How Overseas Fans Saved Towa's Career

This is one of those narratives that started back in the day on reddit/4chan/twitter and with a couple of clips that don't tell the full story. It paints the JP fanbase in a more negative light than was actually the case and gives more credit to the overseas fanbase than is due. Not saying that some JP fans didn't over react and that overseas fans didn't help, both of these are true, but it's been exaggerated to fit the narrative. It's been repeated so often now though that most people just treat it as a fact.

There was never a mass exodus of Towa's JP fans. As is often the case with this type of drama it was just a small number of crazies. Also the issue wasn't that she had a bf, it was that she panicked and lied that it was management...very similar to the Rushia situation where the issue was never "GFE" or that she was messaging mafumafu, it was that she panicked and broke her NDA.

Overseas bros absolutely had her back though and it was around the time Hololive was blowing up in the west because of Korone, Miko, Fubuki and the others so there was a large influx of EN viewers to everyone. So overall still a great video, I just think that overtime the facts tend to get sensationalized and made more melodramatic by fans retelling it because it makes for a better story, making finding what actually happened a lot more difficult. Keep up the good work!

I think all of Hololive's talents should find the love of their life. We can't let them wither in the vines. Japanese Idol culture is rancid as hell though.

towa my Queen

No… not devoted. Just parasocial.

It's strange. When I see a young woman, that seem like a good of a person, so devoted to her work, specially in the entertainment industry, I wish she can have a healthy personal life, because many don't. I sincerely wish that they don't wait until they are old and infertile to decide to find love, marry someone and raise a family.

i was there

Isn't Towa like, confirmed gay anyway?

I remembered watching her 3D Debut when I'm still new to the Hololive, and that Live Stream made me a Kenzoku. Up until now, even tho I take breaks from hololive time to time, I still go back to her, she is just so Precious.

Its insane that playing lesbian is acceptable but if shes straight and has a relationship with a guy then its a problem

To be frank Japanese fans and unicorns need to accept that attractive people are rarely single. Donate for the correct reasons.

Obsessed idol fans are the lowest of low.

This was so beautiful that it almost brought a tear to my eye, I'm glad that we as overseas bros have done good for once and helped her out. I didnt know much about her or even heard about this but I'm glad things worked out in the end. Godspeed my friend, Godspeed o7

The funny thing - Overseas fan always save this girls, but of course not of them, but some of them forgot or dont care about overseas, just talking with japanese fans(that is fan because her continue "pure" in they language) , i saw so much of this, of course, its just some of this girls do this, the most of they are pretty respectfull and kind with overseas fans

>idols must be pure
Ah yes, good old Perfect Blue

Back in the mid 90s or something I had a mega crush on Naomi Tamura and I didn't even know who she was at that point but I lived in the sticks, In Germany, and I was completely taken away by this new awesome kind of exotic music.
She coulda had 9001 children and twice as many partners, I was still listening to that crappy wobbly tape my penpal sent me on my crappy cassette player radio to listen to her songs during summer like crazy.

Idols should be required to have a partner to become idols from now on. I don't see how it would get in the way over fawning and parasocial, hel, for men, having a ring on your finger attracts women who might think they can outperform your wife, man.
Lol.

But perhaps they think they can be her first...what a delusion, man. Poor idols.

Once again kaigai niki shows JP whose waifus these are 😂 we the husbandos now 😈😝

One thing I’ve learned about online culture is you can NEVER feed the trolls and legitimize weird dynamics between the fans and talent. the talent owe their fans 0 percent of their personal time and life. End of story! Towas an incredibly talented artist imagine losing that to losers who think they have a chance because they superchatted

I mean vtubing in general got huge after it got globally recognized.

Am I the only one surprised at the time when Towa debuted? I always thought she debuted earlier than 2020

Japanses toxic idol-obssesed minority of incels not being pathetic losers CHALLENGE LVL IMPOSSIBLE

The company has always been full of shit, letting crazed “fans” dictate their decisions and blatantly mistreating their talents.

I remember this happening and i was confused as to why people were angry. I had no idea having a boyfriend or even a males voice being heard would cause so much controversy. Id been watching miko since late 2019 but this was my first taste of idol culture. Even now i still dont care if they have boyfriends or husbands. In fact im worried that some of them wont get married😅.

The east Asian community is hella S I N G L E, then they get mad for their Idol having a "life" outside the streams. Losers.

Why tf are Unircorns still a thing like seriously why, isn't it clear af that hololive isn't a fricking tradicional idol agency and that the talents aren't obligated to not have male interactions, like for fuck sake for all we know that could've been her brother or father

Towa the devil who pushed me into the rabbit hole
As I fell, I looked up at her gloating over me, and smiled
Thank you, Towa!

Towa is going to be my favorite all the time she is entertaining and really good singer.

This is why I don't find Yagoo memes funny. Talent holding companies are a plague. There's no replacement for them, being indie is hard. But they don't deserve the time of day and you shouldn't give it to them.

Sometimes I find it hard to stand parasocial JP fans over the whole "unpure idol" when it comes to talents. There always seems to be some kind of bad blood between overseas and JP fans when it comes to male voices or mentions by talents.

I dont watch her streams, but every time she releases a song im in love

Towa my beloved

Towa sama Warukunai yo nee

Never knew about this one. Was before my time, so I am very thankful the fans had her back.
Towa is amazing.

i hate the whole idea that idols must no interact with males at all to appear a "available" to fans(mostly the male audience), its makes me angry that people believe these vtubers exist only for the entertainment/ and parasocial relationship of themselves. vtubers are people who chose the entertain for themself and an audience they did not become vtubers to entertain the delutional one sided relationship people believe they have with any said vtuber/or any entertainer personality in general. im glad towa got through and became an even more amazing person and i cant wait to see what she does moving forward.

overseas find her the purist

incels lose again

Idol or not, shes still a human. And wherever you are japanese or not it is ridiculous to expect a human to not have a social life. And that covercorp "where apologetic for her behavior" is just the nail in the coffin.

Japanese parasocial simps DIESOFCRINGE

How about a video on how The Quartering saved hololive? Yes this actually happened 🤣

Why do you pronounce recurrence as reoccurrence?

Honestly, as a Korean who grew up in the states it's crazy to me how invested and parasocial people can get (inside of idol culture.) Especially over something as niche as a v-tuber. It's weird they forget they're just normal people too. It's unreal, who cares if she has a boyfriend or not. 😭

Cover is such a cuckold company.

Towa wa warukunaiyo nee......

The passive aggressiveness of the video because his not japanese

wholesome girl with a banger voice, what else the damn pervs want? happy for her and the fully deserved success

This also shows how much the company has changed, they went from: "we're sorry for inconvenience caused by the talent", to: "Our company has no control over the talent's private life".

iirc most of her chat back then was english anyway. the way she try to speak english and react to comment back then was priceless.

What is so fucked up is Cover not backing their own talent in this and feeding the loud minority in their insane idea. Only worsening the problem by validating them by issuing an apology to them and making Towa apologize aswell further escalating the whole thing.

Ahh fuck, I can NOT understand the degree of parasocial Andy's that allow them any sort of claim over someone's career. To slander and actively tear down someone you once loved simply because they ended up not loving you (for very obvious and valid reasons) is just obnoxious, absolute clownery.

That kind of "fans" are trash, and deserve to be kicked in the balls repeatedly.

Really, the worst she did was "break character."
I understand it kinda breaks the illusion of the characters they play, but I wouldn't even call it an offense. If that's the image Hololive wants to sell with these fictional characters (so long as the actresses' personal lives aren't being negatively affected), then I understand wanting to remove the stream. Vtubing is effectively one big roleplay, and the audience is in on it. As long as people can seperate fiction from reality, it's not an inherently bad thing. Of course, it gets bad when people take it too seriously and project a sense of ownership on the streamer.
Cover Corp is sending the wrong message by treating the slip up as a punishable offense..