Hani Hima Tidies Virtual Rooms for Nearly Three Hours, Trading Big-Sister Stories With Chat

V-DERE — Hani Hima spent a 165-minute stream on Thursday working through a cleaning-and-tidying game, sweeping up trash, cobwebs and spilled food while talking with chat about growing up as the oldest of her siblings and cousins. She opened in a maid outfit and a headdress, telling viewers she would be a maid “only for you” for the day.

Early in the stream she said she had learned cleaning, cooking and gardening, and the game gave her plenty of each. She worked through rooms full of pizza, flies, a stray beetle and a mountain of cups, learned the English words “cardboard box” and “sweep” from chat along the way, and spent coins on upgrades to carry more trash. Late in the stream she compared the game’s growing-ball upgrades to Katamari, which chat explained to her, and she called the game “so chill” and said she planned to play it again.

“My father said, “You are a tiny mom.” So I was proud.” — Hani Hima, recalling her childhood as the oldest sibling

A double bed in one room set off a story about sharing a bunk bed with her sister, who let her take the top bunk. Hani said she has a sister, a brother and five younger cousins, that she often looked after them as a child, and that her father called her a “tiny mom.” Chat answered with pats and remarks about what a good older sister she must have been. Around the 49-minute mark a run of sneezes drew a wave of “bless you” messages.

Food took up much of the middle of the stream. Hani said she was curious about eating raw pork after chat described German tartare-style dishes, though she noted it is illegal in Japan and said she would never break the law. She added that Japanese people commonly eat raw egg, and that she has it every day. She then lamented that her local supermarket had stopped selling jalapenos in favor of a spicier Tabasco, while viewers described the chili plants they grow at home.

Near the end she told chat she was 63 subscribers away from 15,000, thanked viewers, and closed with a pom-pom cheer that chat joined. She said she planned to stream again the next day.