The clip of Uruha Rushia accidentally tells English viewers to “Go home” push me down the Hololive rabbit hole. But I don’t know Japanese. So I just watched subbed clips. Then Kiryu Coco debuted. That really made into a Hololive fan.
EDIT When Coco graduated. I went back to watching subbed clips. To be honest I stopped watching Hololive talents streams. Due to me finding other vtubers to watch. But Advent may push me down the rabbit hole again.
Honestly all the ‘a’ memes made me curious to see where this shark girl came from.
Then as I got deeper into the rabbit hole I realised the origin of the fox girl singing about beating up pineapples
Someone I know used to react to messages with a gif of Gura winking. One day I was curious enough to go look it up and it was all ogre after that.
Shirogane Noel, I saw one of her horror game streams and that was the beginning of the crippling addiction.
Me and one of my friends one day stumbled upon a Kizuna AI video and were mildly amused by it, so we started watching some of her videos for a couple months. Then we stopped because waiting for stuff to get subbed was slightly annoying and we had other things to do.
Around a year later, Let’s kill da ho gets in our recommended videos. An English-speaking VTuber, a really funny one too. Rabbit Hole begins and we start watching videos and clips of all three (🥲) VOMS.
Then some months later, this. HoloMyth debuted. We get REALLY interested in this shark’s singing and eventually we start to check out the other 4. Then CalliKoro happens and the whole JP branch gets into the equation. November starts and we get into ID too. Astellie happens and we wonder why did the boys never popped in our recs if they’re just as funny as the rest.
Now we’re here with the entire Beyond the Stage song carved in our brain and half our playlists being Holopro music.
All because a Fire Deer Girl decided to do a Jojo Reference.
I remember watching Kizuna AI Resident Evil 7 clips. But when her streams started to get subbed. I moved on at that point.
Korone is the first one I’d really seen at all because I’d seen a lot of fanart, and Myth as a whole but especially Ame got me watching a lot of clips for a while. Kronii got me back into it recently, and getting into Kronii is when I’d consider myself to actually have become a fan.
I started about September or October 2021, when clips of Myth and Pikamee began showing up in my YouTube Shorts feed when I was trying that out. I would watch a stream or clips here and there, but I would really only consider myself a casual fan.
That was until late February when it was announced Rushia’s channel would be deleted at the end of March '22 after her “graduation”. As someone who would have considered themselves a novice “datahoarder”, I felt the need to save her channel. This consisted of waiting to buy a 4tb hard drive and getting it about mid-March, the next week-ish mainly fine-tuning my downloader, then the last week purely downloading for days on end.
And throughout all this, I would watch clips of her or pick a VOD that had downloaded; this was where I really fell down the rabbit hole. People from Hololive, Phase Connect, (then) WACTOR, idol, indies, etc. were popping up and I gleefully watched along.
Strangely also, it seems that most of my oshis have graduated at some time (Rushia, Vesper, WACTOR ES’ Luna Rurine and Neon Kuroyuri, VOMS’ Pikamee) but I still watch them now in their new forms.
(And the Archive grows.)
