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Talk, Ambitions, translated from Japanese

Amau Syrup Says She Wants to Start a VTuber Agency After Reaching 1 Million

On a stream titled “Just One Hour,” the independent talent also said she had only recently learned that long videos need ads placed in them.

Amau Syrup during “1時間だけ。,” a broadcast that ran 40m. Press to play from YouTube

Amau Syrup, an independent VTuber with METEORA st, told viewers on Monday that she wants to start a VTuber agency once she reaches 1 million. She said she likes watching numbers climb, including other people’s, and that she often sees talented people fail to grow only because they are poor at using social media. She wants a world in which people like that do grow.

She acknowledged that an agency would first require numbers of her own, and that she still has to study management. In the meantime, she said, advising friends is a form of training, and she would be content to run a group instead of an agency if that came first, though an agency is what she would prefer.

“I want to get to a million and start an agency.” — Amau Syrup, on her dream

Earlier in the stream she said she had only recently found out that long, horizontal videos on YouTube are supposed to have ads placed in them. After about a year of activity, she said, some of her videos carry no ads at all, and she called that a great waste. She added that the fishing video she put out has been getting praise lately, and that planning, filming, editing and making the thumbnail for one video takes more than a day. She said making such videos is fun enough that the effort hardly matters.

She also asked chat which hour suits them best for streams. Most answered 9 p.m., and 8 p.m. drew the fewest votes, so she said she would keep “Just One Hour” as the title for future streams. She closed by saying she would go on Twitch at 9 p.m. that day to play on Gachigura, a GTA (Grand Theft Auto) server.

Many viewers said they were seeing her for the first time, some arriving through her Shorts or another talent’s channel. Chat sent five Super Chats, and she thanked them by name during the stream.

This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.

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