A Japanese virtual YouTuber has been unmasked following a software glitch.
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Recently, Japanese YouTubers have been taking advantage of motion sensor
technology that mimics body and facial movements. Essentially they're creating a
character for the video instead of being themselves. This one is named Nora Cat.
It's a new channel that just popped up in December, but it already has 56,000
subscribers.
The videos Nora Cat has posted so far mostly just live
streams of video gameplay, but it's not a stretch to imagine that many of Nora Cat's
subscribers are young men who find her super attractive because she's got that
whole Ariana Grande cat ear thing going on. Put cat ears on my head. With
cat ears on? Am I so much hotter now? I'm getting hotter by the second. So it
probably came as just a tiny shock to her fans when a glitch exposed her
original creator who ended up being a dude. The people who are fans of this
kind of virtual character are known as Otaku, which basically refers to extreme
nerds for anime or manga. No offense to all your nerds out there. I like a lot of
random things. I used to collect teapots when I was a kid, so I really have no
place to judge. I still have my entire collection of teapots. I'm not even
kidding. They're like in a box. Okay, yeah. You got me started on teapots.
Nora Cat may lose some subscribers because it makes sense that with the
glitch now they know who's behind the face, which makes it harder to be
attracted to someone who looks just like you.
Speak for yourself. Alright. At least that's what you think would happen, but
that's actually not the case, cause people seem intrigued. I don't know. I kind of
think that maybe for the rise in viewership and subscribers is because
people think of this as like the real world of anime. Like what's gonna happen
next? Is he gonna be revealed? Is his cousin gonna be playing Nora Cat next
time? Who else are we gonna see behind the mask? Unveil Nora Cat.
So in this next part we're relying on Microsoft translator to translate these
tweets in another language into English, so just take them with a grain of salt
everyone. Sinnlos_cat says: "The number of subscribers is increasing
by about 1,600 a day." Takuan_SH said: "I thought that the face of the
producer might flicker every time I see it in the future, but I've subscribed to
the channel because it was a succubus as far as I actually saw the video." Meaning
he thought Nora Cat was possessed by a human who I think the succubus sucks
your brain? I think that's what the succubus does? Either way the succubus is
something evil, so basically he's saying that Nora Cat's creator is evil and
occupying her, or I'm totally wrong here and succubus is actually sexy girl and
Microsoft Translate just got it completely wrong. I'm open to either. Yuki_
731014_ai says: "The number of subscribers who know the contents of the
old man is a lot more and laugh." I have no idea what Yuki's trying to say, but
I'm sure it's great because it ends with the word laugh. Maybe what Yuki's trying
to say is the more we know which people are inside of Nora Cat, the better. The
opinion seems to be 'who gives a f*ck' as long as the character is still hot, and
animated, which I haven't really gotten around to being attracted to yet, but who
knows. I'll try it, Nora Cat. See how I feel. Another odd wrinkle to this story
is that there's a trend among otaku to enter a relationship with one of these
fictional characters known as waifu. Which means it's possible that an otaku
could take as a waifu somebody that they know is actually not female underneath
the character. As karakara893 said on Twitter: "We're living in a cutting-edge
society where middle-aged otaku dudes are falling in love with other
middle-aged otaku dudes." Just live your best life because I see nothing wrong
with that. In fact, some people get so into this fantasy, that they're actually
guides online over how to get over a waifu addiction. So it's like a guide on
how to break up with your waifu. This is a concept that a lot of YouTubers,
including myself, find hilarious. But, it obviously feeds a need, so power to you.
Japanese men have in the past gone as far as to marry anime characters,
or even body pillows of those anime characters.
This experience of dudes not really caring who's behind their beloved character is
now being memed, of course, because it's the Internet and that's what we do.
So do you share my opinion that love is just love? And should these guys be
concerned now that they can tell that Nora Cat is in fact, a dude and not a
chick? Does that even make a difference to this situation? Let us know in the
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