Takanashi Kiara opens up on Hololive fans \u201crecognizing\u201d her during Korea trip YouTube: Takanashi KiaraHololive EN star Takanashi Kiara has just finished her whirlwind tour of South Korea to celebrate the ANIPLUS collab. However, while touring the sights of Seoul, and the Hololive branded cafe, she was also noticed by fans \u2014 and she was thankful for their reactions. For some VTubers, getting recognized in public is totally fine \u2014 especially if they\u2019re comfortable showing their face. For others, it\u2019s a total nightmare. Some only have their avatars and do not want people getting pictures of their fleshy form. Hololive\u2019s members often fall into the latter, and it gets complicated once fans attach their favorite VTuber to their real person. The stars try hard to keep this separate, and most fans are respectful in the wishes of their favorite content creator. Takanashi Kiara had many such run-ins during her time in South Korea. As she explored the sights as part of a promotion with ANIPLUS, which saw the anime giant\u2019s stores in the nation transform into a Hololive fan zone, some fans did get a look at the phoenix herself. One Superchatter admitted as much in one of Kiara\u2019s streams once she returned home: \u201cActually I saw Kiara at Gyeongbokgung Palace [in Seoul], but I pretended not to know. I didn\u2019t want to ruin the date. I was holding a spear.\u201d The star was taken aback by the comment, initially thinking the chatter was just joking. \u201cNo way! You\u2019re saying that you were one of the guards? You\u2019re joking. You\u2019re kidding right?\u201d However, she kept the conversation going, saying there were many times during the trip where she suspected fans knew who she was. She didn\u2019t have any horror stories to share though, with the community being mostly respectful of their beloved phoenix. \u201cI\u2019m not going to lie, there were some \u2018recognition moments\u2019 during my trip. Not many, but there were some,\u201d she continued. \u201cI don\u2019t believe you but even if it was you, you were doing your job and you definitely wouldn\u2019t have been able to just go \u2018ah Takanashi Kiara, I\u2019m your fan, please can I have your signature\u2019. You\u2019re supposed to guard the palace, right, so I believe that!\u201d This isn\u2019t new ground for the star. She has previously spoken about it numerous times about how paranoid she is about getting noticed in public, especially while she lived in Japan. \u201cI\u2019m kind of paranoid, but it makes sense to be paranoid because in Japan Hololive is very popular,\u201d she said in February 2021. \u201cI sometimes feel like people are mainly looking at me because maybe they think they know who I am.\u201d So while fans might recognize their favorite VTubers in public \u2014 or at least think they do \u2014 there\u2019s a universal message everyone can agree with: Let them enjoy their privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Takanashi Kiara opens up on Hololive fans \u201crecognizing\u201d her during Korea trip YouTube: Takanashi KiaraHololive EN star Takanashi Kiara has just finished her whirlwind tour of South Korea to celebrate the ANIPLUS collab. However, while touring the sights of Seoul, and the Hololive branded cafe, she was also noticed by fans \u2014 and she was […]<\/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-59898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59898","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=59898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}