Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

The genocide lands in Boredfrom's neck of the woods:

Auditions open today for the world’s most popular adult VTuber (or “lewdtuber”) voice acting agency, VAllure. If you grab one of the five coveted spots for Gen 2, you might just get to star in an adult video game.

But don’t fill out that audition form quite yet. Despite VAllure’s offer of an 80/20 revenue split, equipment funding, fast popularity, and your very own Live2D model, the agency seems to be stumbling into one controversy after another.

However, trans VTubers started to have misgivings about VAllure during the Gen 1 audition process. VAllure’s audition requirements said the company only wanted “female” talent, with no additional clarification. “Female” can mean a lot of things. It can mean “anyone who identifies as a woman.” It can also mean “someone born with a specific set of genitals.”

This quickly left trans VTubers confused. Why “female” instead of “woman”? We figured this was just a minor point of linguistic confusion, so a number of us reached out for clarification last year to clear the air. But we never heard back. Not in emails. Not in tweets. Nor with a public statement. Nothing. Trans talent quickly feared the worst: Trans women weren’t welcome, and VAllure was going to dodge the question by leaving the answer murky.

On Saturday’s stream, “So you wanna be a wh*re ay?” the VAllure team finally addressed whether trans women can apply to the agency. The answer is “yes.” However, there are caveats. Maybe. Once again, communication is not VAllure’s strong suit. During the stream, talent Shibi Cottonbum stressed VAllure will accept transgender talent as long as they “go by female pronouns,” “live life as a woman,” and “sound like a woman.” The Gen 1 team laughed as the issue was discussed; at one point, Shibi said transgender talent asking about the issue should “shut the fuck up.”

As I mentioned during my own discussion stream over the weekend, the one-year delay on the topic and the insensitive tone during the advice stream revealed an extreme level of unprofessionalism toward VAllure’s transgender colleagues. For trans talent who considered applying to VAllure during Gen 1 (at least, prior to the debut of the aforementioned lolicon models — yeesh), the lack of communication toward trans VTubers was a clear sign that the company was not prepared for the professionalism and maturity required from an adult company.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s great VAllure does, in fact, allow trans women to work with the team. But even then, its standards are still very strict for trans performers. What does it mean to “sound like a woman”? Is VAllure willing to accept trans women like myself? Even though I have a feminine voice, I’m often clocked as trans during streams and in ASMR comments; would I lack the right credentials to sound “like a woman”? In other words, do they want trans talent, or do they want trans women who sound specifically like cis women? Trans women who pass for cis women and could, if necessary, hide their gender identity? VAllure never clarified these specifics during the stream, essentially putting trans talent right back to square one: How does VAllure really feel about trans women?

And then, of course, comes the issue of pronouns and transition. Not every woman uses “female pronouns.” Cis, trans, and nonbinary women commonly use pronouns other than “she/her.” He/him lesbians are out there. So are women who use they/them. And what does it mean to “live life as a woman”? Do you have to socially transition IRL and present as a woman? Do you have to stream with a female-presenting model X-amount of times? These questions may seem silly and dumb to VAllure’s performers, but they are serious considerations for trans talent running a VA business. Auditions take time. More specifically, they take time away from streaming or ASMR work. Why work hard on something that will lead to an instant rejection?

Spoiler: if you'd like to see if you can clock Ana despite her feminine voice (click to show)(click to hide)

Trans this, Trans that, how about you Transform yourself into something less fragile. 

[DavidCroquet]

The rules said squares only, and many non-conforming polygons were confused if they could apply. “Perhaps you meant rectangles only?” one asked.

[Ethan]

I thought Vice was done for. So they still exist, publishing stories about trans VTubers discrimination, really having their fingers on the pulse of what's important right now?

Oh, the author is the weirdo that tweeted about having a dungeon of ciswomen sexual slaves or something.

[Polident]

The plight of transgender vtubers might be the least important issue of our times.

[Ethan]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/theres-already-a-nintendo-switch-2-for-lewd-games/

I have something awful to report. Breaking news. Truth-to-power type journalism. As of today’s Nintendo Direct, there are ZERO confirmed adult games for the Nintendo Switch 2. That’s right. Per my sources (read: the Nintendo Direct), the Nintendo Switch 2 will offer no sucking, fucking, and docking.

If you’re a little degen like me, then you’re probably gutted. Come ON, Nintendo! Who would you rather have as a customer? A 31-year-old lewdtuber or the millions of families interested in purchasing this system to play Mario Kart World? I rest my case. Bring on the lewdity.

On the kinkier side, verified Steam Deck games include first-person femdom experience Dominatrix Simulator: Threshold, lewd kobold multiplayer game KoboldKare, and giantess vertical shooter Captain Firehawk and the Laser Love Situation. There’s even a Steam Deck Verified vore game named Churn Vector. I’ll spare the details for the faint of heart, but let’s just say you won’t be consuming enemies with your mouth. The game is rife with positive Steam reviews, with some players calling it a “unique” and “immersing” experience… while others proudly declare, “i churna da workers.”

“DM me if you want me to do this to you,” one of my Steam friends wrote on the game’s page.

The real reason to get a Steam Deck isn’t the smattering of verified Steam Deck adult games, however. It’s the wide assortment of titles you can emulate successfully enough through Proton, CodeWeavers, and Valve’s Windows-to-Linux gaming compatibility layer. Suddenly, a whole entire landscape of lewdity opens up for your late-night handheld sessions. Procedurally generated roguelite Lewdtroidvania Scarlet Maiden? Perfect on Deck. Top-down dungeon exploration game Mage Kanade’s Futanari Dungeon Quest? Fantastic for a fap. Gay furry yiff game Tailbound? A knotty good time. Growth, expansion, and feederism-themed retro romp Lilith’s Lair? Go ahead. Yes, fill up your Steam Deck with these games and more, padding out that hard drive until your console is stuffed to the brim with sin.

 

[DavidCroquet]

This article--and all games referenced--is/are a joke, of course. This means you, Jesse Singal! 

[Jansen]

Trans women sound like Vera de Milo

Wow

Can't believe this

Time to cancel jim Carrey again

[Jansen]

This article--and all games referenced--is/are a joke, of course. This means you, Jesse Singal! 

They're not a joke to melody shreds

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stock-market-drops-significantly-further-wiping-out-november-gains-after-tariff-confirmation-announcement-by-trump.1124400/page-34#post-137968527

What the hell is there to even invest in right now?

Gold has always been a pretty damn solid. And has gone up a lot lately too.

Just a few years ago it was around $1500 / ounce. Now over $3100.

And during uncertain times gold goes up even more in value.

[Propagandhim]

He's not wrong!

[Bootsthecat]

This article--and all games referenced--is/are a joke, of course. This means you, Jesse Singal! 

They're not a joke to melody shreds

Speaking of shreds, that vice author is the same dude as one I recall from his blue sky begging all the time, ya? They look the same
https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t2nqc2rnyz2hco3uqxc457cd

[TylenolJones]

Only one company can stop the terror of Trump’s America!

Hah, I KNOW I KNOW there are much more important ramifications to *everything* going on. However, I did spend like 5 minutes thinking to myself if Nintendo came out today after announcing the $450/$500 price and said specifically because of changes due to the tariffs they were increasing the price of the Switch 2 to $550 and $629 and physical games like Mario Kart would be $100 that this could be a point that the stupidity of the moment would finally(!) break through to a not insignificant amount of people.

Basically, Nintendo this is your moment to change the world.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-announces-“make-america-wealthy-again”-press-event-for-4-pm-et-tomorrow-all-about-tariffs.1151124/page-41#post-137975199

[DavidCroquet]

Markets already recovering.

Trump is stupid, but what's really stupid is pinning your pre-emptive schadenfreude hopes on anything with Trump. They're sincerely doing this John Oliver "we got him!" thing over and over.

A Tesla burns in Seattle and they're acting like Elon is going to be exiled to St. Helena tomorrow.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-people-here-seeing-speeds-tour-in-china.1153557/page-2#post-137976660

Yeah, I'm a bit confused why we seem to have just moved on from this...

FD Signifier did a whole "speed is a clown and that's ok" video, and even Hasan is always talking about him.

Did he "get better" or something, and I just missed the news?

Sounds like you read all the news that's fit to print:

FD Signifier did a whole "speed is a clown and that's ok" video, and even Hasan is always talking about him.

[TylenolJones]

Didn't someone literally call him the n-word to his face?

bdumbs upset it wasn’t him?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-people-here-seeing-speeds-tour-in-china.1153557/#post-137933100

[Snoopy]

Dubs trying to find out so he can send the guy an invite to his next klan rally

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-people-here-seeing-speeds-tour-in-china.1153557/page-2#post-137976660

Yeah, I'm a bit confused why we seem to have just moved on from this...

FD Signifier did a whole "speed is a clown and that's ok" video, and even Hasan is always talking about him.

Did he "get better" or something, and I just missed the news?

Sounds like you read all the news that's fit to print:

FD Signifier did a whole "speed is a clown and that's ok" video, and even Hasan is always talking about him.

Whole thread is wild. What are they even talking about breaking propaganda? Because a Chinese city has a monorail?

[Propagandhim]

Consumer choice paralysis.  Another evil poison manifesting from the toxic tendrils of capitalism.  Good thing she's got the theory or else she'd develop 'false consciousness' and actually enjoy one of these products of exploitation.

[Propagandhim]

"We gotta dismantle this whole system.  It's killing everyone.....right after I get the things I want to buy.  Everything else comes after that.  Let me just get some games first that will last me through the revolution"

[Boredfrom]

whatever. fuck all our shit up. we deserve it. and we deserve the whole world side-eyeing us for the rest of time.

 

Is not about you, asshole.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stock-market-drops-significantly-further-wiping-out-november-gains-after-tariff-confirmation-announcement-by-trump.1124400/page-38

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-people-here-seeing-speeds-tour-in-china.1153557/page-2#post-137976660

Yeah, I'm a bit confused why we seem to have just moved on from this...

FD Signifier did a whole "speed is a clown and that's ok" video, and even Hasan is always talking about him.

Did he "get better" or something, and I just missed the news?

Sounds like you read all the news that's fit to print:

FD Signifier did a whole "speed is a clown and that's ok" video, and even Hasan is always talking about him.

Whole thread is wild. What are they even talking about breaking propaganda? Because a Chinese city has a monorail?

It's not the first time I've seen that kind of thing on Era...lot of it happened in the RedNote days.

Like somehow they've decided that everyone still thinks Chinese people are living in thatched roofed huts or something, therefore any evidence of things like concrete buildings and motorcars are somehow a blow to western hegemonic propaganda.

It's fun to see them celebrate the "propaganda breaking" while handwaving the n-word and people giving Speed bananas and fried chicken with impressive blasé. China is great, guys!

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-taylor-swift-warren-buffett-lebron-james-michael-jordan-thanathorn-juangroongruangkit-tom-steyer-etc-examples-of-good-billionaires.1153482/page-5


     
Is there one positive contribution to the world that "whites" have done that isn't some insidious hidden play to stake themselves as the Racial Masters of the Earth to Nepenthe?  The Enlightenment culminating from thousands of years of diverse cultures, philosophies, political systems, and social movements across Europe and its offshoots, and with it, the currents of humanism, democracy, rule of law, scientific inquiry, artistic expression, religious piety (focused on charity and salvation, not just power), philosophy exploring ethics and justice, and social movements that explicitly critique wealth accumulation among the few... nah lets reduce it and wypipo down to a single cynical motive.  They're evil after all.  It's in their bones.  Besides, I thought Western history is full of conflict against hierarchy with its incessant peasant revolts, Magna Carta, the Reformation's challenge to papal authority....not to mention the Enlightenment itself fundamentally challenged the divine right of kings and religious dogma as the basis for authority, championed reason, individual rights, liberty, equality (albeit not perfectly applied), and popular sovereignty.  Its core ideas were antithetical to the old system, not a mere continuation - but I guess I'm the retard.  In fact, it was all a smooth, linear progression from White Man to Divine Right, this whole time among an aggregate group that all agree.   And lumping all non-Western cultures together as inherently "communal and altruistic" is just as essentialist and racist a portrayal as the rest, but who cares.  It's Nepenthe.  She's got the theory, she doesn't need a brain.

[DavidCroquet]

Don't forget the white man's religion!

Jesus Christ: famous for...uh, well...renouncing violence, being poor and homeless, getting no pussy, and dying. Sounds about yt!

[Bootsthecat]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-people-here-seeing-speeds-tour-in-china.1153557/page-2#post-137976660
Sounds like you read all the news that's fit to print:

Whole thread is wild. What are they even talking about breaking propaganda? Because a Chinese city has a monorail?

It's not the first time I've seen that kind of thing on Era...lot of it happened in the RedNote days.

Like somehow they've decided that everyone still thinks Chinese people are living in thatched roofed huts or something, therefore any evidence of things like concrete buildings and motorcars are somehow a blow to western hegemonic propaganda.

It's fun to see them celebrate the "propaganda breaking" while handwaving the n-word and people giving Speed bananas and fried chicken with impressive blasé. China is great, guys!

So to me its not even about the racist stuff, more like they must realize that the 'oh look there is internet on these trains, China ftw!' isn't an own...Ya, an internet that doesn't allow them to talk shit about the government etc, how wonderful!

Saying 'I wanna kill xi, that Winnie the pooh looking bitch' will get you in a labor camp, not a month ban from a gaming forum. Which would kinda kill the off topic part of said forum.

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-taylor-swift-warren-buffett-lebron-james-michael-jordan-thanathorn-juangroongruangkit-tom-steyer-etc-examples-of-good-billionaires.1153482/page-5

The tearing down of the system likely will not happen because people insist that this system, which is the blink of an eye in our species' overall existence, is somehow permanent and eternal, despite the fact that like two dumbass crackers right now are basically demonstrating its obvious contradictions and tumultousness. Capitalism will not last forever, and just by the physical limitations of the planet, cannot last forever, although I can't predict what will come next. It's hard to be optimistic with regards to where the power will flow. But I am 100% confident it will eventually die one day with or without mass revolution, and subsequently the conditions that plague Africans today will be no more.

Also, billionaires giving money away or buying up the media is not the solution. Again, there are no good billionaires. LeBron's self-interests as a capitalist lie squarely against Black people's liberation, meaning anything he would do is not going to help by design because it will never actually endanger his wealth. The solution is to build alternative systems from the ground up that withstand capitalist exploitation while educating people on their own oppression to further build resistance, so that the system itself is weakened and ultimately replaced with one wherein you cannot be a billionaire in the first place. Ultimately, I just see Black capitalists as nicer versions of Clarence Thomas, and I find the idea of not holding their actions against them fundamentally distasteful. Again, they deserve more criticism, not less.

Again, another tacit admission that Africans are too stupid to offer a competitive advantage and build wealth in a global system that everyone participates in.  They are uniquely unable to succeed, according to Nepenthe the anti-racist.  Whatever other nations are doing to build wealth and security in the market system, it simply cannot be done among an entire continent of people in 50+ nations.   You heard her.


Alright the Nepenthe News Hour is over.  Thank you for your participation.  We here at the Nepenthe News Network are only able to continue thanks to your generous contributions.

[HaughtyFrank]

The fetishization and accumulation of wealth and power has always been the point of Western civilization because fundamentally the culture we're swimming in stems directly from historical and religious connotations about divine hierarchy and right of kings shit versus more communal and altruistic affects you'd find in other cultures at the time

This reminds me of a fun anecdote I read recently about the Mongol conquest

The garrison at Merv was only about 12,000 men, and the city was inundated with refugees from eastern Khwarazm.

In April 1221, Tolui, son of Genghis Khan, besieged the city for six days. On the seventh day, he assaulted Merv. However, the garrison beat back the assault and launched their own counter-attack against the Mongols. The garrison force was similarly forced back into the city. The next day, the city's governor surrendered the city on Tolui's promise that the lives of the citizens would be spared. As soon as the city was handed over, however, Tolui slaughtered almost every person who surrendered, in a massacre possibly on a greater scale than that at Gurganj. The Afghan and Khalaj parts of the Mongol army led unimaginable tortures that "no man has ever seen the like." They lit citizens on fire, and exacted other torture methods.[24] Arab historian Ibn al-Athir described the event basing his report on the narrative of Merv refugees:

Genghis Khan sat on a golden throne and ordered the troops who had been seized should be brought before him. When they were in front of him, they were executed and the people looked on and wept. When it came to the common people, they separated men, women, children and possessions. It was a memorable day for shrieking and weeping and wailing. They took the wealthy people and beat them and tortured them with all sorts of cruelties in the search for wealth ... Then they set fire to the city and burned the tomb of Sultan Sanjar and dug up his grave looking for money. They said, 'These people have resisted us' so they killed them all. Then Genghis Khan ordered that the dead should be counted and there were around 700,000 corpses.[11]

A Persian historian, Juvayni, put the figure at more than 1,300,000.[5] Each individual soldier of the conquering army "was allotted the execution of three to four hundred persons,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Merv_(1221)#Siege

It's truly amazing how she believes cruelty, greed etc. only exists because of white people and the noble people of color would never do anything like this too.

Fuck, where does she even get the idea from that Kings are a white or western phenomenon. You got Pharaohs, Shoguns, Emperors, Khans etc.
I have a suspicion that any example she'd provide of a communal and altruistic culture was a very small collective of people. So we're back again where she implies that people should return to tribal societies which can't happen without the death of billions

[Eric Cartman]

Don’t get me wrong, it’s great VAllure does, in fact, allow trans women to work with the team. But even then, its standards are still very strict for trans performers. What does it mean to “sound like a woman”? Is VAllure willing to accept trans women like myself? Even though I have a feminine voice, I’m often clocked as trans during streams and in ASMR comments; would I lack the right credentials to sound “like a woman”? In other words, do they want trans talent, or do they want trans women who sound specifically like cis women? Trans women who pass for cis women and could, if necessary, hide their gender identity? VAllure never clarified these specifics during the stream, essentially putting trans talent right back to square one: How does VAllure really feel about trans women?

[Propagandhim]

The fetishization and accumulation of wealth and power has always been the point of Western civilization because fundamentally the culture we're swimming in stems directly from historical and religious connotations about divine hierarchy and right of kings shit versus more communal and altruistic affects you'd find in other cultures at the time

This reminds me of a fun anecdote I read recently about the Mongol conquest

The garrison at Merv was only about 12,000 men, and the city was inundated with refugees from eastern Khwarazm.

In April 1221, Tolui, son of Genghis Khan, besieged the city for six days. On the seventh day, he assaulted Merv. However, the garrison beat back the assault and launched their own counter-attack against the Mongols. The garrison force was similarly forced back into the city. The next day, the city's governor surrendered the city on Tolui's promise that the lives of the citizens would be spared. As soon as the city was handed over, however, Tolui slaughtered almost every person who surrendered, in a massacre possibly on a greater scale than that at Gurganj. The Afghan and Khalaj parts of the Mongol army led unimaginable tortures that "no man has ever seen the like." They lit citizens on fire, and exacted other torture methods.[24] Arab historian Ibn al-Athir described the event basing his report on the narrative of Merv refugees:

Genghis Khan sat on a golden throne and ordered the troops who had been seized should be brought before him. When they were in front of him, they were executed and the people looked on and wept. When it came to the common people, they separated men, women, children and possessions. It was a memorable day for shrieking and weeping and wailing. They took the wealthy people and beat them and tortured them with all sorts of cruelties in the search for wealth ... Then they set fire to the city and burned the tomb of Sultan Sanjar and dug up his grave looking for money. They said, 'These people have resisted us' so they killed them all. Then Genghis Khan ordered that the dead should be counted and there were around 700,000 corpses.[11]

A Persian historian, Juvayni, put the figure at more than 1,300,000.[5] Each individual soldier of the conquering army "was allotted the execution of three to four hundred persons,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Merv_(1221)#Siege

It's truly amazing how she believes cruelty, greed etc. only exists because of white people and the noble people of color would never do anything like this too

She has the same exact beliefs of white people that nazis had of Jews.  Nazis said Jews had a unique evolutionary pressure selecting for in-group preferencing and anti-social qualities that destroy the host society.  They are natural antagonists and it's in their blood - nothing can be done societally, so they have to be eradicated.  She believes white people are invariably exploitative and avaricious.  They are bred to dominate through maliciousness and power.  She's said this before.   It isn't the society that makes the man who he is, it is the man that makes the society - and whites will always build societies that oppress all and any out-groups.   That's why people of color never, ever, make any societies but altruistic, communal ones.  It's literally in the genes.   She is the quintessential racist.

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-people-here-seeing-speeds-tour-in-china.1153557/page-2#post-137976660

Yeah, I'm a bit confused why we seem to have just moved on from this...

FD Signifier did a whole "speed is a clown and that's ok" video, and even Hasan is always talking about him.

Did he "get better" or something, and I just missed the news?

Sounds like you read all the news that's fit to print:

FD Signifier did a whole "speed is a clown and that's ok" video, and even Hasan is always talking about him.

Whole thread is wild. What are they even talking about breaking propaganda? Because a Chinese city has a monorail?

GLORIOUS CULTURAL REVOLUTION, DEATH TO THE DECADENT WEST!

[killamajig]

I can't figure out if Neppy is stupid or a liar.

Does she really think only "white" civilizations did bad shit? 

or

Does she knows better but just likes to lie about history to fuck with people?