Pop Culture and Life, Narrated in Pieces
“keepsakes: The Podcast” is served for 30 minutes twice a month. Sometimes it gets longer, depending on the discussion.
Welcome to the 2nd episode of the year 2020, where we talk about a Muppet versus a pet rock.
“Elmo vs Rocco” hit Twitter by storm, making people scratch their heads in amusement. Meanwhile, there are some aspects to this debacle that we want to discuss right here in this episode.
Joining me is my good friends Serena from the The Lily Cat, and Hello, Mirai.
Welcome to the first podcast episode of 2022, where we still talk about Virtual YouTubers. This marks keepsakes.’ full transition as a podcast after a long drought.
On this episode, I talk to our previous guest clipper Kurumeme, VTuber support staff Arbeed and VTuber mama Vivi. From a recap of VTuber activities that marked 2021 to the next steps in planning the next cover music video, we got you covered. This conversation is in English and Filipino.
[Vivirasuto]
[Kurumeme]
[Arbeed]
I’m sure most of you probably know that I was part of an anime blog before, and during that time I received a copy of a book from our guest for this episode. It’s called “Otaku Journalism: A Guide to Geek Reporting in the Digital Age,” and I have kept it in my Kindle ever since.
It’s been almost 10 years since she started to write the book in 2012 as the “new media guide for aspiring journalists and bloggers with geek inclinations.”
After this, she wrote other books such as her second self-published book, “Build Your Anime Blog” and “Cosplay: The Fantasy World of Role Play” published by Carlton Books.
She also co-founded the website Gunpla 101. Most importantly, she has stories published on Forbes, The Washington Post, the Anime News Network, Crunchyroll News, Anime Feminist, The Daily Dot, ReadWrite, among others. She’s been doing this for more than a decade now.
Otaku Journalist Lauren Orsini join us in this episode.
I look up to Lauren as one of my inspirations in the community, and it is a privilege to have her on the show. I never knew I will have the courage to invite her.
This is an interesting conversation that you should listen or watch. I hope this episode inspires the likes of me who report on culture, pop culture or subculture to continue despite all odds.
Keep this with you as you eat lunch.
If you have reached the end of the episode, chances are you want to know what’s inside “Otaku Journalism.” If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read it for free (limited time only). After that, you can buy the book on Amazon and keep it with you.
Lauren’s Otaku Journalist website is now 12 years old, and I would like to take a snippet off her milestone blog post talking about this episode:
I wrote Otaku Journalism 7 years ago, and started writing it 10 years ago. Jay gave me the perfect reason to reread my own book: such a weird experience to revisit the person I was nearly a decade ago.
I am often hard on myself about this book because I wrote it before the internet morphed into the horrible form it has today, but amidst some outdated references to the “new Homestuck fandom,” a lot of the advice still stands up.
After the podcast went live, 20 new readers downloaded the book, which feels like a lot to me.
Happy to know that people are knowing the book through this episode. Thank you very much!
Interacting with Virtual YouTubers is fun, especially if both of you are interested in one or more topics. On this episode, I got Virtual YouTuber Terumi Koizumi talk about branding on this hour-long episode.
Given that we mentioned a lot of references, it’s much more appropriate to include the show notes for this episode here. We talked about a lot of brands, mostly local in nature.
Then the rest of the discussion is allotted to various topics like television broadcasting – which reminds me of her brutal tweet.
The podcast has reached 90 episodes! I never realized that this side project of mine will end up like this. I’m expecting that I’ll be able to reach 100 episodes this year, so I’ll just keep a steady pace in producing episodes.
On this episode, I have with me Red Mendoza, who is wearing three hats, but I know him the most as an anime fan and a journalist.
Originally, we are to talk about a specific topic here. Since we’re eternally at a state of nostalgia, given that we still can’t hold anime/cosplay events physically because of the pandemic, we then talked about his experience covering the health beat.
It’s been a year since he had me as a guest, so this time I’m returning the favor and have him tell his journey. Then we talk about his frustrations with local streaming providers as we got one-upped by Singapore on this regard.
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