"Should we look up what VTubing is like? No? Okay." Impressions: And we round out the terribleness of Monday with this fiasco. You'd think a show being made specifically to jerk off one specific vtuber's ego would at least be about vtubing in any way, shape, or form, or just be a weird spinoff […]
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