SIN*SKI's Sordid Past

Original date: December 20th, 2020

Please don't go and attack SIN*SKI/Moarin/Solisoli, as she changed from her past and became a Twitch streamer, and has moved on for good. This is a journal to let anyone know about SIN*SKI/Moarin/Solisoli's origins and her days as an VOCALOID producer and Virtual YouTuber, but I'll not be referring to her by her name but rather as her aliases SIN*SKI during her VOCALOID era up into the Kyamjya controversy that'll be explained in an another journal, Moarin for her VTuber era and Solisoli for her current life after she retired as Moarin. Anyways, I'll talk about her early online presence and VOCALOID days first. 

In 2012, while in high school, SIN*SKI made her online presence on a now-defunct website called CreCrew (크리크루) (if you didn't know, it was a Korean video-sharing website that was created by the makers of SeeU and which focused on the Korean VOCALOID fandom, which lasted from 2011 to 2013) as an talented VOCALOID producer, and is notable for making songs using mostly SeeU and Camui Gakupo, with the latter being used for the Japanese arrangement of one of her popular songs, and even made two albums throughout her career, all of which were sold at a now-defunct doujinshi convention called Cake Square, which was cancelled in 2017. However, most of her songs can still be watched on Niconico, but the YouTube versions were kept private, even to this day.

In May 2016, an controversy over Kyamjya's high school bullying spread like wildfire around Twitter, and as a result, there was an separate controversy that resurfaced, this time of SIN*SKI, who also attended the same school as her, also bullying the others in school as well. When this controversy happened, she acknowledged being the bully and apologized on Twitter for her actions, before retiring from VOCALOID afterwards.

2 years later, SIN*SKI came back as an indie Virtual YouTuber named 모아린 (Moarin), whose livestreams focused on video games, artworks, and small talks like drinking mukbang and dirty jokes and not to mention, she often interacted in the VTuber gallery on DCinside, and since she was an talented artist since her SIN*SKI days. As her fans increased, at the same time, there were antis, also due to her generosity and the mixed reception of her livestream styles, which led to the tension between the users and the fans.

After the incident, Moarin was met with negative response and the strained friendship between the veteran users of the VTuber minor gallery, which got even worse as VTubers who were generous to her like Project Paryi (which got disbanded in April 2019)'s Alice Mana and Ena was also met with negative response, but that didn't stop them from creating their own VTuber agency named 541 E&C, whom I'll be referring to as 541, with Goblin (also a DCinside user, and changed their names to Lotamo after founding and joining 541 E&C), Kaen and Lucia. 

At first, 541 consisted of 6 members, and most of their profile pictures, character designs and images were drawn by Moarin, which were met with a negative reception even though most of her artwork are awesome. Not to mention, Alice Mana and Ena's initial character design were made by their initial character designer Paryi, while Lotamo made his character design himself as Goblin. However, despite that, most of her artwork are awesome, but it was considered ugly, and unfortunately gave her a negative reputation, which she always had since her SIN*SKI days.

Together, 541 participated in Seoul Comic World on August 2019 where they sold their merchandise, which was met with backlash since Moarin broke her promise of quitting doujinshi activities all together. Later on October of the same year, Lotamo retired from being a VTuber because of his health concerns and the agency's music composer Lorou was hired to join the agency itself, with three members, Han Chiho, Baekyeon and Mo Gaon following suit, joining the agency one month later. 

2 months later on December 2019, there was an upcoming male VTuber located in between its existing talents, named Vina (비냐) but his debut was cancelled due to the company behind the VTuber agency NIJISANJI, ANYCOLOR (Ichikara at the time of the writing this in 2010) entering the Korean market, forming the now-merged NIJISANJI KR, with 4 1st gen members joining and livestreaming at the same time and a month later, 541 merged into NIJISANJI KR, with the remaining members going into the Korean branch, which increased by 6 members (which included Moarin herself, Mo Gaon, Lorou, Kaen, Baekyeon and Han Chiho) even without an VTuber audition being held, to the dismay of the first-generation NIJISANJI KR talents.

Surprisingly enough, Alice Mana, Ena and Lucia didn't join NIJISANJI KR, as they were considering to retire from being VTubers for personal reasons, and Ena refused to talk about the matter, and didn't tell Moarin about their reasons for retiring as a VTuber. 

Unfortunately, someone posted an now-deleted allegation on the site that Moarin was SIN*SKI, which led to users knowing about that on other DCinside galleries and sites like Ruriweb and Twitter, in which 6 days later, Moarin made a throwaway Twitter account to post an apology and uploaded an apology video on YouTube. The next day on February 28th, she went live on Twitch where she explained everything throughout her last stream, before quitting NIJISANJI KR and retired from her VTuber activities.

5 days after she retired from VTubing activities, Moarin came back as 솔이솔이 (Solisoli) on Twitch, thus was able to reveal her real name and face for the first time, even though she physically appeared in her sister's livestream, wearing a white hat, back in September 2019. Since then, she broadcasted for about 9 months on the platform, and her last broadcast was on November of the same year, and her last video on the platform was her playing an obscure game called Crazy Arcade, which launched in 2001 in Korea but unfortunately was shutdown in North America in 2011 a year after it launched there back in 2010.

Recently, on December 12th, 2020, Solisoli posted a very long community post about why she hasn't livestreamed on Twitch for an month and turns out, she gave up on her livestreaming career and now works as a game developer the whole time, reflecting on her actions, and turns out, last time I checked on her YouTube channel, she made a livestream public on her channel, taking to account that she last streamed on YouTube back in April 2020.

Half a year later, on March 2022, there was a short-lived VTuber named Irua that was beloved by the global Blue Archive playerbase but hated by the Korean playerbase. Here's her only video:

If you know about the sad story behind this VTuber, here's a summary.

Irua was promoted as a part of Blue Archive's VTuber marketing campaign, which has been already done with the Japanese server with an NPC character named Arona. 

The reason why Irua was hated by the Korean playerbase is because the developers had allegedly used their money to make her project instead of fixing the game for them, her character designs doesn't fit within the game's setting and the poor art quality of her Live2D model, and honestly, I think that the playerbase themselves are at fault in the first place since they overreacted over a VTuber in the first place. 

Apparently, a Korean company under the name of PLUMVERSE was outsourced by the developers to make this video and the talent behind Irua was compared to Moarin by the Korean playerbase only for Blue Archive's producer to shutdown the rumors on Twitter, saying that she has nothing to do with the talent herself. On the other hand, PLUMVERSE went bankrupt 3 months after the controversy, following an major conflict involving one of its talents following a Discord leak, but that's another story.