Still thinking about that time a Vtuber nearly cried over my username.
So this guy does Morning Greetings streams at 7AM once a week, where chat says good morning to him & he greets a set number of people- usually like 500, but he always goes WAY over that- by (user)name.
One morning I got to catch the stream because I'd opened YouTube first thing after waking up, for some reason. I said hello, the guy slowly went through the chat logs until he got to around where my message was, and he paused. For a while. And that was when I remembered.
One of the reasons this particular Vtuber went viral is because he is abysmally, hilariously bad at English. Back when he first debuted, he was asked to read the word "museum", and pronounced it like 'muh-SEH-oom'. His Vtuber group members told him to spell "legends" and he spelt out 'L-E-G-E-N-O-S'. Only a few months ago he read "racers" as 'RAH-cess'. He's been practicing and is a bit better now, but still objectively pretty bad.
My username was "Lillia_Korean".
The poor guy was struggling. He was taken off guard, and you could see it. He, like any Vtuber's chat langauge policy, has a Korean(and Japanese)-only rule, and he hadn't considered the possibility that any of his viewers' usernames would be in English. He eventually managed to hesitantly read out 'Lila'. Which is obviously wrong, but of course I wasn't about to correct him. I think he might have actually cried if I did.
I still laugh over it bc you could so very clearly see him going through the fudging five stages of grief. I genuinely never knew Vtuber models could convey sheer confusion so well. His avatar looked close to crying. I know for a fact that the model has a scornful/awkward/anxious setting(something like 😰), but the face he made upon seeing my username translated into something FAR more expressive than that setting ever put on his avatar.
