Overidea VTuber Kyouka accused of abusing former partner and deceiving fans Bilibili: KyoukaOveridea member Kyouka has been accused of sexually harassing and abusing his former partner, as well as deceiving fans and potential investors. The abuse allegations were made public by Bingtang, another popular Chinese VTuber, with Kyouka responding shortly after. Kyouka was one of the most popular VTubers on Chinese streaming site Bilibili with the multi-lingual star acting as the face of Overidea. He has had some crossovers in the English VTuber space, collaborating with NIJISANJI EN stars like Vox Akuma and getting shoutouts from Fulgur Ovid. However, his career has been put in jeopardy after a series of allegations from former partner \u2018Bingtang\u2019, with the VTuber alleging numerous instances of abuse, sexual harassment, and more in a near 90-minute video. The video, named \u201cthree years of me and scum\u201d, goes through Kyouka and Bingtang\u2019s relationship and the allegedly manipulative behavior. While the two got to know each other by being popular creators in the space, they started growing closer in 2020 and early 2021. This included late-night calls, one in which Kyouka sent Bingtang a risque photo without consent: \u201cOne day in early 2021 I was on a bedtime phone call with you as usual, and you suddenly said \u2018my balls are huge, do you want to see it?\u2019 Then you sent me a photo of you in your underwear,\u201d she said according to a translation. Kyouka would apparently refuse to make their relationship public in an attempt to help foster a new audience of \u201cgirlfriend fans\u201d who would pine over him. Bingtang didn\u2019t want it to be a secret, and being the bigger creator of the two, also helped Kyouka with business activities like networking, setting up Chinese accounts since he is a foreigner, and also loaning him money. However, the relationship started unraveling in the middle of 2021 after Kyouka took claim for a project the two worked on jointly, while also starting to cultivate a female fanbase and outwardly admitting he was single on stream. This led to Bingtang being harassed by said fans for clinging onto the VTuber and trying to use him for impressions and growth. \u201cI thought you would admit our relationship, but you did quite the opposite,\u201d she said. \u201cYou said you were single and reprimanding your girlfriend fans for being too sensitive and not trusting you. While you said you were single on stream, afterwards you would say \u2018I love you my wife\u2019. I felt angry.\u201d One of Bingtang\u2019s friends warned her about Kyouka\u2019s behavior, having previously been in a relationship with the Overidea VTuber. \u201cDeep down I still felt like something was wrong. I went to a friend who said \u2018Kyouka is such a person, he will sacrifice others for his own interests. Do not be deceived by him.\u2019\u201d Later on, Kyouka admitted to soliciting sex workers, which is illegal in China. He would then message Bingtang with intimate details of the meetings. However, she later backtracked on that story, saying he \u201cmade it up to piss [Bingtang] off.\u201d \u201cFrom that day on I have a complete mental breakdown,\u201d she said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t control my emotions.\u201d Kyouka approached a number of female VTubers who posted vulnerable messages on social media, before chatting to them \u201cvery deeply, very privately, sometimes in voice calls, sometimes by sending photos to you and revealing personal information.\u201d The VTuber would reportedly use this personal information to doxx the women and slander them behind closed doors. \u201cYou saved all the screenshots of those chats, spreading them everywhere. You were very happy when I felt jealous. These screenshots included addresses, schools, workplaces, and company secrets.\u201d His alleged manipulation extended beyond Bingtang and his fandom, though. As NIJISANJI EN was getting popular in China, Kyouka hatched a \u201cplan\u201d to try and ride on their coattails. He later collaborated with some of these members. \u201cHe started mentioning NIJISANJI EN in broadcasts intentionally or unintentionally, including watching their streams live on broadcast. This would lead to fans making clips and spreading it. \u201cThis would get their attention and make them interested, and part of the plan was to slowly reduce the number of times he\u2019d talk about NIJISANJI, even going to say \u2018don\u2019t mention irrelevant people\u2019, making their fans your exclusive fans, and repeating this over and over again.\u201d After Bingtang was guilted into sending Kyouka more than $14,000 USD as a birthday present \u2014 which was then refunded \u2014 fan infighting in Kyouka\u2019s space got so severe one viewer reportedly attempted suicide. The VTuber did not make an effort to control the rumors, Bingtang said, and claimed Kyouka even encouraged her to leverage her male fans in the same way, which made her uncomfortable. \u201cWhen your popularity increased leading up to your birthday, people would see me as associated with you. They would attack me, saying I was stealing your work, writing vicious things about my family, and sending me death threats. \u201cI sent him a message asking him to manage his fans, and he got angry before deleting all contact with me. I cried and apologized over and over again hoping we could be reunited.\u201d However at the end of it all, Bingtang decided to be done with it and release this video recounting her three years with the VTuber: \u201cThese 3 years of my early 20s, the best years of my youth, were given to a scumbag. I told him \u2018I am not ashamed of falling in love with you, I\u2019m only sorry to be deceived by you.\u2019 \u201cHe cannot sing. He cannot dance. His Chinese is not very good. He considers VTubing a very easy money-making side hustle. I feel sorry for his fans for liking such a scumbag. They\u2019re all victims of being deceived, just like me.\u201d Kyouka then held a one-hour apology stream on Bilibili, which peaked at more than 35,000 viewers. But, viewers were generally not buying the streamer\u2019s explanations, donating money to highlight chat messages attacking him. Bingtang also refuted all claims and defenses made. Overidea\u2019s popularity in China has also taken a significant hit as fans distance themselves from the VTuber\u2019s actions. Numerous fan groups have since shut down, while Overidea\u2019s Bilibili page is now marked as \u201ccontroversial\u201d. Bingtang\u2019s account was also targeted following her expose, and the video taken down. It has since been reuploaded on YouTube. Kyouka and Overidea\u2019s Twitter and other social media channels are still active at the time of publishing. Other VTubers mentioned, such as those who collaborated with Kyouka, are also yet to make statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Overidea VTuber Kyouka accused of abusing former partner and deceiving fans Bilibili: KyoukaOveridea member Kyouka has been accused of sexually harassing and abusing his former partner, as well as deceiving fans and potential investors. The abuse allegations were made public by Bingtang, another popular Chinese VTuber, with Kyouka responding shortly after. Kyouka was one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}