How Silvervale, Konzetsu, and Mamavale became the most popular VTuber family Twitch: Konzetsu \/ Twitter: Mamavale \/ Twitch: SilvervaleTwitch stardom is one thing for Silvervale and Konzetsu. However, what\u2019s more important is how their lives as VTubers brought them closer together \u2014 as siblings and with their mother, Mamavale \u2014 to become a family for all. There\u2019s something to be said about a family bond. The new-age nature of gaming and streaming frankly doesn\u2019t lend itself well to it. Of all the children and young adults who absorb themselves into the online world, few parents and mentors actually understand what goes on. Some are more accepting on a distant level. The kind words of \u2018you\u2019re doing great\u2019, or vague statements and judgments without a proper understanding. Though that\u2019s typically where it stops. The generational gap is too big to bridge, many assume. There\u2019s a barrier \u2014 whether it be knowledge or ignorance, or a blend of both. Among it all though, there is one family defying that and broadcasting themselves in a way that reminds you of the most innocent and nostalgic gatherings most had growing up. You\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a more wholesome and supportive family dynamic online than the one Silvervale, Konzetsu, and Mamavale have. Having a sakura wolf goddess, a demon who has been sealed away for millennia, and their creator as a family dynamic is far from typical. It\u2019s not the nuclear family presented across all media, white-picket-fence and the full shebang. But this is 2022, and frankly, the technology is there. It\u2019s just the knowledge gap that\u2019s hardest to close, but in doing so the family of three VTubers has welcomed thousands into the fold and given many online a home away from home. Here it is!!! My family \ud83d\udc80\ud83d\udc9c\ud83c\udf38@Kon_zetsu @_Silvervale_ \ud83c\udfa8 @milkyopi#MotherOfVtubers #GOTvibes #obsessedwiththis #mamart #DoodleVale #artzetsu pic.twitter.com\/mt1nkzZvRe\u2014 MamaVale \ud83d\udc9c\ud83e\udd80\ud83d\udc9c (@_mamavale) May 8, 2022 Diving into the VTuber rabbit hole together Silvervale laughed when I asked her to describe her lore in one sentence. She also broke the rules a little bit. \u201cI\u2019m a sakura goddess who encourages people to appreciate the little things in life\u2026 sakuras only bloom for a short time so you only get to appreciate it a little bit, and they\u2019re really pretty so I vibe with them a lot,\u201d she mused. \u201cIt\u2019s fleeting but it helps you to appreciate the little things and the good things when you have them. I\u2019m a little too sappy \u2014 I\u2019m sappier than most.\u201d The wolf girl was the first in her family to pick up the medium of VTubing. Having always been immersed in the gaming and anime world, she always wanted to express herself online as a streamer. However, there was a certain allure to doing so behind an avatar in a more private manner. VTubing wasn\u2019t even really a term back then when Silver started, but that is what she was doing essentially by rigging up her own model \u2014 a \u201cwhite hair wolf girl\u201d \u2014 and venturing into this unknown practically alone. \u201cI wanted to stream and I had done it with a webcam a long, long time ago, and I went through Steam and I saw something called FaceRig,\u201d she explained. \u201cI knew there was that guy who streamed as a Shiba Inu and I was like \u2018that\u2019s what this is.\u2019 I then saw you could be an anime girl and thought that was kind of cool. I like anime, it\u2019s cute, I don\u2019t want to use my webcam so I tried it. \u201cThat was so long ago and you couldn\u2019t look up anything on how to do it. You had to wing it yourself. I got a custom FaceRig model. I had white hair \u2014 I was a white hair wolf girl, but it was very janky. I was very proud of it and I streamed Black Desert Online and World of Warcraft. I would play for 12 hours a day grinding forever to no one.\u201d She wasn\u2019t really alone though. Growing up, Silvervale had a very close connection with her brother Konzetsu. The two were two peas in a pod with very similar interests and personalities. Silvervale cites her brother as a big inspiration for her taste in anime and games. Many fond memories were forged between the two as they grinded through MMOs together, or jumped on for a quick game of Fortnite. \u201cI played games with her constantly,\u201d he said. \u201cWe got into WoW together and it was something where we played this MMO and we had things to talk about that we were both interested in and we both really like. \u201cI think we skipped over so many of the differences because we had this big thing we would always be able to go to each other for. We played games together, we liked anime and watched the same things, we hung out with my mom and did family movie nights, and ate dinner together. We all had the same interests and it helped pull us together.\u201d Let\u2019s not jump the gun and say it was all sunshine and rainbows, but from the moment Silver and Kon start talking about each other, you realize just how much family means to them. \u201cWe have the brother-sister scuffles here and there,\u201d Kon laughed. \u201cIt\u2019s the thing I bring up all the time \u2014 she traumatized me with save files once because I let her play a game and she\u2019s like \u2018I\u2019m going to save this game\u2019 and I\u2019m like \u2018okay well don\u2019t save over that file that I played 50-60 hours on\u2019. She was like \u2018save over that file?\u2019 and did it. \u201cObviously you have that and I didn\u2019t talk to her for a week. I had to talk to my mom to talk to her. I was not talking to her. It was like \u2018you deleted my life\u2019. A 50-hour game file was the end of the world!\u201d \u201cWe worked together at one point and then I started streaming and quit, but he was still working that job,\u201d Silver added. \u201cHe really wanted to stream and then he saw VTubing and really wanted to do that. \u201cHe taught me about games and anime, we\u2019ve always played together which is kind of special because we don\u2019t really fight or anything. We\u2019ve always been really good friends.\u201d When the global health crisis started, that\u2019s when Konzetsu himself pulled the trigger on being a VTuber. He worked towards his debut across 2020 and 2021, with Silver helping out wherever she could; a bit of money here and there for a model, or something for his setup. It was a pretty big secret though. Silvervale was blowing up on Twitch, and he didn\u2019t want to just ride off the back of her success \u2014 he wanted to do things himself so he knew his heart was in the right place. \u201cI wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing and I was enjoying myself and I could handle it \u2014 I wanted to be okay with streaming before I make her go and \u2018this is my brother,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cShe helped me get my foot in the door a bit, but I made sure I tried to do it myself as much as possible, and then on my debut she was there with me. \u201cShe wanted to help me. If she thinks \u2018maybe I can raid in and help there\u2019 or do some family collabs and have a good time \u2014 a lot of times she will be like \u2018I want to play with you, it\u2019ll be fun\u2019. It\u2019s more \u2018I want to play games with my brother\u2019 rather than \u2018what will this do for stats?\u2019\u201d However, not even he really understood just how big Silvervale was blowing up online. By the time he was streaming, she was pulling in thousands of viewers every broadcast. \u201cShe was talking about streaming and all the big things she was doing. We would hang out and play games together and do these fun things, and it was like \u2018you\u2019re doing this thing and you\u2019re having a good time with it and I\u2019m happy for you\u2019. I was proud of her, but I didn\u2019t fully understand how big of a deal it was until I started streaming and it was like \u2018oh god you are actually doing this well.\u2019\u201d That\u2019s two parts of the equation now. Silver and Kon were streaming as VTubers, sharing their lives (and avatars) online and just enjoying games together through a new medium. So how does Mamavale (or MamaValeZetsu if you want to get everyone in) fit into the equation? Well seeing her son and daughter transform into a sakura wolf goddess and a skeleton online certainly wasn\u2019t in the plan in her mind when Silver and Kon were growing up. But she was a constant in both of their lives, always looking over their shoulder as they grinded through WoW and other games together. She was also very green to the online world, and that knowledge gap did prove to be a barrier when Silver was starting out. \u201cWe\u2019d sit in the living room on our laptops and play and my mom would come by and she didn\u2019t know what the f**k was going on but I\u2019d be like \u2018mom look at my cool mount or look at this outfit\u2019 and she\u2019d be like \u2018that\u2019s great honey,\u2019\u201d Silvervale laughed. Though rather than turning a blind eye, Mamavale tried to embrace it. Tried is the operative word here \u2014 but she was successful eventually. \u201cMy initial reaction was probably confusion,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t understand why people would want to watch other people play games. The tech side was overwhelming \u2014 and still kind of is. But the more I learned I felt better about Silver doing it.\u201d \u201cI still have so many questions and they both love talking about their passions \u2014 gaming and VTubing. Ever since they were both young they\u2019ve been playing video games together. Seeing both of their personalities come through with their models is fascinating to me. Each one represents them perfectly.\u201d Mamavale started out as just a name in Silver\u2019s Twitch chat, cheering her on from the sidelines. Now she\u2019s a staple of her streams, occasionally jumping in for a family collab with her own VTuber model which ties into her childrens\u2019 lore. \u201cI started watching the kids streams and then as they collabed with their friends it was like having a front-yard full of neighborhood kids and I was watching them all play together,\u201d she explained. \u201cI would see all the different models and how everyone put their personalities into designing them and thought it was the coolest way to express yourself \u2014 your true self.\u201d Even the simple things we take for granted in the online space, like the anonymity of a gamer tag, had to be rote learned for Mamavale to try and get truly involved with their interests. But she kept pushing through, even when the spotlight was on her. \u201cI do remember the first collab I did with Silver, I literally put sticky notes all around my monitor that said Silver. I was so scared I would call her by her name! To make it easy now, so I don\u2019t slip up, we call each other by their Twitch names. It is second nature now.\u201d The impact of that support, however, has forged a truly unbreakable bond between the three. \u201cShe says a lot of the time that she feels like a Kardashian mom,\u201d Silver laughed. \u201cShe\u2019s a mom \u2014 you go to work, you go home, make dinner, you go to bed, you do the same thing the next day and that\u2019s your life. That\u2019s fine, but she gets all the benefits of being an internet personality without any of the work. \u201cShe can just enjoy Twitter and having a bunch of followers and celebrating things and she really likes going into other people\u2019s streams and hanging out. She sees herself as a VTuber mom \u2014 and she definitely is. \u201cShe\u2019s there supporting everyone. I get really busy and I\u2019ll miss things on Twitter sometimes so she\u2019ll always send me \u2018look what this person said\u2019 and \u2018look they\u2019re drawing you.\u2019 She loves it so much because she gets to live vicariously through us and it gives more purpose to her life. It\u2019s not like her life wasn\u2019t purposeful before, but it\u2019s almost surreal and magical. \u201cA lot of parents will support you in your dreams and be like \u2018you\u2019re doing great.\u2019 It\u2019s very unusual for them to play such a big part in your career, especially as a streamer because a lot of people just don\u2019t get it or don\u2019t vibe well with your jokes. She feels like my best friend. She is so funny and amazing and chat loves her, and it\u2019s really special.\u201d The unbreakable bond It\u2019s always a pretty big affair on Twitch when Silver, Kon, and Mamavale all hop on for a collab together. The communities of \u2014 let\u2019s face it \u2014 the three of them (given Mamavale\u2019s own fandom) all coming together to watch what is essentially a family game night. They will load into games together (typically horror), scare each other, laugh it off, and bond. Viewers love it, but it\u2019s a very meaningful experience for the three of them that has led to some lifelong memories. \u201cShe played on her work computer when we first started playing games together,\u201d Silvervale reminisced. \u201cWe played Phasmophobia as our first game together and she kept running into walls and she couldn\u2019t open the door. It was so funny and we figured out it was because her computer was so laggy she couldn\u2019t handle anything. \u201cI bought her a new computer that might be better than my desktop \u2014 she has a bomb laptop \u2014 and the joy in her voice saying \u2018I can move\u2019, she was playing really well and I was so proud of her. It\u2019s so cool to see someone from a completely different generation enjoying the games that you love and understanding game mechanics.\u201d There\u2019s also something to be said about how important the connection online has been between the three over the last two years. With Silvervale and Konzetsu out of home, this online outlet provided the three the perfect opportunity to keep in touch while we were all physically distant. The fact it is just being broadcasted to thousands doesn\u2019t even weigh on them anymore, and even then, they still do things offline too. \u201cOur relationships are better now than they ever have been,\u201d Mamavale stated. \u201cWe just have fun and honestly really enjoy each other\u2019s company. They are young adults now. I\u2019m not giving them chores for allowance, making sure they did their homework, or worrying they won\u2019t be home before curfew. \u201cWhat you see during a family collab is just us hanging out. I honestly forget they are streaming and on my end, we are just playing a game together. They are very patient with me learning how to play games \u2014 it is much harder than everyone makes it look! Playing games together \u2014 whether online or board games at home \u2014 is something we really enjoy and have fun doing as a family activity.\u201d What better way to spend a family gaming night than annoying eachother and sacrificing them to bugs? \ud83d\ude00https:\/\/t.co\/qhw7ABHYTY pic.twitter.com\/2hHu8rlNte \u2014 \ud83c\udf38 Silvervale \ud83c\udf38 (@_Silvervale_) April 24, 2021 The level of support isn\u2019t lost on either Silver or Kon. \u201cThere\u2019s the motherly part where she\u2019s so proud of me \u2014 I\u2019ll probably cry \u2014 living my dream because our childhood was really rough, growing up was hard and we dealt with a lot of really tough things,\u201d Silver said, through tears. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have a lot of support for things, and now I get to support my mom. I can buy her Christmas presents and I can buy things for her house when things go wrong. It\u2019s nice to spoil her after her being such a great mom dealing with so much crap. I just feel really lucky to be there for her like she was there for me. \u201cShe went out of her way to talk in chat, occasionally show up on streams, but she was just really into making sure Silver was happy and had everything she wanted,\u201d Kon added. \u201cAs soon as I ended up getting into it, she was like \u2018well I have this other thing.\u2019\u201d One of the greatest memories all three brought up when I spoke to them individually was the saga of Mamavale and Mamazetsu before Kon\u2019s debut. Because they were trying to keep it a secret, Mama made two accounts and chatted using both in Silver\u2019s stream so as to try and not blow the cover. She wanted to support in any way possible, even if it meant having conversations with herself. \u201cShe would talk to her other account and they would bounce back and forth,\u201d Kon laughed. \u201cIt was this weird thing of her talking to herself and some people notice every time she would slip up and say the wrong thing on the wrong account, but she would sit there and have conversations. \u201cShe went out of her way to support me even if she couldn\u2019t \u2018publicly\u2019 do it yet, she was going to be there. As soon as everything was out and it was like \u2018hey we\u2019re related\u2019, she was all in there and doing what she could to talk about me, post fun pictures together.\u201d It\u2019s those memories they are cherishing as a family \u2014 their own special thing. \u201cThey are so special,\u201d Mamavale said. \u201cI get to hang out with my kids and just laugh. It is always so chaotic, but I smile the whole time! What you see during a family collab is just us hanging out with each other. \u201cHow we are on stream is the same as us hanging out in our living room playing games or watching a movie. Kon is usually teasing Silver and I\u2019m laughing telling them to play nice! It is such a fun way to enjoy some family time together since they don\u2019t live at home anymore.\u201d And while some might assume, as parents do, that boundaries could be crossed, the two siblings don\u2019t really mind. In fact, they embrace their mother\u2019s openness into their hobbies, careers, and lives \u2014 and they aren\u2019t changing the way they act just for that because\u2026 why would they need to? \u201cI still do things I\u2019d always do because I\u2019m very myself with my family. They know me, so it doesn\u2019t change anything,\u201d Silver said. \u201cSometimes I try to be more mindful of being too vulgar because I know mom is going to watch the VOD and sometimes I\u2019ll be like \u2018sorry mom\u2019. But they don\u2019t affect it in any way. \u201cIf I play a game that\u2019s really emotional or sad, I feel like I have to call my mom after this and she\u2019ll come in chat and start crying or call me. It only affects it in positive ways and not too greatly. I\u2019m always myself with my family so it would all be in my regular content anyways.\u201d Being a family for those without There is another level to how Silvervale, Konzetsu, and Mamavale act on Twitch that is a smaller yet just as important part of their own family dynamic. By making their very wholesome interactions very public, they\u2019re aware of the influence it can have on viewers. It\u2019s not typical, but just them streaming important things together \u2014 like family gatherings and holidays \u2014 can give those who are feeling homesick or missing out on that connection a home away from home. \u201cI have a lot of people who say this on my stream when I\u2019m playing with my family, but if they\u2019re not super close with their family or their parents have passed away, it\u2019s a good way to live vicariously through us as a fun gamer family,\u201d Silver said. \u201cSometimes certain people can go a bit far with it, but most of the time everybody is really cool, having a good time relaxing and enjoying the weird chaos going on,\u201d Kon added. \u201cThey\u2019re like \u2018I wish my family was like this\u2019 or \u2018it\u2019s nice to spend time with you guys when normally I wouldn\u2019t have anything close to this.\u2019\u201d Even Mamavale now sees herself as a mother for not just her two children but for the dozens of VTubers she\u2019s adopted (via chat) across the last few years. \u201cYou get to know some of them and recognize many others. Some have just really clicked and fit in with us and play with us on family game nights even. I have used the hashtag \u2018Mother of VTubers\u2019 like the Mother of Dragons from Game of Thrones.\u201d But at the end of the day, they could be doing this in front of zero viewers and it\u2019d still mean the world to them. For Mama, being able to be closer to her kids is something money can\u2019t buy. \u201cThere is honestly no greater joy than seeing the child you raised become an adult and living their dream. I feel I did my job raising them very well, they are both such caring, genuine people. I am very proud of them both, in the people they have become and what they have accomplished,\u201d she said. And for Silver and Kon, their mother\u2019s support is all they could ask for. \u201cFamily always comes first,\u201d Kon stated. \u201cThey\u2019re the ones that see the good and bad. They\u2019re with you through everything and care about you the most. No matter what happens they\u2019ll find ways to include you in things, make things better for you. You can be there for them. \u201cIt\u2019s a deep connection you can\u2019t find anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How Silvervale, Konzetsu, and Mamavale became the most popular VTuber family Twitch: Konzetsu \/ Twitter: Mamavale \/ Twitch: SilvervaleTwitch stardom is one thing for Silvervale and Konzetsu. However, what\u2019s more important is how their lives as VTubers brought them closer together \u2014 as siblings and with their mother, Mamavale \u2014 to become a family for […]<\/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-59000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59000","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=59000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}