>>24319086Imagine getting hired to design a character for a corp. Nothing unusual but they want to rig the design and make it move so you have to do some extra work. You do just that and after some feedback and tweaks your job is done. You don't know much about this whole Vtuber thing, but it's still some of your better works you think.
Like with all your characters, you create some artworks of her on your social media from time to time but nothing big because you're busy earning. Even top illustrators aren't swimming in money after all. One day people start bothering you on Twitter about some birthday you forgot.
You get back in touch with Cover and they confirm Vtuber birthdays are a way to boost merch sales and it's profitable for you throw her fans a bone. So their debut isn't a Vtuber birthday, instead it's treated like anime characters with birthdays, huh?
Knowing it's not her actual birthday nor anniversary, you still create an illustration because it can't hurt and you quite like her design anyway. Now you know better and mark her birthday for next year in your calendar. But you have little time to think about all of this for long, because you're already balls deep into your next job.
