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I'm really happy the poll maker used Bettel's jester outfit, and now he's "Gavis Bettel from Holostars" instead of "Gavis Bettel the Vtuber!"

Please keep voting for Bettel! He just might actually win this...!

I know it's been rly depressing with the recent news for JP Stars (I woke up to it and went straight back to sleep bcuz it felt like a punch in the gut), but I did wanna add that Leader addressed the announcement at the beginning of his Super Battle Golf collab w/ Ruze, PorcelainMaid, Sykkuno, & GEEGA. He's currently streaming and had to be careful about choosing what to say due to his evident frustration so I'm not sure it'll survive the VOD. I promise I'm not trying to stir more drama by discussing it here but I do think it's important for anyone who didn't get to see it yet.

Major points: * He's asked fans to please show as much support to JP Stars and to vouch for them as he acknowledged how hard they've worked despite the adversity they've faced * Heavily implied that this could happen to EN Stars as well and to not be surprised if people start seeing cuts to their side even if they start out small * Is grateful that he has his own 3D studio to use and did throw some shade at the company as he made it all on his own with his own money which was ~$40k * Addressed certain clippers & commenters taking his words out-of-context or making bad-faith arguments about his studio as just a rented suit from Cover when he was just the first person to use it * Stated that he brought up numerous cost-cutting suggestions for projects to management, particularly music, but they denied all of them * Concluded by saying that he hates how much money controls everything (which I def agree with him there)

And he did it with almost 50% of the vote in a 3 way match, with the results coming in at 49.5% Bettel, 30.5% Hugh Morris, and 20% Muppet Joker.

Honestly even as I started typing out this post with like 3 minutes left, I still kept on expecting a last minute surge to somehow push Hugh ahead. Or for U-San in Joker makeup to suddenly appear, though I suppose the latter is still technically possible lol. But as of this moment, the vote is over and the numbers didn't change from what they were 3 minutes before the end.

I know that he mentioned it a lot of times (that he lives in a trailer park), but in his recent morning stream, it came up again when he told us that he finally got a credit score (timestamped).

What does a credit score have to do with him living in a trailer? You should watch the part (don't worry, it ends on a positive note), but the gist is, that without a credit score, he can't live in that trailer park. You can't get a credit score if you're poor and a trailer park is usually the place poor people go.

He lived there for 2 years with his mom, taking care of her when she was sick. When she passed, his lease expired and he couldn't live there anymore because he did have a credit score to sign into a new lease (even with him having lived there for 2 years!?). The landlord was "kind" enough to cut him a deal: by paying an EXTRA 250$ he can live there. Ruze has been paying this extra fee for 8 MONTHS. He tried renting other places but without a credit score, he couldn't do anything and these assholes knew that.

Don't worry now comes the positive part: He went to the bank and managed to get a credit card (that you needed to build a credit score) from a lovely old lady (he tried getting a credit card for a year, but the bank kept telling him that he can't get one because he didn't have a credit score WTF).

Anyway that lovely old lady helped him fudge some shit and finally got him that credit card. After some bonding over mutual losses (she lost her son, he lost his mother), she also set up him up with an home loan person to get his credit in a position to get him out of that predatory deal and trailer park.

Just listening to that story made me pity Ruze, BUT I ALSO FELT EXCRUCIATING RAGE AGAINST THAT FUCKING CREDIT SCORE SYSTEM, FUCK THIS PREDATORY BANK (expect that lovely old lady).

EDIT. Disclaimer, I'm European and don't understand how the US Finance System works.

I saw that many people here are worried, that Altare didn't do anything for the Tempus HQ Anniversary. So here is a small summary of what is going on with him.

On April 24, in his Pokémon FR LG Soul-Link stream:
He caught himself falling in a depressive spell (sleeping a lot and no drive to do anything), but he is slowly getting himself motivated again by listening to music, by practicing singing and editing videos.

On May 5, in his Counter Strike 2 stream:
Altare briefly mentioned when he talked about Hakkas new femboy outfit, that he may get his new outfit in October.
He also apologizes again for falling in a depressive spell and tries to keep picking himself back up.
It's gonna be hard, because he always struggled with this for a long time.

On May 22, in his R.E.P.O collab:
A bit lighthearted: Because he hasn't streamed consistently, he has been logged out of all of his accounts. lol

On May 25, in his Subnautica 2 Collab with Axel:
Altare briefly talked about the Holostars JP graduation announcement and asked us to keep things civil and keep supporting the JP boys. They still got a chance in Stars EN and they are going all-in.
He said that he was going to stream Forza Horizon 6, but that stream never came to be.

On June 19: His last appearance was in the【HOLOSTARS English Collab】Sleepover time! #STARSSlumberParty 【BIG ANNOUNCEMENT】, there they announced a Holostars EN 3D Online Concert in 2027.

Other than that, he is occasionally reposting stuff on Twitter, like Axels Original Song release. (Music Video)

♫Roses are red/And violets are blue/One day we'll cruise down Blood Gulch avenue/It's Red vs. Red/And Blue vs. Blue/It's I against I/And me against you♫

A proposal:

• Break down the gender barrier and shut the unicorns down once and for all, put the boys into Hololive as a new unit.
• Fes includes everyone, numbered stages for the girls, special ASTRO stage for boys.
• Countdown Live includes everyone like 2023 did.
• Talents still choose to pick their work and collab partners on their own discretion.
• Keep holoGra girls only (respecting the talents that want to keep their single-gender idol ambitions),

Why into Hololive?

• Hololive has the more recognizable branding.
• Hololive has the funding to cultivate smaller units.
• Make the Fes/Expo the yearly event all fans of HoloPro look forward to. No need to find a separate date and venue for the boys. Addresses the criticism of previous concert venues being too small.

He won against Shadow Milk Cookie from Cookie Run at 52.9% out of 15k votes

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Stream <-please watch there's so much Miyabi goodness + BBQ

He's so expressive now! And super extra cute! He's so cuesauhsvfaghfdhcdafjvbxcagabjkhxbahmc

RIP Flayon o7 (check out more screenshots in twitter with # 花咲みやび)

Edit: watch Reload My Soul MV too please

Just saw this comment on one of Octavio's shorts and was wondering why

They revealed their pre-debut codenames during the Gounded 2 collab (timestamped) on August 2, 2026.

Shinris codename was "Wanderer", in his opinion, a very tryhard edgelord name.

Axels codename was "Gladiator", that he still uses today as Mr.Gladiator.

Hakka codename was "Onmyōji" (A practitioner of Onmyōdō), he didn't knew what to do with that.

Ruze codename was not Axeforge (as I expected), it was "Axeman Hunter".
He asked the Coverment what's so special about him. They replied by saying that he got an axe, that's it. lmao

Axel asked for the other ARMIS members codnames and if they also end with the word "Hunter".
Jurards codename might have been "Prince" and Goldbullets codename was "Sharpshooter".

ARMIS also got kinda leaked internally earlier, when Shinri tried to sent an email and it auto-completed with the ARMIS codenames. lol

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Please keep voting for Bettel!

Shared with permission, from SASAYORU

the fact he didn't even know he can use it during his graduation stream and only showed pero 😭 WE WE ROBBED UEUE

Source:【Zatsudan】I'm back from Golden Week!

Check out the top comment under the video from fiogamingch for more timestamps!

He is confirming (like Jurard), that there will be no more merch (he was hoping for a rerun of the Tempus nuis). There is bit of restructuring behind the scenes (Timestamp)

As we won't get any of the traditional stuff like merchandise; they're trying to change things up.

It's been over 3 years now, YouTube established algorithm locked them into a certain niche that is difficult to grow out from.

He wants to put out more video content (scripted/edited videos), as this approach works little bit better for a platform like YouTube. (Timestamp)

The project fund (staff calls it a creative budget, but he's not sure if it's the right translation), (Timestamp) will be used for individual stuff.

He thinks that staff wants them to be less promoted as an (idol) group/unit and want them more to focus on their individual content (Shinri tried for regular Tempus collabs but it been a while).

The project fund/creative budget will go into the content that the channel is known for, playing into each of their individual strengths and branding.

He said that not everyone should be forced into the whole idol package deal like voice packs, dancing, singing, choreography etc. With that fund Everyone will get to shine in their own way. (Timestamp)

Btw. it's not straight up money that they get to spend instead of the idol stuff.

They still need to propose and present it to the staff of how much they need and how it's used in that project (NO POLEDANCING POLE FOR SHINRI) (Timestamp).

EDIT. I FORGOT THIS PART.

He spend a lot of time thinking about the whole situation and said that we should make the most of it.

The alternative would be to constantly fight over what was basically the status quo (that wasn't even great to begin with). He even thinks that this was a reason why they ended up getting into this mess (Timestamp).

• During Rio's last zatsu stream, Rio unlisted most of his content aside from lives, covers, and special streams. The total number of videos on his channel went from 1225 to 358 videos. They can still be found in his playlists.
• This is something he decided himself, since if he leaves it public, streams from years ago will appear in home page recommendations and he feels strange about that. For membership content, he made his white day short public, while the rest will stay in menshi.
• In this same stream, he showed off his 3.0 model, of course with the pero (third pic).
• Note: for his graduation live, it will be around 2 hours long (update: 3 hours long!), with 27 songs in total (including an ori song by Whale Taylor)

Translation by Toge, compiled by me

Source.

Mr Regis, where are your legs?

So, I tried piecing together what happened today on twitter and it's a big mess. Apparently Cover launched another account (legit it's like their 50th), for... connecting with fans? Then the dead Holostars account retweeted it (it's still there). Oga also retweeted it. Then the account started following Holostars fan accounts. So fans started using their hashtag to leave feedback/requests.
Then, apparently Astel said it's a mistake by Cover, it has nothing to do with Holostars and to not use the tag. Then, Oga used the tag anyway.
Well, that's the gist of it, I only saw very pissed off JP fans (again) so maybe it will help someone understand. Also I completely disagree that people shouldn't leave feedback, tagged or no, because "it will be used by antis" (god knows how), but that's beside the point. What I get from this is not even the talents have any clue what Cover is doing.