Claude Henri I. Frollo · @IkariTenri
16th Dec 2022 from TwitLonger
Final Letter to my Eternal Kamioshi @pipkinpippa
This is the last time we will ever meet. But I'm going to dump this before I graduate and leave the wonderful world of Vtubing forever.
When you personally unbanned me I bore witness to your compassion. I really did think you were the messiah, the only person who gave me a second chance. I was already thrown out of Kson's fanbase and so I was lost. In you I saw Kiryu Coco once again, the genius, the innovator, the one pushing the boundaries, the next step in the evolution of Vtubing. Your intelligent tangents and relatable stories made me even more drawn into you, as we had a mutual understanding of both our menhera problems, and that you showed the potential to be something more than her.
So when Fishman and Xalamon attempted to purge based content from the company, and you cried that you felt being isolated by the new policies, I was Furious. I saw again YAGOO's mistake in isolating Coco. I saw the repetition of history. I saw how I was so powerless to save her. So I did everything I could in every way possible to prove them wrong, to save you, and that you, your path, are the future.
I numberfriended to the max. I did everything to promote you. I spammed /vt/ and Reddit. I wrote TV Tropes pages for Phase, as well as the Fandom wikis. I advertised you and Phase in other sites. I helped promote FlaVR and praised it as "your power move within the company", that you can make your own company and survive without the Fish. The one constantly making these threads /here/ about how you were the best? Me. The one trying to convince Kirsche, Shondo and other Pippa friends to become Phase Invaders? Me. You achieving 100k and breaking 7k in viewers, mogging multiple Nijis and even Holos, were the ultimate vindication, the ultimate evidence, that I was right about you.
But I know I've went too far. Making an edging joke on Twitter that went trending was already screwed up, but I was consumed by my self-righteousness, that the sheer numbers vindicated all my beliefs about you, and made the biggest mistake. I told Fishman, to his face, that you carried the company. That you ARE Phase Connect, you are the future of Phase's ascension into the Great Powers like Hololive, and the company will not survive without you.
But because of my parasocial zealotry I lost everything on why you, Pipkin Pippa, were Pipkin Pippa. You are too kind and selfless. You cared immensely about your fellow co-workers - the very reason you were terrified that the rest would resent you. You were grateful to Phase because it was Fishman who even gave you a chance. You LOVED Kson, my previous Kamioshi whom I denounced as the ultimate Arch-Traitor. You told me repeatedly that you did not carry the company, that Phase is a collaborative effort. And yet I was driven by the drive to numberfriend you no matter what. The alcoholic stream saw you repudiate everything I believed in. You expressed your gratitude for Phase to the point of calling yourself a bootlicker, and you expressed your love of Kson and to leave her alone.
In my idealised version of Pippa I lost the real Pippa. In my drive to make you the next Coco I lost the Pippa I considered to be a friend. In the end it was I who ended up repeating history.
This time I will no longer ask for forgiveness. I deserved damnation in its fullest for my crimes. I do not deserve you. No one deserves me. But I want you to know that you are the most amazing, inspiring person I have ever encountered. Even if you doubted yourself, plagued by impostor syndrome, you climbed out of the nihilistic abyss and proved yourself worthy of love. So intelligent, creative, strong, courageous, memetic, deep, sincere, understanding, frank, based, selfless, and absolutely hilarious on top of it all - the Perfect Vtuber, the light of my life. So these will be my last words.
Pipkin Pippa, the Truth is: I Loved You. I did, and always will. The Shining Star to Light My Way, My Mega Idol Eternal.
Omedetou, Pippa, for having found success. And Sayonara, Pippa. Farewell, and may you find greener pastures in the future.