Just watched Saphera's YouTube video for full clarity. I remember watching her during the peak of the Nijisanji EN black video fallout and her coverage of the Toru Karu situation when she used to do vtuber news stuff. Love her for being unapologetically herself and for advocating for what she believes in. 💜
(And her design is super cute! Totally not exposing myself for thinking angelic vtubers are some of the prettiest... even as a succubus myself! But like, seriously, look at how cute she is!) 😍
I do remember the Rev Says Desu video from a few weeks ago. When I watched it, I thought it was pretty unfair and laughable for him to call her out for jokingly fangirling over fictional characters. Even in the clip he showed, it's abundantly clear that she's just having fun and not delusional or obsessed with a character. He seems to think anyone who talks about waifus or husbandos are mentally insane.
Like, "God forbid women have interests!" 😂
The vtuber space in general doesn't normally seem to be a place for kids or anyone under 18 years of age. Countless corporate and indie vtubers make it clear that they don't want school children watching their streams, whether it be because of the nature of their content or another reason.
Is that going to stop any kid from watching vtubers anyways? No. But that's why many vtubers express their desire to have an 18+ audience and remove those who are underage.
Basically, vtubers aren't going to police their own content on the chance that a child opens up their stream. It's clear most vtubers aren't for child audiences, regardless of if you're Saphera de Noma, Kirsche Verstahl, Ana Valens or Rev Says Desu. Personally, I just think it comes with the territory.
So seeing Kirsche and Rev call out Ana and Saphera for degenerate simping, when it's literally such a common trope associated with vtubers in general (even seiso ones might make an edgy joke here or there), is extremely hypocritical.
Especially when Rev himself is constantly disappointed in game studios making "woke" games and getting rid of oversexualized feminization... so it's clear that he's fine with content that's not for kids being displayed on his channel.
Also, everything Saphera de Noma said in her tweets is justifiable criticism.
Kirsche reading Ana's explicit fanfiction on Twitch is ABSOLUTELY going to get you banned. It doesn't matter who it's written by! Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. She only has herself to blame for that, not Ana. So yeah, totally justifiable for Saphera to call her out on that!
I'm kinda just rambling about the main points of the situation that I felt strongly about. I have a ton of respect for Saphera for standing her ground and not letting all the hate raids get to her. I hope more people can appreciate her in the years to come.
Didn't know Kirsche was behind some of Froot's harrassment. And over a charity event where Froot clearly sent donations? Damn. Really not liking Kirsche the more I hear about her.
I watched the video you suggested with Froot singing LIVE for the charity stream and it was wholesome to start the day to. I'll leave it for anyone else here who wants to listen to it.
But yeee, thank you Anon for the ask! I like talking about vtuber news to give my own opinion on things, but am usually too afraid to do so unless asked to or unless I'm really passionate about the topic.
And, assuming you're the same person who sent me an ask about Froot's disappearance a while back, you've been educating me about different vtubers I don't normally watch. So I'm grateful to hear your thoughts and discuss with you! 😊
