Not deep in the vtuber culture, but I thought the term comes from things like Love Live. The idols are supposed to be high school students.
VTuber Graduation
Submitted 4 hours ago by tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone to animemes@ani.social
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Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 22 minutes ago
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Even weirder how hololive forbids talking about their new carreers as if their dead not graduated
Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That’s just the way Japanese do these things, look at the rules their YouTuber and what not have to stick to, talking about this stuff could be real, serious legal ramifications. Craziness.
chellewalker@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
It’s not just a Hololive thing; Vshojo was an outlier in that it’s talents could maintain their identities when they left the company, but every other Vtubet agency does the same thing.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Vtubing terminology is the single stupidest aspect of the entire thing.
NoPanko@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
It’s literally just Japanese idol terminology
scytale@piefed.zip 3 hours ago
I don’t even know what a vtuber retirement is. When they stop streaming?
vateso5074@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I don’t know the full ins and outs myself, but most of these VTubers are managed by agencies who own the rights to the characters they portray. The people behind the character get paid for their work, and they can choose to take better jobs elsewhere, but they don’t get to bring the characters with them. Basically like how Tom Kenny (voice actor for SpongeBob) can’t just decide to be SpongeBob somewhere else, he doesn’t own the character.
When a VTuber decides to retire or if they take a better job with a different agency, the character “graduates,” which I think is just used because it’s a softer word than “retire.” The fans just get to imagine the character is off doing bigger and better things, not that they’re euthanized or locked in a storage unit somewhere gathering dust. In theory I guess the agency could continue using the character for merch and promo material, or even recast, though I have no idea how well that would go in an industry with fans as obsessive as theirs.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
When they stop streaming as that character.
The twrm graduating comes from Japanese pop idol culture, where a pop idol that retiring is called “graduating.”
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
Creepy and weird IMO
And I say this as a bit of a weeb
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 hours ago
When they leave their agency
SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Dooby, Saba, Mint, Doki, and Nimi.
All my oshis must be Jason Bourne, because they survived the kill squads and returned from the dead.
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Dooby, Saba, Mint, Doki, and Nimi.
My brain turned off for a second and I thought you were listing Linux distros
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 hours ago
Some of them had done it multiple times, even
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 hours ago
It’s actually like molting, they might disappear for a couple weeks then show up in a different skin
But it’s also a very dangerous process and disturbing them during this period can cause them to hurt themselves
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
If it helps, here’s a story that’s the exception that proves the rule…
We adopted a dog. A beautiful Romanian Shepherd. Lovely dog, friendly as fuck, mega playful… but wasn’t a fan of kids. That was unfortunate, because our kids loved the dog but after a while the dog got a bit bitey. No warning, no growl, just fuck you and chomp. Thankfully, the only thing that stopped him from doing some serious damage was that he was a good boi and never proper sunk his teeth in.
Long story boring, we tried to rehome him, tried to calm him, tried to train him out of it, but the dog wouldn’t settle. Took him to the vets to give him a once over before the rescue charity took him back… and he bit the vet. That fucked a lot of things - the rescue was mega wary, the vet had recommended euthanasia, and keeping him wasn’t an option.
Long story short, we found a farm that specialised in dogs that had some “behavioural quirks”, and we took him halfway across the country to live there. It was a lovely place - loads of land, quiet, and dozens of corners where he could do his favourite thing - sit in a corner and chew on his toy.
I miss that dog, but I’m glad he’s happy.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s like that scene in Cloud Atlas.
BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Up, up, up to the heaviside layer.
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 14 minutes ago
But just the av not the actual person. Digital ol yeller’d