My friends were complaining about trans people getting Pikamee cancelled. They were saying how Pikamee is the next big thing. What the hell are they talking about Jesse? :jesse-wtf:
My friends were complaining about trans people getting Pikamee cancelled. They were saying how Pikamee is the next big thing. What the hell are they talking about Jesse? :jesse-wtf:
Vtuber was on hiatus, came back with wizard game stream announcement. People got mad at her, she seemed blinsided by the controversy went silent for a bit and is now quitting.
Seems like she was already on the edge and this was just a extra push so she's out. More fuel for the online culture war fire.
I mean it's extremely easy to be blindsided by this kind of thing. Even easier if you don't speak English or spend your time on English websites. Unless you spend time on US and UK twitter, you won't know about the controversy. I didn't know about it until people on here started talking about it. Admittedly I'm not into Harry Potter stuff so I didn't even know there was a game out until someone made a post that the people behind Disney infinity were making a Harry Potter game. Last I heard it sold 12 million copies or something and fake JK Rowling tweets were making the rounds.
She does speak English but seems to be a Japanese national living in Japan.
Looking at vtubers and the wizard game, looks like pretty much every Japanese Hololive member played it without much in the way of public repercussions while the English branch has avoided the game entirely. (The English management was probably savvy enough to advise them to steer clear.)
She was born in Texas to an American dad and Japanese mom. Her parents got divorced and mom moved back to Japan and she went with. This was when she was in her teens I think.