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.

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.

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, Zentreya debuted a 2D avatar created by Yuniiho.

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

On 1 April, Zentreya 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 normal 3D avatar.

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

2022
On 20 May, she underwent a rebranding and debuted a new 2D model, abandoning the dragon motif for a futuristic android one.

On 31 July, she redebuted the new motif with a 3D model. However, she has frequently had issues with rendering the model as it occasionally disappears.

Quotes

 * "Keep rocking."
 * "Rock on."
 * "F*ck you."
 * "What?"
 * "What the f*ck?"
 * "I heard you were talking sh*t. Do you mind explaining that? Please."
 * "(Viewer: "Zen, you should know better. Chat does not think.") Is this true?"
 * "I'm about to snap some hot dogs off. I'm not f*cking 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 f*ck 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, f*ck off, hold on. What the f*ck did you just say, Rain? Hold up, hold up! Did you just f*cking 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 f*cking stream, dude. I-I don't know what the f*ck 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 f*cking house built and everything. I haven't even begun yet, so I'm actually jealous here. ...It doesn't f*cking count because you're looking up a literal guy to build a house, though. Doesn't f*cking count. You think you can get away with that? I was watching your stream, and you were literally watching a YouTube video. That's f*cking 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."

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.
 * 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.
 * She is considered violent yet conniving, but beneath the cold and manipulative exterior is something warm-hearted.
 * Zentreya 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.
 * Zentreya 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