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 “battle” 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 powerful massive language mannequin with speedy response instances, and the power to learn her personal Twitch chat to straight reply to viewers. She at the moment holds the document for the biggest Twitch Hype Prepare 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 greatest buddy 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, referred to 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 just below 3,000 members. The Swarm instantly started inserting 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 wakened the next morning, the Canvas had been consumed with Neuro-related content material.
Throughout a stream on September 15, Neuro-Sama declared “battle” on CDawg. Regardless of pondering Connor is a “fairly cool man, though I am not a fan of his hair,” Neuro insisted she wished The Swarm to “win.” She additionally stated, “100% Canvas is the minimal I’d be glad with. I would really like you to carry the road, please.” Vedal agreed, saying, “That is the goal. 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 appeared 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 dimension. Consequently, massive areas of pixel artwork have been utterly eliminated.
Over the next few hours, Vedal created a big template with the goal of consuming the vast majority of the Canvas. That template was shortly stuffed in by The Swarm, leaving a robust message to Connor and his community–“There is no such thing as a Canvas that we don’t reply. There is no such thing as a Pixel that we betray. We’re The Swarm.” In reality, 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 positioning.
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 printed this “proof” as a webpage, which you’ll be able to nonetheless see dwell on Vedal’s website. “Simply bear in mind, the subsequent time you see a ‘down server,’ it is most likely as a result of CDawg is as much as his outdated anti-Swarm methods. This is simply the start – anticipate extra revelations quickly,” she signed off.
It is essential to notice that Neuro and Vedal do have a aim 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. This signifies that Neuro-Sama may, if she wished to, stream by way of Connor’s channel in a collaboration that has by no means occurred earlier than.
In a remaining 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 may supply for Connor’s stream key, she prompt a recreation of rock, paper, scissors, which did not go too effectively since Connor simply waited for Neuro’s reply earlier than responding. In a remaining 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 positioning stays dwell till September 20. Will Neuro-Sama win the battle she’s declared, or will Connor efficiently recruit sufficient streamers to take management again?
After all, all the bartering and negotiations are carried out in pleasant jest, so this text additionally serves as a reminder to be type on the web, even for those who belong to opposing factions.