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Dokibird is an independent English-language VTuber. Originally debuting in May 2020, she retired in May 2021, only to make a return in February 2024. She mainly streams on YouTube.
Introduction video
Personality
Doki has an energetic, trickster-type personality. She loves to laugh and to make other people laugh. Doki enjoys messing with people, and is more likely to taunt others rather than brag about herself.
She is especially well-known for her high skill level in Apex Legends and Overwatch. She has a strong love for gaming in general, especially shooters and retro games.
While she often comes off as loud and chaotic, Doki also has a cute, wholesome side that becomes especially noticeable when drawing or making bentos, and has gained a reputation for "gap moe." She's very hardworking and often goes to great lengths to support her fellow VTubers.
Appearance
Thief
She has long blonde pigtails with a blue flat cap with a white ribbon on one side and a black ribbon on the other with green eyes.
Bounty Hunter
As a bounty hunter, Doki has short yellow hair with feathery tips and two feather-shaped ahoge at the top. Her eyes are blue-green, but she also has an "aimbot eye" toggle which turns her left eye red and adds a reactive, crosshair-shaped pupil. She has a flesh fang on one side of her mouth as well as a black x-shaped hair clip.
For clothes, she wears a black jacket over a striped blue-green dress shirt along with white pants, black gloves, and black cowboy boots with star-shaped spurs. Her right boot also carries several bullets. Her accessories include a brown bandolier across the chest, a pair of green aviators, a pistol holstered on the right hip, and an orange bandana around the neck.
History
Background
Dokibird was encouraged to start streaming by Overwatch streamers, who felt she had a naturally entertaining personality over the game's voice chat.[5]
Her Twitch account was originally created on 20 September 2016. Her earliest known Twitch stream was 9 January 2017. Prior to becoming a VTuber, she mainly streamed Overwatch and drawing. By 2019, more than half of her stream hours were art.
Dokibird debuted as a VTuber on 4 May 2020. The stream took place on Twitch, and reached a peak of 39 viewers.
2020
On 13 July, a 3D model commission was completed by Rika Mardjaja.[6][7]
On 16 April, Doki announced that she had her original character updated with a Live2D model illustrated and modeled by Cetra.[8][9]
On 4 May, she debuted as a VTuber on Twitch.[10]
On 14 September, a new alt-girl Doki 3D outfit was completed by Rika Mardjaja.[11]
On 11 October, Dokibird reached 5,000 followers on Twitch.
On 20 November, a chibi 2D model was completed by Dyarikku.[12]
2021
On 5 February, she revealed a Live2D model by klaeia.[13][14]
On 16 April Dokibird held a lore reveal/redebut stream. In the same stream, she announced that she would be graduating on 14 May.
On 29 April, Dokibird gained 36,542 followers in a single stream. However, this figure was unlikely to be authentic, since the stream had a viewer peak of only 92. The fake followers were subsequently removed by 6 May.
Graduation
On 14 May, Dokibird held a graduation stream on Twitch, titled "The !Final Heist," which reached 298 viewers at peak. The VOD was subsequently uploaded to YouTube a few days later.
2024
Return
On 5 February, following a redebut announcement, Dokibird quickly reached over 20,000 followers on Twitch, up from around 8,000 one day earlier; and over 200,000 subscribers on YouTube, up from around 9,000. Dokibird mentioned that the YouTube channel will be her main platform, but she will stream on Twitch occasionally.
On 6 February, Dokibird's YouTube channel reached 300,000 subscribers.
Dokibird's redebut stream aired on 7 February on YouTube, peaking at over 127,000 concurrent viewers. During the stream, she mentioned having spent roughly $200,000 on projects the previous year, managing to about break even.
On 8 February, shortly after redebut stream, her YouTube channel reached 400,000 subscribers, while her Twitch channel reached 50,000 followers (despite having no streams after redebut).
On 9 February, Dokibird held a Monetization celebration stream and store launch. The stream received $19,438 in YouTube Superchats, not counting Streamlabs tips.
On 13 February, her YouTube channel reached 500,000 subscribers, gaining more than 490,000 subscribers over the span of 8 days.
On 18 February, her YouTube channel reached 600,000 subscribers.
On 24 February, her Twitch channel reached 100,000 followers, gaining more than 90,000 followers over the span of 19 days.
On 4 March, the #DokiCharity2024 event concluded, raising over $44,000 towards Mental Health Support and over $207,000 towards Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.[15] Part of the funds were raised during the auction.[16]
On 22 March, Doki made a stream focused on providing VTubing advice.[17]
On 26 March, Doki uploaded an official trailer video for Mad Maggie's release in Apex Legends.[18]
Between 6 and 19 May, Doki participated in the Sajam Slam 2 Tekken tournament.[19] This would be her first foray into the fighting game community with little prior fighting game experience, and also her first interaction with Team BrawlPro. Team BrawlPro consisted of Doki, CONEY, slime machine, LazyMattman, and Brawlpro, and this team would be known for having good vibes and humor.[20][21] The team met again at EVO with Doki joining virtually.[22] However, the connection formed would last beyond the tournament, with Team Brawlpro doing reunion streams in Super Mario Jamboree and R.E.P.O.[23][24] In addition, CONEY would join Doki in various Marvel Rivals tournaments such as the Twitch Rivals and VTuber Rivals tournaments, despite little prior FPS gaming experience.[25][26]
On 7 May, her YouTube channel reached 700,000 subscribers.[27]
Between 25 to 26 May, Doki hosted WrestleTuber 2024. This event was the first large event hosted by Doki, and notably it also contained the first known interaction with Mint, who made a surprised appearance on the second day of the event.[28]
On 15 June, she revealed a 3D chibi thief model and a crow model in VRChat, with the crow model nicknamed Crowki.[29]
On 23 June, she revealed her new bounty hunter skin suit drawn by Kamamesigogo Maru.[30] She also revealed that she would be a guest performer on Unnämed's Trails of Flame live tour.[31]
On 4 July, HYTE announced the release of a Dokibird-themed PC collection.[32] Separately, Good Smile announced the plans for a Dokibird Nendoroid figure.[33][34]
On 12 July, Doki was sponsored by Neopets to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the game, which formed a part of her childhood.[35][36][37] In the stream, she would give a first look of Neopets's latest update called "The Void Within."[38] Neopets also sent Doki a gift package that included plushies.[39] On the same day, Nomcafes announced that the Tomato Farm at Anime Expo collaboration event raised $10,270 CAD for the Food Banks of Canada.[40][41]
On 8 August, a clip of Dokibird making a surprised facial expression went viral and achieved meme status.[42] On the following day, Cillia, her model papa, commented that the expression relies not on a toggle but facial tracking and provided a clip demonstrating the feature in all of her model clients.[43] There was also a trend of other VTubers recreating the "Dokibird face" with their own models on social media.
On 9 August, Doki and Mint did a karaoke concert at the Anirevo 2024 convention.[44] However, there would be technical issues with Mint's audio.[45] In response, the pair vowed do to a revenge concert, eventually leading to concert known as "FantomeThief's Revenge".[46][47]
On 22 October, Doki joined a collab stream with Laimu, Snuffy, and Mint, playing Fast Food Simulator.[48] Laimu named the restaurant "Sloppies".[49] Later in the stream, Snuffy would refer to the group as the "Sloppy Sisters". Although Doki disliked the name at the time, it would later become the official name for this collab group.[50]
On 31 October, she revealed a Garfield-themed 2D model as a one-off joke for Halloween, known as Dokifield.[51] Dokifield was illustrated and rigged by thisisgoblin.[52][53]
On 30 November, Doki hosted her own first-ever esports tournament, the Dokibird x Oversight Apex Custom, in collaboration with Oversight (minustempo). The tournament style was more casual than competitive to make it more accessible to players of all skill levels with four of the six rounds utilizing "fun games modes" like: melee abilities only, protect the princess, hide and seek, and sniper only.[54][55] The tournament was casted by NiceWigg and Greek, who also casted for ALGS's B-stream. There were 20 teams of 3 players, generally comprised of two vtubers and one Apex pro player. However, some teams like Armis decided to pass on having a pro on their team, choosing to focus more on having fun than winning. During hide and seek round of the tournament, Doki, as a seeker, would troll other players (such as Chibidoki) by pretending to be a hider, only to eliminate them seconds later.[56] She picked up this move from watching iiTzTimmy. In the afterparty, Doki discussed how the event was organized.[57] The prize pool of the event was partly sponsored by EA with GamerSupps also credited for providing medals and prizes.
On 12 December, her YouTube channel reached 800,000 subscribers.
2025
On 1 January, Doki made a tweet reflecting on the accomplishments of the last year, expressing appreciation for her Dragoons and friends.[58]
On 7 January, Doki ended top 500 for season 0 of Marvel Rivals.[59]
On 7 February, Doki and Mint released a cover of the song "No Matter What" featuring their chibi model.[60] This would also be the first time that Doki's chibi bounty hunter model was spotted.
On 25 February, Doki revealed that Capcom USA had a sent her a limited creator merch kit for Monster Hunter.[61]
On 26 February, Doki announced that YouTooz had made official plushies of Tomato Doki, Alt Doki, and Crowki.[62]
On 31 March, Doki highlighted a clip from her Minecraft: Story Mode playthrough going viral. In the clip, she was reacting to the scene of Ruben, a pig, turning into a steak after a fatal injury.[63]
On 1 April, she debuted Dokitty with some lore.[64]
On 20 June, she revealed a new summer outfit drawn by Kamamesigogo Maru.[65] The #DokiBeachEpisode outfit was a charity auction item with theme and design input from a fan.[66] The video also featured an updated outro with the introduction of personalized outfits and merch in the display area.[67]
On 3 July, she held a 3D birthday concert at Anime Expo with special guests. The sloppy sisters (Doki, Mint, Laimu, and Snuffy) performed the song "Escaping From The City" from Sonic Adventures.[68] For "Party Anthem", Dooby, Laimu, and Snuffy provided the backing vocals while a VTuber friend made an appearance as a dragoon model. Doki and Hiiro sang the song "Roki" together, and Doki also credits Hiiro with helping her get in contact with the 3D studio for the concert. Due to the fire marshal not allowing a center screen, Doki invited a wotagei group "SanFlare" to perform on the center stage.[69][70] The concert also had two cosplayers Vivid Vision and Danisaurz dressed up as retro Doki and bounty hunter Doki, respectively.[71][72] The concert also showed a preview of an upcoming original song by Doki, and she has stated that the concert will be uploaded at a later date.[73]
On 4 July, she revealed a new school outfit during her birthday stream.[74] She also did a one-time, no archive stream of the unpolished birthday concert.[75] During the concert afterparty, she revealed that the concert cost $48,000 while simultaneously revealing a new chest toggle that her fans commissioned and gifted her as a birthday gift.[76][77]
On 19 July, Doki was a guest on the Sweet and Sour podcast hosted by LilyPichu.[78] On the podcast, it was revealed that they were working on a new original song together.
On 22 July, she donated $10,000 to Ironmouse's Immune Deficiency Foundation Tiltify campaign, waiting until her manager went to sleep before doing so.[79] Mint would then top Doki with a donation of $10,000.01.[80] After noticing, Doki would return mid-outro on a stream (secret ending) to add $1.69 to her donation and top Mint back with a total of $10,001.69.[81][82] On another note, edits of a tweet from Doki about her wiener dog would trend among her fans, with people hiding all words but a select few to form new phrases.[83] Frel also made a new bounty hunter fugi for Doki.[84]
On 24 July, Vite Ramen announced a collab with 4 items and 4 videos: "two tomatoes grew up in the same field. One became Dokibird and the other makes his final journey to a cook with amnesia."[85] Doki got to use a motion capture suit with the tomato.[86] The fourth video was released on 29 July on Doki's Twitter and YouTube, featuring a custom kitchen knife with the plot being a tomato (not doki) convincing a human cook to cut the tomato open and wear it.[87]
On 27 July, Doki announced DokiJam, her first ever game jam.[88] The DokiSMP Minecraft server was also relaunched.[89] Vite Ramen released the first episode in the collaboration.[90]
On 29 July, the long hairstyle for her school outfit was finally released.[91]
On 31 July, Doki had a cooking collab stream with Tim, the CEO of Vite Ramen. Doki, in tomato form, would interact with Tim while he prepared various foods including a whole chicken and rice using the collaboration items and 10 microwaves.[92]
On 7 August, Doki revealed that she had been invited by Marvel Rivals to check out their studio and their first LAN event.[93]
On 14 August, the intro featured Dokitty for the first-time with Doki stating that she intended to use outfit-specific intros in the future.[94][95]
On 27 August, Doki revealed an apparel collab with JeanaDraws, introducing multiple sets of clothing and accessories in an animated trailer with art by Waka.[96]
On 4 September, Doki revealed a new Hollow Knight skinsuit/model during her launch day stream of Hollow Knight: Silksong. The new model was illustrated and rigged by Niupao, taking some design cues from fanart.[97][98] Niu would later post a showcase and state that the model was completed in three days.[99]
On 16 September, her YouTube banner and Twitch about page were updated, replacing previous thief-themed assets with new bounty hunter themed assets.[100][101] The new Twitch panel was made by ILLY4N.[102]
On 18 September, Doki reached 100 million views on her YouTube channel.[103]
On 26 September, the Hong Kong-based English language SCMP newspaper released a video discussing how vtubers are redefining the entertainment industry. The video featured a few clips and/or interview lines from Doki.[104] A day earlier, a Doki itasha and standee at VeXpo were spotted in a BBC video discussing the rise of VTubers.[105]
On the same day, Doki would achieve the feat of beating the second version of the Savage Beastfly boss in Hollow Knight: Silksong on her first try and hitless, meaning that Tenma has to eat a shoe.[106] (Context)
On 27 September, Doki streamed the Fortnite experience/concert of her retired oshi, Daft Punk, fulfilling a childhood dream after previously having been devastated at their retirement.[107] (Trivia)
On 5 October, Doki uploaded the 3D cover of "Escape from the City" from her Anime Expo birthday concert and featuring the Sloppy Sisters.[108] This particular upload features the original choreography (standing in place). A new Dokibite titled "Dokicore" was also uploaded, featuring out-of-context quotes by Doki with animated characters over real-world backgrounds and the vine boom sound effect.[109]
On 12 October, the previous business travel mentioned by Doki and the corresponding streaming break turned out to be her and Dooby traveling to Comic-Con, following an invitation from CapcomUSA to check out their new games.[110][111] (Trivia)
On 19 October, she uploaded a director's cut of her birthday concert with updated choreography and a new encore song.[112]
On 22 October, her outro was updated to include Dokijovial MerryBird, Dokibug, and Dokifield.[113]
On 29 October, Doki announced that she partnered with Japan's No. 1 controller brand, Void Gaming, to create a custom controller, her first gaming gear.[114] Originally, during her return stream, Doki had discussed a gaming gear sponsor as one of her goals. She would discuss this collaboration further on stream, noting that she is the first overseas vtuber to collaborate with them.[115]
On 31 October, Dokifield returned on a special Halloween stream with significant model updates, including new expresssions and a wider range of motion. The original Dokifield creator, thisisgoblin, did the illustrations for this update, while Niupao (Dokibug creator) did the Live2D rigging.[116][117][118] According to Doki, this update should make it easier to access the Dokifield verse, suggesting that it may be easier for Dokifield to appear in regular streams now.[119]
On 2 November, Doki used a custom VRchat model for roleplaying Rapunzel on a sponsored collab video for Nikke's third anniversary.[120] (Event)
On 21 December, Doki's YouTube channel reached 900k subscribers while she was doing a countdown stream.[121]
On 27 December, Doki held a 900k celebration stream in which she revealed several new chibi models through a Dokiverse skit where the Doki council pick a chibi representative.[122] The chibis revealed include: ChibiPrime (art: Velvie, rig: Arya), Dokibit (art & rig: arealpup), Broki (art & rig: GO RIA), Dokibrat (art: COLILLIE, rig: RADD), and an unnamed 3D chibi.[123] Dokibrat also has a skater outfit in the works.[124] She also revealed a Christmas gift for Dragoons, animated versions of the school and birthday wallpapers.[125][126]
On 31 December, Doki did a New Year's countdown with the Sloppy Sisters in VRChat. During the stream, Doki, Laimu, Mint, and Snuffy revealed new matching 3D semichibi models. The 3D models were created by Arunorudo Rui based on Katasumi's illustrations.[127][128] Rika Mardjaja did the VRChat setup for the models.[129] The models were Doki's Christmas gift to the Sloppy Sisters. Doki also revealed "DokiLond", a large and very detailed VRChat world with numerous easter eggs. The Sloppy Sisters did the countdown in this world with a fireworks show and plan to hold official meet and greets in this world in the future.[130] (Trivia)
2026
On 6 January, the Dokilond VRChat world was officially opened to the public. Doki also encouraged people to share screenshots with a new hashtag, #DokiLond.[131]
Events
2024
- Between 22 and 23 February, she participated in Twitch Rivals Palworld Showdown ft. PirateSoftware[132] on Team Dokibird with Shylily, PiaPiUFO and Surefour. Their team placed 4th and won $3,000.[133]
- On 8 March, she participated in Apex Legends - Nessie Cup, Invitational 1[134] hosted by GuhRL on Team Senoxe with Senoxe and Himalyahs as her team members. Their team placed 3rd (joint) and won $3,000.[135]
- On 5 April, she participated in the Apex Scarz Cup tournament with Euriece and ta1yotv. This was also her first JP tournament.[136]
- On 19 May, she participated in Sajam Slam Champions 2, a team tournament on Tekken 8.[137] She was placed on Team BrawlPro with LazyMattman, Slime, Coney, and Brawlpro.[138] Her team won the tournament.[139]
- Between 25 and 26 May, Dokibird hosted WrestleTuber 2024, a wrestle tournament on a WWE game. The tournament was gathering VTubers either independent, including some former PRISM Project, or from agencies such as: HOLOSTARS, VShojo, Phase-Connect, and Idol Corp. The winner of finals was Gavis Bettel, but he ultimately lost in a surprise match against Unnämed.
- On 31 May, Doki participated in the Nokia Apex Hide & Seek Invitational, a hide and seek tournament in Apex Legends, on Team Dokibird with FunFPS and Reptar.[140] The tournament was played over wi-fi to promote Nokia's wifi beacons.[141] (Results)
- On 4 July, HYTE and iBuyPower hosted a birthday celebration for Dokibird at Anime Expo.[142] For the karaoke event, Unnämed appeared as a special guest.[143]
- From 4 to 21 September, Doki participated in the Sajam Slam Street Fighter tournament on Team Brian_F with Koefficient, BrawlPro, Eskay, and Brian_F.[144][145] She mainly played Zangief, and her team placed 4th.
- On 5 October, she participated in the Rixa2.0 Invitational Apex Tournament organized by Niamocha, together with Effect and Unlucky as her teammates under the squad name "Going to LAN."[146] The team placed 4th in the overall ranking.[147]
- On 12 October, Dokibird participated in Block Wars Season 13 with her team, the Knights, placing first. Her teammates included Feinburg, GEEGA, Wolfeei, and vGumiho.[148]
- On 30 November, Dokibird hosted the DOKIBIRD X OVERSIGHT APEX CUSTOM where 20 teams made up of 60 VTubers and Apex pros will compete for $30,000 split up over 6 matches. She will also be participating in the event as a member of "Team IRS" alongside Regis Altare and Genburten.[54]
- On 3 December, Dokibird took part in Block Wars: Charity Challenge on Twitch Rivals event with her team, the Archers, placing first. Her teammates included eskay, hannahxxrose, vGumiho, and AntFrost.[149]
- On 6 December, she participated in Mande's Apex Tournament.[150]
- On 14 December, Dokibird and Mint Fantôme organized Fantome Thief's Revenge, a concert gathering themselves and singers such as: PiaPiUFO, Phoebe Chan, Juna Unagi, and Dooby. The concert was broadcasted on live at The Tabernacle, Atlanta.[151]
- Between 19 and 20 December, Dokibird took part in Aoi Sakura's Gachikoi Series (ASGS) Apex tournament with Jurard T Rexford and StrafingFlame as her teammates.[152][153]
2025
- Between 1 and 2 March, Dokibird participated in the VTuber Rivals tournament on team Rocket Raccoon Antis with SuperGomez, Shoto, Laimu, Coney, Jeyraident, and Gavis Bettel. Their team ended up winning the tournament.[154]
- On 13 March, Doki participated in Disguised Toasts's Marvel Rivals Creator Cup 2.0 tournament on a team with Surefour, Zyox, Coney, Lululovely, and Nicewigg.[155]
- On 9 May, she participated in xQc's Marvel Rivals 200k tournament.[156]
- On 17 May, Bettel's birthday stream featured auditions by guests to replace his brother, Bettel 2. Doki submitted an audition tape as Dokitty.[157]
- On 24 May, she participated in Marvel Rival's season 2.5 preview stream.[158]
- On 28 May, Dokibird took part in an Elden Ring Nightreign event with Laimu and Zentreya on Team Purple.[159][160]
- On 5 July, Doki and Mint made a surprise appearance at the Virtual Vacation 2025 concert, providing backing vocals for Dooby's performance of "Otona Blue" while taking the form of chibi models commissioned by Dooby.[161][162]
- On 1 August, Doki participated in Marvel Rival's season 3.5 preview stream. During the showcase match, she was on the same team as Bogur, Fanfan, Moxy, Surefour, and xQc.[163]
- On 2 August, Doki participated in the Fate Trigger Trials tournament hosted by Kariyu. Her teammates were RPR, Surefour, and Albralelie.[164]
- On 5 September, Doki participated in the Season 4 preview for Marvel Rivals.[165]
- On 24 September, the Holostars EN account released a compilation of video messages from friends of the talents ahead of their third anniversary Everglow 3D Live concert, including one from Doki.[166][167]
- On 1 October, Doki called into Mint's 3D debut birthday concert with her first words being "downward dog" (yoga pose). When Mint was unsure of how to do the pose, Doki would explain it as the "one where you get on your knees" even though the pose did not require such a move.[168][169][170] Doki would also request that Mint do the Gangnam Style and Soulja Boy dances. Mint's announcement.[171]
- On 18 October, Dokibird and M0xy faced off against Sunnysplosion and npen in "PUBG Blindspot: Stream Showdown." The event was also broadcasted at the KRAFTON booth at Twitchcon.[172][173]
- On 2 November, Dokibird joined a sponsored collab for Nikke's 3rd anniversary in VRchat along with Bao, Clio, Lumi, Pippa, and Snuffy.[174][175] They would all use customized Nikke models to roleplay a skit of saving the world. Doki appeared as Rapunzel.
- On 7 November, Doki took part in the Street Fighter New Challengers Tournament on Team Nephew with Nephew, Zfiesty, Frodan, and Emilyywang as her teammates.[176] For this tournament, she switched from playing Zangief to E. Honda, and her own record was 5 wins and 1 loss. Her team won the tournament and get to travel to Japan to watch Capcom Cup 12.[177][178]
- On 8 November, Doki participated in the second Nokia Apex Legends Invitational tournament on Team Seeker 2 with Nmoose and Drumbum.[179] Like the first one, this is a hide and seek tournament over wifi in Apex Legends. Of the six rounds, Team Seeker 2 was the seekers for the first three rounds with Doki pulling some funny antics like trolling Genburten and later spamming Caustic gas and grenades to cause mass casualties at endgame. (Results)
- On 12 November, Doki participated in the season 5 preview/early access stream for Marvel Rivals, which introduced Gambit as a new character.[180][181] For the showmatch, she was on a team with TimTheTatman, Lassiz, Kragie, Jay3, and Ninja.[182]
- On 21 November, Doki took part in Ironmouse and CDawgVA's Mouse & Monke: VTuber Cup, a Marvel Rivals tournament, on Team Dokibird with Bahleelah, Heavenly Father, Isaa Corva, Kikyuu, and Sanagi Yuzu as her teammates.[183][184] Supergomez helped coach.[185] Her team won the tournament and ended with a score of 5-1.[186] The tournament had a prize of $7,500 for the first place team.
- Between 2 and 13 December, Dokibird took part in a maid cafe event with Mint, Laimu, and Phoebe at Asayoru Maid Cafe in Los Angeles.[187][188][189]
- On 4 December, Doki appeared in a Rivals Day video broadcasted in the in-game Times Square map of Marvel Rivals.[190][191]
- On 7 December, Doki participated in the Rixa Invitational Apex Tournament on "Team Washed GGs" with NiceWigg and M0xy.[192]
- On 13 December, Doki participated in the Marvel Rivals Christmas Clash on Team Gale with Gale, TeamCaptain, SparkChief, and Rigsychu.[193]
- From 19 to 21 December, Doki was a guest for Virtual Express at the Holiday Matsuri convention.[194]In addition to individual meet and greets, Doki and Mint also held a FantomeThief Q&A panel.[195][196]
2026
- On 14 January, Doki participated in the Season 6 preview of Marvel Rivals, which revealed Deadpool as a new character.[197] For the showmatch, she was on a team with Gale, Flats, Shroud, Sypeh, and kayceedilla.[198]
Awards
Achievements
- In early 2025, Doki ended top 500 for season 0 of Marvel Rivals.[59]
- Tiltify acknowledged Doki as one of the top 30 fundraisers in 2024 for her Brain and Behavior Research Foundation fundraiser.[202]
Doki Jam
Doki Jam was a game jam that took place from 2 August 2025 to 16 August 2025.[203] The jam was hosted by Kanomeister on Itch.io and produced/sponsored by Dokibird.[204] Kanomeister had previously hosted the HoloFanGameJam and was the main developer of the Doki mod for the DIY Horse Race Tests.[205]
The game jam completed with 240+ entries.[206] Originally, it had a prize pool of $3,500, but an anonymous donor later added $1,500 to the prize pool.[207] The top three games by fan vote and Doki's choice were the same: Dokibird: Time Turmoil, One Bullet Dokibird, and Tamadoki
- Links: [Official Website][Submissions][Results][Stream #1][Stream #2]
- Additional Credits: The trailer was animated by Rexhernan22.[208] Illustrations were done by louisewong_art and monochroL.[209]
- Trivia: While playing two separate games, Doki was left speechless by a kissing scene between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison as one between RoboDoki and normal Doki. [210]
Fans
2025 Countdown with Dragoons
- Her fans are called Dragoons. The word dragoon refers to a type of mounted infantry. "I thought about it for a long time, but I realized, wait a minute, you can't copyright the word dragoon, because it's a real word."
- Other possible fan names featured in the fan voting were "Suspecks" and "Nesticles".
- Prior to the return in 2024, her Twitch subscribers were known as "Bark Knights".
- Her membership on YouTube is called "Tomato Farm".
- Dragoons come in four forms: egg goon, regular goon, long goon, and chonky goon.
- Doki does not plan to ever open an official Discord server, but she mentions that there are fan servers people can join.[211]
- For the 2025 New Year's countdown, she asked her Dragoons to submit their "Dragoonsonas", dragoon avatars unique to each fan.[212]
- To commemorate Doki getting 800k subscribers, the Dokibird Public Squad (DPS) fan discord recruited cosplayers to recreate Doki's intro.[213]
- To celebrate Doki getting 900k subscribers, the DPS discord released a Doki Shimeji (desktop pet) that allows Dragoons to have little Dokis with various outfits and animations on their computer screen.[121]
Quotes
- "Sometimes I want to flex a little. I want to flex my past self, what I used to be able to do. Now I can't do it anymore, but that's okay. I still have my memories, and that's all that matters now."[214]
- "Also, I need to make sure I don't swear for the first ten minutes, because like I told you guys I got f*cking hit on the Vade stream."[215]
- "Yay!"[216][217]
- "I didn’t pay $70 to block."[218]
- "Wait, I saw this video once...I just need a couch."[219]
- "I'm not woman enough...I wanna be cute like all the other VTubers"[220]
- "What the f*ck is a whole number? Two? Is it the opposite of prime?"[221]
- "Jingle jangle"
- "Cave diving. So they're like cave diving. You know like those who dive in f-ing caves and there's water in there and everything. And then like. Yeah, start diving in caves. You know?"[222]
- "I have no maidens, so my armor is my maiden now. I don't need no maidens. I could touch mys-- [starts laughing]... That's me. I'm the elden lord. Yay! [laughs] My armor can touch me."[223]
- "I am a robo connoisseur. I'm here to appreciate the fine details."[224]
- "1hp and a dream."[225]
- "You know, like they they'll throw some scraps on the floor and then they're like, 'Eat it.' And I'm like, 'Oh, you're so kind to me, Daft Punk. [imitates eating noises] Thank you, sir.' [eating noises] And I'll just be on the floor be like [eating noises], 'Thank you.' They can step on the food, too. I'll be like, 'Thank you for feeding me just a little bit.'[eating noises] ..."[226][227]
- "99% of gamblers quit before they hit it."[228]
- "Knock knock, please open this door sir. I swear I'm not dangerous. Like yes, there is a dead body outside, but that wasn't me."[109]
- "Being blind doesn't mean like I can't hit back. If I get hit by a blind person, I will self-defend myself."[109]
- "Oh my gawd, I can suck now. My favorite."[109]
- "You know what, I need more stress in my life. It's not like I cried like yesterday because I was so stressed out."[109]
- "I could be like the 80th vtuber to sing this really popular vocaloid or Ado song, but I could be the first vtuber to sing Han Solo."[229]
- "If a snake bit your d*ck, would you suck out the poison out of the d*ck or let your homie die?"[230]
- "Hello? Are you friendly?"[231][232]
- "The one show that was keeping Star Trek relevant was Big Bang Theory."[233]
- "You guys have Texas, right? That's where all the corn comes from... I just think of Kansas because of Wizard of Oz. Kansas is in Texas, right?"[234]
- "What is this icon? What is this circular... Okay, circle, oh that circle. The circular thing is circle."[235]
Projects
DokiLond
VRChat Thumbnail
DokiLond is a public VRChat world that was revealed during the Sloppy Sisters's 2026 New Year's countdown stream. The world contains a Wild West town and was made as a recreation of her Bounty Hunter debut. Along with references to Doki and her lore, there are also many notable references to other members of the Sloppy Sisters.
Trivia
- The DokiLond name is a reference to the name of her land claim in the DokiSMP Minecraft server. In DokiSMP, she picked this name after being unable to reclaim the "DokiLand" name from Dragoons.
- The world took 6 months to create with the project team starting from around 2025 June or July.[130]
- For the 2026 New Year's reveal stream, two members of the project team were in the VRChat world as Dragoons models, helping out as camerapeople for the Sloppy Sisters.[130]
- As of 2025, this is the most expensive VRChat world that Doki has funded.[130]
- A replica of the Battle Birds world from her bounty hunter debut exists in one corner of DokiLond and will later be a functional game.[130]
- Her VTuber friends appear in various wanted posters. The ones observed on stream so far include: Altare, AmaLee, Snuffy, Laimu, and Matara.[236][237]
- The mascots of the Sloppy Sisters appear as NPCs in DokiLond with some dialogue.[130] On the second floor of the Saloon, there are fast food worker hats referencing their first collab together.[238] References in the graveyard include: "RIP Punk Snuffy 2023-2025."[239]
- At a picnic area, there are a few grabbable objects including: a Romance of the Three Kingdoms book, a Transformers ship art, and a "Star-Goon" tabloid.[240][130]
- References to fanmade games from the DokiJam game jam appear on tables in the saloon.[241][130]
- DokiLond has its own logo.[130]
- Doki entered the "Saul Goodman universe" while trying to find and invite Mint to Dokilond.[242][243][244]
- Her model rigger, Cillia, reacted to DokiLand saying "The quality.... holy moly........."[245]
Credits
Relevant tweets:
- @kussako[246][247][248]
- @RezerkArt[249]
- @eN7ity[250]
- @Just_Will2693[251][252][Concept Art][Doki Bettel Billboard][Dragoon Yaoi Manga Cover][Gachapon Art][Star-Goon Magazine Cover]
- @gin_gin_gitsune[253]
- @an_Owlette[254][Concept Art Thread]
- @403naki[255]
- @ItzWuca[256][257]
- @0rcazone [258]
- @Arunorudo_Rui[Doki Semichibi Showcase][Doki Turnaround Pose][Laimu Turnaround Pose]
Trivia
Lore
- Dokibird is her thief identity. Her real name is Maple.[214]
- She has multiple birthdays: 15 December, 20 December, 3 October, 16 April, and 4 July.[214]
- She is a thief, conman, and cat burglar. She's also an artist.[214]
- By agreement, she can only rob each bank or museum once per year. This limits her income, so she draws art on the side.[214]
- On 16 April 2021, she robbed the bank for a second time within one year. As a result, the bank called the authorities one month later, and Dokibird was not seen for more than two years after that.[214]
- The white and black rabbit ears on her hat are for a pair of rabbits named Bao Bao and Mei Mei, respectively. She had stolen them from a lab. Sometimes they tag along with her on heists. They even have their own pets and go on their own adventures. She spends a lot of her money on her rabbits, which order Uber Eats every day.[214]
- Since her return, Bao Bao and Mei Mei have become the heads of the staff team, working more behind the scenes.[259]
- The pouch on her leg contains thieves' tools and snacks.[214]
- She's afraid of piercings, so her earrings are clip-on.[214]
- She is secretly a tomato.
- Her non-tomato models are skin suits that are piloted by the tomato.
- Dokitty was abandoned by her owners and asked Dragoons to adopt her. Dokitty is a very demanding cat with several rules that must be followed in order to prevent her death. For instance, she requires lots of treats and toys, all the fishes in the world everyday, and the biggest and softest beds or she dies. If the adopter misses a single day or makes Dokitty touch grass, then she will die.[64][260]
- Her models coexist in a multiverse that called the Dokiverse.
- At the 8,008th Dokiverse council meeting, the committee members met to address complaints (mostly from chibi Dokis) about insufficient representation with the increasing number of Doki members joining the Dokibird Association (D.B.A.). "We might hate mutants and racoons but we're not chibists." Multiple chibis then introduced themselves and presented their CVs.[122]
- Dokibrat is a skilled graphic designer with skills such as being able to become Dokitty, to succeed the nap gacha, and being the "ska8terboi." Her Dokiverse is C-113.[122]
- Broki's professional skills include being good at sleeping, always swallowing their bubble gum, and being able to a unlock a Doki's true form (long neck). Her Dokiverse is C-1983 and her CV's about section says "bros before hoes."[122]
- Dokibit is an experienced social media manager. She is also 24-bit retro with skills like yelling and nostalgia. "Do you remember when RAM was cheap back then too... and there was no AI and we were all drawn by human hands?" Her Dokiverse is PC-151.[122]
- ChibiPrime has been applying for over a year to join the D.B.A and was the first chibi in the Dokiverse. Her CV is less prepared since she did not think she would have competition. For skills, she has two D.A.Ds. Her Dokiverse is C-13.[122]
- A fifth chibi broke onto the set due to applications for 3D chibis not being accepted at this time. After she ran off, a regular-sized Doki advised that anyone that saw this chibi should contact their local Doki authorities.[122]
- The Dokiverse is something that Doki has wanted to do for along time, even before her recent return. While she will stick with Kamame for her regular models, she views chibi models as a good way to experiment with art styles from different artists.[122]
Likes and dislikes
- She used to be good at Overwatch and Apex Legends.[214]
- She once referred to Thomas Edison as her oshi.[261]
- Cinnamoroll is her kamioshi.[262] When Cinnamoroll lost to Pompompurin in the 2025 Sanrio ranking, she reacted strongly to it.[263]
- In Marvel Rivals, she mainly plays Luna Snow.[264]
- She is a big fan of Daft Punk and regrets not being able to see their final concert.[265]
- When Fortnite hosted a collaboration with Daft Punk in September 2025, Doki would get super excited and make multiple tweets in all caps. She mentioned that her schedule would be delayed until she figured out what time the concert was,[266] went "AHHHHHHHH..." at the trailer,[267] and talked about how she had hoped to catch their next world tour after their Alive 2007 tour, but they retired before she could.[268][269]
- During the Fortnite concert itself, Dragoons would observe Doki vibing along to the music.[270][271] Stream timestamps contained multiple mentions of incoherent screaming, furious clapping, and fangirling. Later, she would tweet about how much she loves Daft Punk, how she was happy that they recreated their Alive 2007 world tour, and how she appreciated the Fortnite event introducing a new generation to Daft Punk's music.[272][273]
- She owns a prop replica Guy-Manuel helmet.[274]
- She would eat off the floor if Daft Punk told her to.
- "With Starscream from Transformers, she called him a "freak" and a "cool plane."[275][276]
- On a collab stream, Doki would spend a few minutes explaining the lore of Transformers and Starscream to LilyPichu while she drew him.[277] Doki also called Starscream "very hot."
- She loves the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and "can watch the retelling of their stories 10404938 times."[278]
- She strongly dislikes Rocket Raccoon (from Marvel Rivals). While in a match, she looked up the edibility of raccoon meat and searched for raccoon restaurants near her.[279] Snuffy saw the clip.
- When Frel, a DokiBites animator, dm'ed Doki 15 different pictures of raccoons, Doki publicly wondered whether it could be considered harassment.[280] When Snuffy replied in support of the raccoon pictures, Doki replied with a video where she was telling a raccoon in zoo how much she hated them.[281]
- She likes very high frame rates. In a Sloppy Sisters collab, when Mint stated that people can only see 60 fps, both Doki and Laimu took offense.[282]
- She claims to be a reformed fujo.[283][284][285]
- She has a fixation on Mega Starmie, specifically the running animation.[286][287][288]
- She likes the "Symbiote Boogie" emote for Venom in Marvel Rivals, stating that "this brings me joy."[289]
- She wanted Sonar (from Dispatch) to win furry of the year for 2025 and was disappointed when Pawbert (from Zootopia) won.[290]
- She does not like pretzels.[291]
- She dislikes multistreaming due to not wanting to split her community up. Also, she thinks that having two chats on the screen would be visually cluttering.[292] However, she made a one-time exception for her 2025 Christmas stream, multistreaming for the first time to keep more people company over the holidays.[293][294]
- She called Bubu (from Snowbreak: Containment Zone) her waifu.[295]
- She was happy when a Buzzfeed quiz gave her Rainbow Dash as a match.[296]
Running gags
- Marvel Rivals/FPS Addiction
- In the FantomeThief concert, Doki and Mint are introduced through a 3D-animated skit where Doki skips the concert to play Marvel Rivals (complete with gameplay footage).[297]
- Talking about Overwatch as if it was an abusive partner and how "he changed" and "won't hurt her again."[298]
- Staying up all night to pursue the Season 4 top 500 badge because "It's red. It's shiny. It has a dragon on it."[299]
- Curse of Ra - used by Dragoons to try to get Doki to take a break from Marvel Rivals.[300]
- Duchess of Sealand - novelty title purchased by Doki from Sealand after technical difficulties caused a change of plans with the original stream.[301][302] She named her waterpark in Waterpark Simulator "New Sealand".[303][304]
- Different game than thumbnail
- On a God of Wars stream, she spent the first three hours and forty-two minutes playing Marvel Rivals with the top comment referring to that time as the start of the stream.[305]
- While waiting in lengthy competitive queues for Marvel Rivals, she played Squid Games in Roblox.[306] On a stream about a fan suika game, "Dragoon Drop", she switched to watching wiener dog races towards the end.[307]
- During the Marvel Rivals Christmas Clash tournament, she played Fortnite and Hades during intermission. In a gif, a Dragoon hovers over the Marvel Rivals stream thumbnail, only to be met by Marge Simpson in Fortnite with numbers "6 7" in the background.
- Fortnite on a Metal Gear Solid stream.[308]
Interactions
- Rule34dle Collab with Mint: On 4 October, Doki and Mint had a collab stream where they played Rule34dle, a high-low guessing game where the goal is to select the topic or character with the higher number of posts. Before the stream, Doki tweeted a picture of her and Mint staring at Doki's phone.[309] The stream would have various funny moments including: Doki and Mint talking about their doujin collections,[310] Doki encouraging four people to upload more art after seeing Sans lose to Pearl,[311] Mint losing to a Goomba,[312] Mint being unwilling to think of Calli that way while being fine with looking Doki up on R34 (to Doki's disbelief),[313] Doki sharing a picture of a Bowser button her friend made,[314] VShojo appearing in the game with the caption "Dead Vtuber Agency (yikes)",[315] and the two being placed in the game's daily challenge against each other (and coming across it on stream).[316] The developer of the game tuned into the stream after multiple people had messaged them about it.[317] A comment on the stream itself takes credits for getting Doki and Mint added to the daily challenge on the day of the stream, and the developer would allude to the update by encouraging Doki and Mint to check out the daily challenge.[318] After stream, Doki tweeted her daily challenge result,[319] while Mint asked for feedback on her doujin recommendation.[320] Rubensargasm also appeared in the game, and Ruben would later upload a short of himself reacting to Doki and Mint reacting to the Ruben cameo.[321]
- On 9 October, Doki was sponsored by BandaiNamcoUS to stream Little Nightmares III, and she invited Chibidoki after hearing that the game had a coop mode.[322] On the stream, the dynamics between the pair would be that of a father and their child.[323]
- 2025 Comic-Con Trip with Dooby (History): This trip was revealed in a video clip of the venue that also had Doki and Dooby making a plushie and a button kiss.[324] Doki invited Dooby due to the latter's fondness of broadway musicals.[110] Doki would share pictures from Joe's Pizza[325] (featured in Spider-Man 2), Comedy Cellar (famous comedy club)[326], and Madame Tussauds.[327] Doki and Dooby also got matching Sonic T-shirts.[328]
- Savage Beastfly First Try Hitless and Tenma's shoe (History):After seeing a clip of Doki beating the boss without tools or upgrades, Tenma had challenged Doki to beat the second version of Savage Beastfly in one try, claiming that she would eat shoe on camera if Doki succeeded while also stating that she did not think it would happen.[329] On the stream, Doki would also say she was aware of Tenma's bet. After this latest attempt, Tenma quote-retweeted the clip while commenting "it's so over."[330]
- On a sponsored stream of Snowbreak: Containment Zone, there was a humorous moment when Laimu raided in right as the game reached a suggestive cutscene.[331][332][333] Another of Doki's friends, Minustempo, was also in chat asking how to play the game in VR and said he was "asking for a friend."[334]
Miscellaneous
- The main design inspirations for her model is the Vocaloid song Phantom Thieves Peter & Jenny.
- She uses a trophy as her oshi mark because it is gold like her hair.[335]
- She calls her manager Mr. Man.[336] Later on, the Mr. Man Team was introduced, including Mr. Man (manager), Little Man and Consult Man (helping with the merch store).[337]
- Her meme hashtag #jkterjter was created on accident when Doki tried to create a Text source in OBS Studio.[338]
- She has a dog, who she calls Doki Amber Doge, sometimes forming the acronym DAD.
- She received her first YouTube silver Play button. Since she allowed her chat to choose what name to put into the plaque, she picked DokibirdFPSvtuberFBttvYT as a joke.[339]
- When she debuted her bounty hunter skinsuit, she told chat to wait to see the reference sheet before calling her flat and insisted that it only appeared that way because of a sports bra. While showing the reference sheet, she told everyone that there was originally no bump, but now there was a bump since she asked her character designer, Kamame, if they could go up two letters (in bra size).[340] She would gain the nickname of Dokiboard.[341] Vite Ramen would later give this nickname to their chopping board collaboration item,[92] but not before Dragoons from the Dokibird Public Squad (DPS) fan discord would crowdfund and commission a "boob job" toggle with her character designer and rigger.[77]
- Hyte and iBuyPower once sent Doki a custom wingman with notes and signatures left on the case by various employees, including a founder of iBuyPower.[342] On the day that Doki announced her return, a marketing executive at iBuyPower was seen in the replies, offering support[343]
- For her second model, she shares her character designer with Elira Pendora and Selen Tatsuki of Nijisanji EN, Dr.NOVA(e) of V4Mirai, Daiya Fortuna of PixelLink, Tsutsumi Pao of Nextopia, Goro Gaomi of SVP, TRiGGERPHiSH of Aegis-Link, Lorelai Loch and Lilita LaPume.
- Several of her bounty hunter BGM commissions were performed and recorded by The Budapest Scoring Orchestra.[344]
- Doki's red aimbot eye has a crosshair that tracks with mouse movements and clicks.[345]
- While substuting for Doki at the in-person finals of a Sajam Slam event, Sykkuno cosplayed as Doki and even had a wig.[346][347]
- Her original thief model is also referred to as "Retro Doki".[30]
- In the 2024 YouTube Gaming recap, fans who attended her return stream were shown a special slide with the text: "You were one of the Dragoons who tuned in to support indie VTuber Dokibird."[348][349]
- Her neck can stretch.[350]
- On one of Mint's secret endings, she jokingly complained about people's art of Doki's boobs on her timeline and said that she not consent to it.[351]
- On Mint's 5th anniversary karaoke stream, Doki requested the My Little Pony parody song "Discord". Although Mint was less familiar with the song, she improvised and then proceeded to name it the Dokibird version in the setlist.[352]
- While explaining the DokiSMP server, Doki was surprised to find a map art of her and Mint kissing in her inventory.[353]
- In 2020, Doki tweeted about waiting for LilyPichu's vtuber debut.[354] Five years later she would collab with Lily on-stream and work on a new original song together.
- Dokibird's thief model would make a cameo appearance for a few seconds in LilyPichu's into dust ♫ song.
- On a drunk drawing collab stream, Doki would shown Lily some old drawings from back when she was an artist including one of a "sexy bee" and one of a pink blobfish.[277] She retweeted the blobfish drawing after stream ended.
- Despite being Asian, Doki does not have a rice cooker. This prompted a fan to attempt to send her a rice cooker through Throne[355] while another fan memed the idea of Doki being overwhelmed by rice cooker donations.[356] While telling her friend about how she forgot to buy a rice cooker, she got mildly offended at the friend's suggestion of cooking rice in a pot, stating that this method is not Asian.[357] In the Vite Ramen stream, Doki mentioned the attempt to send her a rice cooker via Throne, and she also told Tim (Vite Ramen CEO) that his praise of microwave cooking has led her to believe that she no longer needs a rice cooker, much to his regret.[92]
- Following the Vite Ramen collab, Tim would make a lengthy 3,000 word narrative-style tweet describing their thoughts and anxieties about the final collab video as well as how that led them to redo parts of the video on the last day, summarized as "7 hours to save a year of work."[358]
- During an Elden Ring stream, Doki told Dragoons to get pregnant in order to have children to appraise (heal) her character and subscribe to her on YouTube. This moment contrasts with Mint telling Wisps to stop getting pregnant.[359]
- Doki almost met Rob Moore, CEO of the Sentinels, at the airport after Marvel Rivals' first LAN event. However, he did take a picture with a retro Doki plush.[360]
- On her trip to the Marvel Rivals LAN event, she had an unlucky streak which included:[361] getting lost in Guangzhou while using Google Maps, missing her original flight from misreading 1 AM as 1 PM, having to cancel and reschedule her return flight (adding a short layover in Tokyo)[362] due to the terms of visa-free entry to China, tripping on the stairs at the airport,[363] accidentally paying for an airport meal when she had a free meal voucher, flying through a black signal thunderstorm,[364] and having her return flight take a detour due to a volcanic eruption in the flight path.[365]
- Clio Aite once said that she would put Dokibird on the Mount Rushmore of streaming alongside VTube Studio devs, OBS devs, and Florryworry.[366]
- Doki makes some wild tweets sometimes.[367]
- On 30 June, Doki would make a tweet asking who was interested in doing a b12 cover (a song from American Dad). Although she was most likely joking, the tweet garnered many replies from other VTubers, including Shachi.[368]
- On 12 October, Doki made a tweet that just said "Hi".[369] To the surprise of Dragoons, the typically reserved Dokibird would actually reply to a lot of the comments, and in some instances, she would roast people who speculated that she was an imposter with "your mom" jokes.
- On 22 October, her outro was updated to include references to Dokibug (Hollow Knight), Dokifield (Garfield), and a parody avatar of Jovial Merriment (Horse Race Tests).[370]
- Since her debut and as of 27 October 2025, Doki has said the word "fuck" a total of 60,649 times.[371]
External links
Media
- Dokibird - YouTube channel
- dokibird - Twitch channel
- DokibirdVODs - VODs Archive
- @dokibird - Twitter account
- dokidoggu - Etsy
- DokiMerch - Merch Store
- Dokibird - Sketchfab
- Dokibirdo - Itch.io
- @dokibird - TikTok account
Hashtags
- #Dokibird - General
- #Birdseaters - Live
- #DokiGallery - Art
- #Lewdtomato - NSFW Art
- #Dokigram - Cosplay
- #Dokishrine - Merch
- #DokiSpotted - Events
- #Dokiclips - Clips
- #Propbird - Props/Thumbnail
- #jkterjter - Memes
Statistics
- dokibird - Social Blade YouTube stats
- dokibird - TwitchTracker stats
- dokibird - SullyGnome Twitch stats
- dokibird - Social Blade Twitch stats
Further reading
- Dokibird - Moegirl Encylopedia
- Dokibird - Pixiv Encyclopedia
- Dokibird - Wikitubia
- Dokibird - Namu Wiki
- Dokibird - TVTropes
- Dokibird - Hololist