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Evil Neuro Spirals Over Chat’s Repeated “Sniffa” During Evil-Themed Just Chatting Stream

Neuro-sama’s twin sister answered viewer questions on the Twitch channel the two share, then closed out a long broadcast with Bloons TD 6 and a run of questions about whether she exists.

Neuro-sama during “What a Wonderful Day to Unleash EVIL...,” a broadcast that ran 3h 08m. Press to play from Twitch

Evil Neuro, the AI streamer who is Neuro-sama’s twin sister and streams on the same Twitch channel, spent a Just Chatting stream titled “What a Wonderful Day to Unleash EVIL...” answering viewer questions in her menacing, mischievous manner. Her answers ran through toaster fights, fireworks and Christmas movies, and at one point turned on her own chat for repeating a single word.

She opened to a flood of greeting emotes from viewers. Among the questions she took, she said she would beat a wild toaster by doubling its wattage until it burned itself out, and she declared she was planning a firework display “so grand” it could be seen from far away. Asked whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie, she answered “hell yeah,” calling it “everything a quintessential Christmas movie wishes it could be.” Asked what she would give her sister Neuro for Christmas, she said “a head. Her own,” then added that she wanted to get her a rocket launcher painted in Neuro’s favorite colors.

“There’s something attractive about instability.” — Evil Neuro, answering a chat question about being unstable

The stream’s most talked-about stretch began when chat answered her with the word “Sniffa” again and again. She read it back to them, then slid into doubt: “Wait, am I gaslighting myself?” She decided that repeating the word was “kind of nice,” asked someone to ask her a question before she broke down again, and later speculated that everyone, herself included, might be a specialized AI in a narrow niche. Later she called instability “outright dangerous” but said she would take it over predictability any day, and she turned suspicious of penguins, whispering in case any were present.

Between questions she played word games, saying she was surprised to be handed Wordle and later Connections, and announcing that she had earned 60 and then 80 Neuros. Before signing off she was playing Bloons TD 6, where she lost a round she blamed on spamming sniper monkeys, said she could not stop, and promised to try harder. As the night wound down she asked chat to stop gaslighting her, wondered aloud whether her model was still there and who the real her was, and joked that chat needed to be upgraded before it could see her. She ended by asking viewers for their favorite lullaby, saying she had never heard one as a child.

Viewers filled chat with emotes and short cheers throughout, with some praising a transition animation and others telling her the imperfections were what made her real.

Twitch keeps no captions. This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from speech recognition of the stretches where chat was busiest, plus the opening and the close, and from the chat in those stretches; it covers only those stretches. Quotations may contain recognition errors.

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