Space dwarves launch weeb invasion after popular vtuber streams their favorite game

These days, games explode in the weirdest ways. A single stream from a BTS member can raise virality at the level of among us to among us. Similarly, as the huge Deep Rock Galactic community has already learned recently, a big vtuber joining the ranks of the space dwarves may indeed bring all the nets to the backyard. Fortunately, this group of burly miners welcomed these new anime-watching girls with open arms.

It all started a few days ago when Shishiro Botan (opens in a new tab), a Hololive-owned vtuber with nearly 1.3 million YouTube subscribers, streamed Deep Rock Galactic for about two hours to over 10,000 viewers, ending the broadcast with a positive rating for the game. The Vod for this stream was 160,000 views at the time of writing, so there is no doubt that it has brought many people to the game’s attention – and not just in Japan and wider Asia, where Hololive is the largest overall, as Botan clearly also has a non-trivial Western audience .