Karon

Karon (茶冷 lit. tea cold/Chá lěng) is a female Chinese VUP (Virtual UP; bilibili content creators are nicknamed "UP") affiliated with VirtuaReal's independent VTuber partnership program, VirtuaReal Link. She is considered an honorary member of VirtuaReal's tenth generation along with Isabella.

Karon streams in Chinese, but she can also speak English and Japanese at a communicative level. Her bilibili content is diverse, and it includes such things as song covers, speed painting and playing video games.

Profile
"A human researcher, usually through not very good drawings"

- Karon

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Personality
Karon is laid-back and she often jokes with her viewers about her mistakes. She is often modest.

Appearance
Her appearance is of a high school demon girl. She wears a white sweatshirt which is not zipped. On her right hand, she wears a black wristband with a pink text that spells out HUMANITY. She wears a black dress, that is fastened with a pink belt on her chest. She also wears a pink tie with a crystal heart on it and black boots.

Karon has yellow eyes and long pointy ears. She has short dark blue hair with pigtails. She has a pair of black horns on the top of her head. She can also be sometimes seen wearing pink-white headphones or/and pink glasses.

Background
Prior to becoming a VTuber, Karon was an artist creating anime related artwork. Her earlier work can still be seen on her bilibili page. She officially debuted as an independent VTuber on the 4th of March 2020.

2020
After becoming a VTuber, she continued to upload her speed painting videos, but she also started to cover songs and playing TRPGs.

On the 19th of September, she became a member of VirtuaReal Link. She also showed her updated 2.0 model that day.

On 30 September, Karon was the second last of the new VirtuaReal (Link) members to debut on stream. An edited version of her debut stream exists in place of the full archive.

2021
On the 13th of March, she made a YouTube channel, where she uploads some of her bilibili content.

On the 27th of March, she did her first collab outside of VirtuaReal. She played Phasmophobia with Nijisanji ID members: Nara Haramaung, Amicia Michella and ZEA Cornelia.

On the 6th of November, she did her first stream on youtube, where she did a short introduction and a karaoke stream right after.

2022
On 3 February 2022, Karon revealed her new Traditional Chinese outfit a few days after the start of the Chinese New Year.

On 30 May, Karon announced that along with her friends, she would be developing her first indie game.

On 6 June, Karon reached 7,000,000 total plays on her bilibili channel.

On 24 August, Karon announced that she would be going on a general hiatus from streaming, effective immediately. She expected her hiatus to last at least three months or until the end of October or in November. Karon also expanded on her decision with further details:


 * Karon emphasized that this hiatus did not indicate she was graduating (from her Virtual Liver activities).
 * Due to the combined, intense, long-term workload of her PhD studies (beginning five years prior), contract work, and streaming, Karon had developed some physical health problems that would require some time for her to recuperate from, hence, the streaming hiatus.
 * The nature of self-disclosing on social media had also pressured Karon mentally. Combined with her intense workload, this led to negative impacts on her mental health that she had been experiencing for a long while. Thus, Karon would also be distancing herself from social media to adjust herself.
 * Should she recover from her physical and mental ailments, Karon would likely use this time for activities that she had wanted to do before, including "learning to draw [sic]", learning to dance, and exercising again.
 * Karon also felt that her streams had become stagnant; a hiatus would give her time to think of ways to move forwards afterwards.
 * Although Karon was taking a general break from streaming, she would still appear in collaborations. She also stated the possibility of a few casual, solo streams to talk to her viewers. In other words, Karon was not going to completely disappear during her hiatus.

Fans

 * Karon calls her fans Researchers.

Trivia

 * Color: #00A8BD
 * Species: Demon (Yellow-eyed Demon)
 * Place of origin: Demon world
 * Special skills: Drawing, singing, making animation

Likes and dislikes

 * Likes: Humanity, strawberry doughnuts, double-cooked pork
 * Karon insists she doesn't eat people. Her favourite food is double cooked pork and she prefers it over human souls.
 * Her favourite thing are humans. She especially appreciates their art skills.
 * Dislikes: Insects

Lore

 * Karon is a researcher from KHRI (Karon Human Research Institution), who joined VirtuaReal Research Institution. She is a demon who is taking a holiday and does human studies for her own interest. She became a VTuber, because her colleagues told her, that this way she will be able to collect more samples for her research project.
 * The story behind joining VirtuaReal: One day when she was walking down the street and passed VirtuaReal headquarters, she accidentally made eye contact with a female with black twin tails (Tokimori Seisa) and she suddenly blacked out. When she woke up, she found herself here.

Miscellaneous

 * Her old, unofficial YouTube channel's specified location is the United Kingdom.
 * Karon has created 2D models for numerous VUPs, including: Herself, Raisai (bilibili e-sports), VR哥 (unofficial VirtuaReal mascot), 莉莉莉莉尔 (independent), tomoya (independent), Twiggy (Croven).

Media

 * Karon's corporate profile on the official VirtuaReal website
 * 茶冷_Channel - bilibili channel
 * 茶冷Karon-VirtuaReal - Youtube channel (current)
 * 茶冷Karon Ch. (Has moved to new official account) - YouTube channel (old)
 * @Karon_vtuber - Twitter account
 * @karon_vtuber - Marshmallow account
 * 茶冷Karon - Tape account

Unofficial

 * 茶冷研究所事务委员会 - Karon's Research Institute Affairs Committee bilibili channel (fan creation group)

Bilibili hashtags

 * #茶冷研究所#- Fan art and fan writing tag
 * #你好茶啊# - Voice and voice pack review tag

Twitter hashtags

 * #Karonstream - Stream talk
 * #カロン研究所 - Fan art
 * #Croissantdemon - Memes

Further readings

 * 茶冷 - Moegirl Encyclopedia (CN)