What I Learned About NijiPop Culture Festival

It’s three days after NijiPop Culture Festival happened in Cebu. My good friend AGC has covered the event and told his story. I got friends from Cebu telling me stories, same as the people on Facebook and Twitter who have shared their stories from their POVs as well. I am about to listen to a diss track produced about this as well. I’ve read most of the tea, and I agree that this took the crown from ConQuest 2023 as the worst pop culture event the Philippines has seen. Nobody deserved bad event experiences. ...

June 19, 2024 · 10 min

ARCHCon Cebu 2023

Happy New Year! It’s the first time the keepsakes. website has been updated. To recall, I went to ARCHCon Cebu 2023 upon the invitation of my good friends at Ambox to talk to the guest artists, cosplayers and more. Here’s the full playlist of videos produced for the said coverage. Photos are also posted on Facebook (keepsakes. / VTuber NewsDrop)

January 3, 2024 · 1 min

What can we do with Bootleg Fan Art?

What can fan artists do when their art is bootlegged? What can merchants do if they get called out for selling what is actually bootleg stuff? A few days ago, I was directed to an experiment on Twitter by Roku where she posts a photo of a design she wants to be printed on a shirt: i need this on a shirt 😭😭 beautiful art! amazing! wow! i want merch of this! pic.twitter.com/oCMTC7Io3p ...

December 7, 2019 · 6 min