Why Does Everyone Like Shylily? 

The reason why I like Shylily is because her model is adorable, and her playfulness nature is somewhat calming to watch plus with her marketable ideas and funny friends it's always going to be a treat to sit back and enjoy the show. Her WOMP WOMP are just plain adorable to listen to and reply back with them.

Another thing you havent covered is that Lily is incredibly brand-safe. I dunno if thats just intuition or if she has a very solid business/marketing-sense in those regards. I havent seen her involved in any kind of serious drama and she actively avoids it (like in the Veibae situation or when she dodged the Hogwarts drama). She focuses on the funny and positive. You usually only see her comment under positive posts or when she is trying to cheer someone up. Something that you can see with many Vtubers around her as well and what seems to be a good pull factor, because people that search for positive vibes will find them in her clips and streams and dont get surprised every few weeks by their source of positivity (Lily) malding about things, like it is the case for many others. Also she has that typical german energy. Unless it would have negative consequences, she is straight and honest about most things and with her community. Also there is a certain pain-freeness (i dont know how you would translate "Schmerzfrei" into english. xD ), so her level of surface-level shame is way lower than with most people that live in a culture where it is more common to "save face" (Asia, USA, etc.) and therefore many stories are kinda unhinged and she has a humor that probably feels refreshing for many people. I think all that is a mixture that works very well for her.

I just want to say - keep doing what you're doing. I've fallen in love with your videos recently. And as someone who's a vtuber for a living, your content is incredibly relatable, informative, and genuine. It doesn't feel too opinionated, you have a lot of good things to say, and you're never speaking ill on others. Keep at it, I've got my eye on ya! :D

Shylily is the reason I have such an expressive model. My rigging is shit but I saw a clip about her saying she messed with the settings in vtube studio so I did that and bam more expressive XD And she's really nice too.

I've always hated the concept that people get big because of luck. Shylily is incredibly entertaining and you can tell she put in the work to get where she is. And she's still putting in the work, otherwise her retention and engagement would suffer. I love watching and analyzing bigger VTubers because there's always something to learn from them.

This. Surrounding yourself with certian influences I had learned the hard way as well, but suprsingly not because of Vtubing. It was the writing community and the TTRPG community. The seprating myself from the negative influences in the Vtubing was *after* I realized the toxicity I was noticing in the other two that I had to pull myself away and had me communicate more with Yam Albat's community, which brought me even *more* realization of what I was missing and I'm reconnecting with my IRL friends again after getting out which had us looking into the connection of Vtuber and k-pop idol similarties with agencies and why it's been a good thing that indie vtubers are breaking from that toxic mold. I also started reading more after I broke myself out of that toxic world where I'm enjoying buddy reads and all that. Shylily had always intrested me because of her energy, I don't normally watch her content but I enjoyed a lot of her clips on youtube and Yam's discord server was so kind and understanding in explaining to me about the New debuting trailer video and why it was a big deal and her *actual* history as a vtuber. I wouldn't say I have an Oshi persay, but I do look up to Shylily as a postive influence as an indie. Ironmouse is a close second but within the agency sphere. I will say that I've been happier and able to cope with a lot of the stress I've been going through because with the better influences.

If a vtuber can't figure out why successful vtubers are successful, then maybe that's why they aren't successful. It's the same in every industry. To be a success yourself, you don't _have_ to stand on the shoulders of those who came before, but at least allow yourself to understand how they became successful, otherwise, how are you going to navigate your own self to success?

Mari: baka Shylilly: womp womp

I like watching Shylily is the same reason why I like watching you. You're both easy to listen to, have a nice voice and you both are making good points when you are talking about things (aka being intelligent)

Well said, that successful creators are succeeding for a reason. It is far too easy to be bitter and dismissive of people doing better than us who are doing it in a way we perceive as "bad", but there really is a lot to learn in watching successful creators and streamers to see what it is that they're doing. Some of the best "it's just some guy reacting/playing a game, why does anyone watch him???" streamers are absolute goddamn pros at baiting their chat into reactions, guiding the vibes into something interesting, and making it all look like they're just some regular goober with a mic and a camera. There's a LOT to learn if one cares to stop and really analyze and look past one's own biases.

My favorite advice from Shylily was her shorts advice. I'm not opposed to some reaction content. Maybe use a reaction format to identify what makes the vtubers so popular and loved? And I love the baka catchphrase. It's so rarely used anymore, and you usually use it in a playful and cheeky way. Just a personal opinion, but I can understand why some may find it a bit cringe

Shylily is the vtuber I watch when I am having a bad day. She is always in a good mood and really gives good advice. I love her positive energy

1:05 -1:11 so true 😓 I liked her now when I saw the clip her explaining why her model tracking is good(basically just the clip shown in the vid), and also her voice is so calming

It takes a great deal of self awareness and reflection to realize that you are judging someone or something because of negative associations rather than actually judging them by their merits. It's really great that you realized that the negativity was dragging you down. I think Shylily is a fantastic creator and is incredibly skilled. I don't watch her super often, but she's such a bright personality, and I have always loved that advice about using your model well. She's really a great role model, and so are you. Your points about branding are so true, and something I personally struggle with myself. Womp womp! is such a memorable catch phrase. Another banger video.

a general useful Advice is: You cant make everyone Happy. If you try to entertain everyone, you will just exhaust yourself VERY fast. There will always be a certain, small percentage of People, that will not like you no matter what you do. After we accept that, it makes Life easier.

I really like your insights into streaming mindset. So I think reacting to anything streaming news related that you could add your commentary to would help (i.e. like mogul mail) But I loved your story/point about negative friends and how you are who you hang around. This was absolutely something that held me back a ton as well. I think it's absolutely some of the best advice you can give to another creator especially with all the mindset pitfalls you get get stuck in like dealing with envy, viewer counts, getting hate, etc (which is all topic you could probs cover)

Shylily is very expressive, very bouncy, and she interacts very well with her community, in both good times and bad. A lot of clips show off the great banter between her and her chat. And she knows how to deploy her toggles effectively to enphasize things, as she plays into the banter.

Thanks for the great video! I'll be honest, I have been avoiding Shylily, mostly because I have conflicts about the more ecchi vtubers. That said, she is an incrediable voice acter, and I do appreciate her talents with animating her model, it's not easy and she does do an amazing job!

Hey, great video. Can you make such an analysis of a big male indie VTuber? A lot of ShyLily's amazing allure is her feminine side and behavior (model movement, model actions [blushing, heart eyes,..], feminine reacting, female playfulness, borderline lewdness, etc) that would simply not track as a male VTuber. The biggest amount of VTuber audience is male and they look for entirely different things in a male VTuber than a female one. If you could make such a video i'd be super grateful, since your ShyLily analysis is so great :)

I sometimes think about "how much of some one acting in a certain way is just playing a role and how much is it just some ones personality" ?

I've been watching you for awhile now and it feels like you're starting to find your rhythm for RU-vid! One day I'll catch one of your streams...

Y do people like her? It's quite simple actually, she has great comedic timing, she is a very nice person, has a great model and she is very smart

MARI! I am so proud of you! I forgot to mention this in my last comment and I was kicking myself, but "your vibe attracts your tribe!" AND YOU FIGURED THAT OUT! I am so proud of you! Good for you! Honestly!

Hey I know this video is already 2 month "old" but just discovered it today. I really want to say, that I really love VTuber. It's because I also kind of admire them. I Would like to start VTubing as well but I lack the skills to that. It's really hard for me to do that. Also I do love how a lot kind of know, how they have to use the Model. Thank you also for the video because everything you said is right. Negativity creates more negativity. I had to learn that a couple of years ago as well.

2:00 point here is that people watch her for her not for the content. she could watch paint dry and talk for hours and still be popular, that doesn't really take away the fact that reaction content absolutely is a cheap way to make something remotely resembling 'content' with fraction of the input required to create something new.

I learned a long time ago not to accept 2nd hand judgments and heeding this lesson has helped me avoid boatloads of unnecessary drama. Your friends may say they don’t like this or that person. That’s fine - they can choose to associate with or distance themselves from whomever they please. Gather your own evidence before deciding whether or not to jump on that bandwagon. Trust but verify.

Would love to see a video on the behind the scenes things going into successful reaction content!

i found your insight facinating. as a 33 year old i have the complete oposite experience to positivity and negativity most of my early life i lost so much time focusing on stuff i belive i could do and others tell me i could meanwhile after some mid 23 crisis i went bananas to the dark side (what is not good) but end up playing chess with life around my limits. I cannot be happier this days my quote to live by is : to fly i build a plane i dont jump from a building. I accept i dont have wings but yet i must find a way to fly

I feel like the message of "You should give someone a chance before making assumptions" kinda feels mute when earlier in the video you suggest people who don't like shylily's content do so because they're jealous that people don't watch theirs. Like for me I don't really have any feelings towards Shylily in general, I just don't like react content since I'd much rather watch the video they're reacting to instead of someone else reacting for me. Also what does it mean to be "the perfect embodiment of an anime girl reacting to things" actually?

This was actually really interesting! tysm!

Shylily's a legend! Even if I don't watch her streams, when her posts appear in my algorithm I click. She has that charm in her ☺

I have fun watching Shylily. She is fun & funny, and honestly, her avatar is adorable & suits her voice. I really enjoy just relaxing & lurking in her stream. She is never boring

Early congrats for 100k followers. The trick with reaction content is to actually react. A lot of smaller creators miss that part.

I think it would be great to see you break down other successful vtuber ideas/concepts/content to try and see what makes it work. It also would be awesome to have the opportunity for new vtubers to send in their ideas for possible reviews and to get feedback.

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I don't watch Shylily much but from the little I've seen she seems like a fountain of postivity, it's very easy to like someone who always brightens the room qwq

Shylily surely know what she is doing... Otherwise she would't be that popular, pure luck can not do that

The haters didn't watch and learn the lesson from the final game theory video.

This following paragraph, in Finnish translates awfully in English, so, I will explain it instead. We Finns have saying regarding toxic behavior and slowly conforming to it when it is group wide. Seura tekee kaltaisekseen. The more you interact with certain community that holds a specific view about something, you will slowly adopt that mentality or at least small bits of it at a time. When you are in negative community, and you realize it, it's time to book it. And try to get rid of those habits you consider bad which you adopted overtime interacting with the community. How to avoid this? Establish a healthy sense of self. Now, I will be going to mutter about how badly word, itsetunto is translated to English... (If you don't want to google, it translates as spirit, ego and or self-esteem. If you are curious to know why, I can explain it.)

I love shylily because I like her model and personality Womp womp

Jelly from Phase Connect is like Shylily spin off. She even has an entire karaoke of her singing awa awa with teary eyes. Both talents are adorable.

I think, if you’re starting with reaction content, it might be best to start with stuff that evokes a strong reaction in you

Yes! I had an ex who was like this and it got me concerned about playing other games outside of nintendo(this was during the big game wars in early 2010s) and I'm NOW having the time of my life playing skyrim. Like I know it came out when we dated but the comments can wear you down ans making you insecure. DONT LET ANYBODY DO THAT!

She just seems genuinely kind. As a fan, her kindness, and genuinely comedic personality extends past the model, and allows you to experience who she is PAST the model, as a person. She is very down to earth, as far as I can tell. She cares a lot about her friends, she feels human, and that is why she is so likeable to me. She's relatable, and doesn't rely on the model, but rather her own traits and sense of humour to make her content feel unique.

Shylily is amazing. I love her streams and her content. I prefer to watch her RU-vid videos though because her CHAT is a bit much and I personally enjoy having more intimate interactions with the streamers rather than being a small voice in a massive crowd lol

I enjoy Shylily because she does a lot of different stuff, and presents herself joyfully. She can blather about nothing for awhile, give sound life and care advice, share jokes, and play games just as easily. Oh, and reacting. 'Joyful' truly is the best word I have for her. Her models have also gotten consistently better, as has her control of them. I've only been watching her since she was using her _Nekopara_ inspired model. So not since the start. She can often talk about strange of uncomfortable things, but the way she handles them ends up making me think that maybe these are things we don't have to be uncomfortable with. I've also found that a lot of the VTubers with the kind of energy I gel with easily tends to be the lewdsome ones. Like Projekt Melody or Nekrolina. It's probably how they're not afraid to be frank and open about things.

So are we just gonna pretend that Luck had literally nothing to do with it? Quick history lesson Lily streamed only a few times with a, by modern standards, bad quality 3d model and then disappeared for years. During Lockdown she arbitrarily, by her own admission, decided to pick streaming back up again due to boredom and she unexpectedly got success rather quickly without "putting in the work" as most say. This literally falls into luck you can try to quantify it all you like but luck is 100% why she got so big so quickly.

I'm just jealous of Shylily. I wish I had the money and fame she did.

i do not wach shylily but i think she is great. she deserves everything. the hardest thing ist to work whit succsess. the problem is i think. a lot of humans think they can handel it. but its a lot harder then the most of them belive. be a one hit wonder is easy. but to stay on top is realy hard work. its like in the music industrie. there are a lot of one hit wonder. like the: mambo number 5. the song was a huge hit. but the rest of the music was not. and the social media was not a big factor for they fame. they got big and dropt like a shooting star.

glad to see vtubers out ther like u. shy lilly isnt my tops favs but she is defently a good vtubber.

people that appear to be at or near the top of any media tend to attract their own herd of haters regardless of what they do. Ironmouse, Projekt Melody, Mori Calliope, etc. have VERY dedicated groups of haters as a side effect of their success. i think content creators are thinking about their haters the wrong way. having people that hate you for what appear to be irrational reasons, should be seen as an achievement. if you didn't matter then no one would bother to hate you.

let's be honest, she is popular because she got the hypnotits with crazy jiggle physics (⁠@_@⁠) also, her voice is kind of ASMRic

go for it, try stuff out

That was also the first Shylily video that I watched lol

everyione has there onwn vibe I have been told I am quite fomfy for example, now I would have never thought that would be the case but hay I found it has worked for me, other then that I have just kept engaging with chat ior just kept talking its hard at first but you can do it with practice

It's super disingenuous when write off the hard work of successful content creators all due to luck. I mean so much really goes into the process with marketing/networking, creating content, and figuring those things out. I will say though that I usually consider luck as more of an x-factor that plays a part in success and pushes you over the hump. Now whether someone is able to capitalize on this is dependent on them.

She’s a mix of wholesome, cute and lewd

does anyone else feel the jiggle physics on most vtuber models are a little over the top

I turn my toxicity into a flower a bud of roses negativity doesn’t scare me I make cringe content but I don’t let their negativity stop me it only fuel my fire to make my videos stronger

Herd mentality hard to tell the difference until you give a chance

Honestly, I'm just not a fan of her because of how much she leans into lewdness. And that IS a big dealbreaker for me, on principle, no matter how much I'd probably enjoy their personality otherwise. It inherently places her on the diametrically opposite side of the vtuber scene from me and makes her part of the larger subset that results in viewers bringing expectations of such to the chats of those of us who are anti/non-lewd. Which has caused discomfort, frustration, harassment, and violation of said vtubers' boundaries when viewers of people like Shylily innevitably find their way to the stream of a vtuber who isn't willing to be lewd. It IS a problem that lewd vtubers indirectly cause by occupying the same platforms as non-lewd ones while also outnumbering us, drowning us out, and using terms like "seiso" and "family friendly" ironically/disingenuously. Which isolates us non-lewd vtubers and makes such terms unreliable for our potential audience to find us (as I've seen viewers with an aversion to lewdness lament how often they've went to a stream with the "seiso" tag only to be unpleasantly met with lewd behavior). Also, doing react content on the entirety of videos made by other creators is unethical. Full stop. Its leeching off of the work of someone else by providing a substitute of the original while using "transformative" as a shield. The only times it IS ethical are if you only react to a small portion of the work and encourage your viewers to go to the original if they want to see the rest of it, or if what you're reacting to is marketing material since you're also providing more advertising.

Sad thing is Gura wanted to do reaction content during free time from playinggames and "homework", but viewers said "no".

mmh i think it is possible to dislike shylilly she feel somewhat ..too childish and focused on sex appeal with it which feel wrong to me...but its a personal opinion...i have to give credit that she found a good way to reach masses of a younger audience and adolecent due to it... she is smart and well tought,just not my thing

vtubers are modern day puppeteers

I love ❤️ Shylily!

how can i find the first shylily's clip???

I would be very interested in reaction content analysis.

Hey!!! Get her to 100k Sub!!!

A womp womp/🔟

You’re such a sussy baka Mari ;)

Womp womp

vtubers may be cringe, but sometimes vtubers are based

Hello i made u fan art :) how can i send u it?

"actually she's cool and good and i like her and her haters are jealous :)" Okay that's a fine enough opinion I guess but we do not need a 10 minute video about it

Let's be real. Success in content creation is 10% hard work, 60% who you know, and 30% being obedient and Message compliant. It isn't what it was in 2015, and nobody new is gonna break into fame unless they're sponsored.

Down vote, copying shylily

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"Everything reminds you of something" is a great outro catchphrase, & "baka" is a catchphrase I know is kinda common, yet the way you say it, that word is just associated with you, in my mind. It doesn't hurt to come up with new catchphrases, however. It's great to have more than 1-2, if you can think of them. Speaking of which, could you do a vid on the origin of your outro catchphrase? It sounds like it would be great lore for your model/channel. I love Shylily, but idk if I could ever be as bouncy & active with my future model as she is, but I at least won't be just sitting there, staring blankly at the screen, doing no movement at all. When I first heard about how much she paid for her model, my stomach sank. I feared I would never get to have my own model, if that's how much they costed on average, for a good model...but then I saw a couple vids talking about how to get/create models for far cheaper, without compromising quality, & that's how I found you & your helpful vids, as well. You & a few others have definitely helped to quell that fear. So thank you for becoming a creator, & making such helpful Vtuber guide vids!

Still not a fan of shy, not really entertaining but she’s smart!