Kettletoro

Kettletoro (also known as Kettle, in short) is an independent female English speaking VTuber. 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. This is why she occasionally says "wait, what i was going to do?", or something along the lines, because Kettle forgets and/or gets distracted super easily at times.

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.

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

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, Kettle got herself Bond, her dog.

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.

On 8 October, Kettle reached 40k followers on Twitch, live.

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.
 * 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).
 * 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 absolutely hates 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".
 * Kettle dislikes mint, and various fruits, because they taste quite acidic to her.
 * Her most disliked Genshin character is Arataki Itto, because of the mix of arrogance, stupidity, and over-the-top confidence.

Miscellaneous

 * 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).
 * In Honkai: Star Rail, her favorite characters are Kafka (she is simping for her), Sushang (mainly because of the giant chicken Sushang summons when performing her Ultimate), Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae, and Abundant Ebon Deer.
 * Kettle really loves the way Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae does his fully enhanced attack, more specifically — the way he "effortlessly lifts his fingers" while doing this attack. Kettle is ecstatic every time she sees "the finger".
 * She used to be a fan of Marvel movies.
 * Kettle's ADHD is not typical, but one with dominant attention deficit.
 * Her model's canon height is 153 cm (5 ft), but she went to a policlinic one time, to check her height, and she was told that she is 155.9 cm (around 5 ft 1.5 in), and started bragging about her height gain. But every Teabag knows that she will always be 153 cm tall, no matter how tall will she be in real life.
 * Even though Kettle claims to never have been the shortest person in her class in school, she was so short that some guys used her as an armrest.
 * 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.
 * Kettle is very reluctant with mentioning her location, so whenever someone asks her "where are you from?", she says that she is from the planet Mars.
 * She was a featured guest in Tectone's podcast, Gacha Cast.
 * Kettle got invited to this podcast by Tectone after he found her YouTube Shorts, and said on stream that he is really excited to invite her into his podcast.
 * 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.
 * Kettle has been playing Genshin almost since a couple of weeks after the release day, now she is AR60. But throughout all this time, she had no idea that the up/down arrows above/below the minimap icons indicate whether that spot is above/below the player.
 * Her favorite TV show series from, seems like, childhood was Detective Conan series. One time, at a very young age, she wanted to make a summary of the show's episode on Wikipedia, but got banned from Wikipedia mid-writing.
 * Kettle got inspired to become a YouTuber by LazarBeam, back when Fortnite was very mainstream.
 * 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).
 * Eventually, Kettle did get C6 Qiqi. She refused to turn her Qiqi from C5 to C6 for a while, but she did make it a milestone redemption on the charity stream for American Heart Association.
 * The official Twitch channel for American Heart Association (AHA, in short) randomly came across Kettle's stream. Their first messages were "hmmmm", "your title....", "i have a question", and "what is... buttholeland?", because Kettle included "BUTTHOLELAND" in her stream titles, as a soundalike to "Bottleland", an area from the main event of Genshin v3.8.
 * On 21st of September, 2023, she did a fully fledged charity stream for AHA. It was a very eventful stream, to say the least.
 * This stream was the first time in her life where she got legitimately drunk, because she drank 6 full shots of gin, live on stream, as a charity redemption, and she was total bonkers for the rest of the stream (being drunk also somehow improved her skills in speaking Mandarin Chinese, despite barely remembering it).
 * During the AHA charity stream, in the introductory slideshow for AHA, she mentioned that her grandmother is still alive thanks to a pacemaker — a device invented by AHA — being "shoved up her grandmother's heart" (this description was approved by AHA themselves live on stream).
 * 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.
 * In late September, 2022, Kettle did a series of charity streams for PancONE (a pancreatic cancer research organization), where she upgraded Aloy to level 90 and "triple-crowned" her as well (but initially, Aloy was supposed to be "double-crowned").
 * Despite doing a no map challenge for Inazuma and Sumeru, she decided to do a complete opposite of no map challenge — 100% exploration of newly released regions of Fontaine, and getting every Hydroculi, in one stream, just because she thought it's a really funny and stupid idea. Kettle did 100% of Court of Fontaine, Beryl, and Belleau Regions — it took her roughly 14 hours to do it, and then she explored Liffey Region and Fontaine Research Institute Region on 100% in one stream too, after 10.5 hours.
 * Kettle did an Overwatch 2 collab with Nalithea on 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. Later, she unironically said it again, but this time, it was to AGhostyVT, her good friend, on 30th of July, 2023, in their collab segment of Ghosty's donothon.

Quotes

 * "Take this plunger! It’s long and hard,.... just like me.”
 * “I call it “The Suck & Cuck Combo move”.”
 * “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!”
 * “Wenut in the hole!!”
 * “What is leyline overflow? *laughs* I only know ley, line, and the anime “Overflow”.”
 * “Yo, I know where you live!”
 * “Enjoy your pee! ^_^ ”
 * “Do you kiss your nuts before you eat them?"
 * "Break the woman!! BREAK THE WOMAN!!!!"
 * "I'm gonna cream!"
 * "I only want it raw, dude!"
 * "It's like a brain erection, you know?"
 * "...OK la!"
 * "*reads chat* we're not bitches, we're teabags! -Same thing, bro! Same thing!"
 * "I'm sorry to inform you, I'm out of gin, so if you want me to drink gin, I wanna smack your asshole!"
 * "Smack me more!~ Smack me more!!~"
 * "No one can finger as hard as this man can!"
 * "RIP dude, F your grandma."
 * "It doesn't look very appetizing!~"
 * "Hello, nuts!~ Hellooo, sausage!~"
 * "That's a hot deer!"
 * "I didn't expect to be questioned about Buttholeland by The American Heart Association, of all things XD XD!!!!"

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