Narukami Sabaki

Narukami Sabaki (鳴神裁) is a male Japanese Virtual YouTuber known for his "sensationalist expose" on several VTubers and gossip videos. As of March, 2022, Narukami Sabaki's main channel and secondary channel was officially banned from YouTube platform though he still is currently streaming on Twitcasting.Tv.

He is a Dramatuber who thrives of Drama and fanning the flames, often with ill-intentions, and thus his claims should never be taken seriously at face value without doing proper background research.

Personality
Narukami is a well mannered (despite sometimes sounding arrogant and sarcastic) young man whose main interest according to himself is to "to remake the world of VTubers, which is lawless, unscrupulous, corrupt and wicked." despite himself being a lawless, unscrupulous, corrupt and wicked criminal. He had openly brags about is crimes and had also drove someone to suicide by cyberbullying, which caused him to be sued, which resulted in deletion of his original channel.

Appearance
He appears as a late teenager with a slightly above average height. He has a short disheveled purple hair, matching his hazel eyes. On his exposé videos he wears a modified version of a high school gakuran uniform with a long jacket and a pair of black and white leather patent brogues shoes. In his informal streams, he wears a white hoodie with black stripes and a pair of headphones.

Background
Narukami's Twitter account was created on September 2018, but his debut on YouTube was a month later on 15 October of the same year. Apart from his introduction video, his first investigative video series was about the debacle of the 100 Vtubers Project (VTuber100体プロジェクト bichuubaa hyaku tai purojekuto) by Zig. Since then he has released videos related to expose the mistreatment of talents by companies, bullying, stalking, finance mismanagement and the overall state of the scene. He posted videos about Game Club Project and The Four Kizuna AI controversies. His videos have lead to a number of controversies surrounding the misinformation and conjecture that he often relies on as a means of evidence. His existence has inarguably influenced the VTuber scene.

Controversy by mislabeling an indie VTuber as a corporate VTuber
Narukami posted a video judging Peanuts-kun while labelling him as a corporate Vtuber. But this is misinformation led by Narukami's speculation. Both Peanuts-kun and Ponpoko have explained that they do not belong to a corporate group, yet are still harassed from Narukami's influence. He apologized afterwards during a stream, however his apology has been deemed weak by viewers. He later unlisted the stream and then set it to private. Narukami claims that he intends to better scrutinize the evidence he utilizes during his judgement videos, however he still uses abusive language when referring to Peanuts-kun.

Problematic behavior within Vtuber Community
In addition to being active as an individual, the source information is often wrong, so it does not mean that only correct information is sent. Therefore, there is a case where a problematic moving image is distributed and information is transmitted based on incorrect information or speculation.

Whether it's a super-large company or a great representative (without knowing it), they bite without question. (Though it seems to be refreshing to rush without choosing an opponent)

In addition, as described above, the extreme nature of the person has led to the development of a big flame from the fuss.

Especially in 2019, scandals continued in the VTuber world regardless of individual companies,


 * Discuss the off-paco disturbance of a certain individual V for several months
 * Leak riot of certain club activity VTuber, and riot involving management and related parties
 * Controversy with a major VTuber company at the LOL tournament (LVC)
 * In October, a certain retirement turmoil triggered by the distribution of a certain club activity VTuber

In addition, because of the attitude that can be said to be a courageous advance (or a rush of wild boar), they sometimes make videos without scrutinizing information, and they have often received furious criticism from fans.


 * Assert a certain VTuber as a company (video not disclosed)
 * Speculation about the flow from graduation to return of a certain major company VTuber (video not disclosed)
 * Babiniku is called `` a cover for approaching a woman '' (video not disclosed)
 * Certain major VTuber office CEO downplays Chinese translation group, says three people have hard-paused power harassment

Immediately after uploading, a person who claims to be a member of the translation group will be commented on YouTube comment and Twitter. The members who had stopped working soon returned, and the reasons for the suspension were also spoken by themselves, so the comments section, which usually had a lot of support, was unusually filled with criticism. There is no follow-up report.

Criticism of VTuber suspected of previous life
In VTuber terminology, "previous life" generally refers to a history of activity before VTuber debut (such as Internet personality and voice actors). Open-mindedness tends to be avoided. In addition, it has been pointed out by Nico Nico Douga and others that he may have a background as a Nico Nico, but he himself does not touch on this matter.

Rap Battle Controversy
In January 2020, he posted a rap collaboration video with Kerin.

The reputation of the video itself was not that bad,


 * Sabaki himself is very hated by VTuber fans
 * "Isn't it possible that the information of another VTuber-related person will be passed to Narukami because of having a relationship and be abused?"

For this reason, Kerin was intensely bashing, and in an apology video, he said, "I have not provided any information to him," and then stated that "I will sever any relationship in the future."

When Kerin later talked about the riot, he did not name Narukami and blurred it out.

Following his apology video, Both of them are blocked each other on Twitter.

Mikeneko & Delutaya Drama
 [Please Note that the following statements comes from Mikeneko's side about her conversation with Narukami while Delutaya herself had denied most of it] 

In around 2021-2022, while Mikeneko was still with her previous company, a manager was spreading rumors about Mikeneko and some of the other talents. Around then, Narukami contacted Mikeneko. At the time, there was a policy to report to management if contacted by Narukami, so Mikeneko recorded conversation and gave to her manager. In the audio, Narukami asked Mikeneko about two rumors: one involving changing the hair color of her live2d without permission, and one that a manager had spread about her going to host clubs, both of which she denied. When Mikeneko asked him where he heard this, Narukami said it was from Delutaya. Narukami also knew of the name of Delutaya's manager. Mikeneko says the company took proper care of squashing the hair color related rumors, and her own manager defended her from the other slander while in the company. In addition, she has also stated that she still watches and enjoys streams from members of the company.

Mikeneko has Narukami and other dramatubers blocked on twitter, however Delutaya is still in contact with Narukami. Moreover, Delutaya offered to contact Narukami and Korekore, as apparently Delutaya had also talked to Korekore. Delutaya then sent a message to Narukami asking him if he had mentioned her name, and he said that he doesn’t mention names of his informants as it would stop him getting rumors and he had heard the rumors at a bar three months before Delutaya’s drama at the time. Delutaya sent this information to Mikeneko via text. Delutaya also mentioned hearing a rumor from her manager at the time about one of the girls going to host clubs, but that they didn't specify who it was.

Copyright Infringement
In February 7, 2021, his official channel was deleted for copyright infringement.

In February 08, he created another official Youtube channel under the name of "Narukami Sabaki Official 2nd".

2 months after his ban, Narukami's official channel was unbanned from YouTube in May 09 and returned to his normal activities with the announcement of his "resurrection" in a video.

In October 3, 2021, Narukami informed in a tweet that his channel would be banned for good and that he would change his content to Twitcasting.Tv.

Trivia

 * Narukami is still spreading false rumors and hate towards other Vtubers without concrete claim as such, his claims should never be taken seriously.
 * In the English speaking community, he is referred to as the "Keemstar of the Vtuber World" or "Japanese Keemstar".
 * Most of his news information are based from 5ch, a Japanese equivalent of 4chan, and thus, holds no authenticity.
 * Narukami often makes fun of extremes idol fan ("unicorns") that gets mad whenever they think an idol could be in a relationship or talk to male people. He defended Towa following her suspension shortly after her debut. He also defended Aloe during her suspension.
 * Narukami was the one that brought to the public the story of Mel's harassment and how the harasser (Mel's manager) was still in Cover at the time.