Ika Gayou

Ika Gayou is an Indonesian female Virtual YouTuber who is also a famous illustrator in several circles in Indonesia. She debuted on 22 December 2020.

She is a half-human squid who has now become an Independent Virtual YouTuber from Indonesia. She will present Drawing Tutorials, Gaming, Animation, Voice Acting, and Other Entertainment Content.

Profile
One day, there was a girl living on the beach. Then she meets a handsome man and falls in love with him. She was acquainted and then had a serious relationship. After long dating, unexpected, as it turned out, the man was a squid. This man has the ability to transform himself into a human. Even so, she still loved the man.

Long story short, they finally married and had a daughter who was a half-human squid. Her name is Ika Gayou.

Personality
Ika has a friendly and cheerful personality. She often asked her viewers to carry her out to sea. Besides that, she is also easy to joke with and is very much in demand by her fans.

Background
Ika Gayou was originally an illustrator who often created drawing tutorial content on YouTube by using the ibisPaint application. Her YouTube channel was created on March 23, 2020. She then decided to become a Virtual YouTuber and debuted on December 22, 2020.

2020
This year, Ika Gayou has a number of subscribers of more than one hundred thousand people, making her one of the independent Indonesian Virtual YouTubers with the largest number of subscribers.

Leakage of Personal Information
Not long after enjoying her popularity as a Virtual YouTuber, Ika became the victim of a personal information leak by one of her close friends on 10 January 2021. In a comment on her birthday video, her friend told Ika's complete personal identity from her real name to her home address. The incident traumatized her and decided to go on hiatus for an indefinite period.

Indefinitive Hiatus as Ika
On 17 January 2021, Ika returned to her YouTube channel and officially announced that she would stop being an individual VTuber and leave the character Ika. She said that she will return to being VTuber under a new agency, as Shumi Shumikea.

Return
On October 1, 2022, Ika's YouTube channel again uploaded a short video after more than a year of disappearance, and officially declared her return on October 6.

Trivia

 * She can speak the local language, which is Javanese.
 * On several occasions, she was able to accentuate her rather heavy Javanese accent.
 * She can mimic some of the conversations in the cartoon series Upin & Ipin.