Tostify

Tostify was an English speaking independent whale VTuber, who streamed on Twitch.

Claiming to be a part of Cloud 9
In 2021, Tostify's Twitter bio claimed that he was a member of eSports agency Cloud9. He was called out for it by Vienna, an actual member of Cloud9. In a Twitlonger published on October 16, 2022, Tostifyy explained himself by stating "When I was in the fortnite community it was normal for us to have them in our bio saying "grinding for @example" or having them in the name. so a c9 content creator decided to poke fun of how I have a space between C and the 9 because it was a cursed thing in the team but people misunderstood and took it as I was impersonating. the content creator did come out and say people were misunderstanding and dmed me privately reassuring me it was not a big deal. I'm sorry if it seemed like I tried to impersonate".

In a Twitch stream, Tostify called C9 "trash".

Botting
Tostify bought a verified account and also viewbotted and followbotted it.

Tracing and imitation
Tostify also traced over other VTuber's emotes to create his own. While he had copied some of Shxtou, Bao and Shylily, most of the traced emotes were of Vienna. This wasn't his only instance of art plagiarism as he also traced over Sonnet's character design. Some have also accused his character design of plagiarizing bao's.

Faking being a partner
In the same aforementioned Twitlonger Tostify also admitted to faking being a Twitch partner, stating ''"When I first completed my path to partner I was live streaming on twitch and it was a big accomplishment. I was chatting and we memed that I should have the partner badge on my forehead to manifest it when I applied. I didn't know that was a problem in the vtuber community and once I was rejected I took it off. This was a problem because from others point of view they thought I was faking being a partner for better status and I would like to say I'm sorry for that.Again sorry for what happened today I know a lot of bridges have been burned and it was never my intention. All I wanted was to address this situation with my audience without making it seem like a big issue since I don't want to add my troubles to their life. I'm also sorry for how I acted it was really stupid and my fever didn't really help with my judgment call. I will be taking a little hiatus to clear my mind and start fresh."''

AI art
On October 14, 2022, Tostify tweeted "ai art is cool but cringe if you try to play it off as actual art". However, days later, on October 16, 2022, he tweeted "somewhere in an alternative universe where tostify is a female #vtuber" with a genderbent image of himself. When asked for the artist, Tostify claimed they did not have a Twitter as he had commissioned it on skeb. Many Twitter users were quick to notice the art itself was AI generated due to the eyes being inconsistently shaped and textured and the fingers being deformed. On the same day, he published a Twitlonger where he stated "I got curious about the Ai art and decided to make some for myself just for fun and one of them came out really cute and I decided to upload it. Once I was called out I panicked and decided to lie about it which was the biggest mistake. Since I publicly lied I felt pressured by myself to continue with the lies but that's very stupid. sorry to everyone I disappointed in the community I promise to be better in the future".

On October 18, 2022, Senz held a stream where he discussed all these controversies with Tostify. Senz pointed out inconsistencies in Tostify's explanations of why he behaved the way he did.

Retirement
Tostify had scheduled a graduation stream on October 25. But on October 17 2022 after the Senze stream, Tostify put out a tweet stating “I’m going to skip out on the graduation stream and just call it a date here” and deleted his Twitter.

He would later return.

Trivia

 * He has two cats.
 * He is a law school student.
 * He is terrified of spiders. One day, during a stream where he was reacting to Dhar Mann's videos, he saw one and began screaming immmediately.

Twitter hashtags

 * #SussyOfTheSea - Fan art