Rayon Opens Second Straight Morning Stream With Text Where His Avatar Should Be

NIJISANJI — Rayon, a Nijisanji streamer, went live shortly after 6 a.m. on Wednesday with a stream titled “A Miraculous Second Straight Morning Stream,” an *asakatsu*, or morning stream, held a day after the last one. The screen showed no avatar. In its place was a block of text, including the words for “genuine,” “Rayon” written in hiragana and “genius,” and the first minutes were silent before he greeted viewers. He said he had promised a 6 o’clock start and went live so as not to be late, then asked to be credited for it.

Asked why the screen looked the way it did, he said he had no idea. His face appeared on screen a little over 20 minutes in. He also mentioned that his mouse battery was down to 12 percent and that he still had work to finish after the stream.

“Don’t ask me. I don’t know, come on.” — Rayon, asked why the screen looked that way

Much of the talk was about singing. Rayon said he had been practicing in the bath and was struggling with the high notes in the chorus of a song he plans to perform, and that he had never changed a song’s key at karaoke and could not tell which key suited him. Viewers suggested trying lower keys and testing a song a step at a time. He settled on doing his best on the day. He also spoke about the channel’s 100,000 subscribers, calling the number frightening, and said it was the work of his seniors and the staff who built the company.

A post on X announcing a Nijisanji Splatoon tournament for Nov. 7 and 8 led him to say that he knows almost nothing about the game and was not sure whether he was among the participants. He thanked a Super Chat that said it was looking forward to the tournament and told viewers to cheer for him if he turned out to be in it. The conversation then moved to pets and large dogs, and he searched out breeds one by one, singling out the borzoi as a recent favorite. He later tried to act out a scene in which Dobby from Harry Potter is kicked down a staircase and found that nobody in chat could place it. A search for costumes led him to decide on one as a birthday present for his brother.

Around 8 a.m. he noticed the time and said he had two tasks to hand in by noon. As he said goodbye, his phone battery died. Chat sent encouragement for his deadline.