Zentreya

Zentreya is an English-languge VTuber who debuted in 2017. Initially an independent streamer mostly known for VRChat roleplaying, Zen joined VTuber group VShojo in November 2020. She is noted for the use of a speech-to-text-to-speech system to produce a synthesized voice.

Personality
"A cyborg from a post-apocalyptic future, sent back in time to prevent the apocalypse. She's very headstrong and tends to yell at everyone around her, but loves meeting new people! She's become accustomed to 21st century culture, and enjoys memes and pranks." -VShojo entry

Zentreya is mainly depicted as a caring, insecure person prone to aggressive outbursts. While she typically tries to befriend those around her, she is also easily irritated and will not hesitate to insult or criticize those who wrong her or fail to correctly convey a message, though she holds back if the context doesn't allow her to be open for it. This attitude stems to her audience in that while she cares about them supporting her career, she fails at obliging to whatever requests they may have, and though not without provocation, is willing to insult her audience. The aggression she shows herself with is commonly conveyed through upfront deflections or the offensive gesture of the middle finger, preferring to use her emotions rather than reason as she rarely uses someone's personal flaws to base said insults off. When provoked to the point of insult, she is typically provoked by someone excessively asking something of her, questioning her basic standards, or generally demeaning her. It is stated that, in her introductory period, she was formerly more affable and was absent of aggression, retaining a positive and confident outlook and being more communicative with her community until she was eventually reduced of this upon her community's reactions to her general behavior. She is also very upfront about her opinions, stating whether or not she hates something, and in rare cases with a somewhat light approach, someone, with a brief but clear description, and uses logical approaches regarding said opinions in the case of them being impossible to accept otherwise.

Regarding her skill in gaming in itself, she is typically unable to play games with experience or even complete them, and is unwilling to follow any requests she may have to commit to the latter as a result of the former, to the extent that her community forcibly reminds her of the games that she has to complete. Combined with her aggressive tendencies, she repeatedly rejects the option to complete the games that she hasn't yet completed, highlighting her additional lack of dedication. Circumstantially, she is able to complete intellectual genres like strategy or puzzle games, though with only minor mistakes, due to their primary goal being obvious, and fails whenever the game genre requires a logical understanding of the game itself to be able to generally complete it, such as first-person shooter and sandbox. For example, in regards to Minecraft, the best-selling game of the 2010s, she is unable to catch onto the basic mechanics required to even be self-sufficient in basic terms.

Contradicting with her aggression, she is ironically submissive and lenient towards the antics provided by her community and avoids inflicting any punishments towards her viewers unless necessary. Though she is highly irritable, she knows not to take it out on her viewers in direct terms as she is also altruistic and understands that her viewers are simply playing jokes with her, deciding not to inflict the basic punishment of banning for a satirical, but half-hearted joke insult or even banning someone by request, in fact outright protesting against committing to the latter. However, according to her, this does not mean that she will move on from everything negative that is given to her and will express genuine intolerance of someone else if they manage to push her to the limit in question. When more upfront about her motives for doing certain things that she does, she is typically more associated with the highly popular virtue of Internet memes and exceeding levels of affection towards her friends and community both. She is highly enthusiastic about activity within the Internet and finds memes to be a defining part of herself, seemingly aiming more towards making references to things whenever intentionally and precisely exhibiting her traditional comedy. Regarding her general relations, she is accepting of everyone around her and rarely gets truly irritated by other people unless they cross her with some capacity of serious insult, accidental or not, instead perceiving the jokes exchanged between her and her community as well as, most notably, Haruka Karibu as a vitriolic element. When genuinely expressing gratification towards other people, she does not hold herself back and coordinates her words to make herself obvious that she holds no ill will, in fact almost never holding any in the first place, being highly affectionate and emotional, though this is more of an in-the-moment trait as she refrains from doing it when it's unnecessary to do so.

Appearance
Her current form is a cyborg in a red cyberpunk body suit with black and mint green armor. She has a black jacket and helmet. Underneath the helmet is her normal face with yellow eyes and short grey hair. She also wears horns.

Prior to that, her form was that of a red dragon in humanoid form, with long red hair and yellow eyes. She wears her hair in a ponytail, and has horns, small wings, pointed ears, and a very thick tail. She wears a black leather jacket and jean shorts to complete the outfit. Her 2D model appears to trade out the jean shorts for a black leather skirt. This same look would be transferred to her new 3D model.

In her previous human form, she wore her hair down, often with a black hat, a black overcoat/cape with a white fur trim, a black suit, and a red tie. She had red hair and yellow eyes in this form.

Background
Zentreya originally came from the VRChat roleplaying community, where she was the founder of a group called the Anti-Lewd Army. She began as a mute streamer (one who streams without voice), and created primarily VRChat-based content. Zen's decision to remain mute was inspired by a desire to protect her real-life identity.

Zentreya's Twitch channel was created on 3 July 2016, while her YouTube channel was created on 30 March 2017.

2017
Her first Twitch stream was a one-hour VRChat stream on 30 November 2017, with 5 viewers. Her Twitter account was created shortly after, on 2 December 2017. Although Zen was a streamer who represented herself with a 3D avatar, she did not yet consider herself a VTuber.

2018
On 26 March, due to losing her position at work, she decided to pivot from video production to livestreaming. She revealed a new VRChat avatar the following day, having long red hair, yellow eyes, and a military style outfit with a red armband representing the Anti-Lewd Army. She began streaming regularly on Twitch on 23 April, with some livestreams on YouTube.

On 14 May she announced a return to producing videos on YouTube, with livestreams now taking place exclusively on Twitch. She continued to produce YouTube videos throughout 2018, consisting mainly of Twitch clips of VRChat streams.

2019
Zentreya streamed on Twitch throughout 2019. On 18 May she first used the term VTuber in a stream title. This year marked a pivot from streaming primarily VRChat.

2020
On 6 August, Zentreya revealed her now iconic feature where she gained the ability to speak using text-to-speech. The system used the Tatyana IVONA Voice software, with a Russian accent. This replaced Zentreya's existing system which would use speech recognition to display text in a speech bubble. She credited Com Dos for help setting up the system. Zen clipped the announcement for YouTube on 25 August in the video VTUBER GETS A BIG UPGRADE!!!

On 25 September, Zentreya officially disbanded the Anti-Lewd Army and retired from the VRChat RP community.

On 1 October, Zen debuted her new dragon form with a 3D model.

On 24 November, Zentreya redebuted as a founding member of the VTuber group VShojo. She stepped down from her previous affiliation with the Twitch Team Virtual Streamers Worldwide, which she previously founded, though as of 22 May 2022, she remained in the rotation of streamers online on the team page.

2021
On 24 January, she debuted a 2D avatar created by Yuniiho, which would also be her first appearance in a 2D form.

On 1 February, she reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. On the following day, she reached 100,000 followers on Twitch.

On 1 April, she made a gag reveal of her "true dragon form". In truth, all the transformation did was turn her into a 3D gecko-like reptile wearing her attire. Later that month, she would reveal her true 3D avatar, it being a 3D rendition of the 2D dragon avatar.

On 28 September, she announced that she would take an indefinite hiatus to recover from severe mental breakdown. She resumed her activities on 11 October.

On 28 December, she introduced a secondary animal motif to her main dragon form and became a wolf.

2022
On 20 May, she underwent a rebranding and debuted a new 2D model, abandoning the dragon motif for a futuristic android one. According to her, this is based on fitting her theme into her TTS system and how the dragon form didn't make sense with it, having planned to use the motif as the main one since she had the dragon motif.

On 31 July, she debuted a 3D model for the new motif.

Quotes

 * "Keep rocking."
 * "Rock on."
 * "Fuck you."
 * "What?"
 * "What the fuck?"
 * "widepeepoMASTURBATION77769420GANGSHITNOMOREFORTNITE19DOLLERFORTNITECARD."
 * "I need to make this clear as I fear people have gotten the wrong idea of me. I've never claimed any disability. I am not "Mute IRL". I'm "Muted". I would not and never will take advantage of a disability. I sincerely apologize for not clearing that up. And if you feel that I've wronged you or deceived you in this way, I'm truly sorry. I did hope to show even without talking, you could do so much. I should have stated this sooner with my growth. It is my fault. I chose TTS in today's times cause I'm absolutely scared of someone recognizing my voice. Of being stalked or doxxed. I wanted to live my IRL life without fear of someone recognizing me. I love what I do and making people laugh, but at the same time, people are also unpredictable. I'm sorry if there's been any confusion at all and again, wish I had stated earlier, whats done is done. If you choose to not support me anymore, I understand, I by all means wish you such an amazing life. Thank you for watching and I will be going in a new direction with this."
 * "I heard you were talking shit. Do you mind explaining that? Please."
 * "(Viewer: "Zen, you should know better. Chat does not think.") Is this true?"
 * "(Viewer: "Zootopia is a good movie. Zen is a furry confirmed.") ...Just because you like a movie with animals doesn't make you a furry! That's so bullshit. That's literally, like, half of America, then, or the world basically!"
 * "I'm about to snap some hot dogs off. I'm not fucking kidding."
 * "Do you [want to hear], like, my deepest fear when it comes to swimming? Like, God, I don't mind going out at sea. I don't mind. Alright, so like, I wouldn't say the abyss. It-It's hard to say, because I would love to go down deep. ...Ummm? I-I guess it's the thought of air pressure. I guess, like, the water pressure crushing me. Like the fear of the water pressure crushing my, like, insides, I guess. There's-There's, like, a thing where if you go down too deep, and when you're coming back up, you have to stop at a certain point. Like, depressurization. That's what it is."
 * "I bet you don't have butter, Rain. (Rainhoe: "What? I have like- What? I have, like, 20 sticks of butter in my fridge. Just consume every, like, butter, I ate it raw. All the time.") Why the fuck do you have so many? (Rainhoe: "Why not!? Butter is a universal object, you use it in everything. In all types of cooking and baking.") Wait, fuck off, hold on. What the fuck did you just say, Rain? Hold up, hold up! Did you just fucking say... you eat... raw sticks of butter?"
 * "Yeah, I-I was just scrolling on Twitter and somebody said I was... super lewd. ...I'm-I'm not sure how we got to that point. Apparently they also think I am one of the lewdest members now. [...] So listen, if they're saying that, then they haven't watched the fucking stream, dude. I-I don't know what the fuck to tell you, man. I guess... making sexual jokes every 30 to 45 minutes, [counts as], incredibly lewd? I-I don't know."
 * "(Viewer: "Zen, you're so hot, thank you for branding me, I will be a good cow!") You'd better be. (laughs) ...And well, there goes my reputation for being wholesome."
 * "I'm actually jealous you [Veibae] are killing it in Minecraft. You already have a fucking house built and everything. I haven't even begun yet, so I'm actually jealous here. ...It doesn't fucking count because you're looking up a literal guy to build a house, though. Doesn't fucking count. You think you can get away with that? I was watching your stream, and you were literally watching a YouTube video. That's fucking cheating! That's literally cheating. ...To be fair, I'm probably gonna do that, too."
 * "I swear I don't betray my friends in every game. Just the ones that have team killing on."
 * "(wields sword) Fight me right now. Let's do this! Let's go right here, right now. Fight me. Let's go. Come on! (a tomato narrowly misses her) Right here... You missed. You fucking missed, you idiot! (is successfully hit with a banana) You actually... hit me! Ouch! (is hit with an overwhelming assortment of foods) ...Lucky shot. Try that again. (is hit with an overwhelming amount of hearts to the point of being knocked off-screen) ...Alright. Good fight."
 * "(Viewer, in an attempt to win a humour challenge: "Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.") ...I think I'm too small-minded for that."
 * "I don't-I don't really like putting on the headset that much. It's-It's-It's not my thing anymore, dude. After playing and doing VRChat content for, like, almost three years, I am over it. I am way too fucking over that, and I don't like putting on that headset anymore. No, the helmet doesn't hurt, I just don't like wearing it for, like, hours... And plus, I mean, a lot of the old people who I used to talk to don't really get on there very much anymore, so... Oh, man, if I was ever invited by Nagzz, or, you know, any of my friends to play VRChat, I will obviously join. For them. But for the most part, VRChat is... it's kind of a mess."

Poppy Playtime

 * "(Viewer: "It's nice for you to take a hands-on approach to your fears.") Ha... ha... ha..."

Tattletail

 * "(Tattletail: "Me Tattletail, me lo-ove youuu!") You stupid piece of shit. Shut up."

Relationships
Zentreya is a first generation member of the Vtuber idol group VShojo along with Nyanners, IronMouse, ProjektMelody, Froot, Hime, and Silvervale.

Zentreya is good friends with Veibae, FeFe, Ironmouse, Silvervale, Projekt Melody, Bunny_Gif, and many other VTubers.

Zentreya is in an eternal conflict with a Twitch moderator she has named Fatman. However, she eventually decided to demote him on August 15th 2022 following her chat discouraging her from playing Apex Legends after losing multiple matches in collaboration with streamers Rainhoe and Mika.

Shortly after Froot's debut, Zentreya declared Froot to be her waifu and Froot reciprocated. FeFe tweeted back that she was ready to fight Zentreya for her.

Fans

 * Zentreya's fans are known as the Soldiers and can be found in her Discord Zentreya's Cyberspace Server.
 * Zentreya's fans were formerly called the A.L.A., aka the Anti-Lewd Army, in reference to a group she created in VRChat, as well as the Red Knights when she was a dragon.

Trivia

 * She lives in Texas.
 * She was the leader and founder of the A.L.A, the Anti-Lewd Army. She officially disbanded the A.L.A. in September 2020 and retired from the VRChat community.
 * She was often called the Red Devil, who commands the most powerful military power and often seeks war, whether that's by disputes or because of Lewdist territory.
 * She was not originally a VTuber, but instead began as a mute YouTuber.
 * She has a close connection with the VRChat community, seeing as her main content for several years was VRChat, as well as the fact that the character of Zentreya was created and developed through the VRChat community.
 * She has role-played at least 10 different characters.
 * During her time role-playing, she had a kid named IceReaper with Joey Bagels AKA Nagzz21.
 * During a Phasmophobia collaboration with Apricot (Froot), she briefly revealed her real voice when laughing at her own joke response, though it's unknown if the pitch of the laugh is higher than or the same as her speaking voice.
 * The possibility of the laughter heard matching her resting voice pitch is supported in that, by her word, her voice when screaming or shrieking, something that is inaudible through her STTTS system, is intense and ear-piercing, implying that it is extremely high-pitched even in comparison to her resting voice.
 * When she was a red haired half human/half red dragon, rockstar (kinda), she would be very headstrong and tends to yell at everyone around her.
 * She loves meeting new people
 * She tends to play pranks and loves memes.
 * As a dragon she wants to rule humanity one day but is too much of an air head to do it.
 * One of her most notable running gags is playing "Taco Tuesday" by Lil Jon per every Tuesday in which she is available to stream. However, contradictory to the theme of the gag, she does not eat tacos per every Tuesday and the gag serves more as a joke gag based on the day of Tuesday itself.
 * She is considered violent yet conniving, but beneath the cold and manipulative exterior is something warm-hearted.
 * She loves horror, games, RPGs, MMOs and drums, memes, strawberry shakes, halloween and anime.
 * Her favorite genres of music are rock, metal, screamo, death metal, and dubstep
 * She hates horror, the banana suit, broccoli, mustard and losing.
 * She can play the drums.
 * She has gone though three re-brandings.

Credits

 * 2D Illustrator: Yuniiho
 * 2D Rigger: AlexyonLive2D
 * 3D Model: jjinomu
 * Emote Illustrations: LilythArts
 * Emote Animations: KJOEE88

Media

 * Zentreya - Twitch channel
 * Zentreya - YouTube channel
 * @Zentreya - Twitter account
 * @Zentreya - Instagram account
 * The Dragon's Lair - Official Discord server

Merchandise

 * VShojo Store - Official Merch Store

Twitter hashtags

 * #zentreart - Fan art
 * #zentreNSFW - Fan art (18+)

Statistics

 * Zentreya - TwitchTracker stats
 * Zentreya - Social Blade stats
 * Zentreya - SullyGnome stats