N'Yuuki 🍁 ・✦・

Step 1 Complete! I love her so much I could die! 🧡 Next step, getting model art done and getting her rigged! 🎨 Character Art & Design: @/AronesLens #ENVtuber ✶ #Vtuber ✶ #CharacterDesign

Holy balls... why does it feel like the bulk of creators in this space are so emotionally stunted and dramatic. Can we just... I dunno... be normal functioning adults. My poor feed is flooded. 😅

I mean, it's really just poor time management at that point. It's part of the reason that full upfront or even 50/50 is dicey in this industry. Milestone payments would better serve artists and commissioners (sketch/lineart/flat/render). They get paid for the work they put in not abscond with it all and run. 😅

If you take commissions for vtuber models, and it takes you over a YEAR to do. You should not be taking commissions. Not only you’re getting paid for your time but for the commissioners time as well.

@sprinklehershy Straight up refund. We shouldn't even have to ask about it. If we've paid and we're getting ghosted/ignored etc. there's no reason not to. At the end of the day it's a business transaction and they're not providing their part. 😬

so what do I do if I commissioned an artist for a model at the end of 2024 and I changed the outfit in feb 2025 and paid the rest of it but I’ve only gotten a sketch, but the artist has finished brand new models that came after me even though mine was just an outfit/hair/toggle add on and they messaged me a month ago that they would give me an update that week of flat color but they basically have disappeared for the past month and have been ghosting me

Truer words were never spoken. 😂🍁

@_VGen_ @aerivt Glorious! Now if we could also get pagination searching vs lazy loading forever scrolling so it stops crashing while we search... all would be right in the world! It sucks scrolling for like 30 pages to have everything freeze, refuse to load more and have to start over. 😬

@nyewkey @aerivt This is exactly what's coming in Spring26 Release (site-wide content preference filters)! Please stay tuned for more details this sunday!

90% of vtuber-centred art found dead in the streets after VGens new policy implementations 🚬

After extensively fidgeting with the @elgato Wave Link 3.0 software I can safely say... 1️⃣ I hate that we have to consume the limited channels (8 total) for our Mics. I'm not sure the best way to handle this. Maybe either: 🅰 When adding an Input Device as a channel, just let us pick the Default Communication Device set in windows vs. a specific Mic? 🅱 When creating a channel we can using the Group feature and add multiple mics to the same Group. Would probably need a way to toggle between which one is currently the default? 🅲 Just give us more Channel options so it's not a problem? I feel like it's clunky right now for those that are using 3rd party Mics because we consume more channels if we have more than 1. * We can still use Audio FX with either A or B right? It's not limited to the first mic added? (saw a reddit thread about something like that). 2️⃣ I just want to be able to swap between my Speakers and my Headset. Both of which have different volume settings. 😭 Am I supposed to have a "Personal Mix" for my Headset and one for my Speakers and assign each the corresponding output? Am I supposed to keep a singular Personal Mix, give it the 2 Outputs and "Mute" one or the other based on what's active? If yes, shouldn't there be a Hotkey swap option for that that's NOT tied to SD or SD app? Voicemeeter has a "Macro button" profile you can use to do this. I flip between A1 (speakers) and A2 (headset) using a keyboard hotkey. I don't have a physical SD and don't want to have to open the app just to do this vs. hitting a hotkey on the keyboard. It's counterproductive. 3️⃣ You can assign "Apps" to channels but there's no way to assign things like "obs-browser-page" which is what Alerts typically send their Audio through. How do we catch though is we have a SFX channel? Do we still need to use something like Ear Trumpet to move these around? 🤔 4️⃣ How do we add Nvidia Noise Removal, or is that your Elgato Noise Removal because if it is... holy crap does that just not work as a female streamer. If I'm doing something where I make high pitched noises, laugh, chuckle or scream during jump scares it's just... gone. I don't have quite that problem with the NVIDIA Noise Removal option in OBS. Would buying Voice Focus work better? Someone send help. Am I the problem? 😅 I want to love this and I'd swap from VM if I could but some of this is just... 😬 #elgato #wavelink #voicemeeter #streaming

@exisbread Yas! I do this but with Touch Portal. It's glooorious!

Since this post got a lot of interest, I wanted to also share again another thing that has saved me a lot of time and headache when starting stream. Here’s how to automatically open all of your streaming programs:

@_VGen_ @aerivt Just give an account wide setting option under Preferences to toggle how the filter works site wide. Let us choose if we want burred visuals for Suggestive/Explicit when viewing. You have our birthdate's so shouldn't be hard for anyone 18+.

@aerivt For context, this new tagging system is in anticipation of our new site-wide content preference filters which will go live for our Spring26 release. Revealing clothes are also unblurred by default, please stay tuned for more details on Sunday!

@exisbread This is what I do too. I also use Aitum Vertical so I clip the vertical vs the horizontal. I have it set up with my touch portal. You can use Streamer.bot too and have users "auto clip" based on certain words they type. 👍

this is what i do, saves so much time

Or... hear me out... we ditch them and just let the orangutang titties fly.

This is like the 3rd doc I've seen on this studio. Guys... seriously... we need to normalize being provided with the PSD and CMO3 working files in this space. Either included or for an extra fee. There should be less worrying about hiding the "secret sauce" and more concern about what happens to the customer if something happens to these artists/riggers/studios. Like, these poor people end up shit creek without a paddle, potentially out THOUSANDS of dollars. It's actual insanity. 😬😭 If you're going to start work with a freelancer or studio that does this, with no options to get your full deliverables, it's probably smart to look elsewhere.

@kitto_jpg I like a little enthusiasm. It's still business but this is a more creative space so it makes me feel like they're excited for my project/design. Though, I think if every message was in all caps it'd be a bit much. 😅

i think about this sometimes... when you commission an artist, do you perfer if they responded more professional, business like & formal. or do you perfer seeing mroe emotion and excitement through their response.. ... would a response with "ALL CAP!!!~~~🥹" makes you think the artist is less trust worthy or less professional?

@Echonoxica @exisbread Right?! What if they went tits up... or something else happened. Their model babies would be up shit creek without a paddle then. 😬 I can only imagine they do it to force customer to stick with them for any future updates/edits etc. It's a very aggressive lock in policy.

@nyewkey @exisbread I found them through fiverr and I wish they weren't my first ever model 😭 I want my filess

As many of you know, I also had issues with this studio. The tl;dr is I paid $1300 for a rush fee and after letting me know it'd be ready a couple weeks early, they ended up waiting until like a day before the deadline to tell me they will *try* to get a preview sent by the end of the month and were not understanding of why that upset me. I posted about it venting, it blew up and after admonishing me for venting about the situation, they suddenly they were willing to refund the rush fee after I asked and rushed to finish the model asap. It came to me clearly rushed and we had to go back and forth quite a bit to get it up to standard. Ultimately, with the refund and fixing the model, I am happy with the final result. However, I'd have a hard time recommending them due to what happened and how much of a headache it was to get to that point. Many people reached out to me at the time about having similar issues with them, and it looks like there are even more now, so I'd like to share this doc for awareness.

@exisbread I feel like a broken record at this point but sometimes these things just drive me bananas. It's crazy to me that this is one of the few industries where everything feels so topsy turvy compared to everything else. Pricing, TOS, etc. 😂

@nyewkey the transparency defense is honestly crazy to me, nobody cares what the price breakdown includes they just care about knowing what the ACTUAL cost is up front!!

Guys, think of it like this. You don't go make a purchase on Amazon or in-store and have them go "Oh! BTW here's the 5% processor fee", "Oh! BTW here's the 12% for service fees" when you go to pay. You'd be like... WTF. 😂 You don't see that because those fees are already in the price you're paying. That's what markup is. It's their costs (overhead) + profit margin. Here's some Business 101... --- If you charge $50 for a piece and it takes you 2 hrs, you're working for $25/hr. BUT, guess what?! It's not all yours. Shocking I know! 😱 That $50 has to cover your wage and your expenses. Things like platform and processor fees, supplies, etc. That ALL comes out of that $50. So your actual take-home... you know... your food/rent/fun money, is lower than $25/hr unless you price for it. This means that you can't just price for your time but you need to price for your costs too! The cleanest way to do that is to build those %s into your base pricing instead of tacking them on later. Because that's how pricing is typically displayed everywhere else. People expect a final price, not extra fees added at the end. Transparency is a clear total with no surprises at the end. You're not hiding anything by baking your costs in! 👍

Think of it this way... when you go into a store (or online) the price you see listed for a product is marked up to include any fees/overhead a store would incur along with their profit margin. You don't go to the checkout and the cashier says "oh btw there's another 12% for our store fees". That just doesn't make sense and customers would probably walk away. It's the same concept. These should be rolled into your base price. In this specific scenario, it's extra not good because passing on PayPal fees like this is against their TOS and can lead to someone getting their PP shut down if it's reported.

Realmente no entiendo el problema de esto, nunca he recibido quejas de mis clientes al cobrar el 5% de vgen (aun que no lo coloco así como en la foto) Se me hace importante que tu cliente sepa lo que está pagando porque si no será un robo ¿no? Además si tienes una página +

@AdrestiaVT The auto correct on 2FA… 😭

Don’t click sussy links in your dm’s even if it “sounds” like a friend typing. They bypass 2nd by session hijacking. Turn off to allow users to use/add 3rd party apps (default is on for everyone). Probably wise to create a master account that has full server perms/owns the server then log it out and use your normal account as a role below. If something fishy happens you can master nuke the offenders.

How is every Vtuber getting their discord accounts hacked right now? What can I do to avoid it?

For clarity... 12% of $3k ($360) is obviously going to be more than 12% of $1.5k ($180), but it's still 12%. The amount changes but not the rate. That's why you don't use the same flat, static amount to calculate your fees into base pricing. You use the %.

How to build fees into your pricing (VGen, etc.)… apparently this is controversial... 😅👇