VShojo is shutting down
Earlier this week, VShojo came under fire as Ironmouse, the agency's top performing VTuber, announced she was leaving the company over a missing $500k charity donation and her own unpaid funds. Her departure triggered a mass exodus of VShojo talent, with 12 of the company's 13 creators officially announcing their own split from the company with some also claiming unpaid wages as their reason. Ignacio's announcement alluded to VShojo's financial difficulties.
'We raised around $11 million to pursue a bold, talent-first approach in VTubing,' the statement read. 'However, despite all our efforts, the business failed to generate the revenue we needed to sustain that model, and eventually, we ran out of money.'
Ignacio also admitted that the funds raised by Ironmouse and intended for the Immune Deficiency Foundation had been spent by the company: 'Additionally I acknowledge that some of the money spent by the company was raised in connection with talent activity which I later learned was intended for a charitable initiative.' Ignacio went on to write that he was confident that he'd be able to raise enough money to cover those costs. 'We were unsuccessful in our fundraising efforts.'
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But the fact that the event happened at all shows how much investment is already happening in hopes that VTuber culture can make money in the mainstream. Mariya's ventures are on a much smaller scale, but for her fans, Fantastic Reality is a huge deal. So much so that one of them helped her tell the world that it was happening— by putting her in their private plane and flying her over Los Angeles, so that she could livestream the announcement from 2,000 feet in the sky. (Out of respect for kayfabe, I did not ask how this was accomplished.) 'This project is a challenge to myself,' Mariya tells me. 'How can I make all those connections and prove to not just myself, but to a lot of other people, that you know, it isn't silly to be an anime girl on the internet?' PHOTOGRAPH: ERICA HERNANDEZ PHOTOGRAPH: ERICA HERNANDEZ VTuber artists probably don't signal the end of music any more than the Gorillaz heralded the end of concerts when they started putting cartoons on stage in 2001. I'm more concerned that VTuber musicians are going to be replaced, and what that could mean for the rest of music. The stage seems pretty well set already: Timbaland has co-launched a startup that wants to use AI-generated 'artists' to help create music. Velvet Sundown, an apparently AI-generated psych rock band with over a million monthly listeners on Spotify, has been twisting music journalists' brains for a few weeks, mostly because it sounds pretty decent. And that's only the most recent high-profile case: The lo-fi beats scene has been struggling with AI for a while now. Then, there's Bloo, an AI-generated VTuber created by a popular YouTuber who voluntarily replaced himself because he was getting burned out, but realized if he wasn't onscreen, he wouldn't be able to continue his business. As he told CNBC: 'The flaw in this equation is the human, so we need to somehow remove the human.' Bloo's creator says it's already brought in seven figures. Put the two together: Couldn't we 'remove the human' from the equation of VTuber music? An AI VTuber singer wouldn't need to take breaks. 'She' could endlessly entertain 'her' fans with an unlimited stream of cozy chat and cute tunes. There is an obvious financial incentive here, if not for individual creators, then for corporations; venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz posted an article last year in which it put AI companions and VTubing together on an 'Anime Market Map,' signaling an obvious interest in figuring out how to make money more efficiently off fans. It also doesn't help that xAI's Grok just dropped a sexy 'AI companion' that looks like it could be Mariya's little sister. Whereas conventional hip-hop or rock audiences have largely turned up their nose at AI creep, VTuber fans are already used to an abstracted version of music entertainment—wouldn't they be the earliest adopters of AI? Mariya disagrees. 'I think that the culture in VTubing is that if you use AI, it's really looked down upon,' she says. 'In our sphere, we're pretty safe from that.' She does understand that AI is starting to encroach on everything, though, as do the show's promoters—the press release for the concert promises none of the performers will be AI. 'One of the things that I was very vocal about for this concert is that I did not want AI involvement in it,' she says. 'I think that it would be a little bit insulting.' 'VTubing has grown because of artists, you know, our visuals are made by human artists. Our rigging is made by human riggers. Our songs are made by humans. A lot of the fan art that's made, like the people who watch us, are humans. I think we should do our best to make sure that they always have a place here.' Mariya has a point. Maybe because of the spillover from anime fan culture, which geeks out about the voice actors of their favorite anime almost as much as the drawings themselves, VTuber fans are also interested in the behind-the-scenes artistry of their oshi. Some agency pages for VTubers include credits for the person who designed the avatar—one of the few exceptions made in the kayfabe rule. At the end of the Fantastic Reality concert, the screens show a long credits roll, including artists and names of the writers of each song. People actually stick around to watch it and cheer. I want to believe Mariya—that VTuber culture has spent so much time close to the edge of the human-created and the machine-generated that they've figured out how to draw boundaries and protect the human side. Maybe she's right: They have had longer than the rest of us to think through these problems. Three weeks after the show, Fantastic Reality's closing singer, Ironmouse, posted a video explaining that she was leaving her agency, Vshojo, alleging that it withheld over half a million dollars in payment, not to her, but to the Immune Deficiency Foundation. Ironmouse has previously shared that she has a 'low to near-non-functioning immune system' that forces her to be isolated for long periods. (Vshojo has since announced that they are out of money and are shutting down. WIRED reached out to Vshojo for comment but did not immediately receive a response.) In the days after Ironmouse's post, her fans not only expressed support but have helped raise over $1.2 million for the foundation. VTuber fans still care that there are humans involved. Everyone is pretending in the same room together, and perhaps more importantly, they want to support the humans who keep the story going. If the corporations are able to ruin VTuber culture, I don't think the rest of us stand a chance.
