Gawr Gura

Gawr Gura is an English Virtual YouTuber associated with hololive, as part of its English (EN) branch first generation of VTubers alongside Ninomae Ina'nis, Takanashi Kiara, Watson Amelia, and Mori Calliope.

Personality
Gura is friendly and readily likeable, and often amuses with foolish antics. She has difficulty telling left from right; once sent the entire hololive EN digging for 20 minutes in the wrong direction because she misread a map; often misspells and mispronounces words; once mistook bread for a potato; has trouble remembering her own age; once calculated that 9+10 equals 11; and didn't recognize the term "simp", which she corrected to "shrimp".

Despite her poor math and spelling skills, Gura is shown to be quick-witted, clever, and has vast knowledge of Shark Facts. When questioned on why she was not "boing boing", she excused it by noting that she was more "hydrodynamic". Her skill with fast-paced rhythm games is exceptional, and she is highly ambitious.

Profile
Gura is a descendant of the Lost City of Atlantis, who swam to Earth while saying "It's so boring down there LOLOLOL!" She bought her clothes (and her shark hat) in the human world and she really loves them. In her spare time, she enjoys talking to marine life.

Gura is over nine thousand years old, however she has forgotten her exact age some time after reaching five thousand. When asked, she will produce a random number in the nine thousands.

Background
She was introduced simultaneously on both hololive's and hololive's English Twitter accounts and also on hololive English's YouTube channel in a small video with the rest of the first generation on 8 September 2020. Her Twitter account was created in July, but she only made her first tweet on her official introduction on 8 September. Her YouTube channel was created on 16 July, but she debuted on 13 September.

2020
Gura quickly rose in popularity, becoming the fastest-growing VTuber ever, gaining 100,000 new subscribers every two to five days. On 20 October, just 37 days after her debut, Gura overtook both Shirakami Fubuki and Inugami Korone to become the #1 most subscribed hololive VTuber on YouTube.

On 22 October, Gura became the first hololive member to reach 1,000,000 subscribers, the third VTuber overall after Kizuna Ai and Kaguya Luna, and the first English-speaker ever to do so.

On 30 November, Gura reached 1,500,000 YouTube subscribers.

Mascots & Fans

 * Her mascot is named Bloop, a "long time friend who stays in a bubble 'for the better'." Bloop has an "emergency ration can" on his head. According to Gura in a multiple-choice question Bloop is emergency food.
 * Bloop shares its name with the Bloop, an ultra-low-frequency, high amplitude underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1997. Previously thought to have been caused by a marine animal, it is now believed to have been caused by movement of glaciers.
 * Her fanbase is officially called "Chumbuds."
 * Her channel members are referred to as MemberShrimp. This is a reference to Gura hearing a fan use the word "simp", to which she replied "I just saw the word 'simp' go by. What is simp? Do you mean shrimp?"

Quotes

 * "See, sometimes, in life, you try and hit life with a 'whoo-cha!', but then life decides to hit you with a 'whoo-cha!'. You know what you do, in this predicament? When life 'whoo-cha!'s you? You go AGAIN!"
 * "Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. You know what? Not every adventure comes to a happy ending. Sometimes you just gotta retrace, go back, and start over."
 * "Don't be an asshole, just go about your day and don't bother anyone."
 * (On 12 November 2020) "It's officially Christmas!"
 * "I don't know, maybe it's not great progress compared to other people, but I'm happy with my progress. And you know what? Quite frankly, that's all that matters. If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?"

Trivia

 * In Japanese, her name is written 「がうる・ぐら」 ("gauru gura").
 * She gives her surname first, Japanese style, even when speaking in English. Takanashi Kiara and Ninomae Ina'nis also does this, while Calliope Mori and Amelia Watson use the English name order when speaking in English.
 * Gura is the only member of holoMyth to write her name entirely in hiragana. This is consistent with her poor spelling skills in English.
 * Gura comes from Atlantis. On her first solo stream on 13 September 2020, in which she played the shark simulator game Maneater, she said that Atlantis didn't have French fries, so she's not interested in returning.
 * She likes food. She also enjoys a hobby known in Atlantis as "PWWIE" (people watching without intent to eat), but she claims humans don't taste good so viewers don't have to worry.
 * When Moona Hoshinova joked during a Minecraft stream that she wanted to turn Gura into shark soup and Watson Amelia replied with "It's a good thing detectives aren't very tasty", referring to herself, Gura replied with "I beg to differ, I beg to differ". It's possible she was just saying it as a joke.
 * Her favorite food is salmon, which she has misspelled as "salman". She enjoys drinking a carton of "salmon milk".
 * Gura's favorite games are Muse Dash, Taiko no Tatsujin, Rhythm Heaven, Borderlands, and Resident Evil.
 * She also likes the anime Konosuba.
 * Her favorite color is blue.
 * Gura dislikes hot sand, and her biggest fear is having people hear her stomach noises.
 * Her birthday, 20 June, is the same date the 1975 film Jaws was released. Gura says that this is not her actual birthday, which she cannot remember, but rather the anniversary of her arrival on land after she left Atlantis.
 * Her goals are playing Twister with the other hololive EN 1st-gen members in a 3D collaboration, playing the scariest horror games with a heart rate monitor, and learning to play the banjo.
 * During her debut, Gura misspelled multiple words: salmon as "salman", stomach as "stomak", Twitter as "Tiwtter", and Twister as "tiwster". This trend would continue later with her mispronouncing "almond milk" as "Ame milk", "iron" as "arm", and misreading "she will die" as "she while dee". In recent streams, these occurrences are either very rare or nonexistent.
 * Gura amazed viewers in her debut by singing "Ride on Time" by Tatsuro Yamashita, impressing them with her singing skill, music taste, and flawless Japanese pronunciation (despite not actually being fluent in Japanese). This is the origin of her nickname "City Pop Shark".
 * Her first tweet was a simple "a" as Gura tested Twitter. During her debut stream, the first thing she said was "a" with reverb. This has since become popular with her fanbase to the point of being her most recognized meme.
 * Gura used to begin streams with a "shark fact" - a random piece of shark-themed trivia. The facts varied from actual trivia about sharks to nonsensical/humorous bits she could come up with on the spot.
 * Gura claims that she is not "boing boing" (a synonym for "big-breasted" popularized by Uruha Rushia), because aquatic beings need to be hydrodynamic.
 * Gura's favorite type of shark, other than herself, is the salmon shark. Gura names her own species as "Gura shark".
 * During one of her Fall Guys streams, she claimed that "Gura" was an acronym for "Giant Underwater Rubber Animal".
 * Calling monetary supporters of VTubers "shrimps" has spread beyond Gura, becoming a normal part of the community lexicon.
 * The clapping sound often heard in her streams can be attributed to her tail thrashing around excitedly.

Media

 * Gawr Gura Ch. hololive-EN - YouTube channel
 * Gawr Gura's corporate profile on hololive.tv (EN)
 * Gawr Gura's corporate profile on hololive.tv (JP)
 * @gawrgura - Twitter account

Twitter hashtags

 * #gawrgura - General
 * #gawrt - Fan art
 * #chumbuds - Fans