Viewers Pay Margaret North “Scholarships” as Grandmas While She Builds a Clay Figure

THE BOX — Margaret North, a VTuber with the agency The Box, spent a Monday-evening craft stream shaping a clay figure, and a story she told about her own grandmother turned chat into a crowd of stand-in grandmas handing out “scholarships” for her concert.

She began by opening the stream and showing off her nails, then apologized for a mark on her work table, a scorch from an earlier accident that she had not been able to remove.

“I made the ears really well. For the sake of these ears, you can praise it.” — Margaret North, as she finished the figure

Later she told viewers about a recent visit to her mother’s side of the family. Two of her younger sisters had each announced to their grandmother that they were owed a scholarship, one for scoring 100 in English and the other for ranking in the top 20 at school, and the grandmother paid each of them in cash. Then she turned to Margaret North and asked what about her. Relatives piped up that her concert had gone well, and the grandmother asked whether that earned a scholarship too. “Never thought a good concert could pay,” she told viewers.

Chat took the cue. Four Super Chats arrived with messages praising the concert and calling the money a scholarship, and she thanked the senders as her grandmas, one by one. She joked that a donation from a grandmother is one YouTube takes no cut of, and chat called it a “physical donation.”

The figure itself gave her trouble. She worried that its head looked ready to snap off, said its body was full of creases, and found the whole thing leaning because the head was so heavy. By the end she described it as very rough-looking and very funny, and said she had expected viewers to want exactly that kind of odd little creation. She joked that she could never show it to her mother, who she said is far more skilled with clay and paint and grew up surrounded by art, and put her own ability at under a third of her mother’s.

Chat was kind about the result, calling the figure cute, noting it was her first attempt, and thanking her for her work as she signed off. She said she had been on air for close to four hours and thanked everyone for keeping her company.