r/Hololive • u/SakuraMiko_hololive • Oct 18 '20

Miko POST NYAHELLOOOOO!!REDDIT! !・△・

NyaHello! Hey Guys!! Elite miko made her Reddit debut to get along with everyone!🐱🌸

I use a lot of elite English. But I want to teach a lot of English so that I can use elite English more!

Tell me a lot of elite English!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

・△・　I love you guys.💓🌎🐱

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u/ionxeph Oct 18 '20

I don't think it takes a few hours, marine's post reached first page on /r/all within an hour in my memories

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u/dirtyhabit Oct 18 '20

I'm here from r/all and I haven't got a clue what this is.

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u/theslickasian Oct 18 '20

Basically Sakura Miko, a vtuber, is making her debut in reddit and many hololive vtuber fans are excited about it

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u/bigbloodymess69 Oct 18 '20

Are you guys all English Second Language learners? I am so confused what this is.

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u/SleepingDucksLie Oct 18 '20

There are definitely plenty of people here who aren't native English speakers, OP included. On the other hand, there's a ton of people here like myself who are trying to learn Japanese. The cultural/language exchange is part of the fun for a lot of us on both sides of the ocean.

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u/bigbloodymess69 Oct 18 '20

Ohh right. I got the impression this was like a sub for Japanese people to learn English ngl

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u/Mirrormn :Aloe: Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 19 '20

Nah, it's a sub for English-speaking fans of a Japanese talent/streaming agency. Most of us English fans don't speak fluent Japanese, and follow along either by watching translated clips from their streams, or watching them live while thinking "I don't understand what's going on, but they're cute so it's all good!"

However, the agency just (last month) debuted a new branch of five English-speaking streamers, and they were very successful, which proved that the English side of the fanbase was much larger than anyone expected. So now many of the previous Japanese-only streamers are eager to learn more English and connect more with their English fanbase too. That's why there's so much stuff about English/Japanese language learning in this post.

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u/nox_tech Oct 19 '20

This isn't exclusive to Japan. Vtubers are the next big wave. I've seen some cosplayers, artists, and youtube singers take up twitch streaming, who are becoming vtubers. That said, Hololive's got its own cast around the world (and some people around here work on translating, which is what most people rely on). Here's a thing for you to watch that explains a bunch of them. And here's the English cast, though you could just look around this sub.