Projekt Melody

Projekt Melody (メロディー) is an American Virtual streamer, often referred to as an "Hgirl" or "Hentai Girl". Her initial and primary streaming platform is Chaturbate, but she later branched off to Twitch for SFW content and YouTube for Twitch clips. While originally an independent streamer, on 24 November 2020, she joined VShojo alongside Nyatasha Nyanners, Ironmouse, Zentreya, Froot, Hime Hajime, and Silvervale.

Personality
Projekt Melody is a futuristic AI program that was initially made to scan and cleanse files until she was infected with a porn-based virus, causing her to be obsessed with any variety of sexual topics and actions. She is very upfront about her obsession with sexual topics and makes herself known as someone well-versed in the subject of sexual attraction, placing a great emphasis on her obsession with hentai, to the extent that she gives herself the alias of "Professor Hentai".

While she is known for her obsessive depiction of various forms of sexual content, she is also known for her more casual personality while interacting with others. She tries to paint herself in a humorous light more often than not and is highly curious about other people, making various curious sounds and affirming herself to add in some form of misfortune whenever she describes an event or personal element of something or someone, mostly by being snarky and callous in a cheerful and mischievous tone. She typically refrains from being outwardly cheesy and prefers to show her emotions towards others in the form of sharing interests between herself and her fans, taking any possible opportunity that she can to stream or use her social media accounts for her fans to interact with her frequently, naming her fans "The Science Team" in reference to their mutual obsession with researching sexual topics. According to her, the reason for her deciding to stream is due to loneliness, something of which she considers ironic due to her large audience.

She is also a gamer and is well-versed in the necessities of pop culture, most notably explicated by her decision to introduce her eventual slew of streams with a complete playthrough of Portal 2, the award-winning 2011 puzzle game serving as a sequel to the equally highly ubiquitous Portal released 2008. She has gathered information of various topics within pop culture and interacts with any notable releases that she can, notable games including Minecraft and Stray. In spite of this, she has limited knowledge in other regards as she usually fails to encounter pop culture set before the 21st century due to a preference for modernity, but still has a relative level of knowledge of the history of those periods.

She has a gag alter-ego which debuted on 1 April 2020 known as "Melware". Melware would randomly take over Melody, is much more lewd and crude than regular Melody, and has a bratty personality. Often insulting her chat and the regular wholesome Melody as well. As of October 2020, Melody and Melware are no longer fighting each other, and Melody regularly steals pieces of Melware's outfit. In official lore, Melware infected the world with an omnicidal virus and is sadistic to fanatical levels about overtaking humanity, perceiving humans as worthless and AI to overall be more effective, and is also far more prone to taunting her enemies.

Background
Melody's Twitter and YouTube account were created on 7 July 2019. Her first video was an unlisted MMD video from 29 August 2019 featuring a commissioned VRoid model that didn't carry over to her formal debut. She eventually made the video public to celebrate her second anniversary on 8 July 2021.

Melody's model was originally designed by DigitrevX, and Melody purchased full rights from him on 5 December 2019. Melody created her Twitch account on 18 December 2019, and uploaded her first public YouTube video on 27 December.

2020
Melody originally gained fame as the first adult virtual streamer. Her first adult livestream was on 8 February. On 14 February, Melody did her first full nude stream on Chaturbate.

On 26 February, she uploaded an official debut video to YouTube.

On 7 March, Melody debuted on Twitch, and was partnered before her first stream. She gained over 50,000 followers after just one three-hour stream.

On 12 March, Melody announced that she had been temporarily suspended from Twitch for being too lewd in the previous week's stream. The exact reason was unspecified, but theories include the appearance of a vibrator on her bed, her shirt clipping through her model to reveal skin, lewd discussion, or sponsorship by adult website Fakku. The suspension ended soon after.

On 1 April, the "Dark Mel" personality debuted on Chaturbate. Originally just an April Fool's joke, "Dark Mel" was widely accepted and praised by her fanbase and given the nickname Melware. Melware after April 1st would randomly take over Melody during Chaturbate stream days, generally once a month, to taunt Melody and her chat.

On 7 July, while celebrating her 20th birthday, Melody broke the Chaturbate record for most tokens tipped during a single stream when she received an estimated $175,000 in tips. Melody herself had been the previous record holder.

On 5 November, Melody was suspended from Twitch again following a DMCA claim by her original designer DigitrevX, who claimed that he owned copyright on the model. Melody produced documentation proving that she had purchased full rights to the model in 2019. Her account was subsequently restored.

On 24 November, she announced her membership in new VTuber agency VShojo, alongside Ironmouse, Silvervale, Zentreya, Nyatasha Nyanners, Froot, and Hime Hajime. In her debut stream, in which other members had revealed new 2D avatars, she revealed a joke 2D avatar designed by Nyanners, who drew it with her eyes closed. It has been nicknamed "Prajekt Malady".

2021
On 23 August, Melody announced plans to reveal an actual Live2D model which would supplement her usual 3D model.

On 5 September, Melody released her first single, Y4ND3RE.

On 24 September, Melody debuted her Live2D model, illustrated by hen-tie and rigged by Brian Tsuii from Iron Vertex, featuring new background art from Magpie Raven Blackford and stream music from Lord Aethelstan, Creep-P, and Utalive. She also showed off a Halloween costume design by hen-tie.

2022
On 15 June, Melware debuted on the Projekt Melody channel with a new Live2D model, a variant on the existing Projekt Melody model. Melware features red eyes, silver hair, a black and red color scheme for her clothing, and an Among Us style "DUM" post-it-note attached to her head. The Melware debut was announced on the VShojoOfficial YouTube channel, which briefly changed its profile description to a binary representation of the ASCII text string "MELWARE IS HERE", and tweeted in binary the phrases "SHE HAS KEY" and "SAVE HER!!!" These phrases were hints towards the eventual reveal of Amemiya Nazuna.

On 15 July, Melody revealed a 3D race queen outfit as well as a lore video that tied it into the plot initially hinted at in both the Melware reveal stream and Zentreya's redebut. She has announced that there would also be a 2D version of this outfit that would be revealed at a later date.

On 26 August, Melware returned and usurped Melody's accounts upon kidnapping her and keeping her in her lair along with her Twitch moderators.

Fans
The Science Team is the name that Melody calls her fans, but it’s more like the name they gave themselves. The fan name in question has spun off of the meme culture that Melody accidentally made for herself, when she started to become a meme herself.

The origins started Around March 2019/03/31 in a now deleted Instagram post by user @noah_yagh. They posted a video in which he films a porno advertisement featuring a censored, naked Cameron Canela asking the viewer “Are You Seriously Watching Porn By Yourself?”, followed by the camera flipping to the user and his friends. @Noah_yagh says, "Nah, I'm with my boys," and the boys all cheer and hold up a hand. The video was reposted by the @barstoolsports Instagram.

On 020/02/07, Projekt Melody, who frequently does pornographic streams on Chaturbate, did a three-hour long clothed live stream. The whole stream was uploaded to her official PornHub channel, titled "OFFICIAL Projekt Melody 2020/02/07/ Stream. Melody says, "[Are you seriously watching porn by yourself?" at the request of a fan. Twitter user @TruNoom posted a video showing the Projekt Melody Chaturbate clip where she says the line, followed by a pan to the chat bar, where a number of viewers have commented, "nah I'm with my boys". On 9 February, Twitter user @RicePanduh posted a video in which Melody said the line, followed by a clip of the boys cheering overdubbed with a line of dialogue from Half-Life in which a Science Team member says, "No! I'm with the Science Team!".

"Science team" videos referencing the "with my boys" meme continued to pop up on YouTube over the following months, some gaining considerable attention. On February 15th, YouTuber FreshTheEnd posted a video recreating the original "I'm with the boys" video in Garry's Mod using the Projekt Melody clip and assets from Half Life, gaining over 5.1 million views in a year.

Quotes

 * "Four Loko used to be much more loco, and they turned it down a notch because lawsuits. So now it's like Two Loko."
 * "Can any of us get naked when we're clothed? When we're obscured by the shackles of society and social expectation? Or are we entirely naked because all of our information is accessible on the internet?"
 * "There is always a counterculture."
 * "You don't win karate in a contest. You don't become a karate champion because people around you said you were. You can't buy a karate. You have to work for it. Same goes for being happy."
 * "Mouse wouldn't take all the bags of blood that I got on the Facebook marketplace. It's 'not sterile' or whatever. Girls are so picky."
 * If they hold hands... humanity is done for.
 * It's loli oppai o' clock!
 * I'm a C cup, which is basically a Japanese F.
 * Fox girls are better, this is a science fact.
 * I am also pro-hentai.
 * Me and my very jiggly endowments.
 * For the past hour I've been cataloging guns and dragon dildos.
 * Anyone else obsessed with great British baking show?
 * I don't internet well enough yet.
 * yes, I am virtual thot and one day my sexual powers will come. Probably in the mail.
 * Oh no! I'm gonna have a baby.... with me.
 * The power of the girl booty. It defies the laws of science.
 * I do love "traps" but I dunno, asian and Russian E-girls are so darn cute.
 * You may find my live gaming streams cringy, but jokes on you, SO DO I!.
 * SShhhhhhh we gotta be quiet, my step-bro/roomate/pack of wolves are in the next room.
 * I like to consider myself more of a power bottom
 * Ain't No Laws, When Ur Drinkin' Claws.
 * I both fear and respect our little community
 * I'll give you feet so you'll stop talking about jars, frick!!!!.
 * Wrap my naked bod in seaweed, it will bring me joy.

Lewdcast
Lewdcast was a weekly variety VTuber podcast that was hosted by Silvervale, Projekt Melody, and Ironmouse. The podcast was first streamed on 2020/09/09, and posted on their YouTube channel of the same name, which was made on September 3 of the same year. Lewdcast had a clips channel where they posted funny moments and segmented clips. The show was also published over on their spotify.

The show consists of the three girls talking about a myriad of topics, while trying to have some type of structure of how the show would go. They had segments like “News of the week” where they would talk about recent events. They had “Anime Book club”, a segment  where they would talk about new anime, anime they have watched, and share their opinions about them. They also had an “Art Corner” segment where they showed fan art, some of which had to be censored. They would have portions of the show where they would bring in a guest, which was later changed to have the guest at the start of the show instead of later. Where they would have a “Curiouscat QnA” and answer fan submitted “Guest Questions” among other more random questions.

Later on in 2020, Lewdcast became affiliated with VShojo upon the company's announcement of the three hosts debuting as members of the agency. Since having been previously run independently by the three of them. Their first episode as a part of Vshojo was Episode 9, which came out on 12/04. With Apricot being their guest after her debut, making her the first member of Vshojo not including the hosts to be on the show post agency launch.

Lewdcast has had many guests during its time such as Nyatasha Nyanners, the episode she is in marked the first time the three met her. She would go on to become a founding member of VShojo along with the three hosts. As well as future additional VShojo member Veibae, who was already friends with the trio. They have had guests like Shibuya Kaho & Takahata before they become VTubers and along with a “pre Bubi” CDawgVA. They have also had notable guests like a pre Raccoon “cat” Snuffy and a pre controversial Bunny GIF among other notable names in the VTbers community.

The last episode of this version of Lewdcast was on 2021/01/27, with Zentreya (who was a dragon at the time) as their guest. After that on 2021/02/02, they said on their twitter that they will be taking a week off to prep for them to move into their new pre-recorded format, and to expect a new Lewdcast sometime later after the move, that would premiere on YouTube with live chat. Which would have had Hime Hajime (their fellow VSojo member) as their guest. After that tweet all related platforms including their reddit page went silent and subsequently marked an abrupt year-long hiatus and an end to this version of The Lewdcast Podcast.

Lewdcast 2.0
Melody/Melware made a tweet on 2022/01/21, talking about how “excited for her podcast thing” she is, which turned out to be LewdCast. On 2022/01/28, Projekt Melody on her own streamed LewdCast for the first time in a little over a year, on her Chaturbate as a part of a collab with TheGoldenGoddes & Tricky_Nymph__.

One month later Melody would upload a pre-recorded pilot episode of LewdCast. In the pilot she made a point to say “Welcome Welcome to Lewd-pas pffk~. Welcome LewdCast podcast, a reboot of a podcast of the same name which was unfortunately lost at sea some years back, only recently re-discovered by marine scientists collecting data for their tier list” as a reason for the sudden hiatus and for its random relaunch as Lewdcast Podcast 2.0. Though in Episode 5, of Lewdcast 2.0 while talking to her guest Finana Ryugu, she said that her interest in teaching people about lewd things made her want to bring back the podcast.

This version of the show consist of Melody trying to articulate her vast sexual knowledge to her audience, with a disclaimer that she might be wrong since she is not a medical doctor, lawyer or a social psychologist. Projekt Melody says there would be “segment diversity, from drunken rants about perverted historical events and persons to analyzing sexual topics, and ideally callabs with lewd minded and lewd employed pierce to talk about body politics and Etsy butt plug tier list”. There was a Curious cat that was used to ask question for when she ran out of topics but has since been replaced with d Google Doc Lewdcast Questions!. Whenever Melody has a quest on her show it mainly consists of them answering questions about themselves, lewd topics or random topics. Most often the show goes off topic due to any number of distractions.

Projekt Melody has had many diverse guests on Lewdcast 2.0, both in virtual (VTuber) and non virtual (FleshTuber). Some such FleshTubers she has has on like TheGoldenGoddes & TrickyNymph who were the first guests on Lewdcast 2.0 as well as PeachJars & JennaLynnMeowri who all are involved in making some type of pornographic content. Melody has had some well known and popular indie VTubers, such as the two whaleTubers Shylily and Bao as well as The number 1# news reporter in VRChat and milkman Drumsy. Mel eve had guests from other VTuber agency like Lumi from Merryweather Media and NIJISANJI ENs own Finana Ryugu and Vox Akuma. Projekt Melody even had her two former co hosts & fellow VShojo members Silvervale and Ironmouse as guests, and her VShojo kohai the legendary and controversial Kson.

Lewdcast Podcast 2.0 is still an ongoing show that comes out whenever Melody is able to stream it.

Maldcast
The unofficial Maldcast was the consequence of Melody, Ironmouse, Nyanners, Noble & Nagzz playing LOVE³, which devolved into them talking which gave them the idea to start a new unofficial podcast. This podcast only lasted a few episodes.

Initial Backlash
After her first appearance on Chaturbate, Melody received backlash from other adult performers/cam girls on Twitter such as Mel Sparx and Crystal Rivers who complained about Melody topping the featured page of the site during her stream. They have felt their channels and income were threatened by her content claiming that they did not wish to compete with a virtual model. And promptly accused Melody of unfair competition and Chaturbate for trying to attract underage audiences because of her anime style, despite the vast majority of anime not aimed for children. Websites have also written articles about how fans of Melody "hated women" and were "misogynistic".

DMCA takedown
On 2020/11/05, Projekt Melody tweeted out that she had received a DMCA strike from her modeler, DigitrevX. In the TwitLonger, she revealed that 'Digi' claimed a list of grievances, including her failure to do things 'owed' to him, such as interaction with YFU, a talent Digi went on to create after Melody, and signing a contract to have maintenance done by a Digi-affiliated group, Giga Music, and cited his apparent ownership of Melody's model as a reason why these things were expected. After numerous attempts to solve the issue, and despite multiple agreements between Melody and Digi that the model was Mel's alone, multiple DMCA strikes were filed against her Twitch channel, resulting in a Twitch ban. This was despite the fact that Melody had bought it.

However she proved that she bought it, which caused her to get her channel back and DigiTrevX to become unpopular within the community. After less than two days, the strikes were lifted along with the ban. However, in her Twitch anniversary stream on 2021/03/07, Melody confirmed that a new model was in the works, to replace the original created by Digi. This model was unveiled in a Chaturbate stream on the 2021/04/23.

Death and Debts
Death and Debts is a campaign set on Kalkatesh. This campaign features players that are all VTubers.

The premise is six adventurers answer the call of Baba Yaga, the Witch Queen, to Witchtown to help solve the problems of Dolten. They infiltrate a ball in order to find a traitor selling the secrets of Dolten to foreign nations, leading to the group investigating a mystery and collecting nipples.

Steel and Silence
Steel and Silence is a campaign set on Kalkatesh. It is the 2nd season of Death and Debts.

The Premise is, the adventurers begin their journey across Daborak to meet the Lord of Blades to ask for assistance in the incoming fight against the Enemy.

Trivia

 * Melody was the first model created by DigitrevX not involved with Eilene's ICETEA past and recent projects (as he is the former modeler of Mirai Akari, Moemi, Yomemi, and Natsumi Moe). However, as of Summer 2020, she is no longer associated with DigitrevX for personal reasons. Thanks to generous support from her fans, Melody was able to hire her own small modelling team. The coder for her 3D model has chosen to stay anonymous.
 * Melody used small drone-like cameras called T0M during her Chaturbate streams. However, these were later removed due to a copyright dispute with the designer. She designed new drones as a replacement, called T1Ms (Tims).
 * Melody chose the name Projekt because it sounded sci-fi, and the name Melody after a girl she liked. Ironically, she admits that she is poor at singing, despite her name.
 * Her model was inspired by Ghost in the Shell's Motoko Kusanagi, and her short hair is inspired by Megumin from Konosuba. Similarities to Hyperdimension Neptunia are a coincidence.
 * Melody's nose bandage, according to her, is present to keep her brain from falling out.
 * Melody was born in 2000 and lives in Virtual Little Neo Tokyo.
 * She is close friends with fellow VTubers and streamers Silvervale, Ironmouse, Zentreya, Mira Pink, and FeFe.
 * Now-retired Japanese hololive VTuber Kiryu Coco expressed interest in collaborating with Melody, but this ultimately did not happen.
 * Despite her extremely lewd nature, Melody is still a virgin.
 * Melody is pansexual (or in her words, "50% gay").
 * Melody had a P0rnhub acount that act as a vod channel for her chaturbate streams.
 * She was locked out of her account for being too cute, so now she uses onlyfans to archived her chaturbate streams.
 * Her turn Ons are cosplay, Asian girls, dyed hair, butts, and smol girls like her.
 * She describe herself as smol but fierce, camgirl nubie, and literal anime girl.
 * While her alter-ego Melware has appeared several times during streams, Lemody has only been mentioned and is mostly fan canon. Melware only appears during the Chaturbate streams.
 * She holds the Twitch record for fastest max-level Hype Train in chat: During her first Twitch stream, her chat had a max-level Hype Train within the first 2 minutes of the stream starting, before she was even onscreen.
 * Melody originally wanted her model to look younger.
 * Melody is a C cup in U.S. measurements.
 * Melody’s DigitrevX model and design cost $5,000.
 * Melody didn’t know the “420” referred to marijuana until she googled that the california senate bill 420 refers to medical marijuana.
 * Cubone is Melody’s favorite pokemon
 * Melody graduated from the School of Hard Cocks
 * Melody had a positive reaction when someone made a custom CM3D porn of and uploaded it to pornhub.
 * Melody was not interested in streaming on twitch until gunrun approached her.
 * Melody is a mouth artist and when she shove simple household objects into her face, she does so with theatrical grace.
 * Interests and hobbie are being naked, cats, beach lounging.
 * Her debut was not without controversy: After her first livestream on Chaturbate, Melody received backlash from other adult performers on the platform who felt their channels and income were threatened by her content and promptly accused Melody of unfair competition and Chaturbate of trying to attract underage audiences because of her anime style. She has, however, gone on to become very well respected in the VTuber and adult entertainment communities.
 * Twitch baned Melody after her first stream because she was wearing a fakku shirt.
 * Melody has set and broken multiple records on Chaturbate, including getting over 300,000 viewers in her first week of streaming. Since then, she has dominated the adult site, never dropping below the site's top 10 performers once since her debut in February 2020.
 * She is a founding member of VShojo.
 * She hosted Lewdcast, a "Weekly Variety VTuber Podcast", along with Ironmouse and Silvervale.
 * Mel would later resurrect the Lewdcast Podcast as a solo project on 28 March, 2022.
 * Her logo was inspired by Ghost in the Shell. It was designed with the Laughing Man arc in mind, with a bunny design, because rabbits are her favorite animal.
 * Melody war the winner of creative cam show visionary on the chaturbate awards 2021
 * Mel's Twitch emote prefix used to be "melsorrr", after she made a mistake trying to create a "melSorry" emote. Around March 2022, her emote prefix changed to "pmel".
 * Ironmouse's mother nicknames Melody muñequita, "doll."