>>6346784It all started out with Tanya in October. This was shortly before even the /trash/ wvt times, months before /vt/ was made. Her debut somehow got caught in YT's algo, and had a reddit post up on the vtuber subreddit which got a good amount of traction, so by sheer chance she managed to get a couple hundred pairs of eyes on her, including some anons who posted her back in /jp/ when western vtubers didn't really have any other place to be posted in. This was around the time of Artemis' debut, so anons were simultaneously irritated at the overshilled debut being such a disappointment, mixed with anons going 'I told you so', which bothered the /jp/ meidos enough to cause the migration to /trash/. Initially /wvt/ was just going to be one thread, but someone happened to post Tanya's debut there. This was the 18 hour debut. It immediately captivated many anons not just for the novelty of an SA vtuber, but her many unique quirks, charisma, and boundless energy. The stream only ended when her phone just about melted. I forgot what the exact numbers were throughout that stream, but she managed to amass some 300+ concurrent viewers and shot up past 500 subs on that day alone.
For the first couple weeks the then-wvt was mostly focused on her. Homegrown vtubers weren't a thing yet, and Koopa was still just a joke concept. Even other western indies were still in the making, so she got in early before the oversaturation started hampering newcomers. Some time after this Neko made her redebut as well, and an interest in SA-based vtubers started to grow. Since /wvt/ itself had grown into many different discussions of many vtubers of varying sized and backgrounds, it seemed reasonable to start a thread dedicated to the africats. Ari and Puji were found sort of by coincidence, and it was funny how at the time all SA vtubers were mostly cat themed - even Puji who isn't a cat as such, but is themed after a cat cafe waitress.
It definitely was a diamond in the rough situation.
