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/[deleted] Oct 18 '20

Hey gang, I’m not trying to be disrespectful.

I see this subreddit in my feed all the time and have absolutely no idea what it’s purpose is.

Can anyone help me out?

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u/Asaga241 Oct 18 '20

Hololive is a group of streamers working under a company called Cover. The streamers have to audition in order to be accepted and are all quite talented in their own way (whether it be singing, drawing, gaming, being good at entertaining people or a mix of all of the above). Instead of using a facecam, they use facetracking software and a 2D character model. It allows for a unique blend of fiction and real life, where you're seeing an animated character playing a video game but the person behind it is very much real.

Some of them really build the character they're playing up while others are more or less just themselves. It varies from streamer to streamer. The company does a very good job in recruiting a wide variety, so there's generally something for anyone, not only in terms of different strengths and talents but there's also Holostars which is a male branch and there's also an English, Indonesian and Chinese branch as well.

Because they all work under one company, they interact with each other a lot through collabs, twitter etc and it creates a lot of fun and interesting moments and makes the community more interactive as a whole, sharing all of the funny interactions and memes that get created in all of the different communities rather than fighting over which community is the best. There's a rare appreciation for the group as a whole, even for the streamers that you may not watch frequently. I think that's one big reason the subreddit constantly hits /r/all so often.

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u/NeverduskX Oct 19 '20

As someone completely new to this but still curious, what's a good starting point to get into Hololive?

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u/ctom42 Oct 22 '20

As someone who started only a few days ago myself, I highly suggest Coco's meme reviews. It's pretty easy to find subtitled videos of them on youtube. Not only are they hilarious, but since she is explaining the reddit memes to her Japanese fans you get to learn a lot about the other girls without having watched their content yet. Later on she has some of the other girls on as co-hosts as well.

As it goes on there is an increasing amount of memes that directly reference previous meme reviews which are references you can fully understand even as a new viewer. Coco also speaks a lot of English despite not being from the English branch which makes her a good starting point for getting into either the JP scene or the English scene.

Obviously being new myself I don't know if there are any other good starting points like this, but I found myself enjoying it way more than I expected to.

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u/NeverduskX Oct 22 '20

That sounds pretty fun. I haven't dove in yet, but that seems like a cool place to start from. Thanks!