I watched that live and still remember it like yesterday, it was beautiful and very fun when that happened

@@luka188 Woah a legend here

@@angelredvivar No, the real legends were those who were Aki's loyal fans before the clippers translated Aki's heartfelt stream talking about her situation. Without them, I wouldn't have been aware of Aki. After that, Aki became one of my favorites, and I watched many of her Ark streams and singing streams especially.

I was there, right after birdkun21 clipped her thoughts. It was puremagic :)

I think my favorite is when she mistook "encore" as "ENKA", and gave us an incredible performance of a Japanese classic no one was expecting her to cover.

This is one of my favourite stories about vtubers!

Look up the clip of Ironmouse doing a donation drive to get a proper workspace set up to accommodate her disability... AKA: how to annihilate a year-long donation goal in 7 minutes (before she could even finish explaining it) and make a girl burst into happy tears.

@@Arclite02 ok

u only see drama if u look for drama. stop watching em and put those ytbers on "Don't recommend channel". I've known no drama for a whole year now.

drama is not necessarily something negative you know?

Where she at rn?

About 735k

at this pace, she will gets to 1M if she has a few more big project/content. i rarely see her in horror or fps game collab which understandable why she is on the slow side in growth

Not knowing English is a major knee cap.

is there a clip? when did she say this?

Gibberish. You don't have to call enjoying things "simping" just to parrot a catchphrase you read online years ago

​@@MegaZetathere's people out there who are total simps especially towards KZfaqrs and other celebrities. It gets annoying so I just mess with them time to time

​@@MegaZetatbh, parasocial is sadly a thing. I say simping is form of parasocial, but simply enjoying thing or wishing someone the best is not.

Yeah we do

Wait that’s crazy i never knew that wtf

Her original song is in her language too!

Is she Tolkien reincarnated?

she actually gain 100k+ in a month from that moment,,,

@@jon-unicorn-doxxer I think it was something like 200k cause i rmemeber her going from 200k all the way up to 440k, though i might be mixing up what time that happened over, it was such a great uplifting and i'm so glad it happened for her~

@@ninjablade2 that einnashu viral clip is published in 1st week of august 2020 and celebrated her 200k milestone days after that, Its was already at 220k when she did that Aki-pella.. aki celebrated her 400k milestone on Oct 15 of 2020...I remember that time because that was my 1st membership spend and my 1st time spending money on a Vtuber... so 200k in a month is too much,,, you can check the socialblade

@@ninjablade2went from 189k to 202k within *24 hours*

She even responded to the hip man after he reacted to her belly dance video.

@Lucas Inazumai well obviously. That man is a man of pure culture and dedication to the HIP

"Hips dont Lie" -Shakira

especially when her thighs is capable of producing random objects or materials. sad the hololive anime eps featuring this aki's power has got removed.

I still will always be biased towards Coco for the raunchiness and pure body control she had, particularly with her hips and legs, but I can’t NOT give Aki her props. She’s got a different style of hip movement, but every bit as much discipline and command of them as Kaichou had.

It's because their streams aren't subtitled, so English people who don't know what they're saying can actually watch the cute girl AND undersrand her

​​@@Mashamazzi won't lie that's why I never watched tje jp members outside of clips I have no idea what there saying which sucks cause I like subra miko and some others clips

​@@animonmaster8269 Same. I absolutely love Aki & Suiseu especially... But my Japanese isn't good enough to be able to watch them properly & understand what's going on...

Woah a historian

Aaaah yes. In a way, were brothers. Already on a 2 yr sub on her channel.

Same

Likewise; though i was introduced through Koe's vid on her (over two years)

Aside from obvious suisei, her and kanata indeed are best concerts to watch

@@Keithlynd_ Agree! But I'd add Mel to the list too, as both Aki and Mel never fail to add a little bit of extra magic to all of their live concerts.

@@Keithlynd_ Suisei is obvious from her impressive vocals, but from a total performance point of view, I personally find that Aki's and Mel's lives are my favorites to watch.

no

I don't even watch that much of the actual "idol" side of stuff, but dang that Wonderland musical she did was impressive.

Language is just a barrier bro, but nobody say we cant break the barrier😊

I will be there when that million subs finally happens. It is so lovely to see people come together all across the world to give support to these fine people that really give us a little portion of their lives. The streamers could be doing other things but they are there for us to give us a good time and I want to give back to them. They work hard and deserve it like Aki~ ❤

2020 is a good year... I remember I am sharing that einnashu clip with other potential fans to promote her...she gains like 100k+ subs in just 1 month(Aug-sept 2020) thanks to that clip and the reddit guys...

“2020 is a good year.” I know what you mean but I think most of the world would disagree with that statement lol

​@@goldlight1322 Who cares about the world when you're deep down the rabbit hole

chocosen is good today, she might be the next in line for 1M subs and her live views is decent (3k - 9k) and sometimes she could reach up to 10K's live views. her cooking stream with lui is my fave

I followed Choco years ago because she was a very pretty Japanese girl,like Lenfried but very skinny, like under 100lbs., then later with Hololive I was like wait she seems familiar...

Every JP Gen has 1-2 members who don’t get enough clips, and Aki and Choco definitely fit the bill. They’re super underrated!

I would add Roboco and many HoloID members as well.. I can't count how many times i laughed so hard watching Roboco and her ponkotsu-ness, and you can see how many HoloID members that actually really talented (Like Risu for example with her singing ability, Anya with her insane language capability and her sharp mouth, Ollie with her energetic trait, or Kaela with her insane dedication when it comes to gaming). Yet many of them are still struggling in term of views compared to other holomems..

@@jakeplaysyt8000 Here how i see it (just my opinion): Gen 0 - Roboco Gen 1 - Mel and Aki Gen 2 - Choco Gen 3 - None (all of them are insanely popular, even Flare always on top when it comes to receiving super chats) Gen 4 - Luna Gen 5 - Also none (All of them already reached 1 mil sub and very consistent with views) Gen 6 - Also none (Their viewerships are really insane compared to other gens even gen 3 at some point, maybe because their gen traits are unique that's why many got hooked easily)

How can you be soft when she calls you a good/bad boy? 👀

@@Mashamazzi hey hey that's a secret haha

This is what sparked a meme about Yagoo having a savior complex, and creating a Vtuber agency just so he could act upon it.

I might sound a bit bias by it but I think towa had a very rough start. Not compared to aki or miko but it definitely made it feel like nobody cared but overseas fans helped out. If I'm wrong in this please correct me I'm just throwing another in out there that had it a very rough start

What's many people didn't exactly know is that Miko was the worst. People keep talking about Suisei had her hard times, yeah sure she did. But at least she still got 1k views on those times. Aki also still got 2-3k views. But did you know how many Miko got? She had barely less than 100 views on her stream. Her video uploads (which were main contents for Vtubers by that era, streaming wasn't the main thing yet back then) usually got around 3k at max, which was bad for a full fledged 3D Vtubers by that time. AyaMina duo even graduated due to keep getting them numbers. I never forgotten Miko's few first gaming streams where she literally got less than 50 live viewers. Chats barely popping up once every few minutes, I even remember counting it was around 15+ minutes gap between chats. My Japanese was still bad by that time and I was still shy too, I felt bad for not adding more chats. She has been funny and all ever since debut, but barely any people noticing her. Those sad days when barely a mere laughing chat coming up, if you compare to how she is right now you won't believe she had these back then. I wish someone cover up Miko's story, but it's hard to get her past archives as they're mostly deleted. Miko's story is just a whole amazing one, from someone who was not on the verge of failing but was already failing and just waiting for her to raise the white flag, into someone who literally getting 35k views casually even if it's a mere freetalk stream. On Miko's case it wasn't her who cried, it were us her OG fans who cried desperately hoping for her to not give up and wishing for her to get noticed by more people. Her story is such a journey.

What hardships did Mel go through?

@@adriannaranjo4397 Probably similar to a lot of the others doing asmr content, youtube was cracking down on all asmr at the time, as well she is known as the "Ban-pire" for a reason, her channel was banned several times near the start i believe and periodically afterwards I don't know the finer details but i can imagine just that alone would be quite the hardship

i think that's not good for the channel overall tho, if a channel has a lot of subscribers but not active viewers, the analytics might see it negatively, so if you're gonna subscribe, make sure it's something that you actually wanna watch

@@f.b.l.9813 a subscribe is better than nothing. I can't really free up enough time to watch all of them

@@R7AWSUM depends on how KZfaq's system views it, if they see it as having an inactive fanbase then in that case, nothing is better than an inactive subscriber.

@@f.b.l.9813 I don't think that's how it works, but I'll start commenting whenever I get them in my notifications, just to be sure. It's not easy being a hololive fan

@@R7AWSUM i don't really know how youtube works so just you do you (but then again, even veteran big youtubers don't exactly know how youtube works, youtube higher ups like to make rules as vague as possible)

It was early on Towa's career. A male voice was apparently heard during her stream, which led to an assumption that Towa lived with a man. With a belief that a female idol should never interact with any male to keep their "purity," many were angered (kinda like Rushia situation). However, since such belief is not really widespread amongst overseas viewer, they don't care about it and keep watching her. Towa herself went to a hiatus for a couple of weeks and when she returned, apparently, she got more views from overseas than Japan. I think she is still one of JP members who got more overseas viewers compared to others.

Yeah the JP side can get a bit weird with idol purity and such where the western side don't care.

I think with towa on this the west have the oposite exstreme at times our obsessives like to obsess over the family and romantic lives of celeberties and almost enjoy too much the idia pf celeberties havibg relationships and growing families whoch is wjy shipping gets so extreme in the weat

Fitting enough Aki and Towa are pretty good friends (even back then, it's said that in a way, Aki was G4's mama)

This is the truth. KZfaq picked on several members with shadowbanning, etc., at various points, including Akirose, Mel, and Choco.

​@@realQuestion attractive woman is bad for KZfaq still hilarious nutshell to this day ,still the way thoss holomem handle KZfaq riot is the best they can have and admired for that alone.

Really cool to see a JP bro in the comments writing in english. I wish I understood japanese then I would watch Aki way more.

Hope she can reach 1M subs soon and catch up with her genmates

Thanks Pippa! There's definitely more I'm working on.

Omg its da real Pippa from Pippakistan, please liberate my country from capitalism!

I know right? From saving Aki for being down ridden with low sub counts, to Towa being harassed from antis/unicorns when they heard a guys voice in the background, to Coco being the pioneer for the rise of western vtubers and cross pollination thanks to her meme reviews.

To be fair, a very large amount of KZfaq’s overall userbase is western. I’m not super surprised lmao

You're a customer, don't get it twisted

@@MegaZeta ur only a customer if u donate or join membership. otherwise ur just watching streams

​@@WGGplant nah we are a customer to the media we use dude.

After a few years of bouncing around every 4 or so months watching a few new members at a time, I really don't know how anyone can have an oshi. They're all nice and good in their own way. Even making a tier list on would be difficult, just having three ranks of A, S, and S+.

Thats just Hako-oshi (hako means a box) So u simply love all the talents as a whole ww

Appreciate it man

That was what introduced me to Aki, but it was after that big explosion but it was thanks to Einnasshu as well.

And she's proving to be good at HoloCure despite not getting a hang of aiming (good thing game Aki doesn't need aim)

This is when i appreciate more idol culture in overseas, like most HoloID fans for example don't give a single f to any their oshi's real life activities (Like having bf etc) as long it's not affecting their vtuber activities, and i can see the same with HoloEN fans as well.. Japan is way more sensitive about it to the point it's kinda worrying, i remember an idol back then had to shave her head bald and apologized publicly after she was revealed to have boyfriend, it's quite disturbing..

a lot of Western fans have this really demented savior complex. it makes the Hololive discussion boards on major sites unreadable

日本のファンの中にもそういうの気にしない人も多いけど、そういうの気にする人たちの声がでかいからね There are many japanese fans who don’t really care about those things including me, but those people who cares it have a load voice so they look like they are the majority aside the fact.

Such a cute story. Man, Aki really cares about her fans.

Nekoze punch is top tier content. I still listen to it regularly up to this day.

@@venandr sry for the long essay lol

@@AkisGoodBoy Indeed ! !

Aki-centered episodes are some of the most hilarious ones in hologra

Yet Choco-sensei was at one point the most popular member of hololive.

@@tintillor wait choco was once the most sub count? damn thats great to know also i was talking about her character and personality shes like a sister of choco

@@BakedConjurer5 Choco once had the highest sub count because of her ASMR streams. Then KZfaq decided that ASMR was bad and her growth tanked

@@gabrielpinhal8325 understandable i once in awhile drop by her lived membership asmrs they are truely top tier

@@gabrielpinhal8325 IIRc, youbue didn't decide ASMR was bad, its just that ASMR got really big during that time. Too big in fact. Unfortunately, ASMR isn't entirely about sex, some of it is. The line is to obscure for some content, therefore once ASMR got really big, KZfaq had to step in before things got out of hand.

I feel Pekora's been consistent, Haachama on the other hand.... these days she's sort of relearning the basics

It was insane to hear her say that she was the least successful in a way that made her seem less important Shes very talented, speaks three languages and can even help English people and Japanese speak together as a translator, which clearly isn't as easy of a skill as I thought it would be (I can only remember her and I think Ollie being able to do it so well and they both speak three languages) Speaking of Ollie, it was a little sad to see that she didn't think she deserved her million milestone

@@Mashamazzi Ollie has definitely got some imposter syndrome, but i think she's doing her best to get past it; When you see yourself passing other idols you looked up to i'm sure it's hard to not go "why am I getting all this love and not them?" "They clearly have more talent and appeal than I do" etc, etc Ollie has always been a fan first, so from that perspective I'm sure the mind goblins can cause a lot of problems for her mental and accepting she is and deserves to be one of the most popular members of hololive~

@@Mashamazzi Kiara's pity party actually turned me off of her because she was whining about her success when she was well over 700k, while people like Aki and Choco who were still below 500k. I liked Kiara a lot initially, but that whole phase made me think she was incredibly self-centered and now I can't stand her except for Holotalk.

@@SaveMeXenu Matter of time and perspective, as she shared a gen with Gura, but that being said she could have handled it better. But I feel Aki being on Holotalk was a good thing as if anyone could relate to what it feels like to be tail end of a very successful gen, it's Aki.

@@Fishman465 Being in a gen with Gura is not an excuse, doubly so given that none of the other members of EN were concerned about it either, at least from what I know. If I'm wrong, please do correct me, but I can't think of anybody else in HoloEN gen 1 complaining about being "unsuccessful" just because Gura was such an anomaly.

no one can do the 80s citypop classics bar atmosphere like Akirose can

She sounded amazing without instrumental