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Leaving MWM/ASTRALINE and the future of RAINA

@HyloVT did you know in Southeast Asia there's a subset of people that particularly love the wilted McD fries that have an extra-strong hint of salt/umami no other fast food joint does it

like this tweet if you fuck with mcdonalds fries

@firozera > his fall from grace last year where he got arrested for eating an irish tiktoker ok that one is amusing, I'll concede... (all I can think of is the OG design by the student herself and how something was kinda-lost in the adaptation)

@RAINAplease Go through the other QRTs on the OP and you should find some photos 😂

"Huh? But it's not that hard to design a cute mascot, it can't be that ba...." Eurovision is well and truly dead

@firozera You mean there's MORE?! golly

@RAINAplease The costume version is *even worse*

@reisaforte Not just you, I have to manually check now

anyone else just never get discord notifs on mobile anymore or is it just me

@densetsuexe hol up this fits you 3 like a glove AND y'all put your spin on it ✨

Nani ga suki!?✨🎶 Surprise! Hot off the heels of our live show announcement, here's another group cover!🔥 We think you might be familiar with this one...🍨 What's YOUR favorite flavor? 🩷💚🩵 #densetsuexe

@ExoVerseVT yessss they're lovely peeps, have fun

So uh- APPARENTLY I'M BEING KIDNAPPED AND GOING TO CARRIER CON

Oh hey, thanks for reading! It's both validating and sad to hear that you've also seen a fair bit of this :/ Personally, I've been in the position of staff who've had to walk away because the talent chose fanagement/stanagement repeatedly, to the point they also said "my [fanager] can never do any wrong, and I will defend them because I'm loyal" 😅 Not worth it. I haven't seen as much of this happening but die hard fans becoming the loudest antis will always remind me that "love and hate are 2 sides of the same coin" 😞 Even if the jury's out on what "love" actually is...

@RAINAplease great writeup, and is something I've seen plenty through the years. The worst part is the the talent often not realizing the problems the 'stanager' has caused until after damage done. As well, the most die hard fans can become the most fervent antis, which always makes me sad.

There's a reason why @CarillusArt had a rule back when he was streaming: "I don't give mod to fans of my stream." It didn't prevent one of the hardest moments his mod team once had to navigate: he had given VIP to a regular who was known for being abrasive/causing trouble (1/5)

It was difficult because I was constantly flagging to Cari that "no, this is not a good idea, you need to set boundaries, other chatters don't wanna talk because this guy is around" - all while risking my standing as mod AND co-creator on our webtoon b/c I was "being a nag" (2/5)

His reasoning seemed sound back then: "If I enforce boundaries/tell people off, the mood will be ass and other people will leave" "People are there to be comfy" And my fave: "it's my channel" Granted, the "VIP" eventually DID get told off and had his status removed, but...(3/5)

...I did get blowback from Cari at the time because "well he's totally stopped coming to watch now, are you happy?" I still stood by it, b/c I noticed people chatting more after the guy quit coming. And this was >1 year before the both of us caught feelings/started dating (4/5)

Bottom line: I have my own lived experiences of what could've ended up as me being fanagement, and I'm glad it didn't end up that way. But the observations in that fanagement article? Entirely based on stuff I've seen up close in VTubing/content over the past 3 yrs. (5/5 end)

Much appreciated - it can sometimes be hard because some NDAs are no joke, and there's ALWAYS need to hold nuance :/ But I'm gonna keep doing my best with what I can share, at least from my own lived experience and professional observations! Just less streamer POV, and more from a business ops/creator support/producer lens. (Definitely heard of Paprika as well - I'll keep your recs on my watchlist then!)

As someone who also shares advice and stories in hopes it gives people new perseptice, I'm really happy to see more people like you share stuff with a whole other perspective and point of view! (All his movies are so insanely cool! Lots of interesting concepts and the animation is top tier! I do wish he was still alive and making movies but some of my favorites are perfect blue, Paprika, and Tokyo godfathers!)

@JankenPomme Not officially - but in your world, it sure seems like a thing 🤭 (husband prefers soft noods too)

@RAINAplease Is it a thing??

I forgot to get my Cup Ramen after 3 minutes and it sat there for a much longer time... I'm starting to think I prefer my instant ramen overcooked 🤔

@CarillusArt and they are duly and greatly appreciated, even if my way of showing said appreciation is by means of an ancient meme format 🤪

@RAINAplease You're the one that I'm writing the SOPs for the SOPs for... 😘

Ever since starting my own production company, the documentation (SOPs, plan templates, communication workflows, etcetera) has been stacking up. My SOPs have SOPs. This struck me as different - I used to work somewhere that eschewed documentation for the sake of "flexibility". Yes, the ability to adapt to changing circumstances is important - but the documentation hasn't made things feel or function any less flexibly. When we found an inconsistency in character art (a missing hat) in one frame, the documentation clearly indicated who needed to do the fixes - sketch, lineart and colors. Everyone knew exactly where to jump in, handed things off to each other cleanly, and the problem was solved within the hour. So here's a little nugget of wisdom, from someone who's lived through both approaches: Documentation doesn't reduce flexibility. Undocumented processes are just an excuse so nobody can prove you're not following them. #CariCodes

My husband's starting to write/post more too! Especially about Lorecrafters things \o/ For the many people who told me "he seems interesting but he's so quiet/scary/hard to figure out, but I wanna know his thought process more"...congrats, your prayers have been answered 😂

It do be like that! It may not be obvious, but I personally try to focus on the good and the improvements in this space as much as possible - because yes, there's plenty to enjoy and be thankful for in VTubing/content creation. But because my other core value is to ALWAYS engage with anything while having eyes wide open, I prefer to shine a light on any problems with respect and nuance - not just "this is bad and you should feel bad", or "we don't speak about this". I do this in the hopes that people know what to watch out for, and if they choose to carry on engaging, forewarned is forearmed. Right now it's quite hard to strike a balance between "oooh positive safe space no matter what/who" AND "this whole space sucks, it's problematic, it's killing my vibe" - I don't like it because it just makes things either/or. My hope is that whatever I'm posting shows a third way, and is an example on how to engage with these things critically and respectfully - because these ARE important conversations to have. Thanks for continuing to engage in good faith, by the way!

@RAINAplease The general issue is bad, I hope it can be improved overall, though I think it will always remain somewhat as long as humans are humans. Just gotta keep working on it.

You might've seen this called "unicorn behavior": fans who want their oshi to have zero on-screen interaction with men. That's not wrong, but it isn't the whole picture - and the gap between the "unicorn" label and what's actually happening here is where the real damage lies. This isn't just "a strong purity preference rooted in idol culture norms". It's a fan who built a contract in his head (partially from something Nerissa actually said on stream), appointed himself the interpreter, and is now one-sidedly holding his oshi accountable to "terms" she never agreed to. The scene calls this "delulu." Researchers looking at East Asian idol culture call it something more specific - "parakin". It refers to a point on the parasocial spectrum where fan admiration tips into "we made you" entitlement, complete with "obligations to the fans" the creator was never aware of, let alone consented to. (The fact that the meltdown was triggered by a mention of Octavio, who just dropped a song literally about "loving someone you can't reach"...yeah, the irony isn't lost on me.) This pattern doesn't need a job title to do damage; Nerissa's reply in that chat log from August 2025 is proof enough. And she's not the only one impacted by this behavior. I recently wrote about the version of this scenario where the fan *does* have a job title - the escalation-to-entitlement mechanism is identical. Read about it here: x.com/RAINAplease/st… #RAINArambles