Just a longer week than usual, but hey, atleast we got July 1st in here.
I always feel impending doom when July approaches, i wonder why, must be the wind.
Talk about stuff.
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r/VirtualYoutubers•181.6K subscribers•300 activeWeekly VTuber Spotlight: Lillian the Maid - July 01, 2024News/Announcement
Blue Jump EN 1st Generation Dragon Maid at your service!
Overview
- Name: Lillian
- Illustrator: Yamanasi Mikage
- Affiliation: Blue Jump EN
- Debut Date: October 15, 2023
- Birthday: May 12
- Height: 160cm (5'3")
- Oshi Mark: ⚜️
Design reference by @yamanasi_mikage
Introduction
Lillian is a female VTuber affiliated with Blue Jump, an agency that primarily operates in South Korea. She is currently the only EN (English) member of Blue Jump, but she regularly interacts and collabs with other smaller agency VTubers.
Lore wise, Lillian is a dragon maid from another world. Whilst trying to chase down a rat that had been stealing from the mansion she worked in, she opened up a cabinet containing a portal, which pulled her in and isekai'd her into our world. Her appearance is that of a human-dragon hybrid, with four horns on her head and a large scaly tail. And of course, being a maid means she wears a cute maid outfit.
Now a VTuber, Lillian is a variety streamer who typically goes live 4-5 times per week. Though she is a competent gamer, this variety extends to zatsudan/just chatting and other non-gaming streams, which make up a relatively high ratio of her total streaming content. Lillian is the comfy and wholesome type; she rarely if ever swears, and avoids making overtly sexual content or remarks. Her ASMR content instead revolves around soft speaking and roleplay scenarios.
Lillian initially only streamed on Twitch, using her primary YouTube channel sparingly for cover songs and occasional stream highlights. But she would begin streaming on YouTube on January 2024, and she has since streamed on both platforms regularly. At the time of writing, Lillian has 3.33k subscribers on YouTube and 2.3k followers on Twitch.
Notable Facts
- Lillian uses a 3D VTuber model, and possesses several toggles for poses as well as a cleaning broom accessory.
- She has some knowledge in multiple languages other than English, namely Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean.
- Her recent birthday celebration lasted three days, because in her words, "It took me three whole days to break my egg"
- She is an Australian, and her typical stream starting times are either at 1-2am UTC (late morning-midday for her), or 11am UTC (her evening).
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people are telling me not to watch falseeyed, what did he do wrong?Discussion
ive been a daily watcher of his vtuber news videos and i would be disappointed if he did something very controversial. i hope that isnt the case
Filian and Goodsmile might be in hot waters with this oneDiscussion
Yesterday, Good Smile announced that they're making a Nendorid of Filian.
The problem here is, Filian doesn't actually own her character design. She uses a recolor of a booth model named Rindo made by the artist Jingo.
Basically it's a model everyone can buy and use from the artist's booth. That's why you often see other people using the exact same model. What this mean is, neither Filian, nor Good Smile can actually make and sell this Nendoroid without the original creator's permission.
The following is directly taken from the model's Term's of Use, and here, it says that she need to contact the lincensor to make merchandise.
You can read the term's of service here or find links to it on the page for the model on the artist's booth.
And the artist confirmed on their twitter that they were never informed about this.
The tweet here says:
" Hello, this is Jingo.
This morning, I received many messages about the announcement posted by Good Smile Company about the production of a Nendoroid based on a VTuber who used my Rindou model as a base [for their avatar].
Since I found out when I was still traveling, it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
I did not receive any prior communication from Good Smile Company nor the VTuber in question about the production of this Nendoroid figure.
From my point of view, the fact that there was an announcement of plans to professionally produce a figure based on my character despite the fact that I had yet to hear about it is very puzzling, so … I am currently in the process of communicating with Good Smile Company and the VTuber in question, and am awaiting a response.
Since this situation involves [companies,] not just individual people, it will take a bit of time for everything to be resolved.
I hope you all can understand this; please wait for the outcome."
Now this also brings in another problem. Since they failed to contact the creator for something as big as a Nendoroid, we don't know if Filian ever got the permission for her other merchandise too.
One more thing that could put her in deeper waters is that Filian herself had admitted that she paid 0 dollars for the Rindo model (Rindo model is sold for ¥7000 on the artist's booth) and ripped the mint model from VR Chat "illegally". Here, in the first clip, she was talking about the Rindo model and in the second clip is about the Mint model ( Lil' Fil).
What this mean is, according to herself, her two most iconic models were pirated. There's also the fact that she had never credited any of the artists for any of her models but that's a whole another can of worms.
Komado, the artist who made Mint aka Lil' Fil has also recently came out and said this:
The tweet from Good Smile announcing the Filian Nendoroid has since been deleted,
So far, there's yet to be updates from either of the artists or Filian regarding the case, but hopefully, this will be peacefully resolved.
I'm just baffled by why someone as big as Filian still hasn't got her own unique model yet since she clearly has the money for it. This was a disaster waiting to happen. Even a while back, one of her viewers pointed out that they saw her model being used in a shitty mobile game ad and she said there was nothing she could do about it because she don't own the model. Imagine this, people can pretend to be her and get away with it as long they don't directly say they're Filian because her name is the only thing she actually owns.
Hopefully this teaches Filian to finally get her own model. She's one of the biggest Indie Vtubers ffs!
Get your fucking act together Filian!
Been missing Yuniiho's streams lately…Discussion
While I only began to see her ~7 months before her graduation, I haven't been able to find a Vtuber that has the same vibe as her streams.
Do y'all have any recommendations?
