YMMV / NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD

• Awesome Music: The theme song for the game, INTERNET OVERDOSE^note The music video contains a lot of flashing lights, and INTERNET YAMERO^note Contains even more flashing lights than INTERNET OVERDOSE and some horror, which made to promote the manga adaptation, are certified bangers.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: It's never outright stated, but Ame hits pretty much every single symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder, up to and including an inability to cope with rejection, suicidal ideation, a desperate desire for love and approval, and creating an Imaginary Friend as a Living Emotional Crutch.
• Fandom-Enraging Misconception: KAngel is not a VTuber, she’s just a normal streamer in Kayfabe. She only resembles a VTuber because of the game's artstyle.
• Genius Bonus: The text on the final event in the "Internet Overdose" ending is actually encrypted in Caesar Cipher. Shifting all of the text by 13 on the stream title "jrypbzr gb gur vagrearg natryf fgernz!" will result in "Welcome to the Internet Angels Stream!" while doing the same on the text on the pop-up window, "Abj, fur vf gehyl unccl", yields "Now, she is truly happy".
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In-Universe — the implied reveal that P-chan isn’t real makes a lot of the dialogue options really depressing as they are all Ame talking to herself… including the ones that make her feel unloved.
  • One of the endings features KAngel's issues coming to a head and manifesting as delusions of religious grandeur. This became very uncomfortable after August 2022, when YouTuber and internet personality Gabbie Hanna had a very similar breakdown live on TikTok over the course of several days.
• Jerkass Woobie: Ame. She may be a rather sour, pessimistic and crude woman who wants to become a streamer solely for the attention, but she’s clearly struggling with mental illness, substance abuse and a massive inferiority complex stemming from extreme Parental Neglect (to the point that her mother tried to sell her into prostitution) and bullying, which all can (and in certain cases will) ultimately end up causing her downfall. The poor girl just wants someone to love her unconditionally, and it’s clear that she’s pretty desperate by this point.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "I can fix her."^Explanation The player-perspective version of I Can Change My Beloved is a notion echoed through Steam reviews and a motivator for most players to find a "good ending" in the game. And as many will find out, no, there's no fixing Ame. This was later even used on games with similar scenarios such as Milk Outside A Bag Of Milk Outside A Bag Of Milk.
    • “I can make her worse.” ^Explanation An alternate response to the above.
  • She's just like me fr fr ^Explanation The game portrays Ame's mental illness and psychosis very realistically, which leads people to joke about how relatable she is.
  • Needy Streamer Iono.^Explanation Comparisons have been drawn between Gym Leader Iono and KAngel due to them both being streamers with very similar appearances and even hair colors.
  • The dance from Internet Yamero, the game's second music video, has been often-replicated both in real life and with characters from other fictional works, usually completely divorced from the original horrific context.
• Misaimed Fandom: The Internet Yamero song, much like the game itself, portrays the dangers of internet addiction through horrific imagery and dark lyrics, yet the dance from the video has become a meme and trend on sites like TikTok^note Part of the music video has a Bland-Name Product version of TikTok, usually with none of the original horrific context, thus becoming a part of the very culture the video attacks.
• Realism-Induced Horror:
  • A major reason why this game manages to be quite horrifying and depressing despite its colorful exterior is because Ame's attention-seeking, meltdowns and recklessness are extremely close to how people with borderline personality disorder in real life would act like especially when suffering from stress or depression, and her coping mechanism in the form of an Imaginary Friend is also not uncommon on people with such conditions. It helps that all of Ame's behavior was directly lifted from several similarly minded girls the creator briefly dated (the link is in Japanese).
  • There's also the in-game dialogue on stream, Tweeter or /st/, which heavily resembles what someone in real life would say on the internet. This naturally includes some of the nastier comments and laughing at Ame as she breaks down.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • Sometimes, Ame will force you to perform certain actions (like going somewhere else) or force you to skip a turn or more, potentially causing you to lose valuable time slots that can be used for modifying her stats or getting Stream ideas.
  • The random events that give you multiple choices don't seem to be that bad at first, but if you do respond to them, they will often waste up valuable time slots or reduce your subscriber count each stream, which is non-negotiable and will affect the rest of the playthrough. It's especially debilitating for runs attempting to obtain the "Internet Runaway Angel: Be Invoked" ending, which requires the maximum subscriber count and gives zero leeway for error.
• Woolseyism: The localization by Dragonbaby Localizations is highly praised for managing to retain the meanings of the original Japanese while also changing parts which could’ve easily been lost in translation to more closely reflect western streaming culture. Many players have expressed that they thought the game, which is Japanese-made, was western-made or even co-written because of how seamlessly the translation reads.

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