Kawasaki Sui Says She Will Put Her Earnings Back Into Her Channel

INDEPENDENT — Kawasaki Sui, an independent VTuber, told viewers during a chat stream on Thursday that she intends to put the money she earns back into her channel rather than spend it on herself. She said she had recently taken stock of her life and found that the one thing that truly gave her enjoyment was growing the channel’s concurrent viewership, and that she wanted to devote her life to it. The stream ran more than four and a half hours and drew 21 Super Chats.

She said her YouTube revenue had dropped sharply, as she often mentions, but that inquiries about sponsored projects for the end of the year had shown her a way through, and that two were under discussion at the close of the stream. She also said the month was on track to be her best of the year for YouTube revenue, which she credited largely to viewers’ Super Chats. Looking back, she said she had grown complacent after reaching one million subscribers, and that viewers may have decided she had stopped growing.

“I won’t spend the money on myself. I’ll use it for the channel.” — Kawasaki Sui, on how she spends her income

The stream began with a technical scramble. An update to the broadcasting software OBS had wiped the settings behind her on-screen overlays, including the slot machine that spins when chat types phrases such as “coin,” the Othello board and the attendance-stamp calendar. She rebuilt them in the opening minutes while chat tested each phrase, and viewers went on to play Othello by posting their moves in chat.

The talk wandered through everyday topics. Asked about emergency preparedness, she said her stockpile centered on about 6.5 kilograms of protein powder and roughly 2 kilograms of rock sugar. She ran a poll on savings, citing Cabinet Office data as she remembered it, which put about 30 percent of single-person households at zero savings; in her poll, about one in five viewers answered that they had almost none. Chat also steered her to motorcycles. She said she rides a used Estrella and that her motorcycle Shorts are what she most wants to grow right now. Other stretches took in museums, coffee and a wish for a bundle of Zimbabwean dollar banknotes.

Later she turned to people who talk down to others, saying a person’s outward age need not match their inner age and that the one thing she could not accept was remarks meant to hurt people. Using a comment-statistics tool, she told viewers that about 26,000 people had commented on her streams over the years, and that the most active commenter had left more than 183,000 comments. Chat answered with surprise at the numbers.

She said she would stream Saga Frontier 2 the next day, and that the day after would bring a collaboration with another streamer. Chat closed the night with thanks and requests for the next stream.