Welcome to /news/, your only source for events in the chuuba world.HoloPro>Omaru Polka debuted a new outfit and releases a cover of "Love is à la Mode" from Tokyo Mew Mew.>Holo Gamers celebrate their 6th anniversary with complementary merch.>hololive English Myth's Mori Calliope 2nd concert "GriMoire" sold out all seats within a minute on 12/14. General admission standing tickets ($118) might still be available.>During a recent karaoke stream with guests, Mori Calliope announces an upcoming holoEN group song titled "Odyssey".>Mori Calliope releases her cover of "Otonoke" from Dandadan and by Creepy Nuts.>Tokoyami Towa announced the Holo New Year Game Festival 2025, to be held on 1/13. A stream on 12/21 will confirm the four teams. This event replaces the usual Mario Kart tournament with a selection of various games.>Shishiro Botan debuted her new Jirai Kei outfit on 12/15.>Google and Hoshimachi Suisei collaborate to promote Android's "circle to search" feature, with a special music video of "Stellar Stellar" centered around it.>Hoshimachi Suisei also collaborates with CONVERSE for a special edition pair of shoes, to be released in Feburary 2025.>hololive releases six new "hololive friends with U" plushies on 12/16 for "Magical Girl holoWitches!".>hololive releases a new whispering voice pack "Tender Words of Solace" on 12/17.>hololive releases a Manzai voice collection pack, with six duos doing double-act comedy, on 12/19.>Ninomae Ina'nis resumed her streaming activities on 12/17.>Motoaki "YAGOO" Tanigo was interviewed by Otaku USA Magazine, talking about their USA expansion and noting that "YouTube accounts for only 25% of the total revenue and the remaining comes from licensing and merchandising.">YAGOO was also interviewed by Austin Wood for GamesRadar, focusing on video games with holo Indie and holo Earth.>A previous interview between YAGOO and Niche Gamer, published on 11/15, was pulled offline. Contacted by email, Niche replied: "They asked us to remove it for now. No other reason was given as to why." The interview was mostly about the USA expansion, but did cover a bit about the Chinese market and BiliBili.>Otonose Kanade of hololive DEV_IS ReGLOSS reached 500k subscribers and celebrates with merch.>A 3D holoHoliday live with holoEN talents will be streamed on 12/20 @ 6p PT, with new outfits and annoucements planned.>The Feburary issue of V-Jump, on sale from 12/20, includes a Shirakami Fubuki TCG card.>hololive TCG's first major expansion, Quinted Spectrum, goes on sale.>hololive Alternative releases "Yamato God Kaiiitan" t-shirts on Amazon, to celebrate the manga's 100,000 sales.Nijisanji>NIJISANJI EN's Vantacrow Bringer announced going on an indefinite hiatus, citing a doctor's recommendation to rest his throat. He still went live two hours later but used a TTS to talk.VShojo>VShojo announces a move to in-house merch fulfillment, following issues with their previous vendor failing to manage orders in time.>Zentreya debuted two Christmas outfits for her Dragon and Cyborg designs.>Geega debuted new 3D models for each of her existing outfits on 12/15.>Ironmouse and Froot-themed tea, previously only sold at conventions, is now available through VShojo's online store.Phase Connect>Tenma Maemi releases her cover of "Treat Your Mother Right" by Mr. T.>During the VTuber Awards, a teaser for new Phase Invader members was aired.>Kaneko Lumi releases her new song, "Middle", which premiered at the VTuber Awards 2024.>Phase Euphoria celebrates their one-year anniversary and releases an original song, "Space Opera 9000".>Phase Connect announces "Season of Frost", a line of holiday-themed merch.>Phase Invaders releases a short seasonal visual novel and four thematic wallpapers for free.Local>Divegrass Before Christmas 5 concludes. /skynetFC/, /joshu/, /nijiID/, and /myth/ failed to qualify. /HAHA/ loses in playoffs. /ag/ and /hfz/ die in the Round of 16. /pcmx/ loses in the Quarterfinals. The ultimate winner of the tournament was /ytp/.>Current standings for CorpoCar puts Yurikago Kokone in a tie with Maeve Kagekiri at 381 points, and Suri Solari being third with 340 points. The season 6 finale will be streamed on 12/22 @ 10a ET.>Voting for the /vt/ KWAB of the Year 2024 is now open until 12/30. >>91766411(cont'd)Want the source for this news? Check the previous issue: >>91460710Archive: https://vt.rita.moe/news.xml
Other Corpos>idol Corp published Roca Rourin's cover of Suisei's GHOST to Spotify. Note that this is a re-release and that she is still hospitalized.>Cersea Soulstorm of idol has her YouTube channel demonetized for "Deceptive activity".>Sayu Sincro//Nisity of NOA held her Christmas Charity stream on 12/14, raising over $7k USD for Operation Christmas Child.>Sayu Sincro//Nisity also releases Winter merch. Each order has a 50% chance of getting a random freebie.>New US-based agency Aegis-Link debuted their first four talents under the group name "SYN//ED" on 12/13, along with an original group song titled "Resurrection".>Majokko Meimei re-debuts on 12/15 under GlitchStars. She'll be keeping her IP.>Yuka Momiji of AuroraLiveVR graduates on 12/10 to go indie as Beatrice Alfbern. She says that the agency is "temporarily" shutting down their EN branch, as she was their last member.>The newly debuted StellarVersePro talents release an original group song, "INFINIUM".>Fuyumi Celestia of MAHA5 is taking a break until 12/24.>Magie Catnova will be graduating of RancomTeam on 12/24. All of her accounts will be closed/deleted.>Frederett of AKA Virtual will celebrate her birthday with a new outfit and original song, "Percaya", on 12/31.>Karissa Sharlotte of AKA Virtual debuts a chibi model on 12/20.>Renita Marybelle of LiviPro releases merch themed after her last-month cover of "A Little Piece of Heaven".>Mikaasuma, a cooking VTuber from YumeLive, is now selling her own Sambel Bawang chili sauce.>Virtual Agent Sacrifice, a small ID talent agency, announced their dissolution, accompanied by a notice that they settled previous issues with IniAgil and Tama Rindou, who left the company on 10/16.>First Stage Production terminated their contract with Big Guilty Akuma Guilty Chan, claiming she posted false facts on the official YouTube channel that damaged the reputation of the company and its staff.>Katya Felicia of ASPIRA, a small ID corpo, will graduate on 1/19. The group that she was part of, G-ElyS, will be disbanding after the release of their final cover on 12/21 @ 7p WIB (7a ET).Indies>Dokibird and Mint Fantôme held their FantômeThief's Revenge concert along with guests PiaPiUFO, Phoebe, Dobby3D and Juna Unagi, on 12/14.>Former Production Kawaii members Charlotte Suzu, Isla Coleman, Nene Amano, and Reina Sun form an indie group called EONIA. An Acrylic Diorama Set is on sale to celebrate their indie debut.>Charlotte Suzu debuted her new "Vampire Bloom" outfit on 12/14.>Alicia Ravenna announced an indefinite hiatus due to Herpes Zoster.>Kirigaya Raveanne re-debuted with a concert on 12/14, and releases a new original song, "Kisah Harapan".>Quiver Rannette announces their 2.0 "reboot" debut on 12/21 @ 7p WIB (7a ET).>Natasha Madelyn officially debuted on 12/17.>Sinder and Novel Horizons open preorders for a 1/7 "Demon Sinder" figure that lights up. Batteries not included.>Lilly Alessa, a talent that was expected to be part of ID-based agency Genesix, will be debuting on 1/11 @ 8p WIB (8a ET).>Mozumi Pichi is going on an indefinite hiatus following the passing of a family member.>MOTHERv3 has been indefinitely banned from Twitch for "Fraud". They have sent an appeal and will stream on YouTube in the meantime.Region-Locked>More VTubers have been announced to be holding meet-and-greets at Holiday Matsuri including Majokko Meimi, Lua Asuka, Piko Halo, and more (>>91651168). Schedules can be found on HM's Twitter.>AKA Virtual's SOL.4CE and Pira will make an appearance at Chibicon on 12/21~22.Other>Indie horror VTuber Layna Lazar presented the award for Best Indie at the Horror Game Awards on 12/14. She was also nominated for their Content Creator of the Year award.>Fillian and ShyLily's VTuber Awards concluded on 12/14 with FUWAMOCO winning VTuber(s) of the year. Full list here: >>91567760>During the awards, CEO of Twitch Dan Clancy debuted a L2D model to appear during a clip and to give the "Best Music VTuber" award to Suisei Hoshimachi.>Twitch posted on X (formerly Twitter) a celebrating message with a few of the awards winners, without mentionning the event, but noted that Suisei's channel is "/Suisei" (she doesn't have a Twitch account) and tagged a crypto Twitter account who's using Suisei's name and likeness. FUWAMOCO quoted the post with a link to their YouTube channel.>An anon in /lig/ is reporting that Novel Horizons, despite denying being associated anymore with former CEO of MSM Talent Seth Weinstein, may still be working with him for the launch of Horizons Merch.>AniLive announces the closure of their mobile app starting from 2/1. The company cites a "transition period" from their Alpha, and that they're "not shutting down" but "growing up". All Jumpstarts who were previously locked to the app will be able to stream on other platforms.>Obake PAM, mascot and CEO of Play-Asia, will have her Christmas Concert on 12/23 @ 7p ET with over 300 guests.
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>>91926514>27yeah, anon... 27...
>>91926581Nene Amano and Obake Pam collaborated to release wooden Christmas ornament merchhttps://www.play-asia.com/obake-pam-wooden-keychain-christmas/13/70i1b5https://www.play-asia.com/nene-amano-wooden-keychain-christmas/13/70i1bl
>>91929614I have no idea, I've kept the age from the original drawing. (Which may have be closer in 2021?) https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/87923697>>91926683
>>91926539Just happened to stumble across thisCompletely not-at-all legendary vtuber Nonchii is debuting her Live2D model in 8 hourshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ7XZEXpMno
>>91926539Matara Kan announces the cancellation of her art contest and issues a lengthy apology following backlashhttps://x.com/MataraKan/status/1870295796295286823
>>91940333What was the issue though that caused the backlash? Is it just the cancellation itself, low quality prizes, or did she like allow AI art to be submitted?
>>91940786I wasn't paying attention to it when it happened but I'm gathering the criticism was the usual art contest seething and possibly that the rewards were not worth the amount of effort required per the rules of the contest
>>91926581Hololive X Bisoulovely collaboration merch now on salehttps://x.com/hololive_En/status/1870303293504925878
>>91939398Ai-chan...
>>91940786From what I remember from skimming /vsj+/ at the time a number of artists dogpiled her about there not being enough time to complete the amount of art she wanted per entry, which seems like a strange thing to get angry about - just don't enter the contest if you feel that way.
>>91941122>>91943112Oh I see, thanks for the info
>>91942835Is that mostly for women, or... can men wear those...?
>>91947133you can put it on your favorite plushie, too
>>91926539Fionna fon Engels and Riyu the "Lost" Lamb, two of the three VTubers from the Singaporean VTuber Agency Project: Verses, which launched its operations in the first week of December 2023 and began VTubing activities in the third week of May 2024, have decided to leave the agency to pursue independent careers. They will retain their models and all associated assets and media.https://x.com/Project_Verses/status/1870167282296508727
>>91947133There’s nothing stopping men from wearing those.
>>91949025And there's more:>>91937542>>91938128>>91938463
>>91926539Idol corp. teased something on Sunday.https://x.com/idol_corp/status/1868476138835829042Then revealed the next day what it was.https://x.com/idol_corp/status/1868838528395760015Tonya Shabel then proceeded to hold her 3rd anniversary 3D concert with a live band and inside a ballroom today just hours ago which I barely missed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VENKtzKdGF8She also released her new original song afterwards.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAsDCgBjKhoFuck me for being busy this entire week in anticipation for the holidays, I missed this story, that's on me.
>>91926517>Indie horror VTuber Layna Lazar>Indie horror VTuber? Hmm that sounds interesting, let's check out her conte...Every time.
>>91960851her flesh streams are indeed horror kek
>>91926539New Year's Event teams announced.these are the teams and what they will play.
>>91963502Kinda glad that MK8DX tournament is still there, but man, I'm kinda sad that it has turned out like this
>>91963891makes sense. Too much training. Suisei wouldn't have participated otherwise, she lacks the time.
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>>91926539https://x.com/baovtuber/status/1870210273182695621https://x.com/baovtuber/status/1870197479221678089Bao announces a new GamerSupps flavor, BaoBerry, based off of her model of the same name.>>>/d/11193169hololive English -Promise-'s Nanashi Mumei and Ceres Fauna release an MV for their joint original song, "It's Not a Phase", dispelling any rumors that Leaf will join PC, on Mumei's channel. The song was first sung at King's.https://x.com/nanashimumei_en/status/1870381358725423546Some hololive English members debut new holiday-themed outfits as part of a promoted 3D stream, "#holoHolidays with hololive English supported by Bisoulovely".https://x.com/hololive_En/status/1870273022411845643This is to promote a line of hololive English-themed Bisoulovely jewelry.https://x.com/hololive_En/status/1870303293504925878
>>91926539Migger shrimp vtuber Ebi was banned from Youtube a few days ago, and still hasn't gotten her channel back. Interestingly she was unbanned, then banned again, within a minute, suggesting there might be some tug of war going on at Youtube, perhaps between the AI and its masters:https://x.com/EbikoVtuber/status/1869853751080796474#m
>>91926539>>91967131In related, perhaps less surprising news, ligger Cottontail also had her Youtube channel taken down:https://x.com/CottontailVA/status/1870174995680506278#mThe appeal has been denied.Might also be worth noting that Ebi uploads her ASMR videos to a separate monetized channel to test them, before putting them up on her main, and they all passed with flying colors there, so this maybe a mass report thing.>>91926539Meanwhile, on Twitch, ligger MOTHERv3 AI is yet another victim of the automated fraud ban:https://x.com/MOTHER_v3/status/1869926782901649655#mShe's scheduled to stream instead on Youtube in a few minutes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ9TkrbVVs8(We'll see if she gets banned there too, as both Youtube and Twitch have been performing these erroneous fraud bans. Be interesting to see if they are IP based and if the two are sharing a list.)
>>91926615Waiting room is up for the last VTRP stream of the year, the CorpoCar season 6 finale, tomorrow (12/22) at 10 AM ET (maybe 11 AM, depending on commentator availability) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXx4aLeSbhUAlso, the start date has been decided for Formula Holo World Championship 2025: January 26! Mark the date on your calendar for the opening rounds of the new FH season!
>>91926539News from /warkop/>>91950797>>91950952>>91951127>>91956118>>91960803>>91965654
>>91965965>Bisoulovely jewelryStream and new costumes announced in OP. Jewelery already reported above.>>91967783>MOTHERv3Already in OP.I thought that we covered Cottontail's ban already. Oops. But yeah, YouTube has been cracking down on any kind of ASMR. It started with "spicy" content from around May (we've reported at least on Hex/Taiga/Bisou). Then since November, I've seen channels being taken down, including while they were live, even if they've never made suggestive content. All without any strike or warning.It was found (because people like to brag on Twitter) that small groups of like 5 people could send reports and successful take a channel down.
>>91968882is it possible to sue for obstructing business or something like that?
>>91969480For getting your channel removed? Probably not; the terms of service should be written (by Alphabet's/Amazon's well-paid lawyers) to make the companies not liable for as much of their own actions as possible. Depending on how they tell people about the channels being banned, though, they could be sued for defamation; saying someone's channel was fraudulent (when it obviously wasn't) is probably defamatory, but the big question is whether that statement is made to enough people to constitute defamation.The mass-report-to-delete pipeline is a common issue of many platforms, and seems to be generally a bad idea, so I don't know why it's still kept around. Twitch and YouTube are fairly notorious for bad moderation, but that's not a crime on its own, and not a breach of contract (the contract being the terms of service) because the terms of service do (certainly should) state that your channel can be deleted for any reason without notice. Twitch has been fairly discriminatory in its treatment of fleshies--women get a slap on the wrist for things men get permanently banned for--but I don't really see this paralleled in VTubers. While VTubers are treated worse than fleshies, that doesn't count as VTubers are not a suspect class.
>>91969480>sue one of the largest empires on the planetno money tree big enough for that messmaybe better off dumping it into a campaign for content creators' rights to at least force them into some manner of transparency for the knock on effect of touching up their bullshit just enough to be presentable
>>91968882Searched for Ebi and Cottontail in the last two threads, yet for some reason did not Ctrl+F Mother.Jeeze. One would think a few reports would just affect the video in question, or at the most get you a strike - but to wipe a whole monetized channel with hundreds of thousands of subscribers in one go is just... Why even have a strike system?Meh, it's Youtube, so we are all at the AI's mercy, even if it's ultimately it was some retarded human who gave it the authority to do that.>>91969921Youtube has been known to cave when a lawsuit is threatened, though the last time I heard of it happening, it also revealed that they had at least partly automated their legal department. Lawyers had a bit of a time getting ahold of a human.
>>91926539As a Christmas present, Bao the Whale pays a bunch of her member's medical bills, making her the CEO of Obaomocare:https://xcancel.com/baovtuber/status/1869317699438010429#m(Hopefully doesn't get her shot by a handsome hero.)
