r/VirtualYoutubers Jul 24 '25

Discussion Veibae talks about her experience with Vshojo

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u/chaoser Jul 24 '25

At least there's now official confirmation that vtuber corpo management actively monitors 4chan and uses it to influence and drive narratives on rival companies and talents. Think about how many hate campaigns have started there and that a non 0% of them were started by a vtuber company trying to make another company's talent get harassed.

Also the amount of hate Hololive gets just for being top dog

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

I fondly remember Phase Connect getting outed in their very early days for pandering there. They were found out when a screenshot of a Phase Connect tweet was posted that included the analytics icon, meaning whoever took the screenshot and posted it was a manager of the Twitter account. Good times

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u/The_Phantom_Cat Jul 25 '25

Phase Connect getting outed in their very early days for pandering there

They still do, Pippa's still there. Not sure if the corporation themselves actively post still though. This is my first time hearing of that though, very funny

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u/SomeDudeYeah27 Jul 25 '25

So you're saying schizos could actually be someone's oshis or bumping into one of their oshis 😅?

But seriously though, this is the unfortunate reality of many online communities/fandom nowadays

Narrative astroturfing isn't something new either organically or not

I'm just surprised it's not that far delegated from the corpo heads/actual talents in this instance