>>30890221Projekt Melody. She went viral right before covid which was a perfect mix for western coomers - vtubing was so foreign at the time and despite people claiming that miko GTA got them into vtubing, melody had a far greater mass market impact. Melody is the only one who got articles written about her, people were legit confused about if she was 'real' or a scripted AI hentai bot or a prerecorded video (hoes mad bros glad etc).
>Twitch and simpsWhen Melody went to twitch, a lot of her coomer oil baron whale simps followed and made it RAIN gifted subs, you had to be there but you were guaranteed a free gifted sub if you just had a tab open on their stream since people gifted 100+ subs nonstop to her and anybody she associated with
>vshojo gen 0Ironmouse, silver, zen, even bunny were the main friends circle that melody raided occasionally and played games with. I always find it funny how the 'new' vshojo members like vei froot nyanners are the ones who get shit on the most, probably cause they saw melody and just copied the 'peepeecum' tactic as a desperate way to get IN with what's now vshojo and their growing popularity.
>ironmouse becomes the most popular/belovedThis is where most people go 'FAKE ILLNESS SAY CHEESE THANKS MORI' and the funny thing is while it's probably real, mousey sure as fuck will let you know she's sick, or at least she talked about it nonstop in march/april 2020. A lot of vtubers probably have some kind of health thing but they keep it off stream or rarely mention it. Ironmouse, whether she meant to or not, got tons of savior points whenever she mentioned this and broke down from a big donation - you can't deny that this was huge in getting her noticed, but whether it was carefully calculated or just natural is up in the air. Was it just her being sick that put her ahead of others though?
"Talent" Freedom gets memed on but mousey actually has a lot of skills that kept people watching - singing for starters. The change of voice from her pipsqueak normal tone to her soul opera was an insane moment, just think back to Susan Boyle and how reality TV milked her 'gap moe' and how that spread like fire. Mousey was similar and that kept more people watching her than the other vshojo members. Her coño cussing and being puerto rican was the closest we got to some spicy latina vtuber (look at the fallout from that scarle iluna whoever who tweeted some spanish pre debut and got people so hyped but disappointed everyone after). People claim ironmouse can also out weeb 99% of /a/ so she wasn't a fake normie appealing to degens, she knew her shit and could talk about that stuff for hours.
