- Colbert Bump:
- English speakers eventually started to notice Kizuna Ai thanks to the various collaborations that she had with The Anime Man.
- Some mobile video games collaborate with Kizuna Ai either via sponsored videos, in-game playable cameos, or both in the hopes of having her fans try out said games.
- Creator Backlash: During her Let's Play walkthrough for The Evil Within 2, she discusses the "FAKKYU" meme when she briefly compares the game to Resident Evil 7. Needless to say, Kizuna Ai expressed a sense of regret that many fans now remember her for that scene, and even some of her concerned Japanese fans explained the meaning of the phrase and advised her not to use the phrase again. Quite Subverted when she says "FAKKYU" again in Resident Evil 2 (Remake) after imitating Claire Redfield, while the phrase is now associated with her Guest Fighter cameo in Azur Lane as a form of Meme Acknowledgement.
- Follow the Leader:
- Being the Trope Codifier, Kizuna Ai's success kicked off a whole slew of other "Virtual YouTuber" channels like Dennou Shoujo Youtuber Shiro
, Mirai Akari Project, Kaguya Luna, and even SNK's Athena Asamiya, and Super Sonico, amongst others. - As her format is similar to other real-life Let's Play YouTubers, Ai-chan is also a fan of PewDiePie. When she made a cover of his Hej Monika, Felix reacted to it positively. And thus, she expressed her desire of doing a collab with him in the future as stated in this video, while also acknowledging PewDiePie's status as "world-famous".
- Going in the other direction, the success of large VTuber groups like hololive, Nijisanji, Game Club Project and many others prompted a change in format to the channel by introducing Kizuna Ai clones voiced by different voice actresses (and, in the Chinese channel's case, a different language entirely). However, the unfavored changes have just pushed fans towards the other trend.
- Being the Trope Codifier, Kizuna Ai's success kicked off a whole slew of other "Virtual YouTuber" channels like Dennou Shoujo Youtuber Shiro
- Meme Acknowledgement:
- Her official Nendoroid figure has her "Install face" as one of her swappable faces.
- She discusses and recreates the "fuck you" scene in this video.
- The Azur Lane collab references the "Fuck you" scene in a few ways, though censored to a "Fakkyu" (not that it fools anyone): Original Kizuna Ai will say it at her lowest affection level, Elegant Kizuna Ai'll replicate the outburst while rage quitting a game in her idle dorm animation, while Saratoga's cosplay of Elegant Kizuna Ai will directly reference said "Fuck you" scene in her lowest affection level. Finally, there are also equipment skins that turn your battleship shells and bombs into the word (so you can fire literal precision F strikes and drop literal F bombs).
- Milestone Celebration: Reached 1,000,000 subscribers on her main channel as of December 18, 2017.
- Official Fan-Submitted Content: Nicknames for the yellow asterisk hairclip Ai and blue number sign hairclip Ai were decided upon through a fan vote (Ai-pii and Love-chan, respectively).
- Reclusive Artist: The whole gimmick is that Kizuna Ai is supposedly an artificial intelligence that makes vlogs, skits and Let's Play videos in order to connect with humans, so the existence and identities of the humans behind it are kept secret to maintain the illusion. On 24 April 2020, it's officially confirmed that Nozomi Kasuga is the original voice for Ai-chan, and she's now on advisory role for the new Kizuna AI Co., Ltd. However, Kasuga asked her fans to not conflate her and her career with Kizuna Ai.
- Referenced by...: Kuukiyomi 3 has an Affectionate Parody of Ai called "Z. Z." who humorously turns out to be a Guy In Real Life. Z. Z. even uses "Hai domo!" as her opening catchphrase.
- The Other Darrin:
- The addition of Kizuna Ai's "clones" also brought in new voice actresses to play the role, and from late July 2019 onwards, become more prominent in the channels, although the original voice actress for Kizuna remains in the music videos.
- Ai sounded like Luna and vice-versa in their respective April Fool's videos, and only those videos.
- In the English dub of Ingress, Ai-chan's brief cameo was played by Cristina Vee. This happened with dubs in other languages as well.
- Word of God:
- In order to address the massive speculation of whether or not Kizuna's original voice actress has been permanently replaced from her channels, activ8 released an official announcement on mid-2019, stating that the original voice actress is not retired, but had less activity and focused mostly on music video production.
- On April 24 2020, it was confirmed that Nozomi Kasuga is the original voice actress when she announces that she's going to start a new company solely about Kizuna AI with herself in advisory role.
- In order to address the massive speculation of whether or not Kizuna's original voice actress has been permanently replaced from her channels, activ8 released an official announcement
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