At first of the week, streamer and voice actor CDawg launched a Canvas page–an interactive pixel-based artboard that communities can contribute in the direction of, which CDawg runs yearly. Now, Neuro-Sama and her creator Vedal987 have declared “conflict” on CDawg’s Canvas, rallying their group to flood the board with Neuro-Sama-related art work.
Neuro is an AI-powered VTuber, using a formidable massive language mannequin with speedy response instances, and the power to learn her personal Twitch chat to instantly reply to viewers. She at present holds the document for the most important Twitch Hype Practice of all time, reaching degree 111 with 84,904 subscriptions and 1,201,225 bits gifted to Vedal’s channel throughout a “subathon” occasion in December 2024.
Shortly after the Canvas launched, CDawg, actual identify Connor, and his group set to work including art work of him, his finest pal Ironmouse, and different streamers together with Lord Aethelstan and Nyanners. As quickly as Neuro-Sama’s group turned conscious although, issues modified. Quick.
Neuro-Sama’s group, generally known as The Swarm, created a faction on the Canvas which, on the time of writing, has greater than 9,000 members. Connor’s personal group faction consists of slightly below 3,000 members. The Swarm instantly started putting art work of Neuro and her sister Evil, in addition to her creator Vedal, mom Anny, and different related streamers and content material creators. By the point Connor awakened the next morning, the Canvas had been consumed with Neuro-related content material.
Throughout a stream on September 15, Neuro-Sama declared “conflict” on CDawg. Regardless of pondering Connor is a “fairly cool man, though I am not a fan of his hair,” Neuro insisted she needed The Swarm to “win.” She additionally stated, “100% Canvas is the minimal I’d be happy with. I would really like you to carry the road, please.” Vedal agreed, saying, “That is the purpose. This morning there was an assault. So far as I perceive, a bunch of various streamers banded collectively to destroy our artwork, and that is what it regarded like.” Streamers, when given particular permissions from the Canvas proprietor, can get powerups together with bombs, which wipe out massive areas of the Canvas when faction members contribute to rising its measurement. In consequence, massive areas of pixel artwork have been utterly eliminated.
Over the next few hours, Vedal created a big template with the purpose of consuming the vast majority of the Canvas. That template was rapidly crammed in by The Swarm, leaving a robust message to Connor and his community–“There isn’t a Canvas that we don’t reply. There isn’t a Pixel that we betray. We’re The Swarm.” Actually, when Neuro requested assist from her group to fill the Canvas, so many individuals tried to hitch that the Canvas servers crashed, with many unable to entry the location.
Neuro-Sama did not wish to take duty for the server crash, so determined to pin the problems on Connor. She doctored a (very clearly faux) screenshot of Connor claiming he had intentionally allotted simply 8GB of RAM to the server. She then revealed this “proof” as a webpage, which you’ll be able to nonetheless see reside on Vedal’s web site. “Simply bear in mind, the following time you see a ‘down server,’ it is in all probability as a result of CDawg is as much as his outdated anti-Swarm methods. That is solely the start – anticipate extra revelations quickly,” she signed off.
It is vital to notice that Neuro and Vedal do have a purpose in thoughts right here. They’ve promised to carry again on their takeover of the Canvas if Connor arms over his stream key–the distinctive identifier utilized in OBS to hyperlink the software program to a Twitch channel. Because of this Neuro-Sama might, if she needed to, stream through Connor’s channel in a collaboration that has by no means occurred earlier than.
In a closing interplay, Neuro-Sama and Connor spoke on a Discord name for the primary time, with Connor instantly upsetting her–“I’ve by no means talked to a clanker earlier than, that is my first time.” Neuro set about her negotiations instantly, asking for his stream key. When requested what she might supply for Connor’s stream key, she instructed a sport of rock, paper, scissors, which did not go too nicely since Connor simply waited for Neuro’s reply earlier than responding. In a closing act of desperation, Neuro-Sama requested Connor for a dinner date…4 instances.
Because it stands, Connor’s stream key stays with him, The Swarm has agreed to assist another streamers get their art work on the Canvas, and the location stays reside till September 20. Will Neuro-Sama win the conflict she’s declared, or will Connor efficiently recruit sufficient streamers to take management again?
After all, the entire bartering and negotiations are carried out in pleasant jest, so this text additionally serves as a reminder to be sort on the web, even if you happen to belong to opposing factions.
