A while ago I wrote about a vtuber who gave us a rare look at the human being behind the anime art by accidentally revealing his (illegally downloaded) porn collection on stream. This one also says a lot about the minds of the people behind the streamers, though what happened was far from an accident. 

Ikinone Tomeru of vtuber group Shinso-gumi and her independant vtuber friends Kikaze Kimiko, Shigure Mito, and Hinachun already had a following for their lewd chats on stream. The lewdness went up to 11 when they streamed themselved playing Turf War mode on Splatoon 3 with ink transparency set to 0 and a chroma key-like effect to replacing it with straight-up porn. Vtuber cosplay porn, to be exact, which only lasted so long until Nintedo hit 'em with a copyright strike.

For a while, "Splatoon AV" was even trending on Japanese twitter. Ringleader Shigure Mito was first to get banned on YouTube, where they were streaming. They also issued a defiant tweet saying "Listen up, haters. No matter how many of you block me or send insults my way, I'll just laugh and let it pass. But I won't stand by and let you cause trouble for the people who appeared on the stream and the companies that cooperated with us. If you don't like that, you can go ahead and block me." Then that tweet was deleted and replaced with what seems like a more heartfelt apology - "I apologize for my actions against public decency in my October 8 stream and my inflammatory tweets. And I deeply apologize for the inconvenience I have caused to the various people involved. I have also deleted the tweets in question." Shinso-gumi also apologized on their behalf. Tomeru and Kimiko have also been banned on YouTube.

Maybe there's a market for lewd vtubers playing lewd games, but YouTube certainly isn't the right platform for that. What do you guys think of this? Let us know in the comments!