilations can go for up to half an hour showing, for instance, how Kiara turned a random village into Phoenixton, or the prep work leading up into EN's showdown with the Ender Dragon. Their efforts would be recognized by the talents themselves as they are credited for editing on "Ame vs the Sun" and the Holomyth anniversary compilation.
  • Apex Legends EU Champion "rpr" first made himself known outside the Apex community as the guy who ended up becoming a fan of Towa and wants to kill off those who killed Towa in the game by taking their names. He ends up playing a session with Towa alongside TrulySquid to act as the translator. By 2022, rpr's vested interest in VTubing led to him debuting as one, and his frequent collabs with Towa, Ollie, and holoTEMPUS since then further cemented his position as an Ascended Fanboy who kept winning at life among their collective fanbases.
  • Online pianist Pan Piano, known for doing her music covers while cosplaying and never showing her face, was first noticed by the hololive fandom in early 2021 when she covered Ride on Time while cosplaying as Gura. She has since played a number of hololive originals while dressed as the idol to whom the song is attributed, often getting noticed by the idol in question. Miko has actually been a fan of hers for a long time and was elated when Pan covered Sakurakaze and joined her membership just a few days after.
  • DanceDanceRevolution enthusiast-turned-animator Kanauru quickly gained traction in 2021 for his expertly hololive 3D short animations (sometimes featuring other VTubers like Pikamee Amano). The popularity of his 3D animations in the later half of 2021 is such that he was chosen to direct the music video for holoMyth's "Myth or Treat", and later Kiara's and Amelia's "Dreamin Chuchu" and Ame's "Smol Adventures: Link Your Wish", the latter of which was an official advert for holoMyth's 3D performance at the third hololive concert.
  • With only a single fan video, a red superchat to tell Gura about it, and a subsequent appearance at the Dallas Fanexpo, Flurrybolt managed to become a legend in the fan community. He's since made a follow-up video, and it's clearly evident the impact that his own previous video had on it.
  • Japanese pro-wrestler Great-O-Khan is an unabashed Subatomo, one more than happy to share his happiness as a fan on Twitter. He has also incorporated Subaru's improvised hold from Holo no Graffiti into his repertoire as the "Oozora-Style Sheep Killer" and that move has since expanded into a duo move that is named after Subaru, Fubuki and Marine.
  • The 8-Bit Drummer has done a lot of hololive covers and gets honored to cover the then unreleased MiKorone song which he plays in a video recording for the 24-hour MiKorone stream.
  • Sakuma Daisuke, idol singer and actor from Snow Man, is a bigtime Hoshiyomi who takes after his oshi and promotes her every chance he gets. When she learned that he's her fan and wished him happy birthday, he was floored, ecstatic and wasted no time in talking her up.
  • Kawahara Reki, author of Sword Art Online, is a big 35p. He derailed a stream meant to promote his new book by fanboying over Miko and even mentioned that he finished the draft for said book because that was the only way his editor would allow him to meet her.
  • Veteran seiyuu Misato Fukuen and Marina Inoue are Ichimi. When Marine went to meet them (and Ayane Sakura) behind the scenes for the voice work video for her RPG, The Second World, they were just as nervous to meet her as she was meeting them.
  • Hideo Kojima of all people is a proud Nousagi. What began as a cursory interest in Pekora due to her Metal Gear Solid playthroughs quickly blew up into an earnest following after discovering her love for the series, with Kojima frequently tweeting about tuning in for her streams, showcasing her merchandises that he bought, and retweeting plenty of her MGS-style fanart on both his official Japanese and English accounts.
  • South Korean vlogger hwikky is known in the English and Indonesian fandom, and by even some of the members like Ollie and Zeta, for his videos giving non-Koreans a peak into his country's Hololive community.
  • Toby Fox is a fan of Kanata. Yes, that Toby Fox. Kanata caught his attention during her playthrough of Undertale, where her rollercoaster of emotions inspired him to compose a song about angels, struggle, and hope, which ultimately became Fallen Wing.
  • Jimmy Weebshooter is a Thai Rose-tai who rose to prominence during the 4th Fes, where he cosplayed as Mukirose and proudly proclaimed his support for Aki when he was interviewed, which moved her to tears of joy when she saw. Afterwards, he inspired many other "tank-build" cosplays, where large and muscular men like himself dress like their oshis. By the time of 5th Fes, he rose to even greater prominence, networking with other notable cosplayers and becoming something of a nexus for many Holofans to gather around.
• Fanfic Fuel: Kureiji Ollie's alternate universe counterpart Olivia, as well as her alternate universe itself, is prime fanfic fuel. Although explicitly stated to be non-canon, Olivia's character invites a lot of speculation on how hololive looks like in her origin universe. She mentioned some of her colleagues and genmates, which are all normal humans (unlike this universe's Hololive with beasts, magic-users, and mythological creatures galore) except for Amelia Watson who was mentioned to be the only member of hololive that have a superpower (and implied to be the Amelia Watson from our dimension).
• Fan Myopia: After Aloe's sudden and unfortunate graduation, it wasn't uncommon to find fans who couldn't let go and move on even months after it happened despite her brief tenure. Perhaps the biggest example can be seen in the assumption that any talent covering "Happy Synthesizer" must have been in tribute to Aloe. Iofi's cover of the song with Pochi used to be flooded with posts mourning Aloe and the former top comment one that chided the community at large for doing so instead of celebrating Iofi's 6th month anniversary. When Kiara did a watchalong for hololive 2nd fes, the overwhelming majority of chat quickly shifted from excitement for Noel and Flare's duet to tearful emojis crying out for Aloe rather than focus on the work they put into their performance.
• Fan Nickname: Has its own page here.
• Fountain of Memes:
  • Fubuki's Vine-like covers of songs used in Western memes have, unsurprisingly, gained the affection of many English fans. Fubuki herself is aware of her reputation overseas as "the Meme Queen" but claims to be confused as to why her fans think of her that way.
  • Pekora's Asshole Victim shenanigans often get her put in the Harmless Villain position in many parody videos, especially on the Chinese streaming website bilibili.
  • Roberu has created a ton of meme due to his hyperactivity and weird streaming content. Besides the well-known Winning Son meme, he also created one of the biggest memes in the Among Us fanbase with his horrible attempts at lying leading him to declare there was a "Cafeteria in his soul".
  • Similar to Roberu, Polka's zaniness makes her quite the meme machine, especially when Engrish is concerned.
  • Korone is also definitely one, if you can't tell by her folder in the Memes page, her occasional broken English and overall attitude ends up making her extremely memeable.
  • The majority of HoloEn Gen 1 seem to be aware of how memeable they are to the fandom, and have even deliberately helped create some of their own via exploitable shorts (Gura, Amelia) and greenscreen edits (Kiara).
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • Many Hololive fans overlap with fans of rival Virtual YouTuber company Nijisanji. It helps that talents from both companies collaborate with each other quite often.
  • An interesting case of two fandoms for the same work being friendly: there is a surprising amount of interaction between Japanese-speaking fans and English-speaking fans, since many of the idols make an effort to address their overseas viewers every so often and Coco in particular frequently showcases English memes from the r/hololive reddit page, which has made many Japanese fans curious about the other side of the fandom. A twitter account exists which translates the Reddit memes into Japanese, and fans who know both languages frequently make efforts to bring both sides of the language divide closer together. After the debut of the English branch, channels which normally provide English subtitles for the rest of the streamers would add Japanese subtitles for the holoEN content.
  • Due to the collab with Azur Lane and the fact that some members still play it, Hololive and Azur Lane fandoms have some overlap and with demand for a rerun and/or sequel with the newer girls.
  • The fandom also has some overlap with that of Fate/Grand Order, since many of its members were designed by popular artists associated with FGO, such as lack, pako, and Wada Arco. Within the communities for both franchises, it's commonly joked that the Venn diagram for both fandoms is a circle.
  • The 23rd episode of Trash Taste had Calliope as the special guest, bringing the Hololive and Trash Taste fandoms together, especially when the subreddits for both subjects were mentioned. However, it's not perfectly friendly; some members of the Hololive fandom dislike certain aspects of Trash Taste for their own reasons, and vice-versa, but both fandoms have been civil about the collab.
  • There is a lot of overlap between fans of hololive and fans of VOMS Project, particularly between fans of Amano Pikamee and holoEN. The bond between the fandoms was strengthened by Pikamee expressing a desire to collab with holoEN in the future. Which did indeed happen.
  • There is also a sizable overlap between fans of Hololive and VShojo, as well, driven in part by the tendency of certain VShojo talents to reference Hololive's members and various Running Gags associated with them whenever the opportunity arises. This ultimately led to Kiara and Nyanners collabing, quickly followed by Calli and Ironmouse.
  • There's a group of Hololive fans who are also Professional Wrestling fans, as they can appreciate the similarities that Hololive (and Vtubers in general) have with pro wrestling characters. The biggest expression of this is the HoloFightZ Twitch stream account, where they use one of the WWE Video Games to simulate a federation of Hololive talents made through the Create-A-Wrestler mode. This link got even stronger when Miko got a hold of WWE 2K22 and made her own versions of the talents, getting gigantic view counts for her streams (not to mention the resulting clips).
  • As EVO 2023 and prolific creators like Koefficient have shown, there is an oddly large overlap between the Fighting Game Community and hololive. In the 2024 Capcom Cup, one of the biggest fighting game tournaments in the world, the Winner, Uma, wore Mio's 1 million subscribers celebration hoodie, ironically the prize for the tournament was 1 million dollars.

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• Gateway Series:
  • Fubuki's viral shorts such as "Im. Scatman" serve as this for many overseas fans into hololive. Lampshaded in her 2020 Birthday Stream. She gets a lot of messages from viewers saying that it's thanks to her content that they got into hololive and she's happy that more people are viewing the other idols even if they stopped watching her as a result.
  • Lampshaded by Amelia Watson. Knowing that HoloEN would be a lot of people's first foray into the world of Hololive, Amelia made a PSA at the end of one of her earlier streams encouraging her viewers to read the rules of the Japanese branch idols since V-tuber culture is much different from normal live streamer culture.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Hololive owes its boost in popularity among overseas fans to the many translated clips of the various girls that went viral, some of the Hololivers standing out amongst that particular crowd:
  • Towa Tokoyami gained a lot of attention from the Western fanbase due to an incident in one of her Apex streams that garnered backlash from some Japanese fans but brought sympathy from English speaking viewers; subsequent clips bringing attention to her more cute behavior and Adorkable moments. It's quite telling that early on in her career, most comments in nearly all of her streams were in English. In fact, overseas fans went from making up almost half of her superchats (revenue and number of) for the month of July 2020 to reaching 65% of her superchat income and forming 52% of her total superchats the very next month after her 3D debut and birthday celebration. This sizable overseas fanbase has also been noticed by her colleagues, who sometimes comment on her unusually large foreign fanbase.
  • Korone Inugami has a very sizable Western audience as well, for a combination of reasons. Her enjoyment of Western media, the dissonance between her cute voice and image and her love of horror and horrific things, willingness to engage with Western fans and learn English, and her willingness to try all sorts of different Western game suggestions have quickly endeared her to non-Japanese audiences. Even amongst Spanish-speakers, where virtual idols are just starting to become an extremely niche interest, Korone is noticeably more popular than the rest, thanks in part to clips of her speaking a few simple Spanish sentences.
  • For similar reasons to Towa, Mano Aloe of Fifth Generation quickly gained massive support from Western fans after news spread of the self-doxxing incident and subsequent harassment from antis that forced her into a two week hiatus — and later, unbeknownst to anyone at the time, retirement from hololive right before her scheduled return. It got to the point where an entire website dedicated to her was created to host supportive messages, fan-art and even a welcome back video.^note The site was later repurposed to host proper goodbye messages to Aloe after news of her graduation broke, even including fan-games. The website linked is actually another one created to preserve the older site's content after it went defunct. Even long after Aloe's retirement, fan support still persists: from fan-art, yearly birthday celebrations, to the creation of a certain significant mod for Friday Night Funkin' which prominently features her.
  • Aki Rosenthal, ever since an clipper who made her (and her woes at the time) known to the west, she experienced a sharp increase in western fans, many from Reddit. The reasons vary, but it's often a mix of her dancing, music, and how her streams tend to be cozy. Aki has responded to this with learning/using more English in her descriptions and being one of the very first to join Reddit. She also has personally posted comments in vids which have promoted her. These days you can find her stream chats to be often filled with English speakers.
  • Nene Momosuzu also has a noticeable amount of Spanish-speaking engagement in her comments and live chats due to her practicing Spanish on stream.
  • Mori Calliope is surprisingly popular with Canadian viewers, whom had sent red Superchats to her ($100 donation or more). She was so surprised by this that she temporarily had to stop streaming for a bit to scream in happiness.
  • Holostars are more recognizable overseas than its home country judging by the English comments.
  • During the early days of hololive, Miko was at point the least subbed idol of the original generation. Her Grand Theft Auto V streams led to Miko being at one point more popular in 4chan than in Japan itself. While her fanbase's demographic normalized after Miko's subscription numbers kept rising, she's still a big favorite in 4chan.
  • Shishiro Botan is incredibly popular with Russian-speaking viewers, due to her love of First-Person Shooter games and her striped design being evocative of Adidas, which is iconic in Russia. As of 5th Gen's debut, no other member in hololive has such a noticeable Russian-speaking fanbase compared to her, to the point where she is the only one to have a Russian version of the standard streamer rules in her video descriptions.
  • After being featured on an investigative report on a Korean public broadcast, Amelia (and Gura, who wasn't featured) has gotten a lot more Korean viewers and Korean translation clips.
  • Despite only being featured on limited platforming as a result of China's strict internet policy, Yogiri was a fan-favorite among Western viewers for her Delinquent design, her sympathetic Byronic Hero nature, and her absolutely beautiful concerts. When it was announced that Hololive China was dissolving, many of her overseas fans expressed their collective sadness over her departure.
  • In somewhat of a self-looping example, Mumei Nanashi from Hololive English Gen. 2 has a very sizable Japanese fanbase. Due to her being The Cutie of the Council, her forgetful tendencies, and being a member who Apologizes a Lot, the Japanese fandom has embraced her as a Moe, to the point that she's often lumped in with and mentioned by other members of Hololive Japan.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • During Luna and Subaru's VR horror stream where they take turns playing, the former gets so scared she falls back in her chair and hits the ground. It got a few laughs at the moment, but the fact that it resulted in pain so bad Luna needed to be taken to the hospital due to damaging ligaments and irritating previously existing neck pain, and getting put on pain medication that made her sick, it firmly falls into this.
  • For Haato/Haachama:
    • The thumbnail of Haato's debut video shows an image of her from the neck down. While this could be seen as neat little allusion to Haaton, her yellow pig mascot with a notable beheaded mark around their necks ^note Which itself is most likely based on the Queen of Hearts' tendency to say Off with His Head!, it becomes a reality in the HAACHAMA×Akaihaato arc where Haato herself is... well, beheaded during her singing stream in February 7th, 2021.
    • In the short video titled "HAACHAMA THE THIRD", the ending scene has another Haato head coming in and knocking the head on Haato away, taking its place in a humorous, nonsensical manner. In the HAACHAMA×Akaihaato arc, Haato being decapitated and subsequently reattaching herself to the body is a major plot point that is both Played for Horror and Played for Drama.
  • After Amelia's tutorial session for Mythbreakers, Kiara joked that her avatar did so much nodding that her neck muscles would be jacked. Cut forward a few days later, and Kiara herself reported that she sprained her neck.
  • The day after Hololive's 3rd fest concert, Link your wish, Sana expressed her desire to one day be able to perform, on stage, in 3D with the rest of Council as well as IRyS. Sadly, this would never come to past, as a combination of a back injury she sustained the previous month, which had a major effect on her mobility and undoubtedly made dancing difficult, and the difficulty of balancing the demands of both her non-hololive career as a professional artist as well as being a corporate vTuber with hololive, led to her decision to graduate from hololive at the end of July 2022.
  • An example that's more bittersweet than just sad, just three days after Sana's graduation, the leadup to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet introduced a new Pokémon with essentially the same concept as her bread dog/Sanalite mascot. Especially bittersweet given Sana's reputation as maybe the biggest Pokémon fan in the company and that she wouldn't be around to stream the new games.
  • The many jokes about Luna's poor stamina and general unfitness took on a harsher light in May 2023 after she announced that she had been diagnosed with asthma.
  • In his initial interview with Vesper, Flayon responded to the question "if you could have a superpower, what would it be?" by saying that he would want to be able to steal other people's powers and become good at everything. As it turns out, he's done exactly that once before.
  • Altare's revelation that TEMPUS was originally supposed to be a six-man group instead of two subunits of four became this in light of Vesper and Dezmond's sudden departures in August 2023.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • The Hologra episode "Let's Form a Band" has Matsuri suggesting making a band. This actually happens in Suisei's 4th Live concert where she forms a band with Towa, Aki, Matsuri, and Polka (unofficially called STAMP by fans), making this dream come true.
  • A meme regarding ID's Ayunda Risu being the child of JP's Nekomata Okayu and Inugami Korone was taken to an endearing level as Okayu and Korone propose to each other at the end of 2023.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Enough to have it's own page.
• I Knew It!:
  • One scene in the teaser for Hololive Alternative had Noel throwing a dragon very high in the air. Many people noticed the orange coloration of said dragon and thought that she may have been throwing Coco. Coco soon clarified that the dragon in the teaser wasn't her. Only to reveal a few days later that the dragon was indeed supposed to be her and that the staff just hadn't told her about it in time.
  • When the 2nd English generation, HoloCouncil, was revealed, jokes were made of Baelz Hakos being from Oceania as she and her text appeared completely upside down during the promo vid. Baelz would later confirm that she's an Aussie during her post-debut Q&A stream, with information she revealed putting her locale somewhere in the state of New South Wales.
• Jerkass Woobie: Flayon's portrayal in X reveals him to be an all-too real case of "gifted-kid syndrome," being praised as a prodigy as a child but being utterly incapable of functioning in the real world and the whiplash driving him into depression. The Jerkass part comes in when X explains why we didn't find out about this until now: he fixed the problem by literally draining the talent of another person using C-TRUS, ruining their own life for the sake of Flayon's vanity. His dialogue to the person just as he's about to fully invoke the deal shows he knows the consequences of his own actions and derives some degree of enjoyment from it, something that correlates to his open disregard of human life in his debut video.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Subscribers who watch Hololive members despite not knowing the language they speak. It might be because they enjoy the streams as a background noise, because they think the member's voice is warm & comforting, or funny, or they like listening to musical streams or when they play certain games.
  • Fans of Suisei will have different reasons for being a fan of hers: Her own hard work for her music content (by choice), her sister Anemachi whenever she is heard in the background or joins in with her sister in games, interactions with other girls, or famously, her Comedic Sociopathy tendencies whether she's playing a game or group talk collaborations.
  • Korone is a meme machine and she has garnered a tremendous following among Western fans to tune in just to see her amusing attempts at Engrish.
  • Many of Botan's subscribers likely have heard about her either through clips of her completely No Selling horror game Jump Scares or multiplayer FPS montages showcasing her skill.
  • Gura became the most subscribed hololive channel a mere 2 months after her debut. For many fans, Gura ended up serving as a gateway to not just hololive but vtubers as a whole. Her streams tend to dominate the viewer count compared to her gen mates, with 10,000 being considered low for her. Her second outfit reveal may very well have achieved the highest live audience in all of Hololive, peaking out at around 194,000 viewers. The very moment that Gura revealed her face (and thus showed the entire outfit), the viewership dropped by 50K in the next two minutes, with the Youtube stats immediately dropping to 178K in the next update. It was clear that people only wanted to see the big reveal and didn't care about anything after. Similar behaviour happened with Ayame, Watame, Calli, Towa, Kiara, Kanata and Ina in the days prior.

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• Memetic Badass:
  • The girls can get this in terms of games they're particularly good at, including Suisei with games like Project Winter and Tetris, or Gura with Muse Dash or other similar rhythm games.
  • The Hololive EN Manager (or Enma) has gotten this reputation with how well they played during the Left 4 Dead 2 stream, with feats like taking on a Tank in melee with one HP and winning. Thus the name Enma is spoken more like "Judge of the Dead" and is the subject of a number of memes celebrating their badassery.
  • Haachama gets this due to her absolutely outrageous antics and Cosmic Horror Story vibes to her character lore that she fully embraced after weathering the storm of controversies in 2020 and having her channel monetization repeatedly revoked from her. All of this, coupled with her ridiculously colored upbringing, prompted fans to affectionately refer to her as the "strongest idol", and that "YouTube is afraid of her". As such, most of her fans tend to gas up her status as a comically powerful being of unimaginable powers, and her fellow idols speak of her in playfully hushed tones to go along with the joke.
  • Kanata gets this treatment, with her "50kg grip strength" being cited as her being strong enough to break anything and everything, with the world being too fragile for her. It helps that she herself reinforces this point by making it her Character Catchphrase and constantly telling stories of things she's accidentally broken. Many fans jokingly use "getting a hug from Kanata" as an Implied Death Threat.
  • Amelia has been increasingly portrayed as this in fandom, especially since the time travel got incorporated into her lore. She is protrayed as the one who went back in time to shoot down Coco to become part of Hololive and one who regularly hangs out with the supernatural beings of Myth despite seemingly being a mundane human, even keeping them in check sometimes. Not to mention the abovementioned Haachama considers her a spiritual sister. Since Council has been introduced, Tweets and skits have established her as having stolen both from the otherworldy and powerful Warden of Time and Speaker of Space. On a slightly more mundane note, Ame's ability to make things happen has been praised repeatedly, having organized most of the major EN crossovers, even a surprise real-life collab, seemingly largely by herself in the middle of a pandemic despite various challenges.
    
    Speaking of Ame, there's also the matter of Smol Ame, who gets this treatment to even greater levels, with the fans depicting her as a lot more dangerous and chaotic than Big Ame. This reached a peak during the 2022 Holive Super Expo when Smol Ame was made into a real life mascot with a suit-actor dressed as Smol Ame at the Expo, leading fans and other talents to joke that Smol Ame crossed dimensions and became 4D, and that soon she would be too powerful to stop.
  • Suisei, who gained a reputation as an unbeatable Godlike Gamer in Mario Kart and Tetris, where she is consistently a top 3 finalist. Her fearsome reputation has made it so, to go up against Suisei is something that has become dreaded among the other girls. Anyone who manages to be triumph over Suisei is treated with the same shock as beating a pro player. Then there's also her "Suicopath" characterisation where she is depicted as an Ax-Crazy slasher villain due to her relentless killing in Among Us.
  • Risu is said to become stronger and more unhinged the closer it gets to November, thanks to her annual event "Non-Stop Nut November" which Risu fills with nut jokes. This one has subsided with Risu discontinuing NNN after 3 years.
  • Sora gets a lot of respect from her kohais, which is taken even further by the fandom often depicting her as a literal goddess. Some, like Kugeki Animations of Holo-Chronicles fame, even portray her as one of the stronger (if not THE strongest) members.
  • Over time, YAGOO starts to receive this treatment from the fandom as well, despite also being a Memetic Loser especially amongst his own talent (see below). If anything, he handles his loser status like a champ, something that is a rarity among CEO and leaders in Japan. Being able to keep going and recruit eldritch beings, council of universal elements, and secret society, despite his shattered dreams also ought to qualify. Taken up to eleven after his more frequent public appearance, especially the one where he "saves Christmas" and helps the staff lights up the Christmas tree, to the point that even his own talents are surprised by the reception. He's up there with the ranks of Gabe Newell and Reggie Fils-Aime. Best Girl indeed.
  • Calvin, Calli's Spear Counterpart, can record a rap in mere seconds. He is so overwhelmingly powerful, even Youtube itself choked on the C-Man.
  • Kaela. She is revered as the "Minecraft God" by the other girls, and is a Godlike Gamer in general. Kaela garnered a reputation as an unparalleled gamer who is capable of mastering any game, through sheer dedication and grinding. This is especially the case in Minecraft, where Kaela became a resource tycoon with mansions and temples filled with rare resources and complex builds. It's become a meme for her to humbly flex her wealth or to over generously gift others more than they asked.
  • Magni Dezmond, who got this status before his debut. Fans often joke that he possess such great power that is enough to "mag" all over everyone which quickly spawned the "it's magging time" meme. The fact the he canonically invented copium just cemented this status even further.
  • Axel, of all people, managed to gain this status. Fans tend to preach him as an anime protagonist, and a Harem protagonist at that. In addition, in early collabs he began winning a lot often due to sheer luck. This would lead to whenever there was a large collabs featuring multiple branches, chat has a tendency to predict the match outcome and spam "#Axelsweep", sometimes when Axel isn't even part of the collab.
• Memetic Loser:
  • If things don't go her way, Pekora is a frequent victim of this due to many factors, such as stream snipers or fans deliberately messing with her. Even when she plays the Only Sane Man, it's her fans or stream snipers that often causes her grief.
  • YAGOO, the girls' boss, falls hard on this whenever the girls display un-idol-like behavior. And this is after he claims hololive is meant to be an idol group similar to AKB48. There are often jokes at his expense whenever the girls have gone to their usual antics, his blood pressure is rising, him in the ICU, or that his idol dream won't come true (especially when Coco is concerned). This reaches an all-time high during Suisei's stream of Minecraft, Haachama and Subaru suggests blowing up a flying meme portrait of YAGOO and themselves (Suisei, Towa, and Watame in question) to introduce themselves to Generation 5, who were also planning to stream Minecraft. And thus, Subaru and Haachama blew YAGOO and themselves up just to introduce themselves to Gen 5. Then after Coco and Haachama returned from their hiatus they celebrate their return by among other things blowing up part of the current one. It's joked upon Miko's Pec-Man ^note A "kusoge" where the player controls a muscular man to cross obstacles using only chest and back muscles, seeming like having a seizure when he moves stream where the viewers dubbed the man as YAGOO having seizures everytime his talents doing un-idol-like things. Taken to an extreme when during the reddit meme stream with Coco and Sora, Sora muttered "Motherfucker" (although Coco did tell her not to say the word again), which coincidentally was followed by YAGOO uploading a video where he said COVER was a "cutting edge 2D entertainment company" leading fans to joke that he admitted that Hololive's not as much of an idol company as it seems. Coco's subsequent upload of her dancing has been interpreted as her "victory dance" for the occasion.
  • Aqua is one of the biggest examples in the entirety of hololive, being the goto Butt-Monkey. Fans meme her as an onion, and nicknamed her "Baqua", due her ditzy nature such as when her pranks backfire, or when she's reduced to Inelegant Blubbering from losing at a game. Aqua also got usurped as CEO from her own AKUKIN company by both Gura and Nene. Poor girl.
  • Kiara's game streams have a tendency to go poorly for her due to either bad luck or a lack of skill, which makes her a frequent joke target for her co-stars. Even her own artist huke is not above trolling her by deliberately giving her bad advice.
  • Miko is on the receiving end of a lot of joke memes that make her a Butt-Monkey. These include her Elite way of speaking that few can understand, leading fans to treat as being a non-native Japanese speaker who is part of the EN branch and that her Japanese places lower than non-native speakers (which keeps dropping lower with the addition of more gens). She is also often called a baby due to the high-pitched tone of her voice and difficulty in clearly pronouncing certain words. Both of these cause her much frustration. Though eventually she ended up embracing the memes, getting a set of baby toys from her mama illustrator including a pacifier and a bottle of milk which she happily showed off, while making a baby Miko statue of herself on the EN server.
  • Calliope's equipment and software tends to disagree with her incredibly frequently, to the point where it's not considered a proper stream without something of hers malfunctioning and causing her undue stress. She is also somewhat infamous for lacking skill in many video games.
    Calli: Here's what's gonna happen, Ina. We're gonna stop this stream here, but it's gonna be 2 AM where I am, and I'm going to start playing this game randomly with randos, and we're gonna play until I get good at the game.
    Ina: Well, cya in ten yea- I mean...
  • Baelz/Bae would end up as one of the biggest examples in EN, gaining this status a good year or so into her career. Bae would eventually become one of the most bulliable EN girls among both her chat and other Holo members. She would garner a long list of memes used to bully her such as: her short height, her Australian accent fumbling pronunciations, her poor gaming skills, her unique handwriting^note Bae writes the letter "K" like the letter "R", constant showing up late to streams due to oversleeping, and her getting scared by any game (even non-horror ones). Her slip-ups on English words combined with her proficiency in Japanese, had her memed as being a member of HoloJP with English as her second language. Bae would also acquire a long list of Embarrassing Nicknames with chat constantly adding more to the list. There's also Bae's obliviousness to many forms of common knowledge media the late 80's-early 2000's, leading Bae to become visibly confused whenever chat or other talents bring it up and ask "What's X?", earning her the nickname "Zoomer Rat".
  • La+ Darknesss, who quickly became one of Hololive's biggest Butt Monkeys from both her viewers and her fellow talents. People made fun of the Phrase Catcher, changing "Yes My Dark" to "YMD" and "Yamada", while Yamada became a nickname for her. Then there's the fact her chuuni nature gets ridiculed and La+ gets treated less like a feared demon lord and more like a bratty but cute child, not helped by the fact she keeps ending up in situations reinforcing her childishness like her short height and having her hand held by Choco.
  • Chloe Sakamata. Shortly after her debut, she would shift from The Cutie to The Fake Cutie, and in accordance her chat went from doting on her for being cute to constantly bullying her. Chat likes to spam "PON" in her streams, more so than any other member. Chloe is constantly told to take a bath due to her Hates Baths tendencies, while both her viewers and some members like Marine have expressed their desires to punch her for being annoying.
  • Lovey-Dovey Couples in the Pokémon series have grown this reputation among actual members of Hololive, with the trainer class grossing out Miko, Fubuki, Subaru, Pekora, Rushia, and Lamy for flirting before Christmas. Their chats collectively banded to call Lovey-Dovey Couples "normies" who likely only met each other through dating apps.
  • Among the fanbases, European viewers have taken to considering themselves this due to most of Cover's talents being based out of North America, Australia, or Japan, meaning that other than Kiara's, their stream hours tend to be at the dead of night or very early morning for this particular demographic and their content difficult to keep track of short of perusing VODs. Making matters even worse is the usual difficulty of actually acquiring merchandise, due to there being relatively few shipping companies that will provide service in this region.
  • Jurard T Rexford from Holostars ARMIS, who has garnered a universal reputation as a "boyfailure". Jurard constantly boasting a big game but almost never being able to deliver on his words, whether it's winning at games (against either viewers or other talents) or just experiencing waves of misfortune in real life (esp. his trip to Japan, where he would endlessly get lost), have led to endless boyfailure allegations that he is never able to dispel.
• Memetic Molester:
  • Never let Matsuri anywhere near an elementary school. Even though Matsuri herself prefers to keep her perverted antics confined to her channel, her raunchy reputation tends to precede her on several occasions, sometimes to the point where people forget that she can compete with the best of them as a proper idol.
  • Noel also gets this treatments because of her obsession with shotas, earning her the nickname of "Shota Eater". Having onee-chan figure, voice, and behavior doesn't help. This later shifted into jokes about her obsession with Subaru, which even became an Ascended Meme such as a Freeze-Frame Bonus in the outfit swapping "Hololive Shuffle Medley" where Noel sniffs Subaru's cap.
  • Amelia is a non-Comedic Lolicon example. Ever since she made a joke about ground-pounding the chat's mom, the fandom has turned her into a full-blown threat to mothers everywhere.
• Memetic Mutation: Has its own page here.
• Memetic Psychopath:
  • Korone's occasional violent behavior and Nightmare Fetishist moments lead to this trope. Some fans joke that she has ties to the yakuza, enjoys cutting off people's fingers due to her catchphrase of "yubi yubi" ("finger, finger"), or that the "Koro" is for "korosu" (kill). It's to the point that she is the Big Bad of her own horror game in "Evil God Korone"... let's just say that the distinctive head shape of her Koronesuki is not actually poorly drawn, and leave it at that.
    (During a Portal 2 session) Korone: Ah! Maybe the laser can mur-- d-defeat [the turrets].
  • Suisei is affectionately referred to as "Suicopath" by the English translators for the casual glee and efficiency she displays in violent games. Her Comedic Sociopathy tendencies are so well-known, that she often pretends she has no idea what fans and other Vtubers are talking about when it's brought up, and fans are waiting in anticipation for it whenever she does multiplayer collaboration streams. The official channel even used her brutal murder spree in Project Winter as the "Now" in a "Then/Now" comparison video. This ended up becoming an Ascended Meme where HoloGra would eventually depict Suisei dressed up with a Hockey Mask and Chainsaw.
  • Rushia. When she's not depicted as cute and sweet, then she'll be on the extreme other end and be downright terrifying. She can be yandere towards her viewers or fellow talents for either cheating on her or calling her flat, often brandishing a knife to threaten them with. Memes based on her A-Cup Angst often end with the user Killed Mid-Sentence. There's also a Running Gag of her supposed victims ending up stuffed inside her fridge, most infamously Ui-mama.
  • Pekora's wild and occasionally trollish antics, her Verbal Tic, and her notable manner of pronouncing words like "Ora!" led to her being portrayed as the antagonist or a chaotic evil force in many meme videos. Especially in Minecraft, where she's characterized as a full-blown Mad Scientist who designs weapons of mass destruction or subjects NPCS to live experimentation/genocide, earning her the title of "War Criminal Rabbit" and Usada Constructions (the group she and Moona forms in-game) having an infamous reputation as a MegaCorp whose inner circle is entirely composed of lunatics.
  • Speaking of Moona, she was labeled as one not even a week after her debut, already showing off Psychopathic Manchild tendencies as early as her Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto V playthroughs.
  • Haachama is usually regarded as a degenerate at best and an Eldritch Abomination at worst due to her random videos and increasingly unhinged behavior. It's been theorized that Haachama is either a split personality of Akai Haato or a different entity altogether, and has performed a Hostile Show Takeover. The funniest part is that these theories eventually become straight-up canon. The fact that a lot of her fellow talents have been shown to be terrified of her like Gura, Aqua, and Miko just further drives the point home.
  • IRyS had this at one point around the time Council had just debuted, due to multiple "Hope has descended and is coming for you" moments between her and her fellow holomems or game NPCs, where she demonstrates an uncanny ability to inspire terror in other talents intentionally or unintentionally. Helped along by her Soft-Spoken Sadist moments in her scenarios for her ASMR streams where she's cut off the listener's body parts, as well as her tendency to accidentally kill animals in Minecraft. IRyS herself is well aware of this and acknowledged it with the original song HERE COMES HOPE. This fandom interpretation of IRyS however did not stick and eventually got dropped, in favor of her being memed as "YabaIRyS".
  • Mumei got firmly cemeted as the psychopath of EN, and is regarded as the EN equivalent of Suisei. Shortly after her debut she showcased her nightmarishly cursed drawings, increasing penchant for violence, and surprisingly giddy gameplay as the killer in Dead by Daylight. Her borderline excitement when it comes to horror situations and tendency to say morbid things in the same cute tone she always uses further exemplifies this. After all, Mumei represents civilization, and the pages of most history books are soaked in blood.
  • Watame has earned this status through her weekly Girigiri Warukunai Watame series, in which she causes annoyance and misfortune to many of her fellow members. What pushes her beyond just being a Memetic Troll, however, are some videos that show her to have cosmic powers that are capable of destroying galaxies.
  • Fauna. While not as prevalent as Mumei, Fauna eventually gained this status too after she embraced a joke that the Saplings were actually her viewers that she has transformed into trees. Fauna would also play up her yandere possessiveness into this dark fact. Eventually this bit of lore would be canonized, both in Fauna’s 3D showcase and in her updated bio.
  • Temma's status as The Ace in the Killer role in Dead by Daylight, a Consummate Liar in Among Us, and a Blood Knight in pretty much every game he plays is such a great contrast to how he is supposed to be a chivalrous knight apprentice lore-wise that it becomes memetic. He even beats his viewers near death in his 3D debut just to test his skill.
  • Much like Temma, Altare is supposed to be The Hero yet has been repeatedly accused of secretly being the demon lord typical of isekai fare because of his tendency to mess with his guildmates in co-op and act otherwise unhinged towards NPCs. It got to the point where he managed to turn the unambiguously-tragic and morally grey Undercover Cop Reveal of A Way Out into a black-and-white twist villain ending that leaves his partner Magni seething (only for Altare to eat his words.)
  • Vesper would eventually gain a reputation of being unhinged due to the accumulation of some of his stories about his colorful past, including biking across the continental US, going out in a hurricane on a whim, and getting stabbed without noticing, to the point Vesties refer to him as Florida Man incarnated as a VTuber. The fact that he revealed that he bought a boar-hunting spear while he was suspended for losing his temper coupled with how he later mentioned he has a sword collection only enhances this.
  • Magni would earn this status with his frequent morally ambigious behavior including constantly performing his alchemical experiments on the other boys. There's also his creation Magmo, an eldritch version of Elmo that terrorized his chat a few streams.
• Moe:
  • Ayame Nakiri. From her adorable giggles, and equally cute noises,, to her puppy-like expressions, "precious", "cute" and "adorable" are the strongest words fans associate with her.
  • Korone Inugami. While the Virtual Avatar alone is already cute, Korone's sweet and wholesome disposition make her regarded by many fans as precious and adorable.
  • Towa Tokoyami was already regarded as adorable for her childlike mannerisms among other things, but her 3D debut further pushed this perception from start to finish. From her enthusiastic dancing and singing of "Planet Loop", to her Devilish Deed skits showcasing her "Evil trickery", to her precious smile that earned her the reputation of "Towa Maji Tenshi".
  • Gura Gawr, who hits everyone else with Cuteness Proximity whenever others watch or talk to her. Fans and talents endlessly gush over and dote on how cute she is, especially the Japanese girls who affectionately refer to her as "Same-chan".
  • Amelia Watson of the English branch is usually seen as a salty, raging Gamer Chick gremlin, and she definitely has her moments, but she also has a lot of moments where she's incredibly adorable and cuter than usual, often with her giggles and cute sounds. Moments include this one from her AI Dungeon stream where she bashfully denies being called pretty while then freaking out at how eerily close AI Dungeon describes her appearance, her giggles at game jank, and this moment from her new outfit stream where she enjoys a bite out of some pudding. Said new outfit stream was not only very creative, the outfit itself is more casual, with a little Bubba on her hat, it includes a pair of glasses, and she has a pose where she can put her hands up to her face. Her stream end stinger had a close up of exactly that while giving the audience a kiss.
  • Roboco also definitely qualifies, from her signature "Hello-bo!" introduction, to her custom features that give her cat or rabbit ears, to her various short videos that feature her... well, just being her.
    Roboco: (Cute beat-boxing) Boo! Boo! Booooo!
  • Usually an older person using slang popular with younger people is the epitome of cringe, but Aruran's enthusiasm and genuine interest during his English slang and meme study streams is incredibly endearing. There's also his commitment to making his streams wholesome and family friendly in contrast to some of the other members. There's a good reason people call him "papa".
  • Mumei Nanashi's slightly depressing backstory had already gotten people's hearts going, and when she debuted with her forgetfulness, nervousness, and quieter/shier personality than her peers, it only confirmed the moe. Her subsequent streams only hammered it in with her childlike curiosity and penchant for making strange and endearing sounds, to the point where fans have already started praising her laughter and other sounds as sacred in a similar vein as Ayame.
  • Noir Vesper's Adorkable tendencies contrasting with his elegant and serious design is a major source of gap moe.
  • Kishido Temma is always smiling and cheerful, often makes really cute noises, and his English is utterly adorable. One comment even described his voice as "sunshine and serotonin". His Comedic Sociopathy tendencies while playing games really doesn't do much to change this, and even makes him more adorable in a way.
  • Not only is Kageyama Shien not doing a very good job convincing his viewers that he’s a feared mob boss, but his otaku and chuunibyou tendencies, along with his love for all things cute including animals and stuffed toys makes him seem incredibly endearing in audience’s eyes. We have yet to take his husky-like behaviors, his Expressive Ears and shaking tail into account. Last but not least, he has one of the cutest smiling animations ever.
  • Chloe Sakamata's debut saw her win hearts of the audience en-masse due to her Cute Clumsy Girl and Apologises a Lot tendencies immediately shattering The Stoic characterisation that her official profile contained, with the Vocal Dissonance further opposing the characterisation and design only further cementing her as an Adorkable to the viewers. Then she removed the mask, and the chat almost unanimously declared her as The Cutie of holoX, itself no small feat.
  • FUWAMOCO, the twin demon dog vtubers, Fuwawa and Mococo, who have been described as practically weaponized cuteness with their puppy-like mannerisms, endearing verbal tics, and close relationship with each other along with their tendency to talk in sync. The JP talents in particular adore them and have frequently expressed maternal or sisterly instincts towards them, or even physical pain from how cute they are.
  • Koseki Bijou, or "Biboo", who is right behind Fuwamoco in instigating Cuteness Proximity. She is regarded as the baby sister/daughter of Advent with many child-like mannerisms that endear fans and talents alike.
• Most Wonderful Sound:
  • A lot of YouTube commenters like to say that some of the girls' giggles put smiles on their faces, especially Ayame's and Botan's.
  • Amelia Watson has garnered the same reaction from viewers in her early streams. There's also her hiccups, which tends to sent the chat off for how cute they sound.
  • Aki's laughs were cited as a highlight of her episode on Coco's Meme review, along with her "Ara ara" and "Good boy" to the point where even Coco herself was enjoying it.
  • Roboco's talking may qualify as it has this calm sleepy tone that sounds cute at all times.
  • Lamy's voice in general, being the embodiment of Incorruptible Pure Pureness, is regarded as this not only by her fans but also by the rest of Gen 5.
  • For Pekora:
    • Many find amusement in Pekora's unique "directional" laughter.
    • "Hey Moona!" Is a line many enjoy hearing whenever Pekora comes across Moona in Minecraft, said with endearing excitement and joy.
  • Whenever Calliope takes a drink, she gives off a "Guh" sound that her fans find endearing.
  • Fandeads will swear by enjoying Rushia's "death metal" screams and will make comments about maxing their volumes in expectation.
  • Korone's adorable and now-iconic mimicking of the vocalization that Mumbo Tokens make.
    Korone: Eekum bokum!
  • Gura's screams — whether she's shrieking in terror or joy — are often a pure tone, and are unironically pleasant to listen to. The chat often responds with "BLESSED SHARK NOISES" and the like.
  • Mio's wheezing is among the most infectious fits of laughter, and is almost universally recognized as bringing joy to anyone who hears it.
  • While she normally does so in passing gags and doesn't do many dedicated streams to it, Polka has a wonderful singing voice.
  • Of all the debuts of hololive Council, the one who left the strongest impression on everyone's ears was Kronii and her deep, rich, sultry voice coupled with her amazing impression of Japanese meme phrases such as "Ara Ara" and the "Dinner, Bath, or Sex" Offer. Fans are also fond of the "Gwak!" sound she makes when playing games, specifically when she dies or is otherwise surprised.
  • Fans of Mumei will swear by the wide variety of strange and endearing sounds she makes when streaming, especially when she's having fun or being surprised by something.
  • Baelz's laughter where she whistles like a kettle is typically done with great amusement and joy from her, a sentiment shared by fans at hearing it.
    • To a slightly lesser extent, her Australian accent is also loved by many fans.
  • Oga's very deep voice has had a history of melting his viewers into puddles whenever it’s uttered into husky laughters or sultry whispers.
  • Vesper has a rather deep belly laugh that many fans label as both endearing and infectious.
  • In a simar vein to Oga and Kronii, Shinri's bassy, mellow voice quickly became one of the most beloved in all of hololive.
  • Ina and Fauna's voices are both incredibly soft and pleasant to listen to, with Fauna even specializing in ASMR Videos. While Ina has yet to do proper ASMR, many fans say her regular voice is just plain relaxing to hear regardless.

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• Narm: Some of the avatars can be seen as very uncanny and somewhat hard to take seriously, having odd animation issues that distract from the stream if one looks at them long enough:
  • For instance, Minato Aqua's facial expressions, especially in her debut video (which her current incarnation cringed at during an APEX Legends stream), come off as very uncanny. Even some of her more recent expressions can come off as derpy, especially if she's trying to convey some emotion (this particular one for instance happened when she was upset that she was about to lose a match in Smash Ultimate) and it comes off as her being overly happy due to her smile instead. These expressions (her actually screaming while being burned by lava in Minecraft in two different occasions) also carry onto her casual avatar as well, although it's not as extreme.
  • Matsuri has a similar instance as well, mostly due to her early model's inability to have anything but a wide open mouth when speaking. Her "2.0" Live2D model finally addressed this by giving her avatar more expressions and better face tracking.
  • Watame's default expression is a smile that gives her an almost V-shaped mouth, something that looks very odd when her avatar's mouth moves a lot. She lampshades this in her membership announcement stream and demonstrates a (then-newly developed) expression that turns her mouth into a more natural-looking horizontal line.
  • For the more well-endowed characters, the rigging of their Jiggle Physics makes their chest move like a pair of balloons or something out of a zero-gravity environment, making said jiggle physics more funny or weird to look at than titilating. It's especially noticeable on Kiara and Reine's avatars.
  • The hololive app tends to do weird things with Live2D avatars when trying to interpret blurry frames, usually messing with the eyes. This is most noticeable with Gura's avatar, which starts blinking rapidly and repeatedly if she's not looking directly at the camera.
  • Most of hololive's "Home 3D" models don't track facial movements well. As a result, their faces often get stuck with their mouth either agape or in a toothy grin for long periods of time, making them seem like they're ventriloquists.
  • Mumei's harpy form in the third holoweEN episode. While the build-up and reveal was undeniably creepy, the later shots put focus on her rather shapely hips and thighs, resulting in a rather awkward design that feels too fanservice-y to be scary and too much of a Fetish Retardant to be hot, given the context.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • Kronii's Subway stream was designed to make her lose her appetite for Subway, and it worked a little too well. The stream involves her putting Subway sandwiches into a blender, be it meatball, teriyaki, or cheesesteak, turning them into smoothies, and drinking them. It becomes even more disgusting when she decides to add alcohol to the cheesesteak smoothie to "improve the taste", and she ends it by combining all three smoothies, adding maple syrup, and drinking it. Her gag reflex triggers spontaneously, and she describes the last smoothie as smelling like vomit.
  • Magni held a potion-making stream to celebrate the opening of his membership, and let chat vote, in real time, what ingredients he would include - and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the resulting concoction (consisting of Red Bull, jellybeans, tabasco sauce, mustard, and cat food) nearly made him vomit.
• Never Live It Down:
  • Suisei's actions in multiplayer and singleplayer games where she is allowed to commit brutal acts of violence has fans calling her a psychopath. However she rolls with it and pretends she has no idea what chat and other people are talking about. Not to mention she loves committing acts of violence in those games like it's just a normal day for her ...often for the sake of violence itself.
  • Many fans tend to exaggerate Matsuri's perverted tendencies to the point that she's mostly regarded as a Memetic Molester as mentioned above, despite the fact that she's actually quite chill most of the time. Matsuri herself, much like Suisei, doesn't seem too bothered by it however.
  • Yozora Mel is often known as Banpire, a nickname given by Marine and adopted by the fans ever since the Youtube AI forcibly shut down her return stream in early 2020 twice in the same day. While it likely happened due to her Fanservice-y design, she's streamed plenty of times before and afterward with the same design without Youtube forcibly shutting her down; the ban was only that severe on the day she earned the nickname.
  • On a purity and inteligence chart featured one stream, Kiara was relegated to the bottom-left section of the chart, meaning perverted (Bottom) and stupid (Left), turning "Bottom Left" into a recurring joke/name-call from fans anytime Kiara acts in a impure manner, despite certain moments of perceived perversity being more mundane and/or innocent in context, or Kiara having gone through some character changes to make the chart outdated to a degree. It got bad enough when Kiara was met with comments of "Bottom Left" so often that she had to call them out for running with the joke to mean-spirited levels, with it becoming Discredited as a result.
  • Haachama has admitted she feels this way about her association with spiders. She ate a tarantula on stream once (it's arguably not even the most disgusting thing she has ever eaten), but she became forever remembered for that one single incident, much to her... "dismay" is probably a bit too strong a word, but definitely puzzlement.
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
• Older Than They Think:
  • While hololive English sparked a lot of excitement for having English-speaking talents, the Indonesian branch debuted five months earlier with multilingual members who also regularly stream in English.
  • Newcomers to the Vtuber community may sometimes associate hololive as the one that popularized the trend of Vtubers swearing and shouting the F-word, especially since the hololive girls' videos appear first when you search "swearing vtubers" on YouTube and Google. The community also has a "FAQ!" catchphrase for it, as popularized by Sakura Miko. This trend actually predates hololive since Kizuna Ai was infamous for her "FAKKYU!" catchphrase from a 2017 playthrough of Resident Evil 7.
  • Contrary to popular belief, HoloEN Gen 1 wasn't the trendsetter for hololive talents to be illustrated by artist who are known for their work in Fate/Grand Order. Many of the pre-HoloEN members have had their character artists work on that game in the past as well, usually as the illustrators of minor characters (Okada Izo, a three-star Servant, was illustrated by lack, who would later go on to design Shiranui Flare and Arurandeisu) and Craft Essences. To its credit, though, HoloEN Gen 1 was the start of the trend for more major character artist to come onto the scene, with huke (Kiara) and Kuroboshi Kouhaku (Ina) being the more notable figures.
  • Upon the announcement of four new members for Holostars Tempus, many were surprised that they're not a new group and they debuted 6 months after the founding members' debut. The first generation of Holostars JP debuted across a span of 6 months with 6 members. The second generation, SunTempo, debuted 6 months after the first gen. The third generation, MaFia formerly TriNero, also debuted 6 months after the 2nd gen. And despite Holostars JP being made up of 3 gens and several subunits, they ultimately operate as one big group.
• One-Scene Wonder: "Enma," the manager of Hololive EN, managed to gain a lot of recognition for defeating a Tank with a katana and only a sliver of health during a Left 4 Dead 2 collab stream with her filling in as a 4th member. Before that, she had only been mentioned in passing by Marine when Enma had asked her to say her iconic "I'm horny!" line for her.
• One True Threesome: Among holoCouncil, Kronii/Mumei/Fauna became pretty well-accepted following the aftermath of the "Council Civil War arc", which built up Fauna and Kronii as rivals for Mumei's affection while having their own Foe Yay with each other. This ended with peace and Fauna stating this trope as her prefered solution to the problem in the future.
• Periphery Demographic:
  • Given that ID, EN, and the short lived China branches were all created due to the very high number of non-japanese hololive fans, it should come as no surprise that these cute little anime girls, and boys, tend to attract some very diverse crowds. This is in no small part because of the dedicated clipping community who takes interesting moments in hours long streams and cuts them down to bite size segments and most importantly subs them in various languages. Of the various branches Hololive Indonesia takes the cake of most fans outside their intended demographic. This is helped by the majority of the ID talents being very fluent in English as well as collabing the most with other branches and even non-hololive creators.
  • Vtubing as a whole has always been more oriented toward older men as the main demographic, but they have also garnered a smaller but just as dedicated fanbase of women, to the point that even someone like Houshou Marine can boast about having a 17% female audience. Calli, in particular, is very popular with women, and she has a 37% female viewership, and Laplus has stated she has similar numbers. In fact, a lot of the later generations have noted they were huge fans before joining. This a big part of why Holostars became a thing at all.
  • Holostars' initial target audience was meant to be female, but around 40% of fans ended up being male. Some Holostars members like Aruran and Vesper actually have more male viewers than female.
  • According to Laplus, three out of every ten fan letters she receives are from elementary school students. It helps her content is a lot more family friendly compared to some of her coworkers.
• Pop-Culture Isolation: AZKi is actually one of the more popular original talents... as a musician. Gaming content isn't (and has never been) a focus of hers, and her sub count is among the lowest in Hololive, since the fanbase does not translate the same way. On the other hand, she's quite popular and respected domestically. There's a reason, after all, she was able to organize several music programs involving hundreds of VTubers.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: The talents usually come up with a couple name for 1-on-1 collabs which also serves as an #EngineeredHashtag for discussion and fanart related to that pair. Below are several of the most prominent couples.
  • AmeChama for Amelia and Haachama. While fans have used this tag for their collab/fanart before, Haachama herself actually tagged it on her stream name for their collabs.
  • AmeSame or less commonly, GurAme, is actually a Fan Nickname Amelia Watson and Gawr Gura; though it occasionally sees official use by the two. The "Same" part comes from her nickname among the JP branch, "Same-chan" (Shark-chan). "Shartson" (Shark+Watson) was also proposed on Reddit, somewhat as a joke. Fans are split on interpreting them as either a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship or Heterosexual Life-Partners.
  • MiComet for Miko and Suisei.
  • NoeFure for Noel and Flare.
  • OkaKoro for Okayu and Korone.
  • PekoMari for Pekora and Marine.
  • PekoMiko for Pekora and Miko. These two are mostly depicted as Vitriolic Best Buds.
  • PekoMoon(a) for Pekora and Moona.
  • ShishiLamy for Botan and Lamy.
  • TakaMori for Takanashi Kiara and Mori Calliope. This name was announced as the official couple name and hashtag for fanart on twitter.
  • Inafi for Ina and Iofi. Similarly, it's their official ship name and fanart hashtag, though their chats insist on ErofIna (Erofi+Ina).
  • KanaCoco for Kanata and Coco.
  • SorAZ for Sora and AZKi.
  • SubMarine for Subaru and Marine.
  • Sauna for Sana and Fauna.
  • BaeRyS for Baelz and IRyS.
  • PavoNashi for Reine and Kiara.
  • KronMei for Kronii and Mumei.
  • LuiKoro for Lui and Korone.
  • KoyoMari for Koyori and Marine.
  • HaMiko for Haato and Miko.
    • MikoChama for Miko and Haachama.
  • TowaLap for Towa and La+.
  • ShioGura for Shion and Gura.
  • GuraTsuri for Gura and Matsuri.
  • AkuOka for Aqua and Okayu.
  • ShishiWata for Botan and Watame.
  • AlMond for Altare and Dezmond.
  • Begni for Bettel and Magni, though their official collab name is ABC (Apple, Banana, Cherry).
  • HanaKishi for Miyabi and Temma.
  • Jutai for Jurard and Octavio.
• Ron the Death Eater: Despite her soft-spoken, comfy nature and kind-heartedness, Ninomae Ina'nis' Eldritch Abomination theme is occasionally dialed up to eleven in fanart, depicting her as a malevolent and corrupting being, especially when The Team Normal Amelia Watson is involved.

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• Self-Fanservice: A number of girls get fan-arts with exaggerated curves, be it already buxom girls getting bigger or some of the moderately sized girls that wear emphasizing outfits.
  • Amelia is one such example as after revealing that she wasn't flat, she is often portrayed in art as on par with Marine/other rather busty members. In a Q&A touching on the subject, she admits that she disapprove of it on matter of personal taste (she apparently prefers them smaller, but not too small).
  • An odd example in the form of Anya, who's suppose to be a small and petite girl but her default model goes at odds with her appearance. As Anya herself clarified, the flat design present in most if not all her thumbnails is how she's supposed to look like; due an error in her Live2D model rigging, the way her front layer of clothing moves and especially bounces gives her the illusion of being rather busty for her size. Naturally, this results in plenty of art of the same calibur or more, playing into the pun of Anya being a "curvy dagger". The misconception around Anya's appearance has even affected her HoloClothing depiction in the hololive SUPER EXPO 2022, her statue having a notable bust comparable to Reine's statue.
  • Kazama Iroha has gotten lots of fanarts depicting her with large breasts, despite her very modest bust size, something that even her illustrator confirmed alongside her design sheet. Iroha wearing Sarashi certainly doesn't help either, as it only fuels the speculation of her real bust size even further. Ironic considering that Iroha is one of, if not the only "pettan" member of Hololive who not only accepts being small-busted, but also deems it more practical. Iroha is aware of this, and keeps insisting that she doesn't have much.
    Iroha: I'm like, "do I have that much cleavage....?"
• Ships That Pass in the Night: Due to the greater subject of Hololive/Holostar interactions being a known minefield of Flame Bait, heterosexual shipping discussions are often booted to this by default, lest they get accused of being deliberately malicious. The loudest pairing of them, however, appears to be Zeta and Axel, which usually takes the form of interpreting their Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes collab (and their only collab thus far) as bickering Like an Old Married Couple. Other fuel for the Shipping Goggles includes how Axel is the only member in the entire company to receive a serious drawing from Zeta as a birthday gift (everyone else's drawing gifts were jokes of varying quality), and how the 2024 Super Expo promotional art frames them in a way that could be interpreted as them staring at each other.
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: In holoEN fan discords, there is a rather playful shipping war involving different pairings of Gawr Gura, Amelia Watson, and Ninomae Ina'nis (and sometimes Mori Calliope and Takanashi Kiara but not as much). AmeSame (Amelia/Gura) vs. InAme (Ina/Ame) are the ships that have the most rivalry with slight mentions of one member of the ship on the other member's stream is perceived as automatically giving those shippers a leg up over the opposing ship. Though some tend to settle for the One True Threesome known as InAmeSame.
• Shocking Moments:
  • The 100,000 subscriber milestone is a major one for the hololivers as it means they get their own 3D model. This graph shows how long it took for the earlier generations to reach that milestone — for reference, Noel reached it within 100 days, Coco within two weeks. Lamy reached it within 10 minutes of her debut. Botan one-upped her by reaching the milestone hours before her first video. After HoloEN Myth debuted, virtually all subsequent generations will have the girls reaching 100k either during or before they debuted. In turn, Kobo surpassed that 20 months later by reaching the milestone nearly two whole days before her debut.
  • The first five of the English branch were not to be outdone, hitting 100,000 subscribers within a day of debut. Gura set a new record of 200,000 subscribers in 6 days after announcement — twice as fast as Botan, the previous record holder for that milestone! Furthermore, Gura's popularity proved to be unstoppable over the following month, overtaking Fubuki and Korone and becoming the first ever hololive member to not only reach 1 million subscribers, but 2 million right before her 4 month anniversary.
  • The formation of a band consisting of Suisei, Aki, Matsuri, Towa and Polka for the cover of two of RAISE A SUILEN's songs during Suisei's fourth live concert took everyone by surprise, instantly becoming the highlight of the concert.
  • In June 2021, Haato took a brief hiatus, returning in late July that year and returning to her usual business fairly quickly. In the same return stream, she revealed, to the surprised delight of the audience, that she will be picking up the Reddit Shitpost Review, starting from the next day.
  • The ambiguously named "Prelude" was seen by many as a "lore" video expanding on IRyS's backstory, and gained a silly cult for "The Cube" over anything. A couple weeks later, "Omen" debuted, starting a cult for "The Orb"... until the end of the video revealed the silhouettes of the 2nd English generation, Council.
  • The Council went about their generation debut relay like how their many seniors had, ending in a collab between all members at the end. Then, right at the end of this collab, they casually unveil Omegaα, whose existence was not even hinted at.
  • Holomyth's 3D models were announced to be delayed due to COVID-19, but the actual shocking revelation was that the delay announcement came before the actual announcement that Holomyth were getting 3D models in general. Needless to say, the community rightfully responded with confusion. This was followed up with Calli revealing that Myth would be performing in 3D^note This is an exceptional case using remote technology, as Myth members would have their actual 3D debut streams later down the line. at the Hololive 3rd Fes concert.
  • The 11/26/2021 announcement of Generation 6 aka "Secret Society HoloX". Unlike the English branch's announcements of IRyS and Council, the latter of which received a lot of build-up leading to their reveal, the Gen 6 reveal dropped with virtually no warning, catching fans completely off-guard, with the first of the five girls having her debut mere hours later.
  • Due to Haachama's long medical hiatus for almost the entirety of 2023 (starting shortly after 4th fes) conflicting with the preparations for 5th fes, she wasn't present on the concert's lineup when it was announced in October 2023 and no adjustments, save for the removal of Mel following her firing, were made to the schedule up to the day of the concert. So imagine the utter shock and uproarious cheer when Haachama suddenly showed up on stage singing Idol. "World's Strongest Idol", indeed.
• Signature Scene:
  • While plenty of her video game streams stand out, Suisei's Project Winter collaboration with Matsuri, Fubuki, Watame, Aki, Coco, Kanata, and Roboco stood out for the fans for her terrifying efficiency to kill 5 people solo, as well as stealing Fubuki's clothes while Matsuri begs for her life while Suisei imitates Fubuki and laughs manically. This particular moment was so memorable that this is where fans call her "Psychopath Suisei" or "Suiciopath", and the official channel even used Suisei's brutal murder of Matsuri as an "after" scene.
  • Miko has two, both of them involving Grand Theft Auto V; One of which has her dropping the N-word during the ending cutscene of the mission "Franklin and Lamar", much to the bewilderment of the English-speaking viewers and also led 4chan to find her, and another one has her yelling "Stay home!" while sniping people off a construction site (the stream aired during the Covid-19 pandemic in which people are told to stay home). These two moments were boosted by the Youtube algorithm and helped increase the popularity of Miko & hololive for overseas fans, specially the one her dropping the N-word as this was months before Fubuki and Matsuri became viral and, to put it in perspective, two whole months before Korone even debuted.
  • Coco's explanation for why she refuses to stream her Asacoco news program in English (due to dropping a pleasant-sounding Cluster F-Bomb) established her irreverent behavior extremely early on and was indicative on how she would go on to conduct herself in in all future content, continuing to push the envelope on what is allowed by both Cover and Youtube despite looking tame in comparison to what she had done since.
  • Botan's introduction video for her debut struck a lot of fans on how well made it is. The biggest kicker is that Botan made the introduction video herself for her debut. For someone who just started hololive, this is truly impressive.
  • The beginning of Gawr Gura's debut stream, where after being several minutes late from the original start time, she interrupts her pre-stream loading screen to simply utter "a", in reference to her first tweet, before cutting back to the loading screen. Needless to say, it was welcomed quite well by the fandom.
  • Korone and Calliope's collaboration of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes stood out for fans for their funny interactions and also how the first round ended. Korone's parting words ("Oh, I'm die. Thank you forever.") are a popular subject for many fan animations.
  • Sora and Coco's Meme Review collaboration stream where she says "Motherfucker" twice gained attention, where fans immediately says YAGOO's idol dream is officially dead. Note that Sora said it innocently and doesn't know the meaning of the word.
  • IRyS's first contact with Ollie and Kronii in Minecraft. In both instances, the Nephilim awkwardly tries to be welcoming, only to scare her interlocutor shitless by means of a simple misunderstanding, resulting in an epic chase across the EN server. Needless to say, fans had a blast producing content portraying IRyS in a Not Evil, Just Misunderstood light.
  • Risu stealing Moona's piggybank and counted the coins inside it, while blocking off Moona's access to her room (back when Moona, Risu, and Iofi still lived together in one boarding house). It shows Area 15's dynamic, and most of all, it establishes Risu as The Gadfly of the Indonesians.
  • Mumei's cursed portrait from her third Passpartout stream. After getting frustrated trying to draw Suisei, she draws a nightmarish creature that fans describe as "a sleep paralysis demon come to life." While she has drawn plenty of similar "friends" since then, the cursed portrait has become her most iconic, having been turned into the membership emote "Nightmare" that her Hoomans regularly spam.
  • The 3D debuts of both HoloMyth and [=HoloID Gen 1 at HoloFes 3 -Link Your Wish- count as this for the concert, with ID's performances - and Moona's in particular - being considered to the be highlight of the entire two night concert series by many.
  • The one Haachama cooking stream where she introduced a dried tarantula into her ramen, while also eating it for good measure. Not only did she take her prior perception as a Lethal Chef demonstrated from her earlier cooking streams and escalate it to the point of absurity, but it also highlights how far she can go with her content, despite many more strange or crazy moments happening since.
  • The "Not ASMR" off-collab between Fauna, Kronii, and Mumei, where a lack of ideas due to technical difficulties with the ASMR microphone led to Fauna pretending to slap Kronii and Mumei on stream. On top of highlighting the trio's off-the-wall sense of humor and feeding into Fauna's pre-established "Slap God" reputation, the moment spawned arguably the most fan animations of any Council moment, to the point that even the official Hololive EN channel put their own spin on it as part of their "Holo EN 3D Repeat" series.
• Signature Song:
  • For Suisei:
    • "NEXT COLOR PLANET", being an original song of hers that she actually won first place for the Vtuber Music awards for original song and third place for original music video. In fact, it's so well known that it has been used in arcades and Joysound karaoke in Japan.
    • Her original fourth song, "GHOST", immediately gained traction after her 4th live concert and third anniversary. When it was released as a single, it quickly topped numerous digital singles charts such as Oricon ^note A Japanese equlvalent of the billboard music chart and the iTunes Japan store, the latter of which where "GHOST" from 5th place to 1st within hours.
  • "Happy Synthesizer" for Mano Aloe, being the one of the first covers she's done live and the last song she's ever done in hololive. So much so that as tribute to Mano, Nene made it her goal to practice the song, and later perform it live on Halloween 2020.
  • "-ERROR" for Towa, the song having become so associated with her that many are unaware that it's not an original.
  • "Excuse My Rudeness, But Could You Please RIP?" for Calliope. As the first of her original songs that she introduced in her debut, it has since become her image song, and the most watched original song for any hololive talent. Like "NEXT COLOR PLANET", it (along with her other songs) has also become available in Joysound karaoke machines throughout Japan, and Calli's senpais usually like to tease her by singing the chorus portion of the song.
• Squick:
  • In spite of being idols, the cast are not afraid of doing some very un-idol like things.
    • One of the relatively tamer examples is Haato playing Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy using her feet. At some point, someone asks her to smell them and she obliges, then immediately regrets it.
    • Almost all of the meals that Haachama produces arguably qualify, but the absolute pinnacle so far has to be her stream from December 18th, 2020, in which she ate a pre-cooked tarantula live on-stream. Kiara, who had already been exposed to her "cooking" before, was utterly horrified and had to cut her stream short due to how nauseated she was feeling at the idea.
    • While playing Minecraft with Calli, Gura asks her if she's ever had to wash her mouse pad. She suggested putting the mousepad up during a shower and watch as all the sweat, grime, various stains, bits of food, and the multitude of colors wash away. Calli was rather intrigued by the idea.
    • During one Minecraft stream, Kanata got to talking about her childhood. Apparently she hurt herself once, and was so enamored with the pain relief patch that she got from the school infirmary that she started intentionally injuring herself to get more of them. The chat called her a psychopath, and the comments on the clip theorized that her infamous grip strength comes from her unknowingly imitating a technique in which fighters intentionally break their bones so they grow back stronger at the age of nine.
  • While Matsuri and Noel's obsessions over lolis and shotas are most likely Played for Laughs, the notion of a pair of adult women lusting over children can come off as creepy and disturbing for some, the western audience in particular.
• Starboarding: While Kiara/Calliope (aka TakaMori) is a popular ship, there's also a large number of fans that prefer having Kiara be a comically foward Hopeless Suitor to the clearly not interested Calliope.
• "Stop Having Fun" Guys: Pretty much every hololive girl has had to deal with backseat gamers in chat and on social media complaining about their playstyles for certain games. It has gotten to the point that certain girls have stickied messages in their chat specifically about this. A particularly notable example is when Amelia got severely heckled to play Gwent during The Witcher 3.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Korone's song "Trouble Wander" sounds like the theme to Ghostbusters.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel:
  • Ayame Nakiri, despite being an oni, has incredibly sweet laughs and is generally one of the cutest talents to watch. It's a common joke among the community that Ayame cures depression.
  • Regis Altare's soft voice is very, very soothing to listen to.
  • In spite of the Eldritch theme of her character, Ninomae Ina'nis is known for her soft voice and the generally chill vibes of her streams.
• Tear Jerker: Has its own page.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Omegaα, who is the first Hololive English staff member and according to A-chan, holds the same position as her when it comes to the technical side of the English branch. They revealed after the HoloCouncil debuts with an ominous teaser which implies they were going to play a big role in the future. Asides from retweeting announcements and posting cryptic tweets, the only major role they've played is introducing the Holostars English branch, TEMPUS, where they were shown in the TEMPUS debut manga, holding a saber gun similar to Altare's saber gun. Then, their last tweet is HoloMyth's 2nd-year anniversary stream. After that, they went radio silent for much of 2023 and were absent when TEMPUS Vanguard debuted. What's more strange is their "The Advent of Omega" teaser being privated and their channel being removed from the featured tab of the Hololive English's channel. Because of this, many fans believed that Omegaα is quietly shelved with some bemoaning the wasted potential of what Omegaα could have been given their own character design and lore.

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• Ukefication: Gawr Gura is subjected to this more often than not in Slash Fics, especially if she's paired with Amelia Watson. When those two are together on stream, Gura is actually the one who makes most of the advances towards Ame (though Ame does occasionally make advances of her own) which even throws off the detective every now and then. Also, Gura plays a lot of violent games on stream where she makes a lot of sadistic and snarky comments, especially when she plays Dead by Daylight and she is pursuing Survivors. Not to mention she's part shark. Despite that, due to her small size and appearance, how emotional she can get ^note Such as during sad cutscenes in games or when she sings sad music during karaoke, how Ame takes the lead in any collabs just between the two ^note The early Minecraft collabs and the PHOGS collab are prime examples, and how Gura tends to gush about Amelia even in her solo streams, fanfic authors and fan artists tend to Flanderize her softer attributes and portray Gura as emotionally insecure and dependent on Amelia (or anyone else she's shipped with for that matter). It's also far from uncommon for fan art to exaggerate Gura's Token Mini-Moe status and have her acting like, looking like, or flat out being a child, despite the fact that she's talked on stream about doing adult things like paying taxes and drinking alcohol.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Some of the meme review guests may apply, such as Roboco and Aki, though the latter had foreshadowing as Coco has mentioned her name fondly in past meme reviews.
  • Pekora being chosen for a sake collab as she doesn't have the same reputation for drinking as a few others.
  • Roboco's Among Us collab on the 9th of November, 2020 could certainly be a good example due to the rather wide mix of girls in it. Aki, Luna, and Suisei aren't surprising as the first two are the rest of the AnPonTan grouping, and Suisei being a fellow Original Gen idol (also a Project Winter reunion of Aki, Roboco and Suisei). The surprise comes from the rest: Iofi and Risu (Indonesia branch), Nene (Fifth Gen), Calli, Amelia, and Gura (English Branch). Many has raised questions as to how exactly this came to be in the first place.
  • On September 13th, 2020, Mori Calliope asked on stream if anyone could guess who would be her first 1-on-1 Japanese branch collab partner moments before she revealed it. The most popular guesses were Suisei (who has expressed interest in Calli multiple times before), Rushia (who is thematically very similar to Calli and has acknowledged that they look like sisters so they would make a great collab), and even Watame (who doesn't have a strong connection like the previous two but is known for her raps, just like Calli). She gave a hint that her collab partner is learning English (which is still a lot of members) before revealing that it's none other than Korone, who is historically known for being a Shrinking Violet and reserving most of her 1-on-1 collabs for Okayu.
  • While the fandom somewhat acknowledges their friendship based on Twitter and stream chat interactions, nobody had expected that HoloEN's Gura would show up on Shion's 2020 birthday stream, even sending her a short celebratory video message that she had made and translated herself.
  • Roberu's Christmas stream featured him accepting calls, while most people who called were expected (e.g: Other Holostars, and Hololive girls who frequently collab with them such as Fubuki or Matsuri), many (including Roberu) were surprised when Yuki Ono showed up. An even bigger shock came later on when Tokino Sora of all people called up which caught even more people off guard.
  • In the 9th of February in 2021, Ollie hosted an Apex practice stream. It started as a regular Apex stream with her training her skills on the game, until Astel showed up in the middle of it and the stream suddenly turned into an Apex guerilla collab. It's worth mentioning that this was also Ollie's first collab with a member of the Holostars and Astel's first 1-on-1 collab with a Hololive girl.
  • In late-March 2021, Rikka held a 3D live concert to celebrate 100k subscribers. Halfway through, he debuts his new original song "Spiral Tones" a duet song between him and Mori Calliope, not only marking the first collab between holoEN and holostars, but also the first duet original between a hololive and holostars member. ^note  Rikka/Matsuri and Oga/Risu have done duets before and Astel/Ollie uploaded a duet the same month but those are all cover songs
  • On April 4th, 2021, Calliope hosted her first birthday call-in stream. While it was an open call that anyone could join, she mentions that she specifically invited everyone she collaborated with by that point ^note holo -Myth-, Korone, Watame, Rikka, Ollie, Reine to come and greet her. Everyone who called in was expected and no one outside of that list appeared until A-chan joined two-thirds through the stream, surprising Calli and the deadbeats with her unexpected appearance and fluent English.
• Unnecessary Makeover: Some fans aren't too keen on Arurandeisu's Younger and Hipper version and preferred him as a Silver Fox. While Vesper's 2.0 redesign was well received for its level of detail, there were quite a few fans who preferred his 1.0 design due to it being much more vampire-like, with goth fashion, Undeathly Pallor, and more obviously pointed ears.
• Values Dissonance:
  • Some of the cultural aspects surrounding hololive can confuse non-Japanese fans, especially newer ones.
    • Towa's Yoko Oh No moment on a now-deleted Apex Legends stream ^note She left her mic open during some voice chat and her teammates were revealed to be male. She clumsily tried to cover up by claiming they were Hololive staff, which only made things worse. can seem incredibly petty for people not familiar with the Idol Singer subculture, the Otaku who often follow it, and the expectation for Contractual Purity for these idols. This is because in Japan, idols are essentially characters, so having an idol potentially have a significant other in their life is seen as breaking the illusion of the idol being a pure and idealized character, and since idols are essentially a commercialized form of entertainment, Otaku who become invested in it consider it Serious Business. For western viewers, this kind of thinking is seen as out of place, since while the idols are supposed to be characters, the person voicing them is still a person, and are seen more so as streamer personalities rather than some kind of idealized character. Calli once had to discuss this when someone sent a Superchat telling her she shouldn't associate herself with Trash Taste, at which point she called out the Superchat for telling her what she could, and could not, do.
    • Talking about a talent's past streamer personas and/or the voice actors is guaranteed to spark a debate wherever it happens, even for people who otherwise have no ill intent. This largely stems from streaming culture in Japan (particularly on Nico Nico Douga), where privacy is valued more by their streamers compared to Western ones, to the point where full face masks are a common sight even with streamers who regularly appear on camera. The difference is more obvious with the English branch, who are pretty nonchalant about their past personas off-stream, with some of them even still following their old accounts on Twitter. Calli in particular finds "you're about to accidentally dox yourself" chat comments well-intentioned, but needlessly distressing, and she flat out states "most of you already know what I look like in real life anyway". The amount of backlash in associating who used to be who largely depends on who's the topic of discussion, with opinions running the gamut between "It's basically doxxing, respect their privacy" to "it's public information, so it should be shared around". One thing's for certain on all sides of the debate, though — bringing any of this up in the middle of a talent's stream is considered very rude.
    • hololive's talent tends to be wary of parodied content, to a degree that might seem like overreacting to Western viewers. The most obvious example is The Henry Stickmin Collection - every playthrough of the Steam version by HoloJP members had the streamer asking "Is this okay?" repeatedly at the game's myriad parodies. This is mostly because Japanese law doesn't have "fair use" provisions in the same way American law does, only considering copies of copyrighted content "fair use" for private and/or academic purposes.
    • Building more on the JP Idol culture's reaction to male/female interactions we can see this pretty heavily in the way the JP fans and talents treat Holostars compared to EN and ID. While Cover Corp has no restriction on male/female interaction, there is virtually no interaction between Hololive JP and Holostars outside of special events, and the Hololive JP talents that do are a minority^{The talents in question}Sora, Fubuki, Matsuri, Roboco, Subaru, Suisei, Choco, Towa, Polka, Mel, La+, Akirose, Ayame, Lui, and the ReGLOSS members. EN fares somewhat better, with a higher proportion of talents interacting with the Stars, but still remaining a minority to those who do not (with some who won't so much as acknowledge them) — a matter complicated by occasional Flame Wars & related pushbacks from trolls and particularly rabid fans. All of the ID girls by complete contrast with both, have been frequently collaborating with the boys since the beginning of the branch with almost zero complaints. The very few times someone tries to make a stink out of it they are mercilessly mocked by both the talents and the fanbase. That said things are slowly changing with the JP branch, with more and more collabs happening everyday as hardcore idol culture is beginning to be looked down on as toxic, not to mention Stars themselves growing more and more popular.
  • Fubuki's furry self-portrait on the hololive subreddit drew some concern from some of its regular posters, as they've noticed people accusing Fubuki of being on the "overtly sexual" side of the Furry Fandom (especially after getting featured on Reddit's front page), despite her related Tweet insisting otherwise by explicitly separating "furry" and "ero-furry". This is mainly due to the American furry community getting extremely bad press in the late 90’s and the first couple decades of the 2000’s, with news coverage of them usually stating that there was no difference between the furry and ero-furry communities, even accusing the furry community of widespread orgies (yes, for real). Getting accused of (or worse proof of) being a furry was a death knell to your social life. Only recently has this view started to weaken somewhat.
• Viewer Gender Confusion:
  • Given her Bifauxnen looks, one could be forgiven for thinking Ao was a member of Holostars.
  • Due to his cute appearance and ability to put on a female voice, there have been instances of viewers mistaking Miyabi for a girl in his own chat, much to his amusement and occasional frustration.
  • Hakka's androgynous appearance and wide vocal range has lead a few to mistake him for female.
  • Former Holostars, Kira and Kaoru, have very feminine looks which can make others mistook them as Hololive members. Though Kaoru can easily debunk this given how low his voice is. Meanwhile, Kira has a higher voice pitch which adds more confusion.
  • Rio isn't much more androgynous than his fellow Holostars members but his voice could make anyone confused him as a girl. Even the other members thought he was a girl when they first met him but they clarified several times to the viewers that Rio is a guy.
• Viewer Pronunciation Confusion:
  • Calliope's name is pronounced "kuh-LYE-uh-pee" in English, but the way her name is written in Japanese - かりおぺ - makes the pronunciation "KAH-ree-oh-peh". Thankfully, she also answers to "Calli". Ollie pronounces her as "Cal-lee-O-pee", likely unaware of how it's supposed to be pronounced.
  • Initially, Gura caused some pronunciation confusion as she tended to pronounce her own name inconsistently, sometimes pronouncing it with a hard English "R" (pronounced "goo-rah"), sometimes with a softer Japanese "R" (which feels like a soft "D" when spoken, pronounced similar to "goo-dah"). The fact that the name gura itself comes from Latin did little to alleviate things for a while. After many years, she and others have consistently settled on pronouncing it the Japanese route.
  • Hakos Baelz's name is rather unusual: Baelz is mean to be said like "bells", but because of her preferred nickname of Bae (pronounced as "bay") and most people calling her that for much of her career, viewers and even other talents, often misinterpret the pronunciation as "Bae-lz". This even led Bae to briefly contemplates changing the official pronunciation to match what everyone else was saying.
• Viewer Species Confusion:
  • Fubuki Shirakami is frequently mistaken for a cat, since she meows in reaction to a lot of things. Also, her 2D model is very rarely shown from the waist down, which obscures her fox tail.
  • Polka Omaru is often confused for a rabbit due to her big, long ears. She's a fennec fox, a subspecies of fox known for their large ears.
  • Koyori Hakui also experiences this kind of problem, with her even clarifying that she is a coyote, not a cat or a fox.
• Vindicated by History:
  • When hololive first began, it was seen as a neat but minor and not super popular group, in large part because while its idol focus appealed to the Japanese fanbases, its popularity was dwarfed by other idol groups and people like Kizuna Ai. Flashfoward to 2019, and Hololive has become incredibly popular thanks to its colorful cast of characters, tight-knit community, and the amount of dedicated fan translators to spread the word about the group. By 2020, its become so popular that an American branch has been expressed as an interest by the creators. To put into perspective how much this trope was at play, by the end of 2020, each of the new talent brought in that year had successfully managed to catch up to older members or even surpass them within a few months.
  • Coco's "un-idol" like character as well as her tendency to speak American English meant that early expectations from the fanbase was that she wouldn't be very popular. But those very traits ended up in her becoming extremely popular across a burgeoning worldwide fanbase and becoming one of the fastest growing channels in the group to the point where she became hololive's most Superchatted member, and indeed the most Superchatted youtuber globally.
  • Sakura Miko was originally scouted by YAGOO himself to star in the Sakura Miko Project under Cover Corp to be their direct Kizuna AI competitor in August of 2018. It flopped and she was sent to hololive in a sort of soft-reboot, debuting right as GAMERS was debuting while also not being part of it, which left her in a very awkward spot and unable to get any real traction, being the least subbed hololive vtuber during most of the early days. She even thought about quitting, but Mio and Subaru convinced her to keep going. Then one day, out of a fan suggestion, she decided to play Grand Theft Auto V, went viral, and ended up not only revitalizing her VTubing career outright, but also by her own admission, it gave her a huge confidence boost when she was struggling to grow and planted the first seed to what would later become hololive's big boom in the west. All of this would eventually lead to her being the first hololive member from the 0th Gen to reach the 1 million subs.
• Watch It for the Meme: Most people who get into watching hololive content likely did so because of the group's wackier personalities (e.g. Matsuri or Korone) rather than anything actually idol-related. It speaks volumes when the more dedicated to "singing and dancing" idols of the group like Sora and especially AZKi get relatively fewer fan clips than the others. EN members', especially Gura, rapid popularity growth is mostly attributed to various memes about them.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?:
  • One of the Haachama Cooking videos, BITCH MADE PASTA, was, for some reason, flagged by the YouTube algorithm as being children's content.
  • Coco's Old MacDonald cover was also marked for kids by YouTube, but it's actually a Subverted Kids' Show; several of the verses include Miko saying FAQ and Coco Kaine also saying nothing but swear words.
  • The Friday Night Funkin' Game Mod HoloFunk has garnered enough sustained attention from those unfamiliar with hololive itself to the point that the idols featured in the mod have seen use in animation channels clearly meant for younger Western viewers. Never mind the fact that by the time HoloFunk ^note Itself featuring explicit language and implications of Asacoco use, both courtesy of Coco hit its peak in popularity, hololive had amassed heaps of moments that are decidedly not for a young audience.
  • As Goldbullet pointed out while streaming the visual novel, Doppelganger is inexplicably labelled with an ESRB E10+ rating on Steam, despite being laden with Content Warnings (including ones for cannibalism.)
• What the Hell, Costuming Department?: Some of the outfit variations for individual members have gotten some confused reactions by fans.
  • AZKi's second outfit, while bringing her hair style closer to what it is until late 2022, has been questioned for making her dress from head to toe in rubber, which her first and third outfits notably lack.
  • Subaru's casual outfit isn't considered bad-looking, but it's considered a bit puzzling due to downplaying her Tomboy style that her default outfit and School Uniform-style outfit make much more present.
  • The pink hair on Rushia's Necromancer Princess outfit is considered cute, but rather inconsistent when considering how all of her other outfits give her green hair.
  • Kiara and Gura's casual outfits both give them distinct cat motifs. While Kiara is more downplayed due to establishing herself as changing from a phoenix to a cat, Gura is more perplexing since she still retains the shark motif alongside it.
• Woolseyism: While certain liberties with translations are to be expected from fan clippers, the official Hololive youtube channel will go through the effort of translating their animated shorts into several languages, and are not afraid to take some liberties in order to make the same joke in different cultures and reference that particular language audience's in-jokes in the context of the shorts.

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