#pikamee

[theborealyoako]

Ramona and pikamee

I had this thought when i saw the last episode of the show My supporters voted for this drawing last month, you can keep up with polls like this here

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[itsjustmyunpopularopinion]

You People are Fucking Disgusting, Unwashed Fungoids in Desperate Need of a Shower.

All Pikamee wanted to do was play a fucking game. But Nooo, you shitheads had to become “CAPTAIN PROGRESSIVE! HARASSER OF THE EVERYDAY PERSON!”

Her crime? She wanted to play the stupid wizard game...and you fucking brainlets chose to harass and bully her until she cancelled the stream.

You realize, when you pull shit like this, it makes your side look like a big ol’ massive fucking pile of mentally damaged psychopaths, right?

Right?

[psyga315]

Didn't people get death threats just for playing Hogwarts Legacy? Didn't someone draw artwork of Pikamee getting murdered because she played Hogwarts Legacy? Didn't Silvervale get doxxed because she played Hogwarts Legacy?

[supersoftly]

I love pika as my girlfriend and she has boing boing

We'll miss you, sweetheart 🥺

[lyinginbedmon]

Oy it’s just getting worse.

So I already gave a (relatively) brief rundown on the whole Situation with Silvervale playing Hogwarts Legacy, receiving criticism for it, crying on stream and then using some Very Specific Words to describe her critics before playing the game some more anyway.

Well... let me tell you about Pikamee.

Pikamee is a fairly typical Japanese VTuber working under the group VOMS Project, which is operated by a Vocaloid producer.

She streamed tweeting about playing the wizard game, got “harassed” (actual evidence of the specific harassment seems hard to come by in most of these cases for some reason), and has now announced that she will be graduating on March 31st. This graduation was actually planned beforehand, but assholes rarely let facts get in the way of being assholes.

“Graduating” is a common VTuber term derived from the Japanese idol industry and can be roughly equated to retiring or just leaving the company, with the added wrinkle that it quite often involves the cessation of all merchandise sales and the destruction or shelving of all available content (channels emptied or deleted, social media accounts terminated, etc.). For VTubers it’s sort of akin to being wiped off the face of the Earth and it generally only happens if you’re retiring retiring, moving on to other career opportunities, or have committed some grave infraction (doxxing, sexual harassment, the like).

Pikamee has 645 thousand subscribers on her main platform.

So in addition to her own share of the right-wing assholes defending Silver, this announcement has now caused a big uptick in avid Pikamee fans denigrating the trans community as they perceive these two things to be directly linked and, hence, believe that toxic trans people have in effect killed their favourite cartoon entertainer.

I will not be citing what they have said in response to the announcement, but it’s pretty bad. Trans VTubers, virtually all of them independent and entirely uninvolved in this situation, are going to have a Month to say the least.

[frostops]

nearly every case of “streamer is being harassed for playing hogwarts legacy” is easily provable as a lie

i checked the vods for the first girlfriend reviews hl streammyself, and the build up to the girlfriend “crying’ (she was at worst a little choked up” is the two of them complaining about how hard it is to know if they are doing the right thing when some people in chat are saying its bad to play the game and some people are saying its fine, and the boyfriend saying the “alt left” is as bad as the alt right. IN their next stream they both took issue with people framing it as trans people harassing, so i will give them some credit for that.

Silvervale’s narrative that it was just automod holding messages has already been disproven by clips of someone typing “trans rights are human rights” into chat and it being removed by a mod and them being timed out, which automod doesnt do. The claims that she has been doxxed over this have no reason to be believed, especially when she is already lying, and Froot, another vshojo vtuber , made a tweet saying she’ll donate to Mermaids for every like the tweet gets and got harassment from people over this from people “defending” silvervale, including people bringing up details about her life they can only know from doxxing her. I saw these tweets without looking for them, and i wont mention what was said, but if Silvervale was also doxxed, i’d expect to run into similar tweets. Its possible people who dont care about hl but dont like Silvervale used the controversy as an oppurtunity, which is the most likely explanation, but i dont know if it has even actually happened. She already lied about automod in the same stream with her fake tears over the image of her model’s tits, so im not offering the benefit of the doubt here.

So when i start hearing “Pikamee retired due to harassment over hogwarts legacy” i dont believe a single part after the word retired. She is retiring. I dont know why, nor do i know if it has to do with the pushback over hl, nor if that pushback was actually harassment. And i have no reason to assume any of that to be true.

[modark]

Sketch of Pikamee from VOMS Project I did for her graduation

From March 2023