Chibidoki\u2019s life is a sitcom, and we\u2019re all watching it in disbelief Twitter: chibidokiChibidoki can be explained using many adjectives. The star indie VTuber and her unnerving stories are chaotic, hilarious, and mind-boggling. And now after winning Funniest VTuber at The VTuber Awards she has one goal: proving that she isn\u2019t. There\u2019s a chance that even if you never watch VTubers, you\u2019ve seen Chibidoki\u2019s giant forehead somewhere. Maybe it was a YouTube thumbnail, or a Twitter clip, or something on TikTok. Usually it involves the happy-go-lucky VTuber getting bullied by her chat in creative ways, or utterly failing at a game, or saying something incredibly cursed. There\u2019s something intrinsic about her content that has a flair of virality. It\u2019s the question of \u201cDoes this really happen to someone in real life?\u201d Well, you can just ask her that directly. \u201cI\u2019ve never lied about a story in my life,\u201d she laughed, reminiscing on all the times she\u2019s affectionately purred Bowser\u2019s name. Or told an incredibly embarrassing tale people would usually carry to their grave. \u201cI never realized how funny my life was until I had someone to share stories with. Just the other day my sister found my YouTube channel and showed me the thumbnail of me as a naked buff guy and laughed at me for five minutes. My life is a sitcom!\u201d Chibidoki has always wanted to live out her dreams of content creation. She has been uploading on YouTube for years. She still remembers the first comment she ever received on a Garry\u2019s Mod video: \u201cThis is freaking cringe.\u201d While she wanted to run away at that moment, she persevered to push forward. And seven years later, those dreams are a reality. Embracing the cringe The Chibidoki on stream is a very different beast from the one offline. She\u2019s often found in \u201chibernation\u2026 a husk of a human.\u201d But it wasn\u2019t until she started streaming in 2020 that she found a second wind. The energy of bouncing around on screen behind her avatar awoke something in her. \u201cYou know how they say you have two inner wolves, I guess I have an anime wolf inside of me\u2026 that sounds bad but you know what I mean,\u201d she explained. On a more serious note, Chibidoki was one of the frontrunners of VTubing\u2019s rapid rise in 2021. While many tried and failed, she cracked the code somewhat. There was some element of luck involved, of course, but a look at her viewership chart shows just how quickly her fortunes changed from the one view YouTube videos she used to upload. \u201cI was one of the people who was most consistent as a streamer,\u201d she stated. \u201cI have too much free time \u2014 I did online school at the time so finding time to stream was easy. \u201cI\u2019ve been streaming 5 days a week for two years, and I feel like consistency really helped me. And spam uploading TikToks. It\u2019s so easy to get noticed if you upload a lot of garbage. As much as the consistency was good for her growth online, it also gave the chaotic VTuber a sense of stability offline. Locked inside with nothing to do except sleep for 12 plus hours a day, VTubing brought some routine. Having a stream at 4PM was no different to a 9-5 office job, but it got her motivated to \u201cbe awake when the sun is up.\u201d Routines are easy to fall out of though, so there was an extra element that kept her going. That was the community in both its forms \u2014 the wider VTubing space accepting her for who she was, and also a more dedicated fanbase that supported her emotionally, creatively, and financially. \u201cThere will always be people who don\u2019t like you and think what you do is cringe, but in the content creation world, there\u2019s so many people who will like you for you. It was a part of me that I never had the capability to understand that it existed in the first place. I\u2019m so weird apparently, I thought I was normal. My chat is like \u2018that\u2019s totally fine\u2019 though. Over time it\u2019s gotten worse since I\u2019m trying to find where the boundaries of weirdness are. \u201cIf you don\u2019t want to get out of bed in the morning and you\u2019ve got a pet to take care of, you\u2019ve got to get up regardless. Chat is kind of like my pet. I\u2019ve gotta get out of bed and hang out with them. Also they pay my bills so that helps a bit too. \u201cI enjoy it, but it\u2019s nice to have an extra reason to do it as well. To take care of my family, to make sure my viewers are doing okay. It\u2019s nice to have those reasons.\u201d Surely Chibi isn\u2019t that much of a \u2018girl failure\u2019\u2026 right? Chibidoki refuses to admit she\u2019s a \u2018girl failure\u2019. Well, kind of \u2014 she knows the stars align, and that her life is full of more tragedies than a Greek play, but it\u2019s still hard to stomach. The issue is everyone has some sort of cursed Chibidoki clip for reference. It could just be a clip of her being very wholesome on stream before an inopportune sound alert. Or a random story about her sister bullying her. Or an embarrassing fail from high school. But the funniest thing? It runs in the family. \u201cMy family is hilarious and now that I can afford to live at home and take care of them, I can be around them being dumb to me all the time,\u201d she laughed. \u201cI have so many embarrassing stories I\u2019ve locked away for my entire life, but now that I stream for a living I\u2019m like \u2018ayo? This would make a banger TikTok! I\u2019m going to empty all my dirty laundry on stream.\u2019 \u201cI feel like I\u2019m streaming to my friends so if something happens, even if it\u2019s embarrassing, I\u2019m going to tell them in detail. Why wouldn\u2019t I do that? Also, I feel the bar is so low with the things I\u2019ve told them so they don\u2019t even judge me anymore. \u201cIt\u2019s like I\u2019m a dancing monkey and [fans are] throwing dollar bills at me.\u201d And given all the stories she tells on stream are verifiably true, that means her love of Bowser, that many associate her with, is based in reality. Although asking her about it gets her pretty flustered: \u201cIt\u2019s so fake, don\u2019t check my Twitter please! \u201cBasically my first crush when I was six was on Bowser from Super Mario Sunshine. You\u2019ve seen it, you get it right? He\u2019s a good dad, he\u2019s a scary monster\u2026 my lawyer has told me to stop talking so let\u2019s move on!\u201d On a more serious note though, there is plenty of instances where \u2018bullying the streamer\u2019 is taken too far. Content creators have highlighted how microaggressions can take a toll on self-esteem. And if you view clips in isolation, you could be mistaken for thinking Chibidoki\u2019s fans are vicious \u2014 hilarious, but they know how to push buttons. Chibi says that couldn\u2019t be further from the truth. \u201cIf you ever stop by my streams, they will poke fun at me but it\u2019s a mutual thing. I feel like I punch them in the balls more than they hit me in the head. I incentivize them to be mean to me. It\u2019s like having an older sibling. Just because we punch each other doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s a bad relationship all the time. \u201cIf you don\u2019t watch me live and see my real interactions with viewers, it\u2019s easy to assume that because those are the clips that go viral \u2014 roasting me, throwing things at me. But most of the time we\u2019re just friends hanging out. I\u2019ve never felt any true negativity from them ever.\u201d Thriving in the chaos It\u2019s that chaos that got Chibidoki noticed, and recognized, at VTubing\u2019s night of nights. The indie star took home Funniest VTuber at the inaugural VTuber Awards 2023, and was nominated for Most Chaotic VTuber too (won by Hololive\u2019s Kobo Kanaeru). \u201cI was a little annoyed when I got nominated,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t bring up submitting my name to my audience at all. I brought up the awards and said \u2018you don\u2019t have to submit my name or anything.\u2019 It was one conversation on stream. \u201cI\u2019m really bad with competition and it gives me really bad anxiety. I get in my own head sometimes. I was a little embarrassed because I didn\u2019t want people to see how unfunny I actually am! \u201cWhen I won it was so weird. I have never won anything. I got a participation trophy for tee-ball in second grade, that was my peak up until the award show. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m that funny!\u201d Despite shying away from the accolade, Chibi is happy she could finally bring joy to those with her content. But that doesn\u2019t just mean her fans. It means her friends \u2014 she gets to brush shoulders with the YouTubers she once idolized like Ray Narvaez Jr. (previously of Achievement Hunter) and ChilledChaos. It also means her family, who she can now support full-time given her parents are retired and her sister is in college. \u201cThey\u2019re the main reason I view VTubing as a job,\u201d she continued. \u201cI don\u2019t spend much money on myself besides from internet and rent and food. It\u2019s nice to know my money is going to a place that helps people because otherwise I\u2019d save it forever.\u201d With no signs of slowing down, Chibi is going to keep sharing her cursed moments online for as long as she has stories to tell \u2014 and there\u2019s plenty more in the tank. Although she does have one goal for 2024: proving her supporters wrong about one particular fact. \u201cI told my chat the other day \u2018you know what my new year\u2019s resolution is? I\u2019m going to spend 365 days making you regret voting me as the funniest VTuber because I\u2019m going to be unfunny every day and you\u2019re going to ask Filian for a refund, if I came with a return receipt.\u2019 \u201cThat\u2019s my new year\u2019s resolution and it\u2019s going to be great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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