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- Adaptation Displacement:
- Courtesy of the mod's voicebanks (plus custom ones created for the characters who lack their own by other users) being used in viral cover videos and its decent popularity, there's now a sizable portion of Friday Night Funkin' fans who recognize several of the idols who appear in the mod, particularly Aloe and Botan, without actually knowing about hololive itself.
- On the side of the mod itself, the most popular depictions of Aloe as she appears in-game is with a custom voicebank synthesized by YouTuber Blantados that uses her actual voice. This is despite the fact that the actual mod initially did not actually opt to use one itself, instead pulling from Boyfriend's voicebank. Later versions, however, do use Aloe's voice with Blantados's work.
- Awesome Art: Week 6's Art Shift brings CJ's unadulterated art style into the limelight with the help of Grand Hammer 6's animation prowess, resulting in a unique change of pace that perfectly captures the vibe of a Dating Sim. RadioactShark's background contributions are no slouch either, their designs for the Cameo Cluster being packed with color and distinctly-jagged lineart that brings the backdrop of Okayu and Aloe/Fubuki's showdown to life.
- Continuity Lockout: While it isn't impossible to enjoy the mod on its own merits, it stills feature plenty of in-jokes, songs (naturally) and others aspects that originate from hololive as a whole; not knowing about the company, its many talents, and the many references to it when playing HoloFunk can lead to a lot of questions, such as why Coco's yakuza grunts look the way they do, what's the background for each of the characters present, and everything about Haachama.
- Fandom Heresy: Speaking positively of the old story is liable to be met with strong disapproval, due to Creator Backlash and the wide variety of problems associated with it and its production.
- Fanon Welding: The proliferation of the Cover Version scene in the community has introduced several:
- Prior to the full release of the updated lore, Botan was paired with Pico as a good friend due to their similar roles love of guns. The 5.0 lore reflects this in them being old associates in the present day, but includes safeguards through an age gap (enough for Botan to be Pico's babysitter) and Pico Jumping Off the Slippery Slope as an adult to keep it from turning romantic.
- Sunday and Rushia are also friends, because of their association with metal music.
- Fanwork-Only Fans:
- Though the infamous "Pitan" (Pico/Botan) ship came about because of a joke, it ended up mushrooming into an unironic affair thanks to the game's early days causing a mild outbreak of these for Hololive, necessitating multiple attempts by the development team to try and stamp it out.
- On the side of the game itself, its presence in the FNF community by itself has had diminishing returns over time, with the most recognition it gets being derivative material like covers and cameos in other mods.
- Fridge Brilliance: The reason why Calli thought bringing a model gun and expecting it to work can be traced back to the Persona series, specifically Persona 5, which details how Your Mind Makes It Real can be invoked in The Metaverse; having a model gun would have it work exactly like one in real life. The only problem for her is while those present thought she had a gun, she isn't in The Metaverse, and Persona's just a game In-Universe.
- Growing the Beard: While the game originally simply grew up with the evolution of FNF modding, 6.0.0 marks a sudden spike in production quality by those standards — the game is now on Unity with an engine optimized for unique feats like FMV support (the first of its kind in both regards), its previous Muse Abuse-laden narrative filled with non-Hololive fanservice has been scrapped in favor of a Truer to the Text story that focuses on doing its own thing, and in general has essentially come into its own as a Hololive fangame fully unchained from FNF.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- One of the Couch Gag opening lines is "immortalized — in sprite form." While it refers to Aloe due to her sudden graduation early on leaving her with no legacy, with her role in HoloFunk effectively keeping her character alive, it would later inadvertently apply to a later talent who left hololive: Uruha Rushia. With over two years of content being wiped clean from her channel and her character terminated following violations with her contract, her presence in various fan content and the memories of the other talents and fans would be all that remains.
- Killer Scream becomes significantly less entertaining in light of Rushia and Aloe's actresses / indie personas coming into conflict with one another, with said conflict having a similar dynamic as the one depicted in the song, in October 2022. This, plus additional controversies in regards to Rushia's actress that surfaced in January 2024, has culminated in this song being slated for removal in Version 6.5.
- Heartwarming Moments: In stark contrast to how many Hololive fanworks deal with departed talents, HoloFunk breaks from the norm by moving on from their actual absences and always looking forward to a bright new future throughout all of Journey to Stardom. The result is a Lighter and Softer narrative that talks about the importance of having your own identity to rely on and valuing your friends even as you grow apart, without ever once sounding preachy.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: The game's developers have expressed an intense dislike of fanworks that incorporate the Darkness or the Corruption due to their association with content farming and low-effort edits. Then came along TEMPUS and their homeworld of Elysium, which is under attack by the Records Corruption, an infection that takes on elements of both the Darkness (as a Glitch Entity) and the Corruption (in its black-and-pink/purple coloration, as seen with Hakka's hand.) Better yet, it's implied Flayon is the person responsible for it, meaning the Records Corruption is as far as it gets from being an Outside-Context Problem, compared to the Darkness and Corruption which are judged for being left-field outside of their home media.
- Older Than They Think: Calli's first song is naturally her ending stream song "Live Again," but its also a mash-up of "Joy" from Persona 3, with some fans attributing the creation to the mod devs. The mash-up remix actually originates
from SiIvaGunner, a channel known for their "high quality rips" of game music that are actually remixes/mash-ups of different songs. - Tear Jerker: Fubuki thinking Mio, her closest companion and childhood friend, is dead at the end of Week 5. Even though she wakes up moments later, you can tell Fubuki was already ready to face the possibility by the fact that this is the only scene in the revised narrative where someone starts crying out of sorrow rather than joy without being Played for Laughs.
