Ultra Senbei

Exposing the dark side of self-proclaimed "influencers".

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Elefire Grey the Cosplay Elf

Imagine being stuck in the 2012 living doll phase made popular by the likes of Dakota Rose and Taylor R. A lot of girls who dabbled in the Lolita/kawaii/living doll aesthetic have moved on, changed their looks, got married, had children. Yet there are still a few girls who are living the kawaii lifestyle OTT. Enter Elefire Grey, the elf. She’s your regular Instagrammer who has gotten quite the attention from fans of the kawaii look/lifestyle. She’s a self-proclaimed “influencer” who wants nothing more than to leave her retail job(?) and pursue a career as an online influencer. Elefire posts almost daily on her two Instagram accounts. She posts selfie after selfie, hoping people would engage with her content. However, if people don’t, she yells at them in her Instagram stories. Likes and comments feed her soul, apparently.

Just like a regular e-thot, Elefire lowkey aspires to be Belle Delphine. She is also not ashamed to call herself a “cringey hoe”.

She frequents Tik Tok in the hopes of becoming famous there.

She forces herself to wear clothes that she’s probably too old to wear. Her Lolita clothes are probably knock-offs and/or off-brand, bought from Taobao or eBay or some other e-thot-favored website. Sometimes, she forgets to wear a petticoat or a blouse and that makes her look very ita and it’s just so gross ya’ll. She treats Lolita fashion like cosplay. No respect at all. I mean, I do get that she’s a cosplayer, but she needs to draw the line between costumey pieces and actual FASHION. And how can I not get started on her makeup? She doesn’t put base makeup on and it just looks oily and it’s like it’s going to smudge itself off of her face. Also, elf ears?

Aside from her Instagram and Tik Tok, she’s also putting out her trash on YouTube where she uploads the most boring, basic kawaii bitch, 480p potato videos. Like: How to Be Kawaii!

All in all, she’s just cringey, as she said so herself. Quite rude. And attention-seeking. Check out her Instagrams if you want to have a laugh!

Her handles are elefire_cosplay and elefire_the_elf.

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Submitted by Farhana I. from Malaysia

Farhana’s submission:

I've been having thoughts about this subject for quite some time now. I just couldn't put it into words. There's also the fear of consequences, but I'm throwing that fear into the trash bin.

I've been in the seiyuu fandom since 2009 but I've never joined any fan groups/clubs, international or local. I've always been the type to enjoy my hobbies and interests by myself, but I digress.

I joined Twitter recently and started following a bunch of seiyuu fans. I don't interact with them but I really enjoy reading about their latest CD purchases and their thoughts about their favorites' recent works.

However, not all of them are very friendly. I've encountered some elitist fans (mostly of male seiyuu), and some were just downright rude.

There's this one Filipino girl--who goes by the name Sarapyon--who dissed a group of fellow Filipino seiyuu fans. Naturally, the group would retaliate. She saw this as "toxic behavior" and called them out and she went on for days talking about how she didn't want drama when she started it in the first place.

I don't know much about her but from what I gather from her Twitter and Tumblr accounts, she's pretty toxic herself.

I took a look at her bio and it's full of questionable stuff. From comments such as, non-verbatim, "People seem to think that I'm a foreigner. I'm 100% Filipino though." Okay. I have something to say about this, but it's 100% racist, so I'll just not.

One more thing that irked me was that, while she passed N5 level Japanese, she seems to think that she's at N3 just because her Japanese friends say she is. Girl, at least take the test first. Sheesh.

I also watched her most recent YouTube video (because apparently she's a YouTuber) and it seems like she acts like she's the authority when it comes to the seiyuu fandom. At least, in the Philippines. She speaks so highly about herself when in fact, there are other people who know more about the fandom. I wasn't going to mention this, but she even swore in front of her audience just because of the picture they used for Furukawa Makoto. LMAO.

I spoke to my fellow Malaysian seiyuu fan friends about her and they all said pretty much the same thing I did in this post.

If she's the face of the Philippine seiyuu fan community, then yikes!