Kettletoro

Kettletoro (also known as Kettle, in short) is an independent female English speaking VTuber based in Singapore. She gained her fame by streaming and making Youtube Shorts and TikToks about Genshin Impact trivia and lore, and occasionally dropping a pun in them. On streams, she is sweet, kind, with some lewdness on the side. She mainly speaks English (both on streams, and in real life), but she also knows Mandarin Chinese. She did a 3D debut on 21st of May, 2022, and re-debuted with her Live2D model on 20th of April, 2023.

Profile
A kitsune drifting aimlessly throughout the vast expanse of space, all alone.... No one knows why she's there, or where she's headed. But some find her strangely familiar. Almost as if she once visited, in a dream....

Personality
Kettletoro is mostly sweet, kind, but she is not afraid to show her “sussy”, “cultured”, and a bit cruel side, which strengthens the light-hearted bond between her and the viewers. Sometimes, she makes a silly challenge for herself, and stays committed to it. The most famous examples are the no map challenge (a challenge where she does not unlock Statues of The Seven and goes around the map essentially blindly), which she has been doing since the release of Inazuma Region (hence, she calls herself “map-sochist”); and leveling up to level 90 and “triple-crowning” the worst and most useless character in the entirety of Genshin Impact — Aloy (as an milestone on her charity stream), and even attempting to clear Spiral Abyss with 36 stars with Aloy (which she failed, and, as a punishment, did 100 pulls, and added 1 more Welkin Moon to the giveaway).

She oftentimes procrastinates, which is why nearly every event in Genshin Impact is done in its last couple of days. This is the same reason why she uploaded her “Inazuma with no map challenge” video on Youtube 6 months after the release of said region and her first playthrough of the Inazuma Archon Quest.

Kettle also has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, which is why she can easily get distracted and frequently forgets the thing she said and/or had on her mind just 5 seconds ago (and she also may aimlessly run around the same 5 square meter area for 10 seconds). This is why she sometimes says “You, guys, have such a good memory!” to her viewers whenever they remind her to do something she wanted to do a minute or two ago.

Appearance
Kettle is a space kitsune girl that wears a short black dress, which has dots and lines that resemble stars and constellations. The dress has a silver ribbon which is tied between her breasts (the ribbon wraps her rib cage like an underwire in a bra), and the bottom part of her skirt is transparent purple. A dream catching amulet is hanging under her left breast. Kettle's shoulders and top of the torso are naked, but the dress has sleeves that go from the middle of her forearm to the middle of her arm, and hang low, down to her feet. The sleeves are transparent white, but after going away from her fingers, they fade into pink, and once they approach the ankles, they fade into cyan.

She also has a very dark purple fox tail, which has stars and gradients, just like those in space. Kettle's eyes are jade green. Her hair is bright pink, and there are some space sakura flowers above her right ear. She has a black choker with a hanging teabag, and a star that hangs like a necklace, but with no strings. Kettle is barefoot, and her legs are naked too, with the exception of some golden straps on her left thigh and both of her calves.

2021
On 27 September, Kettletoro YouTube channel created.

On 31 December, she created her Twitter account.

2022
On 24 February, Kettle hit 420 subscribers on YouTube.

On 20 April, she hit 669 subscribers on YouTube.

On 14 May, Kettle hit 4269 subscribers on YouTube and made "The thing" announcement.

On 21 May, she did "The thing" (aka "The 3D model debut" happened).

In June, Kettletoro hit 16.9k subscribers on YouTube and 420 followers on Twitch.

Around 25 June, she hit 50k subscribers on YouTube, and she also mentioned that there are 69k followers on the Venti NSFW subreddit.

On 24 July, she hit 69420 subscribers on YouTube and hit 3k followers on Twitch, and made a 24 hour long dual-platform celebratory stream announcement.

On 30 July, Kettle started the 24 hour long stream (4 hours on YouTube, then 20 hours on Twitch  ).

On 31 July, her 24 hour long stream ended with 100k subscribers on YouTube.

Around 8 August, Kettle announced her YouTube membership program.

On 2 September, she announced her Twitch partnership.

On 12 October, Kettle hit 200k subscribers on YouTube.

On 30 November, she went on a 2 weeks long hiatus in Thailand.

Around 12 December, Kettle returned from Thailand.

2023
On 7 January, she teased her new model by showing feet.

Around 9 February, Bond The Doge joins The Teapot Momma.

On 9 March, she teased her new model by revealing the silhouette.

On 10 March, her new model was fully revealed.

On 29 March, Kettle hit 300k subscribers on YouTube.

On 20 April, she debuted her Live2D model.

Debuts

 * Her name consists of 2 parts: "kettle", her actual nickname, and "toro". “Toro” comes from 2 things: Tottoro from Studio Ghibli, and the word in Japanese, とろ (toro), which means “tuna” (or, as Kettle said in both of her debuts, “fatty tuna”). The reason why she added the "toro" part to her name is so that it would be easier for people to search for her, and not get pictures of electric and stove-top kettles.
 * Her 3D debut happened in 21st of May, 2022, 4 days after the announcement (or, technically speaking, 7 ). She did not prepare for it until the last moment. She called her debut "the thing", because she was too scared to properly call it a debut. The slideshow was done in Google Slides, but it was quite scuffed because Kettle had to write all of her information on the "About Me" slide live on stream.
 * In her 3D debut, Kettle also did a pointless graph of her personality, where she indicated that her best trait is procrastination. In that graph, the "pepega" trait had the second-lowest score. Though in the long run, that score turned out to be extremely inaccurate.
 * Her 3D model is a frankenstein: she and her friend made this model from bits and pieces of other models in VRChat, and then Kettle turned it into a VTuber model for VSeeFace (the software she used for her 3D model).
 * In her 3D debut stream, she mentioned that she has reflux — when the stomach acid goes up and burns her throat, which involuntarily changes her voice a bit. Nowadays, her reflux is much more tame and tolerable, and not as bad as it used to be.
 * Her Live2D model debut happened in 20th of April, 2023, and it was, once again, scuffed, but in a different way. She did a slideshow in Canva, instead of Google Slides, and there were side effects of green screening the presentation: the stars had a toxic green glow around them; the mouse cursor was in a weird teal circle; when she was doing height reveal, she used a transparent PNG image of her model, and on that image, the transparent part of her sleeves (the one that just goes away from her arms) became aquamarine instead of translucent white; the new teabag image was aquamarine instead of translucent grey; and Canva's bottom panel (which had a gross swamp green color for some reason) kept sliding up and down. Also, in the credits segment of the presentation, she placed the Twitter profile picture of her mama, NASTRPANK, but forgot to put mama's name in. She then proceeded to show off NASTR's twitter page, to hastily redeem herself.
 * The breed of her kitsune form is a mix between a fox (or kitsune, there is not much of a difference) and trash.
 * In her 2D debut stream, she said that one of her goals is to become a Top 500 player in Overwatch.

Likes

 * Kettle’s favorite animes are “Kimi no na wa”, “Violet Evergarden”, “Komi can’t communicate”, “Gakkou Gurashi!”, “Made in Abyss”, and “basically, anything with good plot!”.
 * Kettle likes spicy food, pink color, seals, hoodies, blankets, sweet food, “noods” (that being noodles), tea, her dog Bond, primogems, headpats, and talking to Teabags (her subscribers).
 * She really loves hotpot, mala hotpot in particular.

Dislikes

 * Kettle dislikes bananas, touching grass, and lying.
 * She is afraid of cockroaches, showing her bad aim, stressful social situations, and reading things wrong.
 * Kettle hates it when people try to "fist their hand through her tail".

Miscellaneous

 * She mentioned that the nickname "kettle" is related to her real name.
 * Kettle simps for ShyLily.
 * Kettle said multiple times that she is straight (her sexual orientation is hetero).
 * Her favorite Genshin ship is "ChiLumi" (Childe x Lumine).
 * She used to be a fan of Marvel movies.
 * Kettle's ADHD is not typical, but one with dominant attention deficit.
 * Kettle had been learning Mandarin Chinese for more than 16 years. She can understand it just fine, but when speaking, her intonations are incorrect (according to her words), because she had not used Mandarin for quite some time. Because of this, sometimes she also struggles with reading Mandarin Chinese.
 * There were two occasions when she sent the live notification in her Discord server an hour after starting the stream, because she forgot to notify in the beginning (this meme captures it perfectly).
 * She is reluctant with saying which country she is in, but the games she plays, as well as ads in her browser, expose her general location anyways: Asia server, and SGD - Singaporean dollar.
 * There were only 2 times when she said out loud that she is from Singapore: one was live on stream where she was preparing for her 24 hour long stream, and the other one is during an Overwatch 2 collab with Nalithea.
 * She used to work in Starbucks, but not for very long, because she frequently forgot who ordered which drink, and was overall pretty bad at making drinks.
 * Her fan base is called “Teabags”, but before adopting this name, Kettle had other options, such as “Teacups”, “Step-cups”, and “Step-teabags”.
 * One fellow Genshin youtuber, DaddyWohn, made a Youtube Shorts video, where he introduced Torokettle — a parody character on Kettletoro, which soon became Kettle’s arch-nemesis (the video was deleted as of March 2023).
 * Another fellow Genshin youtuber, yejisaurex, made a couple of Youtube Shorts videos, where he mentioned that Kettle has “C6 brain damage” and C6 Qiqi (which is essentially implying that Kettle has a stack of C6 brain damage after getting C6 Qiqi).
 * She mainly plays Genshin Impact and oftentimes Overwatch. But she used to also play Valorant, Apex Legends, Dead by Daylight, and even Phasmophobia and VRChat.
 * Kettle is a proud (and great) Mercy main in Overwatch.
 * When she was younger, she used to play drums. Kettle also knows how to play ukulele.
 * She has extremely poor sense of direction, which is why she plays with rotating mini-map (if such option is given), and she even managed to get lost in Phasmophobia.
 * She does not like playing horror games, with an exception of Dead by Daylight. Though she has no issues with watching other people play horror games.
 * She made a Youtube Shorts video about Enka.Network, and soon after, she got featured on the site’s home page, and her Genshin UID was featured as an example.
 * In early February 2023, she got herself a dog — a brown, toy miniature poodle, named Bond (like James Bond) . She oftentimes calls him “Bon Bon”. But when Kettle was thinking of a name for her future dog, her aunt suggested the name “Koochie” . Also, she used Bond to pull for Dehya, and got her.
 * She used to take care of a 105 dog years old dog named Blaze. This dog was blind and a bit deaf, and once he accidentally missed while doing his "toilet stuff", and, because of that, Kettle had to start streaming a little later.
 * Around Christmas time in 2022, she played Windtrace on stream, and she let her fans bet their channel points on whether will Kettle win or lose. There were loses, but there were also wins. At some point, given that Kettle is a professional pepega, not only did she lose a game of Windtrace, but she also selected “win” as a correct prediction outcome, despite losing. This is how she accidentally scammed her viewers, and made her chat go wild.
 * In 28 September, 2022, Kettle was doing a second out of three charity streams for PancONE (a pancreatic cancer research organization), and the 200$ milestone was ordering a Domino's X Genshin Impact pizza. She let her chat choose ingredients for the custom pizza, which ended up having these ingredients: New York crust, Smoky BBQ sauce, mozzarella cheese, parmesan cheese, feta cheese, beef garlic sausage, mushrooms, and pineapples (Kettle hesitated to add them because that pizza was already pretty expensive and ridiculous, but she ended up adding them because k4zemane, her viewer, gave her 6969 Bits). Kettle complained that chat made her order and eat a super cheesy pizza, because she is not a big fan of cheese. Some time later, she filmed the "cursed" pizza + Genshin souvenirs reveal, while still being live on stream.
 * Also, the PancONE charity stream series had milestones for "crowning" Aloy, which lead to the creation of level 90 "triple-crowned" Aloy (but initially, Aloy was supposed to be "double-crowned").
 * Kettle oftentimes writes “Jenshin” instead of “Genshin”, as a reference to The Game Awards moment where the announcer lady read out loud the nomination winner (which was Genshin), and pronounced the letter G like in the word “generate”, instead of the correct one, like in “go”, “gift” or “get”.
 * Ever since 2023 began, an anonymous viewer has been sending Kettle a lot of Genesis Crystals (usually, in the batches of 8080 pieces) nearly on every stream (oftentimes, the stream truly starts with them letting Kettle and chat know that they are here). They got the nickname “Jifter”, instead of “Gifter”, again, as a reference to The Game Awards announcer lady, and simultaneously, as a reference to the debate where people argue about the correct pronunciation of “gif”: G llike in “get”, “google” and “gullible”, or like in “generation”, “genuine” and “generous”.
 * In 18 February 2023, Kettle wanted to pull for Yelan and get C1, but Jifter gave her few more thousands of Genesis Crystals (by that time, they had already given 110k+ Crystals in total). Her chat kept asking to pull for C6 Yelan, and soon she succumbed to chat’s peer pressure and pulled until she got C6 Yelan.
 * Shortly after unlocking Yelan’s full constellation, her fire alarm went off, and she joked about “whale alert” ringing. Since that day, Teabags joke about Kettle “getting gaslit to pull for c6 yelan”, and she got the nickname "Whaletoro".
 * Kettle once told a story, from a young age, when she went to the cinema, and got some popcorn stuck to her butt. A dog smelled that popcorn, and started chasing Kettle, and the dog’s owner was chasing the dog.
 * She told another story, from the times when she was around 12 years old, when she used to troll people she knew by digging out their addresses on the internet and saying “i know where you live”. Needless to say, it was creepy, but it is not needless to say that Kettle is creeped out by her own teen-self.
 * Back in June 2022, when Kettle hit 16.9k Youtube subscribers, she decided to celebrate it by making an in-Genshin dish for every subscriber she had at the time. She made a poll, where people could choose — which dish would they want to be: suspicious sauteed matsutake (a SUS mushroom), lotus flower crisp (Petal of Lotus), stir fried shrimp (a SHRIMP), or Jueyun chili chicken (Chicken Slice). The winner was sauteed matsutake, so Kettle had to grind for matsutakes for a long time.
 * Kettle did an Overwatch 2 collab with Nalithea in 14th of December, 2022. At some point, Nalithea needed to pee, so once she got up, Kettle’s wholesomeness took an.... “interesting” twist. This is where Kettle said the now famous quote “Enjoy your pee!”, which might be (according to her) the most embarrassing thing she has ever said in her entire life (but her Teabags still love her nonetheless, and after a while, she started memeing along with her chat about “enjoying one’s pee”).
 * Kettle rarely completes her World Quests and Story Quests in Genshin (even on stream — a true procrastinator), and there are a ton of quests left uncompleted, if the quests got lucky enough to get started in the first place. For example, in late October 2022, she started the “Through the Mists” World Quest (the one with a boy named Ruu, in Tsurumi Island). Kettle continued doing this quest on stream for a couple of weeks more, but then did not touch it until second half of February 2023.
 * Also, in that quest, before meeting Ruu, she did not know who was this person, so she assumed that Ruu is “a hot and voluptuous woman”.
 * In early November 2022, when she was completing the Sumeru Archon Quest, and was about to fight Shouki no Kami, she got jumpscared by the “DICKS” sound alert, to the point of yelling, 4 times in the span of 10 minutes. Ever since that moment, Kettle gets scared when someone plays the “DICKS” alert.
 * In that same stream, when Kettle and Nahida met Rukkhadevata, k4zemane, her viewer (now Twitch moderator), played “I pulled a Qiqi” sound alert, precisely during the most heartbreaking and saddest moment of the cutscene, and then got timed out on stream for 10 minutes.
 * Her fan art tag on Twitter is #kettleart. It was the first and original tag of hers, but she had to switch it to #kettleillust, because #kettleart was used in posts with artwork on literal kettles. But recently, it has been rarely used for that purpose, and because of that, Kettle said that she wants to start using it again. And she is indeed using the original fan art as the official one.
 * Somewhere in June 2022, Kettle noticed that somebody was re-uploading her videos on their TikTok channel, without crediting her (and the re-uploads somehow were getting more views than originals) . Kettle kindly asked the re-uploader to take the videos down, but they replied with an emoji of a blind man walking with a cane. Some time later, neither the re-posted videos, nor the re-poster's channel were found on TikTok (presumably, people reported them for stealing other people's content without their consent and without crediting them). Ever since that day, Kettle has been using watermarks on her Youtube Shorts and TikToks.
 * After flexing with her 2D model plenty of times on Twitter, Kettle finally announced her re-debut in a short video, but with an extremely unconventional pretext — a ridiculous ritual for wishing. She briefly listed all of the unusual wishing rituals she did, namely: buying everything from Ashpazi in Gandharva Ville (this brought her 2 Ayakas back to back), "doing demon noises to attract Buer", also known as Nahida (this brought her Diluc instead) [editor's note: the demon noises initially were meant to be Kettle's hidden talent], asking ChatGPT where should she pull for Alhaitham (ChatGPT told her to pull in Dawn Winery, and she got Alhaitham and his signature sword), making a shrine in Sereniteapot and singing happy birthday song to Nahida in real life (with a cake slice and brussel sprouts) (not very great success — she got Jean, but then came C2 Nahida, and her signature weapon), singing "What does the fox say?" (she got Yae Miko, but on very late pulls), as well as making a scuffed MMD of her 3D self dancing to an instrumental of Twice - The Feels and singing a custom made version of this song over the MMD live on stream (great success — she got Nilou). Afterwards, she announced her re-debut date with a challenge — using a 1000$+ model to pull for C6 Nahida and to give away Welkins (2 Welkins for every lost 50/50, and 4 Welkins for every Qiqi). This ended up with her losing 50/50 only twice (which lead to giving away 4 Welkins), and getting Nahida's signature weapon to R5 (truly, the most great success ever).

Quotes

 * "Take this plunger! It’s long and hard,.... just like me.”
 * “Yooooo!! Kaze!!! Fuck you, bitch! My fellow bitch! *laughs* Hello, Kaze.”
 * “I call it “The Suck & Cuck Combo move”.”
 * “YEESSS!!! YEESS!!!! YYYEEESS!!! Explode, my babies!!! Do it!! KILL THEM!!”
 * “Chains, wow, kinky! *laughs* Perfect for baby making!”
 * “The more enemies you have, the more babies you produce, you know? More people equals more babies!”
 * “Bro, this is the best round of baby making I’ve ever had in my life!”
 * “Who doesn’t wanna watch some babies being made?”
 * “*reads chat: *does baby making* “This was a mistake!”* That’s what your parents said.”
 * “Wenut in the hole!!”
 * “Yeah, you can’t fist me in the air, can you, bitch, huh?!”
 * “What is leyline overflow? *laughs* I only know ley, line, and the anime “Overflow”.”
 * “Yo, I know where you live!”
 * “*reads chat: you don’t like shoving things up your holes?* *laughs* Only one particular hole.... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) *mmmmm* At-. Yeah, that- that- that’s my mouth.”
 * “Who the fuck doesn’t like shoving... shoving shit up their mouth, man?”
 * “*reads chat: kick genji — he has to get a punishment* *laughs* Genjitsuu, would you like to take this as your punishment? ..... *genjitsuu in chat: THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS* That is exactly how it works! You wanted the punishment to hurt, don’t you?”
 * “Enjoy your pee! ^_^ ”
 * “You can break-? You can break a PP? How do you break PP?...... Asking for a friend.”
 * “Do you kiss your nuts before you eat them? *laughs* I like to nick-, lick flavored nuts. *laughs* They have good... seasoning on them! *laughs* They really do! *laughs* *reads chat: yes we do* Good, good! Yes, you should always kiss your nuts before you eat them! *laughs*.”
 * “No, you don’t need dicks to win! You can-... You can win with a pussy as well. I assure you.”
 * *i’m not going to write this in here, just click me and watch it for yourselves*
 * "Break the woman!! BREAK THE WOMAN!!!!"
 * "I'm gonna cream!"
 * "I only want it raw, dude!"
 * "It's like a brain erection, you know?"

Media

 * kettletoro — Twitch account
 * kettletoro — YouTube account
 * @kettletoro — Twitter account
 * @kettletoro — TikTok account
 * kettle's tea garden — Discord server
 * kettleto.ro — All socials

Twitter hashtags

 * #kettleart - Fan Art