It trips me out because there's really no excuse for it if you see yourself as a real artist. (Yes I am an artist.) And blaming quality on a reference sheet is not an excuse. People be acting like the water drop tool don't exist. I mean heck you could even ask the person take a photo of their arm or top of their hand to get the right skin tone range. It's like ya'll can do everything else on the model... why can't you adjust the skin tone? It's not even hard to shade brown skin. You either use tanish gold, purple, or dark blue. (It's fine if they can't do our hair types though, it is on the harder side if you're not used to it. They could always make the hair a separate asset and work on it while the debut is happening.) Like I understand that the inspiration, as was said in the video, of why it's an abnormality; simply due to cultural reasons. But the community be acting like Anime has never had black people before. And one of everyone's favorite anime people keep referencing is Joe stars season of Jojo. It's like mf ep1 they defend his well designed BLACK FRIEND, from a ignorant dude who basically called him a you know what. And Jojo the series, came out in the 80s.... it's like let that sink in... the 80s. If the anime artist can do it... so can Vtuber artist...
@@lunerlillyyeah, I completely agree. As an artist myself, I struggle with drawing different hair types, but I’m continuing to study 3c, 4c hairstyles and lengths in my own art. I’ve never made a rigged model before, but even then, I agree. You can literally color drop a dark skin tone onto the model.
I almost feel like I lucked out with my artist for my model. She's a Japanese artist and even though there was a bit of a language barrier in the creation process, she gave me NO HASSLE when I told her I wanted my model to have dark skin. She hadn't done a model with that skin tone before but nailed it when she sent the first draft to me. Just proved to me that those who care will make it happen.
I am currently fixing up my 3D model of my vtuber since I will be using her for something's. and when that's done I will pay for someone to do my 2D vtuber model. I am so happy for you!
Idk, there's lots of hateful weirdos. It's the same for LGBTQ people, like you get three shows about lesbians and suddenly people are talking about how the anime industry is corrupted by the west.
It’s a combination of years worth of indoctrination, a lack of proper education, an inability to admit that your thoughts and ideas regarding other ethic groups are factually incorrect, the Internet propagating stereotypes and false information, capitalism, increased levels of depression, religion and a colossal imbalance between the number of straight white men to the number of literally every other ethnicity living on our planet.
Same, I don't get it especially from the standpoint that whenever you see a tweet of someone wanting more representation, people comment about how it's a "western issue" and rant about forced representation. I wish people just scrolled on instead of interacting.
@@eureka5635 and they talk about it despite the fact that japan has been historically way less homophobic until they started taking notes from the west lmao. The West and christianity historically introduce homophobia to other countries, not queer-friendliness
Can't believe Taledo forgot to include me. 😔 Jokes aside, as someone who represents themselves with a 'white' avatar despite me being black (mainly because this is an original character I just really liked), I find it nice that we're seeing more representation in the community overtime despite some hostilities against our community. I think representation as a whole gets dismissed unjustly as not being important or a passing issue, but I think it's genuinely nice to see people like yourself and all the other creators you mentioned do well as someone who feels that the Anime and VTuber community may be unwelcoming to them.
Very well made video! So many important aspects of our experience discussed and glad to see when awareness is raised. Side note WHY YOU GOTTA PUT ME OUT HERE WITH THAT KINDA CLIP BRUH😭😂
Now, I am a white person and I grew up in a white family but I did NOT grow up in a white community. And honestly it pissed me off that I see such little black representation in Vtubing agencies and just anime in general. I would LOVE to see more people in the media that I like who look like the people around me. And I hope one day we can get to a point where there’s black people in agencies, more than just one.
I’m a black artist and twitch streamer and I just now decided to start this whole vtuber journey. I want to sell and create POC Avatars soon, which is how I stumbled across this video.
And secondly, thank you for making such a clear and respectful video! From referencing that VTubing is a medium with Eastern origins, to sharing the struggles we go through to get noticed as black vtubers! You're killing it bro!
beautiful video taledo 🥺 thank you so much for including me in this piece! thank you for always speaking up for us and bringing attention to what we go through, as well as, celebrating what makes us great. happy bhm gamer!
I’m gonna be honest, I understand how kenji felt. When I first became a vtuber, my vtuber wasn’t supposed to have pale skin and was supposed to have more of a darker skin tone like my actual skin color. Now I’ve just went with a pale skinned character because what else am I supposed to do. I didn’t wanna dip out on my favorite artist. 😅 I don’t mind it currently but man it hits…
As a white artist who is happy to draw all POC people, I am so shocked and horrified about how many artists reject commissions simply because their client's skin color isn't whiteish T___T
@@RaVal23807 Any sketch or prototype would only be seen by the client, so who's gonna cancel the artist? And if the latter is concerned about harrassment by people who don't want black VTubers after it's finished there's always the option to not mention and or link the artist.
@@Alias_Anybody Wasn't talking about client work exclusively. I am talking about people in general who want to make (fan)art featuring POC characters or are learning. Artists being harassed for posting their work or art journey is pretty common. Also don't get me wrong, while there are plenty of racists, I am not impressed how often artists are labelled racists or lazy just because they haven't learned how to draw things like African hair or didn't do it right their first try. With my earlier comment I was referring to that there are a lot of artists that don't (try to) draw POC, not because they don't want to but because they are scared.
With all the people who are having a hard time finding artists, I'm wondering if I should get into making vtuber models now.. In 2024 you'd think more people could at the very least color a character with darker skin tones. 🤔 Also, technically Niji has one liver who "isn't white, isn't Asian, isn't Latino", and knows the rest of "we're brothers, we're happy and-" if you catch my drift. But you didn't hear that from me though, I'm not trying to get _banned_ .
Your 1st Black Vtuber video was the first video I saw of you and I found a lot a great talents afterwards cause of you. This video really great mix of commentary and uplifting for Black creators and creatives. Thanks for the video ❤
I'm in the process of looking for a 2D artist that don't mind covering a dark skinned brother. Thanks for the couple of name drops. Also, hopefully we get some outshining representation. I mean shooting for the stars and as popular as Kizuna Ai. I continue to look forward to that day.
4:13 It always brings a smile to my face when the FGC gets shouted out like this. I'm white as a sheet of paper, but it's nice that the community I'm part of gets to have so many cool black players in it. Happy black history month everyone, and here's to hoping that Lil Majin gets his chance to crush Tekken 8 as well as 7 cause he's my favorite tekken player and king is hilarious
Fgc may have its issue but can't deny their generally inclusive to all walks of life. Gender, race, sexuality, religion and what not. Their still some bad apples in the basket and the "boys clubs" that needs scrubbing away. But I feel they can get their.
the editing in these videos are so funny bro i laugh every time you use the cory screaming bit; it will never get old also pizza tower ost at the end? epic
I remember when I had first gotten into the VTuber fandom and I was immediately destroyed by the lack of melanin in the WESTERN side of vtubing, so like people mainly from the Americas or even the UK. Part of me one day wants to break that barrier too, but thank you for making this a great outlet to find more black vtuber creators
He never said it clearly, but I think Vantacrow Bringer from NijiEN is black. He consistently uses models with darker skin, and made references to black culture.
I've never understood how some people out there can just be complete jerks to whole groups of people without feeling even a little bit guilty. Anyway good vid as always, I'm not super in the vtubing sphere but I'm commenting so this can reach more people (I'm pretty sure that's how it works, at least)!
This is truly amazing to address this matter. It's super important and I watch their content and became friends with some of them like Bapha and Semi. All in all, we all gotta be supportive to each other, we are all in this Vtubing journey together. P.s., also would say the same to hispanic month as well because I'm a latina. Still gotta Gove support to everyone in diversity^^
In regards to the artist thing, I still find it very odd whenever I hear that an artist cannot do dark skin tones on Vtuber models. Granted, I'm not the best artist myself, but for a project (that literally goes live a week from now), I went into Photoshop and was re-coloring a PNG model for that project (it takes place in Hawaii). I used a dark violet layer over the skin of my model - originally because I was trying to make a latex layer - but as I was going through the blending options, I stumbled on one that made my skin more tan like a suntan (let me preface this by I am very much a white transgirl, and also the model in question is now my RUclips PFP). For me, it stands to reason that you can start with a very light skintone and use blending layers to darken that skintone gradually to the ideal skin tone for whatever model you are working on. I did only one pass, and it was still a pronounced difference from what I started with. And it makes sense to me that this worked because, I mean, humans are all made up of the same stuff (skin, muscle, and the oxygen rich blood vessels underneath which are... dark red or even dark violet... Or maybe I've just had too many blood tests done the past year, IDK). Like, from a fundamental perspective, the only difference of skin color is the amount of melanin and how that melanin reacts to - of all things - sunlight. So in my opinion (again, just my limited experience), getting accurate skin color for darker skin on a Vtuber model is really just a matter of getting the lighting/highlight correct to bring out those natural tones. And I just don't understand why some artists would be afraid to experiment and find the optimal way of conveying that. In any case, I do wish that variety in the Vtuber space was more celebrated. I have my own opinions on why it isn't, but I'll keep those to myself.
Making my own Agencey my goal but honestly don't have the drive pushing for those steps right now. but always rooting for those who do and is pushing for there's.
Hope this is okay, but I'm a black vtuber, and black vtuber artist too! I mainly work with pngtubers and emotes tho, working on learning live2d models. Thank you for making this video Taledo great as always!!
You have to be the change that you want to see. That's why I got started Vtubing! You CAN find a black avatar it will just take a little more effort tho.
this video was so on point every step of the way. thank you so much for making this compilation! It was fun pointing out my favs or people I've seen around, I can't wait to check the rest of them out!
YESSIRRRR AMAZING VIDEO. I really like your content. Not only it’s informative but it’s also very funny as well. ALSO HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH LES GOOOOOOOOO
Bro there's so much support for what you do because you drop straight bangers one after the other. Well thought out, funny as hell, and informative all at once. Awesome work!
I appreciate this. You were spot-on in the artist department. I had to draw my own model in order to not deal with a lot of the issues that others have, and then finding a rigger that would even do the rig was a pain unto itself. I hope things get better in the future. Right now, I am learning to rig so that I don't have to go through this again, and be of service to others in the way that was not afforded to me.
"I cAn'T bEliEvE TaLeDo fOrGoT AbOuT "X" bLaCk vTuBeR HeRe¡!¡ FaKe fAn" 🤓 In all seriousness this and the previous video were super awesome!!! Im not one to really care about that type of thing due working on BTS stuff, but your content was what made me question and appreciate why it was important to make my model Black When originally I just made her Black just because I was Black...and because I didn't really have a plan/idea for my model, and I'm happy that I did 🥰 Keep up the good work!!!!!❤❤❤
Amazing video Taledo! Happy to see a positive video for black history month! It's nice seeing all the different vtubers and artist! Can't wait to see more of your videos! Happy black history month!
What does 'woke' mean? Whatever Offends Klansmen, Essentially. Jokes aside, this was an interesting vid, and I'm going to go check out some of the people you mentioned.
Great posting as always, Taledo. Imma save it as reference who to write down and contact when I'm ready to become an indie Vtuber. Your content is fire! It sucks that here in the U.S. that decades ago we were given the shortest fckn month of the year to celebrate: FEBRUARY! Really?! Who signed off on that? 🤦🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️ Still low end of the totem pole. Meh. Even in the U.K. their Black History Month is 31 days long OCTOBER. Cool Britannia 🇬🇧 Peace, fam. Keep striving, thriving, mutually supporting and keeping an open heart to all in spite of it all.❤
Better believe we pulling up for Taledo’s Black vtuber video!! 🙌 AAHHHHHH I LOVED SEEING SO MANY OF MY PEOPLEEEEE!! THIS IS AMAZING AND WONDERFUL!! Time to go on a follow spree 🥹💕💕💕
Tales of Symphonia - a true man of culture. I want a third one that explores more of the diversity in the world of Sylvarant + Tethe'alla. There's a lot of potential.
I am more than happy to support black Vtubers. They're usually pretty chill. Skin color isn't an identity or personality though. Don't try to be like other Vtubers, show who tf you are. Show why people should be interested in you, not why you having something in common with a popular Vtuber is interesting.
If you wanna discuss stuff outfit vtubing, I can respectfully debate you. Black people have been getting all kinds of representation lately. The Buzz Lightyear movie may have not been good, but I enjoyed the commander. I only saw the movie once, I can't remember too much, but I didn't think she was merely a "token black lesbian" character. She had depth.
My close friends Xander_Digital and Scouty_Boy are two amazingly talented black vtubers that deserve so much more love. And my friend Reznor being an amazing black artist
White (mixed) boy (trans woman) here. Living in America, it feels almost taboo to discuss African-American anything (except identity politics) unless you're African-American yourself, so I really appreciate this series of insights!
Im very outside the vtuber community as a whole, the few I do watch are small, independent vtubers. One of the very first things i noticed is the lack of poc, *especially* on the agency side of things. Thank you for talking about why that might be the case and showcasing some smaller ones for me to check out!
Okay, I haven't actually finished the video yet, but thank you for another banger video, and DOUBLE TRIPLE THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING ME TO THE ANGEL THAT IS SERINA MAIKO HOLY SHIT!!!!!
Fun fact: Taledo has over twice as many subscribers as Fauna had on her previous account before she got into Hololive. This means that if Taledo wanted to, he could probably get into a BIG corporation!
As a Black Lewdtuber, illustrator and V-Artist... and from being in this community for the past two years I meant when I said im use my blood, sweat, and tears to make free assets and etc for both live 2D and PNGtubers and I'll do any skin tone so EVERYONE have something nice. Black/POC vtuber... I got you guys too ❤❤
One black artist that I know Is OwONeko or however you spell it. I love her videos and she is so cool and makes the funniest jokes ever. She may not be a Vtuber or a Vtuber artist but she is still an amazing artist
Thank for sharing this video! Representation is so sooo important! I’m definitely going to check out the channels in the description! I wanna find more POC that make content I like and wasn’t sure where to look, so this is definitely a big help! :))
such a fucking important (and funny af) video, taledo 🙏🙏🙏 it's *WAY* past time black vtubers get inserted in the ''mainstream'' industry and the hostility towards all gets properly addressed and dealt with! standing up for what we believe and for what we honestly deserve (cause we wildin in all talents possible) is extremely important and i'm just so glad both you and this issue is being spread!! albeit me being a black latina, my current representation is 'white' cause she's literally a oc and a bit that went too far lol but i finally got the chance to properly look like myself and it's coming. oh it's coming. and no one's safe. 😈
Thank you so much for introducing me to like, 20+ new people to keep my ADD at bay while I design Genshin Impact and MHA OC’s and stuff wooden knives and forks into paper bags at the Sunny Hill Cafe for £8 an hour.
I'm black y'all
And I’m black y’all
Honestly, the "I'm Black y'all" snippet kinda catchy, ngl
I hope you're OK. I remember how you were speaking in stream the other day. Just wanted to send you positivity and hugs. 😊❤😊
He just like me fr😌
Congrats on coming out
it blows tf outta me how rare it is to find artists drawing black people that don't got that cigarette ash skin 🗿
It trips me out because there's really no excuse for it if you see yourself as a real artist. (Yes I am an artist.) And blaming quality on a reference sheet is not an excuse. People be acting like the water drop tool don't exist. I mean heck you could even ask the person take a photo of their arm or top of their hand to get the right skin tone range.
It's like ya'll can do everything else on the model... why can't you adjust the skin tone? It's not even hard to shade brown skin. You either use tanish gold, purple, or dark blue.
(It's fine if they can't do our hair types though, it is on the harder side if you're not used to it. They could always make the hair a separate asset and work on it while the debut is happening.)
Like I understand that the inspiration, as was said in the video, of why it's an abnormality; simply due to cultural reasons. But the community be acting like Anime has never had black people before. And one of everyone's favorite anime people keep referencing is Joe stars season of Jojo. It's like mf ep1 they defend his well designed BLACK FRIEND, from a ignorant dude who basically called him a you know what. And Jojo the series, came out in the 80s.... it's like let that sink in... the 80s. If the anime artist can do it... so can Vtuber artist...
Fr, it isnt to hard to pick a color damn
@@lunerlillyyeah, I completely agree. As an artist myself, I struggle with drawing different hair types, but I’m continuing to study 3c, 4c hairstyles and lengths in my own art.
I’ve never made a rigged model before, but even then, I agree. You can literally color drop a dark skin tone onto the model.
I'm a black artist and animator
Thissss
I almost feel like I lucked out with my artist for my model. She's a Japanese artist and even though there was a bit of a language barrier in the creation process, she gave me NO HASSLE when I told her I wanted my model to have dark skin. She hadn't done a model with that skin tone before but nailed it when she sent the first draft to me. Just proved to me that those who care will make it happen.
I am currently fixing up my 3D model of my vtuber since I will be using her for something's. and when that's done I will pay for someone to do my 2D vtuber model. I am so happy for you!
i still dont understand how so many people get offended by black people wanting to see other black people in media
@@kidrobot. he literally shows screenshots in the video
Idk, there's lots of hateful weirdos. It's the same for LGBTQ people, like you get three shows about lesbians and suddenly people are talking about how the anime industry is corrupted by the west.
It’s a combination of years worth of indoctrination, a lack of proper education, an inability to admit that your thoughts and ideas regarding other ethic groups are factually incorrect, the Internet propagating stereotypes and false information, capitalism, increased levels of depression, religion and a colossal imbalance between the number of straight white men to the number of literally every other ethnicity living on our planet.
Same, I don't get it especially from the standpoint that whenever you see a tweet of someone wanting more representation, people comment about how it's a "western issue" and rant about forced representation. I wish people just scrolled on instead of interacting.
@@eureka5635 and they talk about it despite the fact that japan has been historically way less homophobic until they started taking notes from the west lmao. The West and christianity historically introduce homophobia to other countries, not queer-friendliness
Can't believe Taledo forgot to include me. 😔
Jokes aside, as someone who represents themselves with a 'white' avatar despite me being black (mainly because this is an original character I just really liked), I find it nice that we're seeing more representation in the community overtime despite some hostilities against our community. I think representation as a whole gets dismissed unjustly as not being important or a passing issue, but I think it's genuinely nice to see people like yourself and all the other creators you mentioned do well as someone who feels that the Anime and VTuber community may be unwelcoming to them.
My fault OG 😭
But fr, appreciate ya. Nice to see all types of life represented in this industry and some areas of improvement
I think it's just sad. Instead of celebrating and elevating Black beauty you elevate whites when you yourself are not white.
yeah no. i dont need to see people like me to like something
Very well made video! So many important aspects of our experience discussed and glad to see when awareness is raised. Side note WHY YOU GOTTA PUT ME OUT HERE WITH THAT KINDA CLIP BRUH😭😂
DUDE I WAS THERE IN THE CHAT I WAS DYING LMAOOOOO
It was too perfect of a clip not to include LOL
We Black y'all We Black Ya'll.!! I'm black with no rhythm Ya'll. LOL
Hold up, got to call @Kenji to watch this. 📞
CALL HIM UPPPP 🗣🗣🗣
Please do
Now, I am a white person and I grew up in a white family but I did NOT grow up in a white community. And honestly it pissed me off that I see such little black representation in Vtubing agencies and just anime in general. I would LOVE to see more people in the media that I like who look like the people around me. And I hope one day we can get to a point where there’s black people in agencies, more than just one.
THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING ME IN HERE AYO WHAT (also banger video as always!!!!!!!!)
AYO?! Thanks for the feature Taledo!
I’m a black artist and twitch streamer and I just now decided to start this whole vtuber journey. I want to sell and create POC Avatars soon, which is how I stumbled across this video.
So many beautiful black vtubers n artists. Didn’t even know our shit could look this good 😭😭😭
@phantomxero1x447can you speak
Im African and an artist. This make me friggin happy and really motivated. Thank you so much Taledo😭
This video is everything. May ALL of us in this space find great success this year!!! So much talent out there that deserves the spotlight
AYO! THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING ME IN THIS T^T
And secondly, thank you for making such a clear and respectful video! From referencing that VTubing is a medium with Eastern origins, to sharing the struggles we go through to get noticed as black vtubers! You're killing it bro!
beautiful video taledo 🥺 thank you so much for including me in this piece! thank you for always speaking up for us and bringing attention to what we go through, as well as, celebrating what makes us great. happy bhm gamer!
your vtuber design is very cute
I’m gonna be honest, I understand how kenji felt. When I first became a vtuber, my vtuber wasn’t supposed to have pale skin and was supposed to have more of a darker skin tone like my actual skin color. Now I’ve just went with a pale skinned character because what else am I supposed to do. I didn’t wanna dip out on my favorite artist. 😅
I don’t mind it currently but man it hits…
As a white artist who is happy to draw all POC people, I am so shocked and horrified about how many artists reject commissions simply because their client's skin color isn't whiteish T___T
Mixed artist here, honestly shocked people will do that just bc of someone's skin color. Like they're just being lazy at this point 😭
@@Ruby...X
Not an artist, but isn't that basically an admission that they are either incompetent or racist? Like, which other options are there?
@@Alias_Anybody Another option is not wanting to getting cancelled for trying
@@RaVal23807
Any sketch or prototype would only be seen by the client, so who's gonna cancel the artist? And if the latter is concerned about harrassment by people who don't want black VTubers after it's finished there's always the option to not mention and or link the artist.
@@Alias_Anybody Wasn't talking about client work exclusively. I am talking about people in general who want to make (fan)art featuring POC characters or are learning. Artists being harassed for posting their work or art journey is pretty common. Also don't get me wrong, while there are plenty of racists, I am not impressed how often artists are labelled racists or lazy just because they haven't learned how to draw things like African hair or didn't do it right their first try. With my earlier comment I was referring to that there are a lot of artists that don't (try to) draw POC, not because they don't want to but because they are scared.
lovmura's art makes me go feral. it's so beautiful and the curls are gorgeous. I also like her mini tutorials about rigging
I love her whole pink heart aesthetic
With all the people who are having a hard time finding artists, I'm wondering if I should get into making vtuber models now.. In 2024 you'd think more people could at the very least color a character with darker skin tones. 🤔
Also, technically Niji has one liver who "isn't white, isn't Asian, isn't Latino", and knows the rest of "we're brothers, we're happy and-" if you catch my drift. But you didn't hear that from me though, I'm not trying to get _banned_ .
Your 1st Black Vtuber video was the first video I saw of you and I found a lot a great talents afterwards cause of you. This video really great mix of commentary and uplifting for Black creators and creatives. Thanks for the video ❤
5:27 SING SERINA SINGGG! 💃🕺
Does anyone have a link to the full thing?
@@mikatinca6438it’s her song honey !
@@mikatinca6438omg RUclips deleting replies but it’s her song honey 😭😭
I'm in the process of looking for a 2D artist that don't mind covering a dark skinned brother. Thanks for the couple of name drops.
Also, hopefully we get some outshining representation. I mean shooting for the stars and as popular as Kizuna Ai. I continue to look forward to that day.
4:13 It always brings a smile to my face when the FGC gets shouted out like this. I'm white as a sheet of paper, but it's nice that the community I'm part of gets to have so many cool black players in it. Happy black history month everyone, and here's to hoping that Lil Majin gets his chance to crush Tekken 8 as well as 7 cause he's my favorite tekken player and king is hilarious
Fgc may have its issue but can't deny their generally inclusive to all walks of life. Gender, race, sexuality, religion and what not.
Their still some bad apples in the basket and the "boys clubs" that needs scrubbing away. But I feel they can get their.
as a black pngtuber, its so nice to see vtubers like me that don't have to hide themselves for gooner cash (LMAO).
the editing in these videos are so funny bro
i laugh every time you use the cory screaming bit; it will never get old
also pizza tower ost at the end? epic
I remember when I had first gotten into the VTuber fandom and I was immediately destroyed by the lack of melanin in the WESTERN side of vtubing, so like people mainly from the Americas or even the UK. Part of me one day wants to break that barrier too, but thank you for making this a great outlet to find more black vtuber creators
"White history month" trending on twitter is ABSOLUTELY WILD 🙏😭
THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYINGGGG💀
@@ayotaledo There is NO NEED FOR THIS 😭 I THINK THEY FORGET HOW MUCH REPRESENTATION US WHITE PEOPLE GET IN MEDIA COMPARED TO MINORITIES 💀
White people really wanna be black until it’s *time* to be black. If you catch my drift
The fact that it was on the first day is insane 💀💀💀
I mean, depending on where you live you might just have eleven of those a year already. Why's there need to be one more?
im a black vtuber artist 💚 and I love your vids, keep going man
He never said it clearly, but I think Vantacrow Bringer from NijiEN is black. He consistently uses models with darker skin, and made references to black culture.
I've never understood how some people out there can just be complete jerks to whole groups of people without feeling even a little bit guilty. Anyway good vid as always, I'm not super in the vtubing sphere but I'm commenting so this can reach more people (I'm pretty sure that's how it works, at least)!
This is truly amazing to address this matter. It's super important and I watch their content and became friends with some of them like Bapha and Semi. All in all, we all gotta be supportive to each other, we are all in this Vtubing journey together.
P.s., also would say the same to hispanic month as well because I'm a latina. Still gotta Gove support to everyone in diversity^^
In regards to the artist thing, I still find it very odd whenever I hear that an artist cannot do dark skin tones on Vtuber models. Granted, I'm not the best artist myself, but for a project (that literally goes live a week from now), I went into Photoshop and was re-coloring a PNG model for that project (it takes place in Hawaii). I used a dark violet layer over the skin of my model - originally because I was trying to make a latex layer - but as I was going through the blending options, I stumbled on one that made my skin more tan like a suntan (let me preface this by I am very much a white transgirl, and also the model in question is now my RUclips PFP).
For me, it stands to reason that you can start with a very light skintone and use blending layers to darken that skintone gradually to the ideal skin tone for whatever model you are working on. I did only one pass, and it was still a pronounced difference from what I started with. And it makes sense to me that this worked because, I mean, humans are all made up of the same stuff (skin, muscle, and the oxygen rich blood vessels underneath which are... dark red or even dark violet... Or maybe I've just had too many blood tests done the past year, IDK).
Like, from a fundamental perspective, the only difference of skin color is the amount of melanin and how that melanin reacts to - of all things - sunlight. So in my opinion (again, just my limited experience), getting accurate skin color for darker skin on a Vtuber model is really just a matter of getting the lighting/highlight correct to bring out those natural tones. And I just don't understand why some artists would be afraid to experiment and find the optimal way of conveying that.
In any case, I do wish that variety in the Vtuber space was more celebrated. I have my own opinions on why it isn't, but I'll keep those to myself.
Many of us are inspirations for others to come! Let's not lose sight of that!
Thanks, Taledo for all that you do!
Making my own Agencey my goal but honestly don't have the drive pushing for those steps right now. but always rooting for those who do and is pushing for there's.
Makes me almost want to start streaming again! Loved the video~
Just do it.. like Nike!
Hope this is okay, but I'm a black vtuber, and black vtuber artist too! I mainly work with pngtubers and emotes tho, working on learning live2d models. Thank you for making this video Taledo great as always!!
You have to be the change that you want to see. That's why I got started Vtubing! You CAN find a black avatar it will just take a little more effort tho.
@phantomxero1x447Narcissistic person right here, you're being one rn.
@phantomxero1x447 They don't. They just want to be seen for once, if anything you're the narcissist.
YOOOOOOOOOOO TALEDO VIDEO BEFORE BED? ERM TIME TO SLEEP SO GOOD TONIGHT LISTENIN TO THIS BANGERRR🎉🎉🎉
Bruh, I haven't heard Devil's Train in so long and you just throw that shit in the intro. Thank you.
There is a brazilian vtuber called Raviel Karim from the agency “Neobaka” and another awesome dark skinned vtuber’s in the brazilian community!
Hey, thanks for naming some interesting and cool black vtubers. I didn't have a lot of these on my radar, but now I do, so thanks.
this video was so on point every step of the way. thank you so much for making this compilation! It was fun pointing out my favs or people I've seen around, I can't wait to check the rest of them out!
YESSIRRRR AMAZING VIDEO. I really like your content. Not only it’s informative but it’s also very funny as well. ALSO HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH LES GOOOOOOOOO
Bro there's so much support for what you do because you drop straight bangers one after the other. Well thought out, funny as hell, and informative all at once. Awesome work!
I appreciate this. You were spot-on in the artist department. I had to draw my own model in order to not deal with a lot of the issues that others have, and then finding a rigger that would even do the rig was a pain unto itself. I hope things get better in the future. Right now, I am learning to rig so that I don't have to go through this again, and be of service to others in the way that was not afforded to me.
"I cAn'T bEliEvE TaLeDo fOrGoT AbOuT "X" bLaCk vTuBeR HeRe¡!¡ FaKe fAn" 🤓
In all seriousness this and the previous video were super awesome!!!
Im not one to really care about that type of thing due working on BTS stuff, but your content was what made me question and appreciate why it was important to make my model Black
When originally I just made her Black just because I was Black...and because I didn't really have a plan/idea for my model, and I'm happy that I did 🥰
Keep up the good work!!!!!❤❤❤
I'm kind of shy so thank you. More fellow black folks to follow.
*follows every black vtuber mentioned*
Also hi, black content creator/artist/shitposter here c:
Also also based pizza tower outro
Amazing video Taledo! Happy to see a positive video for black history month! It's nice seeing all the different vtubers and artist! Can't wait to see more of your videos! Happy black history month!
Heavenlyfather and diesel mentioned 🎉🎉
heck yeahhhh! I love lovmura so much, the hair tutorial was so frickin' cool. Keep on keeping on everybody, we got this.
What does 'woke' mean? Whatever Offends Klansmen, Essentially.
Jokes aside, this was an interesting vid, and I'm going to go check out some of the people you mentioned.
That is an agressive blanket statement, even if it's a "joke."
@@CatLeone2003 It's meant to be. People who use "woke" as a pejorative are idiots and I have no patience for them.
Great posting as always, Taledo. Imma save it as reference who to write down and contact when I'm ready to become an indie Vtuber. Your content is fire!
It sucks that here in the U.S. that decades ago we were given the shortest fckn month of the year to celebrate: FEBRUARY! Really?! Who signed off on that? 🤦🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️ Still low end of the totem pole. Meh.
Even in the U.K. their Black History Month is 31 days long OCTOBER. Cool Britannia 🇬🇧
Peace, fam. Keep striving, thriving, mutually supporting and keeping an open heart to all in spite of it all.❤
your vids give me so much serotonin i just wanna letchu know :3c
Better believe we pulling up for Taledo’s Black vtuber video!! 🙌 AAHHHHHH I LOVED SEEING SO MANY OF MY PEOPLEEEEE!! THIS IS AMAZING AND WONDERFUL!! Time to go on a follow spree 🥹💕💕💕
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what history month??
god bless you Taledo, one day when im less lazy and stream frequently, i'll be blessed with being featued in a vid of yours
extremely well written and well done video, your stuff never fails to impress me. keep it up man!
thank you for making this so much bro
Tales of Symphonia - a true man of culture. I want a third one that explores more of the diversity in the world of Sylvarant + Tethe'alla. There's a lot of potential.
You forget to include me but i forgive you, awesome video my dude and happy black history month UwU
THE KING MADE ANOTHER BLACK VTUBER VIDEO!!!!
Just another based Taledo vid, keep 'em coming my man's
AS A UPCOMING BLACK VTUBER, TYSM FOR MAKING THIS❤❤
I am more than happy to support black Vtubers. They're usually pretty chill. Skin color isn't an identity or personality though. Don't try to be like other Vtubers, show who tf you are. Show why people should be interested in you, not why you having something in common with a popular Vtuber is interesting.
If you wanna discuss stuff outfit vtubing, I can respectfully debate you. Black people have been getting all kinds of representation lately. The Buzz Lightyear movie may have not been good, but I enjoyed the commander. I only saw the movie once, I can't remember too much, but I didn't think she was merely a "token black lesbian" character. She had depth.
this was such a good video AAHHHG this was so nice!!!! made me smile from ear to ear :D
I always love your videos Taledo! Great job!
I'm not black myself, but I'm glad to see awareness being spread
Sharing this ALL OVER THE PLACE.
My close friends Xander_Digital and Scouty_Boy are two amazingly talented black vtubers that deserve so much more love.
And my friend Reznor being an amazing black artist
Love your persona! Thanks for sharing your perspective :)
One amazing vtuber you could add to the list of the vtubers you already recommended in this video is ItsCircuit. They're amazing.
Needed new content, and you've provided me some solid options, thanks Taledo!
White (mixed) boy (trans woman) here. Living in America, it feels almost taboo to discuss African-American anything (except identity politics) unless you're African-American yourself, so I really appreciate this series of insights!
Thank you so much for making this video!
Man I love Cory too, can’t wait for his next video in a year
No because you know if we gon go somewhere new, we need to know who all is gonna be there. This was needed!!
Im very outside the vtuber community as a whole, the few I do watch are small, independent vtubers. One of the very first things i noticed is the lack of poc, *especially* on the agency side of things. Thank you for talking about why that might be the case and showcasing some smaller ones for me to check out!
White history months?! Who tf started that and why?
Happy Black History month! This is amazing and I appreciate you sweetie ✊🏾
Okay, I haven't actually finished the video yet, but thank you for another banger video, and DOUBLE TRIPLE THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING ME TO THE ANGEL THAT IS SERINA MAIKO HOLY SHIT!!!!!
First impressions for when I clicked on the video and watched it….*subscribes*
Fun fact: Taledo has over twice as many subscribers as Fauna had on her previous account before she got into Hololive. This means that if Taledo wanted to, he could probably get into a BIG corporation!
I want to start my vtuber journey and this truly inspires me so much! As a black girl I’ve been wanting to see more black and Latina vtubers
Thanks for this!! I have been looking for more black vtubers to support. 💗
damn I wish I was added in this! fr fr this video is solid yeah iits awesome that we are getting more and more representation in the Vtube-verse.
Thanks for the video Taledo! Im super early omggg
Another banger ❤ Happy Black History month y'all 🔥
As a Black Lewdtuber, illustrator and V-Artist... and from being in this community for the past two years I meant when I said im use my blood, sweat, and tears to make free assets and etc for both live 2D and PNGtubers and I'll do any skin tone so EVERYONE have something nice. Black/POC vtuber... I got you guys too ❤❤
One black artist that I know Is OwONeko or however you spell it. I love her videos and she is so cool and makes the funniest jokes ever. She may not be a Vtuber or a Vtuber artist but she is still an amazing artist
Thank for sharing this video! Representation is so sooo important! I’m definitely going to check out the channels in the description! I wanna find more POC that make content I like and wasn’t sure where to look, so this is definitely a big help! :))
such a fucking important (and funny af) video, taledo 🙏🙏🙏
it's *WAY* past time black vtubers get inserted in the ''mainstream'' industry and the hostility towards all gets properly addressed and dealt with! standing up for what we believe and for what we honestly deserve (cause we wildin in all talents possible) is extremely important and i'm just so glad both you and this issue is being spread!!
albeit me being a black latina, my current representation is 'white' cause she's literally a oc and a bit that went too far lol but i finally got the chance to properly look like myself and it's coming. oh it's coming. and no one's safe. 😈
Came from Kenji's channel. Glad to find you!
Shaqfocus is another black artist ❤ his work is really good taledo!
IDK IF IM THE ONLY ONE BUT I AINT SEE NO CAT BREAK TALEDO
Thank you so much for introducing me to like, 20+ new people to keep my ADD at bay while I design Genshin Impact and MHA OC’s and stuff wooden knives and forks into paper bags at the Sunny Hill Cafe for £8 an hour.
I'm surprised I didn't see Onsta on here. Super talented and cute streamer AND artist!
when i become a vtuber im gonna hopefully take commissions and draw models for other black ppl who wanna be vtubers and also draw assets too :3
Im a black vtuber with a black guy as my primary artist, and all i can say is THANK YOU.