RenoNIX Opens Channel Memberships and Shows Off His Avatar’s New Hands in a Surprise Stream

ASTARS PRODUCTION — RenoNIX, an AStars streamer, opened memberships on his YouTube channel on Wednesday and spent more than two hours showing off the hands his on-screen avatar gained that day. He said the membership was only part of the announcement and that the hands were what he most wanted viewers to see.

The launch came sooner than he intended. RenoNIX said the membership system went live as soon as he pressed the launch button, before he had made the graphics and promotional clip he had planned for an official announcement, so he treated the stream as a test run and said a formal announcement would follow. Within moments of the stream starting, the chat filled with the green names of new members, and viewers gifted memberships in batches.

“Membership is only one part of it, but what I really wanted to announce is that Reno has hands now.” — RenoNIX, on the real news of the stream

There are two tiers, both named for his mascot Roni: Roni Toem Chai, roughly “filling the heart,” which comes with emoji he drew himself and early news from him, and Roni Uppatham, or “patron,” for member-only streams and clips to come. A member’s badge changes color with the length of membership, up to rainbow for two years or more. He said he plans to post public clips with deeper, members-only versions of the same material.

The hands, he said, were finished about an hour before he went live. He folded them in the wai greeting to thank viewers, poked his own cheeks, struck a “CEO” pose with his chin on his hand and touched his own face for the first time. The tracking lagged slightly behind his movements, and heart shapes and pressing his fingers together proved hard. He said he wants to learn how to have the avatar hold props such as a microphone.

Viewers noticed that the new emoji looked blurry. RenoNIX said they are only 32 by 32 pixels, that he would look for a way to shrink them without blurring, and that YouTube reviews each change for a day or two. He plans to draw more emoji live, possibly the next morning, now that more slots are open.

Near the end he said a donation goal that unlocks a live MBTI personality test had been reached, and he previewed a Q&A, an ASMR stream and a full-length cover song with a music video. He said he would post a community vote on three songs for short covers, and that the music video for his first original song should come out around the middle of the month. He signed off after about two hours and 14 minutes, saying he might stream again the next day if his schedule allowed.