I might get doxxed over this... DA ZE~⭐ I hope you enjoy this new style of content. I think I actually like the end product because I... actually put some effort into it????????????????? (wow imagine that) I am seriously willing to cover more クッキー☆ content, since there is Taisa (Cookie ☆☆) and Atouda Ako's (Kusso☆) series that are worth mentioning (among literally hundreds of others). I was originally going to cover it... but the original script just didn't work out well. (it was everything wrong with my content). So if you want me to suffer/get anal'ed more by Cookie/Inmu, tell me where to go and I will see what I can do. Anyway, uhhh check my pastebin for sources/videos/songs used before you complain about it in the comments, maybe donate dosh so I can buy "toys", and tell me that REU is god. In the meantime, gotta blast nerds! twitter.com/Suwawako2 ⭐

So the Cookie video was basically a multi-animator-project without animation

The most insane thing is that Cookie for Touhou would be considered standard dark side fandom stuff for series like Sonic or MLP.

Fun fact: My first exposure of Cookie was of a Smash Bros Lawl moveset of the Cookie version of Marisa.

I hate when I'm trying to find art of a touhou character and it's a Cookie☆ skinwalker

Trivia:Nyan Neko Sugar Girls later got attention of the Japanese Cookie☆ community, and gained the name ネッコー☆ (Nekko☆)

Cookie can't even be called part of the touhou fandom since it became its own thing entirely. It's honestly the strangest thing watching a subset becoming it's own thing

finally, a video that explains what is cookie, and what is it made of. I know its a rabbit hole that people keep pointing out. But i don't know much how deep the rabbit hole goes. But from that segment at the end indicates this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Has like hardly any info on YT, yet tens of thousands of art on pixiv.

I think the Yukkuri Abuse subculture is definitely even more unhinged. Cookie is just very cringey lol

"oh it's just an unprofessional collab, nohing too bad--" > he sexually harassed the VAs " ah."

全ては監督がたまげたことで始まった

I remember seeing the original Marisa & Alice cookie kiss on KZfaq a few months ago. To me, it looked just like any other armature touhou fanwork and I thought it was cute. Didn't think there would be so much controversy behind it.

I think it might be worthwhile to make a video about Cookie☆ parodies and the culture that center around NYN aneki's contributions to the voice drama. It's basically become a canon of its own. Think of that derpy little Nazrin drawing that changed people's brain chemistry. Dig a little deeper though, and you'll find out about how far some fans were willing to go to get more voice clips/content for their videos.

This is probably the most complex topic in Touhou fandom lore and you're a hero for covering it

My first exposure to Cookie was seeing some fanart of a Cookie version of Reimu, commenting about it and being corrected by someone who told me "that's not Reimu, it's (whatever her name was)". I was really confused, it was like seeing someone telling me "That's not Sonic, it's my OC, Pablo the Hedgehog"...

At least in Japan, Cookie☆ is hardly considered a Touhou community and is treated as a derivative or part of the A Midsummer Night's Lewd Dream(＝inmu) meme. Inmu community was trolling not only Cookie☆ but also various anime and japanese subcultures by linking their meme. For example, the anime "A-Channel" fell prey to inmu simply because the title of episode 6 was "A Midsummer Night's..."

Hearing a hungrybox comparison in a touhou video gives off major game theory vibes with how sudden and unrelated corelations seem lol.

Any MADs involving NYN are super comfy and funny to me. I don't even watch them as funny cringe shitposts but in earnest as their own separate thing.

6:33 I mean that goes for pretty much everything that includes her

なんだこれは...たまげたなぁ...

Never think that (some segments of) Touhou being cursed is a recent thing.

I always saw Cookie ☆ as this vast fuckfest of a place where multiple versions of one single character exist for no reason. Just now i see the true origin of this and, damn. Thank god what i experienced wasn't as bad as whatever the original Cookie ☆ was in general... Still, I'd love to see where the fuckfest of all Alternate Characters came from. Since that's what i mostly associate with cookie ☆. The video was yet another great production! Welcome back, Suwawako.

I’ve never even heard of cookie until now, but goodness me it’s basically just the cdi Zelda of touhou, except the backstory was beyond appalling

i played touhou games so much, i am now capable of taking a stroll through the chernobyl exclusion zone without a single of the ionizing radiation rays hitting me.

Cookie fans be like: Ummm that's not Marisa that MRS, can't you see the extra hair follicle?

The thing I like the most about Cookie is that it has permutated to a point where it's a blank canvas for creators. NND has dedicated tags for feel-good cookie, horror cookie, educational cookie, battle cookie and so much more. You'll find the most unique fanart here, as well. It really is a petri dish of meme culture.

クッキー☆がクッキー☆であるのはコンテンツが声優の個人情報と結びついたからなんだよなぁ

Knowing about this feels like being a member of an exclusive club

Fun fact: "WE ARE JAPANESE GOBLIN" would not be what it is today without Cookie☆ (because half of the people involved in its production are Cookie☆ fans).

Fantastic video! I'm from the Cookie☆Community in Japan, and I must say there's no other video out there that explains that 'terrible voice drama' in such detail! However, there are many wonderful MADs and creations derived from Cookie☆. One I particularly recommend is the voice drama '自己矛盾☆.' It's more enjoyable if you're familiar with Cookie☆ and Inmu culture, but I think you would have no problem appreciating it. I'm not fluent in English, so my words might not come across clearly.

なんだこれは、、、たまげたなぁ、、、

In Nico Nico Douga there is a weekly ranking called "Weekly NicoNico Ranking". I had watched it since the end of 2010 and had noticed several cookie MAD videos in the first 30 places. Just imagine that even with the passing of the years, there have still been MAD videos about cookies and especially with Gachimuchi (Even Gachimuchi has a category on nico nico douga and a HUGE number of videos related to Cookie appear there)

UDK's voice is now forever what I hear Marisa as.

13:46 ugh... the PTSD coming back.

surprising good video, I'll look forward to seeing more in depth about Cookie☆ from you. I was a cookie☆ fan for almost 3 years now so good stuff 👏

"so from my example, let's analyze the Hungrybox documentary" lmao kuso video

なんだこれは…たまげたなぁ…

Touhou cookie ytpmvs will always be peak unhinged touhou content and nothing you can say will change that for me. It really says something when you get nostolgic for these type of things.

Thanks for covering this. I was curious about why did I keep finding (Cookie) tags on posts and trying to find an explanation on my own I kept running in loops. It sure has an interesting history

honestly,I didn't start falling into the rabbit hole of entire touhou contents until I was impressed and made to shed tears by a Cookie⭐︎ touhou otomad video.

the most ironic thing for me is how inofensive the whole work is, like i've seen some really REALLY shitty Touhou fanmade products...mostly western comics that were more of an excuse from the autohrs to show their shitty oc's, but this is surprisingly innocent, yes it's extremely bizarre and jarring but it's harmless nonetheless, so the fact that it gained life of it's own and became its own subculture blows my mind (there's a special tag for cookie and a lot of numbers) anyways great video as always, learned a lotm

Fun fact, one of the artists for the original Cookie was actually the same guy behind Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure.

真夏の夜の淫夢(ネイティブ)

I'd kill to see a part 2 video going more into cookie and ita lore.

Honestly thank you for making a video on all of this. I've tried going into the wiki but It was wayy too much for me to handle

I am Japanese and the following is a sentence using a translator. Therefore, some parts may not be accurate. I ask for your understanding. The "lewd dream" is one of the elements that cannot be removed when talking about the essence of "Cookie☆". A series of gay pornographic videos, including "A Midsummer Night's Dirty Dreams", attracted attention because of the appearance of baseball player Tadano Kazuto (it is a well-known story that this best and worst community would not have been born without the director saying, "Well I'll be blown..."). Later, the shoddy acting, mainly by amateur actors, was pointed out for the related works, and many videos were made with this as a source of material. In such cases, three elements were used to symbolize that the works produced (hereinafter referred to as "Inmu videos") shared the same source material. 1. a clipping of a male actor's utterance, called a "quotations" or a similar utterance with only a slight variation (the "quotations" here is the same as that used in the so-called "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung") 2. material of a male actor clipped from a video (hereinafter referred to as "BB Material"), or new BB Material created by modifying the BB Material (BB is Blue Back) 3. Relationships between characters in the video or new relationships created by the Inmu video While these three elements are inherited and repeated in subsequent lewd videos, they continue to create differences through the invention of new elements. This is why Inmu videos have maintained their status as a major content for more than 20 years. And by its very nature, Inmu videos are fundamentally anti-commercial. The fact that they are originally pornographic videos, the search for personal information without regard to the dignity of the actors, and the unrestrained flurry of slander and libel are all factors that contribute to the lewd dream community. These factors make the lewd dream community a place where money is not allowed to intervene. Therefore, creators are not obliged to do so, but are free to try to create something more interesting. Now, as a result of the lewd dream community's proximity to the Cookie☆ community, the above effects are also manifested within Cookie☆ (the resulting videos are referred to as "inc videos"). In contrast to lewd videos, where the appearance and characters are unique because of the live-action images, "Cookie☆" which has a two-dimensional Eastern appearance, will focus on the voice actors. I believe that this is where "Cookie☆" has been taken out of the "Touhou" category. Essentially, a secondary work is a story in which the possibilities of what could happen are pasted onto the world given by the original work. Nevertheless, in the lewd videos, relationships within "Cookie☆" or relationships between voice actors are used as a framework higher than the framework of the "Touhou" world. This is symbolized by the comment, "Who is RIM, your boyfriend?". (Author's note: A technique called "TDN notation" is used to conceal the real name. (Author's note: A technique called "TDN notation" is used to conceal the real name, which is a proper name minus the vowels. For example, "RIM = Reimu" and "TDN = Tadano". And "your boyfriend?" is an influence from the gay pornography of Inmu videos.) Cookie☆ characters must be called by the name of the voice actor. This makes it possible for the same (Touhou) character to appear at the same time (this area is connected to the multiverse of MARVEL's works). In addition, because of the predominance of voice actors, it is possible to add settings with statements made in situations not related to Cookie☆ (most of the Cookie☆ voice actors were also live-streaming, etc.). Furthermore, Cookie☆'s independence was further encouraged by the intervention of lewd dreams, which were tied together solely by the symbolism of "stick reading. The third of the three elements of lewd dream videos mentioned above plays a major role. In the "Battle Cookie☆" videos, the lewd dream character and the Cookie☆ character create a new relationship. It is extremely characteristic that the live-action lewd dream and the two-dimensional Cookie☆ character coexist in the same work. This is made possible by the presence of the other two elements, the "quotations" and the "BB material that are the first and second of the three elements of lewd dream videos mentioned above plays a major role. The word list, cut into fragments, reappears with a different meaning. The cut-out material is broken down into various parts and reconstructed. The result of combining the two is the composition of a completely new setting. If we consider this continuity of creation and succession as the essence of content, we can understand how the lewd community has grown so large. However, we must never forget that both lewd dreams and cookie☆s are slanderous contents. Therefore, we are not allowed to praise inc videos on a large scale, and commercialization of inc videos is also absolutely forbidden.

i never knew where that one drawing of nazrin came from until now. Great video!

I remember learning about cookie from someone in my stream, mentioned in passing as I have a dancing Nazrin emote. I investigated a bit so I kinda knew the gist of it, I find it completely unremarkable, but darn people can make anything explode.

i ve been in love with cookie for the last 2 years pretty imformative video

5:42 those words send chills down my spine as that is probalby one of my favorite videos on this platform and Emp is probably my favorite youtuber (yeah sorry)

Nice video👍 I really liked your editing.

7年ほど前からクッキー⭐︎を見ているものですが ここまで正確に多言語のコンテンツの原初について語っているのはすごいと思います(小並感)

Excuse me for replying from outside of FF. (apology) This video is too funny! Can I share this? You seem to know "Inmu", so I'll put you in the "Inmu" list. I'm sorry to reply suddenly! Please forgive me! I'll do anything you say! (I don't say that I'll do anything you say)

I think it's also interesting to note that there were some Japanese cookie clicker-like games based around the theme of Cookie☆. They're.... not good, and grindy as hell, and nowadays the only way to play them is through Flash Point as far as I know

I am a Japanese cookie fanboy. It is so much fun to share this chaotic culture with people from other countries. For expression and culture to flourish, there needs to be "some" amount of chaos. The hard part is how much "some" actually is. I think a culture like cookies is a cutting-edge activity that explores that boundary.

The only thing I know about cookie is the character name tags on danbooru. The fact that those characters aren't from the original video is the scary part.

"irasshaimase" - nyn

Finally, after years following Touhou MADs, now I know he story behind the Cookie and Ganpachi relationship

これを流行らせてしまって本当に申し訳ない…

たまげたなぁ

It's a deep web but touhou

Ah, finally, a depth analysis about cookie✩

Me who hasn't played Touhou at all: why have i been watching this for 10 minutes

I'm a bit of a cookie historian, as cringe as that sounds. This community is seriously one of the wildest experiences you can ever find online. stories of lust, betrayal, personal demons, mental health, heart warming conclusions, beautiful works of arts, genuinely hilarious projects. Cookie is a true melting pot of internet shitposters. It truly is a sandbox anyone can play around in. It has it's demons. Dark moments, and good old cringe. But once you get past that. You're greeted with one of the hardest working, most passionate, interconnected yet decentralized communities online. It really is worth overcoming the language barrier for. The rabbit hole never ends with stories and videos to uncover.

It's funny because the average Cookie☆ fan content is actually highly quality than the actual thing.

watching this straight after Cookie☆13th Medley ~ 「Love Together!!」hits different

This actually makes me feel better about the vocaloid memes and songs i uploaded to the site.

13:46 Sumireko.

Kazuhito Tadano（ネイティブ）

Nice to have you back man, hope you're doing well.

I remember falling into the cookie rabbit hole like a year or two ago. Still have the one specific video about one of them turning into a like, a demon and/or alien and just fighting in maybe a dream? Still haven't found it but it honestly might have been a dream I've made up too. Such an odd video.

So I'm assuming the Inmu part is why almost every time I see Cookie stuff it's genderbent Touhou characters?

SUPER NICE, never heard of this story before

fanart just make me smile

Even the japanese goblin video from MTB accidently used YMN aneki mmd

Great video! I think a second part going a little deeper into this topic and explaining things like naming conventions, how Meguru voice actresses voice was used to make a vocaloid of sorts using UTAU(and mentioning the legendary trio of parodies by Nisu), the infamous Nyon scene, some of the drama around her streaming and where most of her voice clips come from, mentioning the korean cookie etc. These are very interesting topics and getting some coverage of them in a single concise english video would be great!

Didn’t one of the Cookie☆ voice actresses get arrested at one point? Or maybe im just remembering wrong.

"The inumu community" lol You did good 👍

I'm watching this because of the funny nazrin drawing.

What was Marisa thinking? Who tf only bakes a singular cookie? Usually they make a batch, not just one.

11:34 OBJECT SHOWS MENTIONED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

U better make a video about touhou got talent, it's fire.

This is where that traffic light Daiyousei i keep seeing originated from right? I always wondered what was Cookie was supposed to be.

This video is so well made and I'm surprised of how much information of this garbage community are available in English...

No views, 5 likes, 3 comments. Makes sense

I was aware of Cookie, but never bothered to look into what it was. Thank you for saving me the trouble.

If it exists, there's a Cookie music remix of it.

My exposure to cookie star? Inmu

Are you going to cover other fan works such as “Memories Of Phantasm”?

Schizophrenia given physical form

I did not expect the Hungrybox doc

otomads mentioned!!! also this video makes me feel old

Redditors get out

Nice ☆ 5:21 Rip my ear {wearing headphones 😂}

i love the funny rat nyn aneki my beloved!!!!

I... agree...

Big Brother☆ scarred me

12:29 wait, Lein.@キノピオPro was a Cookie☆ artist!? (he's now famous for his VRChat face dance that became a meme) I could say this because I'm also influenced by the MAD of this meme, but the extent of influence that Cookie☆ has on internet is unimaginably large.

2:29 roblox man face lmao