Page listing memes associated with hololive members. For recurring jokes that were created intentionally by hololive member(s) without direct involvement from the viewers, see RunningGag/hololive.
See also Ascended Meme.hololive for the impact memes have on the creation of hololive content.
Memes across all branches
- Teetee (てぇてぇ) ExplanationA variation of the word 尊い (toutoi, lit. "precious", common in Japanese circles beforehand) slurred with Goku's accent, originating in the Nijisanji fandom. Pronounced "teh-teh". Chat is bound to spam this when any of the hololive girls are being affectionate to each other on stream or really whenever anything wholesome is happening.
- くしゃみ助かる (Thanks for the sneeze) Explanationhololive's fanbase has an obsession with its members sneezing, as it's cute most of the time (excluding Korone, whose sneeze is best described as "explosive"). This spreads to other VTuber channels, to the point where one fan channel consists solely of VTuber sneezing compilations.
- I forgot they're supposed to be idols. ExplanationPhrases like these are a common response to hololive's musical content, at least from the English fandom that knows hololive more for their Let's Play content and clippable antics than for their original music.
- "hololive is an idol group." ExplanationA memorable interview quote uttered by hololive CEO Motoaki "YAGOO" Tanigo, where he continues to claim hololive is an idol group despite the fact that musical content only makes up a smidgen of their total air time even on their main channel, as well as their very questionable behavior. At least one of these "idols", Coco, rarely sings at all if she can help it, claiming that her singing is horrible and possibly offensive.
- YAGOO: "We run an idol group similar to AKB48." Reality: An idol group similar to AK-47. ExplanationA reference to an actual statement YAGOO made, often used when talking about how many of the girls started off with stereotypical idol personalities, only to fairly rapidly lose them.
- "Cover Corp is a 2D cutting-edge entertainment company." ExplanationQuoted verbatim from "Hello everyone!", a brief description of hololive from YAGOO himself. Fans jokingly interpreted this as YAGOO officially giving up on managing his own Idol Singer unit, although there was already sentiments from staff members that hololive's been an "entertainment company" long before this video.
- YAGOO's Blood Pressure/YAGOO in the ICU/YAGOO's dream is dead ExplanationDue to the sheer volume, frequency, and the depths of un-idol like behavior most of the "idol group" engages in (special mention to Coco), fans oftentimes joke that CEO Motoaki "YAGOO" Tanigou's health is in constant danger because of the stress, the PR nightmares, and the inevitable YouTube bans this causes. Other fans simply like to joke that his dream of running an idol group is dead.
- YAGOO wiping his tears with his giant pile of Superchat money ExplanationAs an alternative to the above, it is often joked that rather than being in the hospital due the antics of the girls, YAGOO is constantly trying to console himself with the fact that the death of his "Idol Dream" resulted in him becoming extremely wealthy.
- YAGOO is best girl ExplanationFans will say this as both a way of poking fun at him as well as a serious acknowledgement of the work he's done. In the case of the former, it's an ironic statement to utter when engaging in "best girl" arguments. In the latter, it's due to the amount of appreciation many of the talent have for him for the work he's done trying to fulfill their dreams as content creators. Fans also use the meme as a way to defuse the potentially vitriolic debates among themselves on who may or may not be the "best" in hololive. Ascended by Polka in her debut stream ("YAGOO cute! YAGOO is best girl! ... Okay? Okay? Yeah!"), the phrase has also been associated with her individually on account of her seemingly close relationship with Cover's CEO.
- [X] years old season [Y] ExplanationFor some members, such as Marine and Suisei, they will make it a point to say that they’re eternally X years old (17 for Marine, 18 for Suisei), despite the fact that people normally become a year older each birthday. Fans will often call it “X years old, season Y”, with Y being how many birthdays they have had since joining hololive + 1. This meme also occurs outside of hololive as there are other Vtubers, whether they’re in a big-named company or independent, doing the same thing.
- Zen-loss (全ロス) ExplanationOriginating from the phrase "アイテム全ロス" (lost all items), this is a term used to denote a vtuber suffering a total loss, whether it is losing all items in Minecraft, in other games, or even losing everything in a metaphorical sense, such as progress. While this term can be applied to any vtuber, it has the closest association with Miko and her horrible track record with handling lava and dying to it, losing her entire inventory whenever it happens.
- Desk-kun -10 HP ExplanationThe hololivers, when irritated, engage in Percussive Therapy by slamming their desks, and subtitlers list it as the desk losing HP or getting knocked out. While it applies for many of them, Towa has the closest associations with this — she has even acknowledged it as a means to summon her overseas fans. Conversely, Lamy doesn't engage in desk slamming, and when asked to she gently drums it, which fans interpret as "desk-kun getting healed." On the other end of the spectrum is Amelia Watson, who tends to assault her desk especially violently when she's getting salty, and thus tends to get -50 HP and even -100 HP comments instead. Others don't even harm it in anger; some of the most grievous desk damage was caused by Calliope trying to open a bottle without an opener.
- YouTube-kun ExplanationMade particularly famous by Mel's 2020 return stream that infamously got banned by YouTube's algorithm a mere 10 minutes after starting. Since then, several of the cast and the fandom began personifying YouTube as a hormonal teenager (the site's 15 years old at the time) who bans streams when he gets too flustered for one reason or another, and teasing the site for it. Coincidentally, this meme is also used by VTubers outside hololive, like with Nijisanji's Tsukino Mito.
- Superchat Time/スーパーチャットターイム ExplanationOn YouTube, highlighted messages called Superchats are the primary way of supporting hololive talent. During a meme review stream, Coco pointed out how this punchline on a surreal image featuring a frog didn't make a whole lot of sense and that she didn't know what "Superchat Time" was. Since then many donations that get made to any member will have this as their message, signifying it's time to send money or for when the streamer is starting a segment to read them.
- Superchasito Time ExplanationAn even poorer translation of the above terms, since the シ and ッ characters look incredibly similar.
- Japanglish ExplanationDue to the growing overseas audience, a lot of Western fans don't know a lot of Japanese but try to communicate anyway using a hodgepodge of both Japanese and English, such as "gomennasorry" or "yametekudastop." Many of the members discovered this on their own and think it's really funny, encouraging their viewers to use it more often. Its use grew after Coco's weekend Reddit meme reviews, especially after she expressed her frustration at machine-translated memes.
- "X is my new Oshi"ExplanationOften when a streamer shows off a new character as part of their lore, or an NPC in a game shows up onscreen, chat will declare this character their "new oshi" to annoy the streamer
- One baba, or two Shions ExplanationUnique units of time, determined by how long someone has overslept by. In Japanese culture, it is considered incredibly rude to be late for anything, and so punctuality is highly valued. Early on in her career, Shion notoriously overslept for a stream by 2 hours, and so "one Shion" is used to denote that unit of time. Later, in reference to the "Granny Wake-Up RTA" that Fubuki had held, both Shion and Marine had overslept for their stream by 4 hours, noted by the Japanese word for old woman, "baba." Other performers have also been guilty of egregious oversleeping, and will sometimes have units of time named after them as well.
- Shishiro Button ExplanationWhenever one of the performers does an English-only stream or speaks in English, it tends to be heavily accented; this comes into play whenever they try to say the word "button" when referring to either a controller button or an in-game prompt, and they end up pronouncing it in a way similar to the name of 5th generation member Botan. If it's a collaborative stream, expect someone to reference Botan as the button. Somewhat understandable, as the japanese term for Button, ボタン, is homonymic with Botan's name.
- o7 ExplanationThe emoticon for saluting. The chat will often give this to show their respect for an idol. In the wake of Coco Kiryu announcing her graduation, Hololive fans in general spammed o7 in every other idol's streams whether it was contextually appropriate or not. This has also extended to Tsukumo Sana after she graduated as well.
- Due to their similar appearances and personalities, many have started joking that Amelia and Haachama are siblings, especially following their Minecraft collab.
- With the reveal of hololive Indonesia's Second Generation, people have started making jokes about how Rushia is responsible for creating Kureiji Ollie.
- Similarly, people have started making jokes about Calli trying to kill her/stop Rushia from resurrecting her.
- Following her declaring that, since she died at the age of 17, she's eternally 17, people have begun making jokes about Marine, who also claims to be eternally 17, wanting to know how Ollie managed it.
- Do you like pineapple pizza? ExplanationSimilar to asking the talents' hands in marriage, fans like to ask and compile the responses to how members of hololive feel about pineapple toppings on pizza, with a "pizza war" breaking out regardless of how they respond.
- "Unarchived" Karaoke ExplanationTo avoid being copyright struck, the vast majority of karaoke streams they do aren't saved. However, there are many fan channels who specialize in recording the streams and uploading the various songs, leading many to joke about how most of the "unarchived" streams will end up unofficially archived.
- Ina being summoned to Australia/wherever Haachama is during Haachama cooking ExplanationDue to Haachama's reputation as the Cordon Bleugh Chef, many have joked that her cooking is so bad that it can accidentally summon Ina.
- "It just works." Explanation So far, all 3 HoloEN members with 1 million subs reached their milestones playing an Elder Scrolls game. (Gura hitting 2M and Calli hitting 1M playing Skyrim, Amelia hitting 1M playing Oblivion).
- Forbidden Knowledge ExplanationSometime late January 2021, YouTube's recommendations algorithm started pairing videos of real life people with hololive content, presumably revealing the voice actresses behind some of hololive's characters. Part of it is purely accidental, while another part of it is fledgling English channels engaging in Clickbait Gag titles like "X person is the real Y VTuber" for a quick buck or shock value. Some people who are on the "it's doxxing" side of the past personas debate, especially on /r/hololive reacted with Bile Fascination, calling these videos "forbidden knowledge" and calling for their deletion as it contradicts their usual arguments, but nevertheless are unable to peel their eyes away from said videos. "Forbidden knowledge of past lives" is a variation, occasionally found in the comment section for some Hololive videos, usually prefacing comments containing subtle nods and jokes in regards to the streamers' earlier body of work. Inversely, comments on videos about a talent's past content, or even pre-hololive content uploaded by the talent themselves will usually contain subtle references to their streams as a member of hololive.
- Ada TV ExplanationThe auto-generated subtitles for the holoID song "id:entity voices" mistake the final word of the chorus as "ada TV" (TL: there is a TV) instead of "id:entity". The Indonesian fans picked up on it and turned it into a local meme — expect to see it in chat whenever any of the ID girls sing this song.
- id:entity Pamomi ver. ExplanationA clipper known as "Pamomi ch." made a fan edit to the song, claiming "id:entity" is similar to the infamous Rickroll. It gained views faster than the original song, and the ID girls are also aware of the clip (with Ollie being the very first person to comment on the video). Now every time the song is sung or brought up, somebody will either ask if it is, or for them to sing, the Pamomi version.
- V-Tuber Legs ExplanationDuring Amelia Watson's premiere episode of ''Fish Tank'' with Gawr Gura, the former showed off two pairs of legs (matching both girls' designs) relaxing on the table they were sitting behind, giving the illusion that the avatars were actually resting their legs on the table. This would later catch on as fans would make custom legs for Calliope Mori and Takanashi Kiara before members of the Japanese branch would get their "legs" made by their fans. Polka and Miko would make their own legs from their 3D models. Eventually vtubers outside of hololive, such as EN indies and members of VShojo would get their own "legs" design.
- Blue Wave ExplanationWhenever one of the idols needs to go on a restroom break, their fans will send waves of blue (lowest denomination) superchats and/or wave emojis.
- Congratulations for [X] subs! Again... ExplanationUpon hitting a subscriber milestone, some idols notice a bit of a drop in numbers around it. It has notably happened to Suisei, Flare and Pekora, with the former even making a joke video about it..
- The EN Curse ExplanationThe HoloMyth girls are so notoriously prone to technical difficulties that viewers have begun expecting them, jokingly claiming that they're cursed and bringing up the "EN Curse" whenever something does go wrong in a collaboration with the other branches. This would continue past EN Gen 1 when IRyS's Twitter Account got quickly restricted shortly after her announcement due to the massive increase in followers in a short amount of time, the start of her debut was riddled with audible clicking, an otherwise muted microphone and multiple loading screens, and her OBS didn't quite respond to her near the ending. The Twitter restrictions would continue with the opening of Holo Council (EN Gen 2) and all five members getting their accounts hidden almost instantly. Then on the day Holo Council were meant to debut, technical issues resulted in a delay of 24 hours. Even Sana called out the curse.
- Twitter Jail ExplanationReferring to new Holo members getting their Twitter accounts suspended before debut, whether due to putting their birth year as the current year (Shien, Aloe) or the automated systems mistaking their large influx of followers for botting and other suspicious behavior (IRyS, Kronii, Mumei, Koyori).
- PRAY TO THE [X] ExplanationThe thumbnail for the first teaser video leading up to Holo Council's reveal was a cube, and chat being what it is, they started going "PRAY TO THE CUBE" in the run-up to the video airing. The thumbnail for the second video was an orb, resulting in "PRAY TO THE ORB", while the one for the third video, the actual reveal, was a bit harder to decipher, resulting in either "PRAY TO THE TANK" or "PRAY TO THE ROCK". Years later, the Advent reveal video, which had a newspaper as its thumbnail, had chat spamming "PRAY TO THE NEWSPAPER". This meme will likely continue in subsequent Hololive English generation reveals.
- JP Lore vs. EN Lore ExplanationWith the introduction of HoloEN, there have been numerous comparisons between the depths of the English branch's backstories to the backstories of the Japanese branch. While this meme was very minor during the debut of holoMyth, it blew up once again with the introduction of holoCouncil, who had three videos dedicated to their introduction and being practically divine avatars of nature and metaphysics. They are typically compared with the early members of the Japanese branch who started out with incredibly plain backstories.
- YAGOO Not Included ExplanationEver since he first displayed Ebifrion for a merchandise reveal tweet, YAGOO has become the model for all of the new Hololive merchandise announcements. With every new such post, many fans will jokingly ask if YAGOO is included or if he will release his own merchandise and will feign disappointment with the inevitable answer.
- Color Failure YAGOO ExplanationThe most common YAGOO meme is him hunched over depressed and colored gray. This has been used by reddit memers and English Council has used the image during their council meetings.
- Ketsu Drum ExplanationLiterally meaning "butt drum". Refers to a fan-made animation by Twitter artist @IglooDUDA, which was uploaded on September 20th, 2020. The short clip consists of Kanata standing bent over, with Coco coming up from behind and slapping her butt to the opening claps of "Undercover Martyn" by Two Door Cinema Club, to the tune of which they would start dancing. Its popularity quickly spawned clones and MMD edits of the clip with different characters being inserted to replace Kanata and Coco, both from within hololive itself and other anime and manga.
- Ring Fit Adventure ExplanationThis exercise game for the Nintendo Switch is a veritable Fountain of Memes among hololive's many fanbases due to the sheer amount of hijinks associated with it. Because of the game's emphasis on physical exercises, RFA is a source of "yabai" noises for a great many members as it causes them to exert themselves, as well as accidental age and/or weight revelations that they might be embarassed about.
- [X] Funds ExplanationShould any of the talent give the slightest hint that they may need a new piece of equipment or want a new bit of luxury, the chat can and will proceed to drown them in superchat money. Often times, they don't even need an excuse as they would just do so because they enjoy both supporting the talent and seeing them flustered.
- Yes My [X] ExplanationAfter La+ asked her fans to respond to her saying "Heed my call" with "Yes My Dark" in her debut stream, every streamer started receiving Snowcloned versions of this line — for example, "Yes My Baby" for Miko, which she disliked, and "Yes My Sheep" for Watame, which she absolutely loved. Aki has two, due to a stream where she and Miko tried their hands at "heed my Call": "Yes My Rose" and "Yes My Cute Aki" or YMCA Note that "Yes My Doggo", which has the same initialism as La+'s, significantly predates the trend.
- Clean your badges ExplanationNearly all of hololive played Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl upon their release, which has the ability to shine your badges (since it's a remake of the first games on a system with a touchscreen. This requires playing the game in handheld mode however, whereas streamers need to have their Switches docked in order to connect a capture card. Expect chat to pester everyone about their dirty badges.
- Meme Form holoBirds ExplanationIt's extremely common for fans to mislabel the bird-themed streamers as the wrong type of bird to provoke an I Am Not Weasel response. It started with Subaru who wasn't even a duck in the first place until she was officially memed into being one after comparisons to her voice and Donald Duck's. After that was Kiara whose pre-debut bio contained some Insistent Terminology about being a phoenix and not a chicken while having several references to fried chicken baked in which led to her and her fans diving headfirst into the trope. From there, it's been tradition to find a silly bird alternative for the new bird members. The only exception so far has been Mumei out of a combination of her immediately accepting being called a kiwi, thus starving off further attempts from not giving a teased reaction, and from her Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant behavior leaving a very strong impression after people initially only thought of her as The Cutie. Other "originally not even a bird" examples include Kronii (a Physical Goddess, but her name and her iconic distressed "gwak" bring to mind crows) and Kaela (a blacksmith, but her black and white outfit is similar to a penguin's coloration, and her last name brings to mind one of The Penguins of Madagascar.)
- This is not by any means exclusive to birds, either. Misidentifying Fubuki, an arctic fox, as a cat is so common it was ascended in a holoGra skit, and more recently, ID G3's Vestia Zeta was repeatedly called a cat, including by her own genmates (among which Reine, eager for revenge after being repeatedly called a turkey).
- Ryan Gosling references, pictures & memes are very common on 4chan's virtual youtuber board.ExplanationIt's common for posters to talk about "goslings" whenever a talent is being particularly cute or doing what might be termed a "girlfriend experience" such as singing romantic songs on stream. Also, editing the Gosling memes that sprung up from Blade Runner 2049 to involve Hololive specific references. Examples include replacing Gosling with a skull for Mori (or giving Gosling a cowboy hat), using the head of Irys' Stick Figure Animation boyfriend from her Valentine's Unarchived Karaoke's stream, or replacing JOI with whichever Holo member, something that Watson turned into an Ascended Meme at the end of her watchalong of the film.
- HoloMoms ExplanationOccasionally, some of the talents would feature their mothers as a guest in a "collab" stream where they can interact with their children's audiences and be ascribed their own nicknames such as Pekomama or Mamatori. As it happens, the moms often prove to be wildly popular Cool Old Ladies, which usually prompt the fanbase to joke that Cover should hire them on as their own "generation" of sorts.
- "Is your mom single?" ExplanationInevitably asked about the talent's mother, even though it gets inevitably shot down without fail. May also be targeted at other family members when they get brought up, or even non-humans like pets or items
- "Is X single?"ExplanationRelated to the above, the "is your mom single?" joke later expanded to any person in the talent's immediate vicinty getting asked about their relationship status. Sometimes it's not even limited to humans with pets and even belongings getting hit with that same question"
- Stories of the antics from the more obsessive fans get passed around mainly because they cause the reader to wish they could forget those stories. It's likely some of these are made up.
- "Let's pretend I'm still Pekora"ExplanationModified copypasta where the author crossdresses as Pekora to prank his friend who's a big fan of hers, but the prank goes a little too far and they end up having sex, written in uncomfortable detail.
- SuipissExplanationA fan of Suisei modifies their diet to match Suisei's so that their piss would match hers.
- Pekotulpa ExplanationA fan of Pekora tries overdosing on their medication while watching her streams to get themselves to vividly hallucinate Pekora, leaving detailed updates of their progress on 4chan. They overdo it and instead delude themselves into being Pekora.
- "New viewer here, who should I watch?"ExplanationOnce in a while, a chat member will ask for a recommendation of who to watch. Other than La+, who was honest and recommended Towa, the question's been answered with "Why not me?" with some mix of uncomfortable close-ups, Deadpan Snarking, and incredulity.
- Looney VTubersExplanationPekora and Subaru's recurring prank wars in Minecraft, on top of their identities as a rabbit and duck, has led to jokes about the two being Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck respectively. This resulted in some fan animations of the two filling their roles, which soon escalated to have multiple members of hololive represent Looney Tunes characters, including Aqua as Elmer Fudd, Marine as Yosemite Sam, Botan as Pete Puma, and Watame as Road Runner.
- Let me lend my voiceExplanationAt the start of May 2023, many members of hololive started playing Idol Showdown, and when they hear their own characters' voice lines (which is often ripped from from streams), some will note the low quality in their voices and will start giving their own improvised action, pained, and KO lines on-stream for the developers to use. More often than not, the developers themselves will take note of their requests via SuperChats, and will apply them as a hotfix update.
- Eating Mike Tyson's Ass ExplanationA user with that name, who is primarily a Korone fan but has since decided to follow and donate to the other idols as well, causing some interesting reactions when they read his name out loud because of what it means. He has since become a Fandom VIP of sorts being called a legend within the Holo community
- If she has blue hair, she's crazy ExplanationFans declared as a rule if a girl has blue hair, she is more than likely to be crazy. This has been shown with Suisei who is known for her sociopathic behavior, Pekora whom fans labeled as a war criminal, and even someone like Lamy had displayed such behavior. Even with Kronii, who has blue back hair, threatens Vesper ON-STREAM to play certain cards on Uno. Even Nerissa is not immune to such behavior after killing Mococo in Minecraft, and lets out an an impressive Evil Laugh. Incidentally, Fuwawa and Mococo were playing Apex Legends with Nerissa, and Fuwawa, who has blue hues, revels in killing the opposition, which heightens this meme further, which is not too unsimilar from their "EXTREME VIOLENCE" meme. So far, Ao Hiodoshi hasn't displayed such behavior. Yet.
- HoloTori Dance ExplanationAn animation of Subaru dancing with her duck form was set to "Hey Ya" by OutKast, which was cropped into the video above that became cute and generic enough without needing context, making it prime fodder for memetic use. It became an Ascended Meme after Subaru and Kiara replicated the dance on Kiara's 3D Showcase stream, and afterwards became the official dance of the HoloTori group, containing Subaru (duck), Kiara (phoenix), Lui (hawk), Mumei (owl), and Reine (peafowl).
- ReGLOSS is Kessoku Band ExplanationWith the color schemes of Ao, Kanade and Ririka corresponding to that of Ryo, Nijika and Kita respectively, the fans began drawing parallels, extrapolating from "Aqua = Bocchi". Raden being Lady Drunk also helped line up a parallel to Kikuri.
- A-chan carrying on YAGOO's idol dream ExplanationDespite her managerial role, A-chan has demonstrated time and again that she is pretty damn good at singing, whether on Twitter Spaces, during the occasional karaoke sessions hosted on the official Hololive channel, or as of 2023, her own membership-only section. This combined with her perceived Moe qualities by the fanbase led them to collectively label her as the one "true" idol that YAGOO is keeping in the wings for some reason, and the one to keep his "idol dream" alive despite his other employees' best efforts to comically ruin it since Hololive's beginning.
- Suika Game VirusExplanationStarting from the first week of October 2023, the talents started playing Suika Game, a Japanese puzzle game for the Nintendo Switch, whose cutesy fruit aesthetic belies its shockingly fiendish difficulty. As every day passed, more and more of the talents from every branch started streaming it with hilarious frequency, leading the overall community to jokingly panic at how Hololive has been infected with the Suika Game Virus.
- Important AnnouncementExplanationA meme spawning from Cover's official announcements regarding the idols under its employ. However, as it's also typically used to announce a talent's graduation (or termination in the case of Rushia), it has since gained a very negative connotation, made worse by the language barrier for many overseas viewers, since the associated English translation only became a staple as of late 2022. As a result, it's very common to see fans having a collective freakout whenever the official Hololive account posted a thread with this label, regardless of the actual subject matter, though it also paved the way for some of the idols themselves to turn it into a joke as well to troll their audience.
- Cool blue woman is a mythExplanationA meme initially poking fun at Kronii, who was described as aloof and sadistic in her character lore but quickly turned out to be a huge goofball with perceived Moe qualities, who's exceptionally weak to horror content. This extended to Ao as well after ReGLOSS' own introduction, where her coolness quickly gave way to similar comedic antics and self-image destruction, with Suisei also being retroactively included later on due to her sharing common grounds. As such, fans have made this into a mantra for every time a new holomem is described as cool and uses a predominantly blue color palette, only to then break their own pedestals and display their gap moe for all and sundry to see.
- JDON MY SOULExplanationA meme that started in Bae-cademy when Hajime was trying to say an Australian line to Kaela, and due to her accent, the line "maccas run soon, my shout" came off as "macca zudon soon, my shout", later mutated into "make a jdon suru my soul". While the meme is primarily associated with Bae, it has since become widespread and includes all of the girls involved in the collab (Kaela, Kobo, Hajime, Miko, Nerissa), along with a few girls who weren't a part of it like Bijou and Ollie. Bae herself found the meme embarrassing and was exasperated that it began trending on Twitter.