VTubers Compete To Get Themselves Banned By Spraying NSFW Content All Over The 'Splatoon' Map

There's really only so many ways one can make a match of Splatoon exciting for spectators, but a pair of VTubers recently uncovered a genius way to raise the stakes of their game before getting their inevitable bans from YouTube.

VTuber Ikinone Tomeru of Shinso-gumi recently streamed a game of Splatoon with unsigned VTubers Kikaze Kimiko, Shigure Mito, and Hinachun. However, this game had a twist: one team made it so the ink they sprayed wasn't their team color, but a pornography video. As you can imagine, this made the other team's need to spray over their ink very important, lest they get banned from YouTube. Shinso-gumi is said to have come up with the idea, and pulled it off by increasing the ink's transparency and playing porn underneath it.

Obviously, we can't show clips from the stream itself, but this SFW video incorporating the method will give you an idea of what it looks like.

#AVスプラ どうやら流行るらしいので pic.twitter.com/sRJ7wgXOTl

— t-kuma (@t_kuma_Omoti) October 10, 2022

An archived tweet by Kikaze Kimiko seems to suggest that the idea of the game was whichever team got banned from YouTube first was the loser.

Of course, basically everyone participating in the stream was banned, for neither YouTube nor Nintendo were huge fans of the NSFW idea. Shinso-gumi was initially defiant in the face of disciplinary action, writing, "Listen up, haters. No matter how many of you block me or send insults my way, I'll just laugh and let it pass. But I won't stand by and let you cause trouble for the people who appeared on the stream and the companies that cooperated with us. If you don't like that, you can go ahead and block me."

That tweet was deleted and replaced with a much more doleful apology that read, "I apologize for the tweets that were offensive to public order and morals and caused a firestorm during the broadcast on October 8th. We would like to sincerely apologize for causing a great deal of trouble to everyone involved."

10/8に行いました配信にて、公序良俗に反する行為、及び炎上を煽るようなツイートをしてしまい申し訳ございませんでした。そして、この度は関係各所の皆様に多大なるご迷惑をおかけして誠に申し訳ございませんでした。つきましては、当該に関するツイート等は削除させていただきます。

— 時雨 (@sigure13178) October 11, 2022

Though some felt the idea bordered on genius, most agreed it was too risqué for YouTube, even if it made for some titillating viewing at the time.

me to everyone who got banned because of #AVスプラ pic.twitter.com/rrbYmDeuV0

— loveland resort (@lovelandresort) October 10, 2022