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Man, she really knows how to pull at our heartstrings.

Something that got me thinking after I’ll Still be Here, and now even more, is that a lot of Holomems (or VTubers in general) usually have a very “standard” first Original Song, with a bit of lore and maybe memes, depending on what you’d expect from them (it’s also good marketing, in a sense) but Gigi, the “chaotic gremlin”, subverted expectations not once but twice, putting out very intimate and emotional songs instead. I could see a lot of people unfamiliar with her being caught off-guard by the choice and maybe discovering her more introspective side, and that’s probably one of the things she was aiming for.

To borrow the theme of the song, she’s both the overexcited goofball that people might find out first from clips and the introverted, insecure and caring girl that she tries not to show too much, but still comes out in more personal talks and anecdotes from her friends. Neither is “a fiction, a fright or a trick of the light”, she’s just “her” and that’s more than enough.

(Even more blatantly in sight from the community post constantly flipflopping between talking about self-acceptance and yuri selfcest lmao)