Buffpup

Buffpup is an English-speaking American VTuber/VStreamer and Twitch partner who has been streaming since 2018 and officially debuted on May 1st, 2021. They are commonly known as a 'Weird Dog on the Internet'. Members of the community are known as members of the Buffpup Gym.

Personality
Buffpup could be described as one of the most kind and loving streamers on Twitch. They have an amazing community, built around taking care of one and other! What really stands out is just how much love and effort they put into streaming every weekday and how grateful they are to the kind and amazingly supportive community that they have cultivated.

Along with being very fitness oriented and advocating home-workout, Buffpup is also very passionate about enjoying good food. They often watch street-food related videos for an hour, multiple times a week.

Buffpup's motivation for streaming originated from not having many friends at the time to talk to and to make work more enjoyable by having people to interact with whilst doing art. Hence why Buffpup originally did two art days a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, where they worked on emote commissions.

Overall, Buffpup is very silly and entertaining, always making their audience laugh and is very easy to get along with.

Buffpup
Buffpup appears exactly as their name suggests, a Buff-Pup. Buffpup's face is an oval shape with two small, pointy ears on top. Their eyes appear like black voids often filled with stars which represent their hope for what the future holds. Their species is a Pomeranian dog, as evidenced by their Neck fluff and curled tail. Their face is strongly based off Roald from the Animal Crossing series.

Their torso is an upside-down triangle with massive bulging arms and chest. Buffpup is commonly criticized for 'skipping leg-day' as unlike the rest of their body, their legs are very skinny, making for a comedic and intriguing appearance. Their posterior is also known for being 'dummy thick' and excessively 'cakey'.

Human
The human model retains Pomeranian ears, tail, and classic red and gold collar, along with new features. The human model can be described as having burger themed shirt and shoes, modern sporty pants and star shaped eyes. Connected to the collar is a long, red leash. The new model was made entirely by themselves. Sometimes the lower arms revert partially back to dog form. Buffpup can sometimes transform between their dog form and human form.

Nerd
BuffpupNerd is an alternative version of Buffpup where instead of being muscular, they are small and wearing clothes, representing a nerd in a loving way. The most notable aspect of this form is the large, circular classes on their face. This representation is used mostly for comedic value and to represent 'big brain' game-play moments.

Puddz
In lore, Puddz is a slime-cat found in Sozan's dumpster. Sozan said he didn't want Puddz and that Buffpup could take him. It is suspected that due to the slimy texture on Puddz he comes from space and is therefore considered a slimy alien space cat. Along with being a beloved addition to the Buffpup Gym, he is known as the helper and caretaker. Puddz's job is to do small repetitive tasks and take over when Buffpup isn't around. Puddz's design is the way it is because he was Buffpup's first facerig that didn't turn out as it was intended to. So he is now kept as a memorabilia of self improvement and inspiration to keep getting better.

Jelly Pup/Boneless Pup
Introduced on April Fool's Day, 2021, the Boneless Pup model is 2-dimentional, small and very wobbly. Somewhat similar to Puddz's style, Boneless Buffpup appears more simple and animated.

Name Origin:
The name 'Buffpup' originated from an acquaintance that was with Buffpup when they were working out at the gym and said "You're like a buff pup" after noticing they were short but very buff looking, like "a walking Dorito" chip. After hearing that, Buffpup changed their twitter name to it and once the decision to start streaming was made, miraculously the name 'BuffPup' wasn't taken, so they decided to use it.

Streaming History:
Buffpup began streaming on the 22nd of June, 2018. Originally they appeared on stream in person before deciding to switch to a 2D rigged character due to being harassed particularly for being 'Female presenting'. The original Buffpup model was drawn by Buffpup themselves and rigged by PixelVertice. This model persisted for well over a year, right up until the official debut. Post-debut, the model was replaced with a new Buffpup model and an additional human-based model.

As a variety streamer, Buffpup has played an admirably large list of games along with a fair amount of Just Chatting. They also stream digital art, often commissions such as twitch emotes. As long as the community enjoys the game, Buffpup may continue the game intermittently until the game is complete and a satisfying conclusion is obtained. For instance, Buffpup played 'The Long Drive' for over 6 months to reach the ending.

If a community member is generous enough buy a TreatStream where a viewer buys a meal of the streamer's options to get delivered to their home, Buffpup will have a 'TreatTime' where they watch entertaining food videos with the community.

The Long Drive:
On the 7th of May, 2021, Buffpup got to reach the ending of the game "The Long Drive" at 5137km, making them the first VTuber to achieve such feat.

Polygon Article:
Buffpup has been featured in an Article by Polygon regarding the topic of VTubers being the perfect fit for the then recent category of Hot Tub streams, which was largely being discussed at the time. Twitch had recently added the new category tag for streamers appearing live in a hot tub with mixed reception.

Host at DreamHack:
DreakHack is a yearly broadcast known as "the world's largest digital festival" and a meeting place for gamers that started in 1994.

From July 24th to 31st, 2021, Buffpup was invited to co-host the DreamHack Beyond broadcast streamed on DreamHack's Twitch channel, alongside Reinessa. The DreakHack digital interactive festival also featured its own game in which Buffpup has their own character in.

Artistry
Buffpup is an advocator of VTubing in general and with a long history of giving away free art, has created 6 Free Live2D facerigs available for anyone to use.

The facerigs include a Plush Bat, Fallguys Bean, Baby Dragon, 2 Foxes and a TemTem Smazee.

A link to the Facerigs can be found here: Steam

Buffpup also created the voice-chat and media sharing platform Discord a free Facerig model of their mascot Wumpus. Discord actually used the model in a picture reply here but anything further remains to be seen. As a partial result Discord follows Buffpup on twitter and has made a rare appearance in twitch chat.

Lore
Buffpup started off a regular dog, abandoned, sad, longing for a home and to be loved. One day they noticed an ominous, green-glowing, delicious burger! Biting down into the burger immediately, without thought, their body started to glow and feel warm. Soon they found themselves as Buffpup's human form.

Later on, when Buffpup was ordering food to their home as delivery, they noticed the delivery person was some weird looking Alien. Despite this, they consumed their favorite treat food, yet another burger and changed once again. This time becoming the main Buffpup known today. Realizing they couldn't go outside into the world looking as they do, Buffpup had a genius idea to earn a living as a streamer! After-all "People love dogs!! Who doesn't want to see a funny dog on the internet??" they thought. This is the story of how Buffpup came to be the way they are now.

Sometimes Buffpup changes partially and even wholly between forms. In human form, their hands often shift back into paws by accident.

Debut
Buffpup debuted their Human-model on May 1st, 2021. As the first non-joke debut, the stream featured many new sounds and animations, including not just the human-model but also a completely new regular model in the same style as regular Buffpup. Buffpup describes the human model as 'DLC' for the stream and insists they will not replace regular Buffpup. The debut featured a lore video and additionally a music video. Post-introduction, Buffpup continued to play Pokemon Snap, that came out the day before.

The stream DID NOT at any point feature an Ahegao Face. Loyal as ever, the Buffpup community turned up over an hour early on the day of the debut, hanging out in the chat before stream. Amongst the loyal viewers were Buffpup's close friends and streamer close-acquaintances. The stream was a success.

Credits:

 * Lore Video: Buffpup & https://twitch.tv/mic_feedback.
 * BGM/Theme: https://twitch.tv/lordaethelstan.
 * Waiting Screen: https://www.twitch.tv/sashapuppeh
 * Logo/Video Editing: https://twitch.tv/shiabun.
 * Ideas: https://twitch.tv/shiabun, https://twitch.tv/rosedoodle, https://twitch.tv/azrodobie.

April Fools Debut
On the 1st of April, 2021 aka 'National Burrito Day' and April Fools Day, Buffpup completed what was technically their first debut, although intended as an April Fool's joke. Despite streaming since 2018, long before the recent rise in VTubers, the prospect of debuting wasn't as typical as it has since become. Buffpup's long awaited debut featured an almost 5 hour stream of showing off the new model, known as 'Buffpup 2.0' and continuing the quest to complete 'The Long Drive'. The new and improved VTuber model features a smaller design, intended to give off; as Buffpup puts it "gremlin energy', along with being much more animated and bouncy.

An example of the new model, sometimes known as "Jelly pup" or "Boneless Pup" can be found here.

Quotes

 * "My goodness gracious, thank you so much for joining the Buffpup Gym! Everyone flex it and show some love in the chat! I hope you enjoy your protein shake! It fills up quite nicely in just a few months!!! And I hope you enjoy your weird-flex! Make sure to weird-flex on everyone you know and then share your Buffpup emotes all over twitch! Not only does it help out the Buffpup Gym to make awesome scenes like this... it helps me out a crap-ton, so thank you so much. I hope you get swole as heck with us and I hope you enjoy your time here at the Buffpup Gym!" - 1st time subscriber message
 * "The best sub is a continued gift-sub because that means you're enjoying yourself!"
 * "I feel like a nut..."
 * "Thank you for gifting a bobbity baboo!"
 * "SPREAD CHEEK HARDER"
 * "Smells like the weirdest thing I ever heard."
 * "I can't handle the balls." -TreatTime 2020, Referring to not being able to eat Bubble Tea due to Eosinophilic Esophagitis
 * "...And take ya clothes off! 'Cause you can't wear clothes in the sauna, ya goof!"
 * "Makin' my way downtown, walkin' fast eatin' grASS"
 * "Don't look at me, I'm naked!"
 * "I can't control what comes out of my butt"
 * "Poopy doopy loopy" - start of every stream in the captions
 * "Beauty and grace, please sit on my face"
 * "You wanna make a little dookie? You wanna make a little poopie? Huh?"
 * "I'm a buff who is pup and welcome to the Buffpup Gym!"
 * "Who says boing-boing can't be in the person..."
 * "Well I guess this is a natural thing, Santa's dumpy ass is 100 percent natural"
 * Chat: "Buff... you have a knack for making every single stream a fever dream of mine." Buffpup:"I am The Queen of making fever dreams, you know?"
 * "I am so heccin' Buff" - Buffpup

Likes:

 * Working Out
 * Food
 * Pastel Colors
 * Silly Games

Favorites:

 * Colors: Light-Blue/ Baby-blue, Orange, Pastel Colors
 * Foods: Burgers, Pasta, Seafood/Crab, TacoBell Nachos
 * Games: Splatoon 2, The Animal Crossing Series
 * Childhood shows: Ed, Edd n Eddy; Courage the cowardly dog; Tom & Jerry
 * Anime: Fullmetal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop

Dislikes:

 * Pickles on sandwiches
 * Mustard
 * Small Spiders(large is fine)
 * Kraft Singles
 * Lightning/Thunder
 * The Color: Green

Miscellaneous:

 * Buffpup suffers from Eosinophilic Esophagitis a condition involving the shrinking of the esophagus due to inflammation of the surrounding tissue. This makes it difficult to consume food that is too dry or dense. Sufferers of Eosinophilic Esophagitis are told they will have to experiment to see which foods they can and can't eat. Buffpup cannot eat: Eggs(except hard-boiled), Beef, Corn, Wheat and Rice. They must also have their throat stretched about every 5 years.
 * Sexuality: Pan-sexual.
 * Started Streaming on 22nd of June, 2018.
 * Achieved Twitch Partner on: 19th of July, 2019.
 * Achieved Discord Partner on: 3rd of October, 2020.
 * Buffpup made the art for their latest VTuber model, along with all the channel art and emotes.
 * Buffpup grew up in New England, United States and as such has a slight accent.
 * As a reward for donating to the early development of Snacko Buffpup has a pixelated character of themself in the game.
 * Once had a TikTok deleted for threatening to shove something up their ass.
 * "Abandoned as a pup" quoted in the Lore Video is a reference from the intro of Courage the Cowardly Dog
 * After playing for 6 months, Buffpup became the 1st VTuber to complete The Long Drive by driving 5137 km.
 * Used to have a pet Chinchilla.
 * Used to have a horse named Samantha.
 * Buffpup's beans smell like dorito dust, even without having eaten doritos.
 * Is a Super Animal Royale super content creator

Media

 * BuffPup - Twitch Channel
 * @Buffpup_ - Twitter Account
 * Pup Gym - Official Discord
 * Buff Pup - YouTube Channel
 * buffpup_ - TikTok Account
 * Buffpup - Patreon
 * Official Website

Twitter Hashtags

 * #Buffpup - Fanart Tag

Free Facerigs
Buffpup's Workshop - Steam Workshop