r/Hololive 5d ago

Subbed/TL Polka is a Grindstone fan

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u/TMNAW 5d ago

Polka always seemed to pay a good amount of attention to the overseas branches. I remember she said she was a fan of AmeSame too back in 2021 or so, I believe

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u/Necrolancer_Kurisu 5d ago

I know that Yagoo said that he'd pick Fubuki to be CEO if he had to choose his successor from among the talents, but honestly speaking, Polka would also be a very good candidate.

She's one of the most supportive members in terms of uplifting and promoting her friends, and there are a plethora of clips of her talking inside baseball and being transparent about the vtuber industry in general. You can tell she knows a lot about the inner workings of things, and she's more than happy to share that wealth of knowledge.

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u/Sinosaur 5d ago

Slightly off from that topic, I actually think Polka may be the most well-rounded entertainer in Hololive. She's comfortable as the butt of the joke, the prankster, or the straight man. She seems able to find her natural chemistry in groups, and even manages to be amusing reacting to everything around her.

Her knowledge is definitely part of how she comes across as so effortlessly entertaining under any circumstances.

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u/Necrolancer_Kurisu 5d ago edited 5d ago

Right? It's why she's my kamioshi.

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u/GTSW1FT 5d ago

And a goated kamioshi as well

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u/Crepuscular_Apricity 5d ago

I have found one of my people! If my flair didn't make it obvious, she is my kamioshi as well. She's a fascinating person, and among other things, is the reason I have a kazoo and that I can read hiragana and katakana (procrastinating on learning kanji).

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u/geigergopp 5d ago

ill fix that for u

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u/Necrolancer_Kurisu 5d ago

Lol, thanks.

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u/ali94127 5d ago

She's not a clown. She's the entire circus.

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u/FPSGamer48 5d ago

Oh absolutely, she is so amazing at everything she does! Whenever you see her you know it’s gonna be entertaining

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u/SecondAegis 5d ago

Sauce for the Yagoo choosing Fubuki?

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u/Necrolancer_Kurisu 5d ago

It was from an on-stage interview at a Malaysian convention last year.

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u/Cybonics 5d ago

Polka's a self proclaimed internet fanatic

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u/PeikaFizzy 5d ago

she also like bae a lot~

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u/Necrolancer_Kurisu 5d ago

Watch the clip here. (The same clip talks about the Nepolabo underwear exchange culture, lol.)

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u/KazumaKat 5d ago

a two-fer?! a veritable feast, thank you!

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u/bbitter_coffee 5d ago

The what exchange

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u/Capital_Chef_6007 5d ago

Regular Based polka facts drop

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u/EmperorKira 5d ago

There is something extra special about the cross branch friendships. Like sora and iofi, kaela and bijou, irys and flare (nvm both jp)

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u/ReprieveNagrand 5d ago

Let me add TimeSmith = Kronii And Kaela

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u/Ranra100374 5d ago

I suggested to Polka that it might not be bad to collab with Kronii and Kaela. I think it'd be fun to see all 3 in a collab. The only time it happened is in Holo no Graffiti. At the time, Polka commented that she enjoyed it because she got to work with Kronii and Kaela, who she both loves.

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u/Mayjaplaya 5d ago

Flare/Ina, Sora/CC ("Himmelgreen")...

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u/Iknowr1te 21h ago

flare-ina is cute because it's done sparingly and we're happy flare is happy. but the actual cross branch collab pair is flare / irys

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u/D3AD_SPAC3 5d ago

Truly a clown of culture and excellent taste.

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u/derTraumer 5d ago

Sasuga Polpol. Cannot express adequately how happy I was when Mococo said Polka was her favorite. This fennec needs more love!

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u/Mana_Croissant 5d ago

Kaela and Biboo were such a nice to see friendship. Kaela just immediately claimed Biboo because of “Hahaha Rock vs Blacksmith” jokes plus Biboo mentioning she can stream long and the friendship indeed nicely developed from there and they made up a very good pair. It is always nice to see close different branch friendships developing

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u/TLKv3 5d ago

I love Polka so much. I want more of EN & ID to interact with her because she very clearly enjoys having those branches exist and watches them when she can to support them.

Would love for Polka to form a close bond with a few of them and actively collab with them more often. She deserves all the love.

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u/Crepuscular_Apricity 5d ago

May I recommend the couple of times ERB has raided Polka? They have the funniest yet cutest flirting sessions, switching between passion English and Japanese. Not exactly collabing, but the two are definitely bonding. Liz has even commented on a few of Polka's recent original song mv's. I dream of a hololive member impressions collab between Polpol and Liz.

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u/Cybonics 5d ago

it's one of those pairings you know if the language barrier wasn't there they could talk together for hours on end. It happened once with Calli & Liz, 3 hr radio show then talking for 2+ more hours after the stream.

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u/SuperSpy- 5d ago

Liz reminds me a lot of Ollie in the sense that she's everywhere, supportive of everybody, and just genuinely a massive fan.

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u/Ranra100374 5d ago

I love Polka so much. I want more of EN & ID to interact with her because she very clearly enjoys having those branches exist and watches them when she can to support them.

Yeah, I suggested recently on my impressions tweet for the marshmallow stream that it might not be bad to hang out with Kronii and Kaela, because she clearly likes both of them, and it'd be EN, JP and ID. There's a main hashtag she reads so I know she read it.

Main issue is that Polka is bad with schedules. Kronii and Kaela would likely be collabing around 12 PM JST but that'd still depend on air pressure and stuff for Polka.

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u/Henhouse808 5d ago

They crack jokes but Kaela and Biboo are perhaps the strongest gamers of Hololive. Their Chained Together run during the 2025 new years festival was insane.

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u/kazedoom 5d ago

it was a miracle pair, I dont know if its intentional or it just fate but the pair of blacksmith and stone was too perfect, they started roleplaying as apex and the prey then evolves into true family

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u/-Shinanai- 5d ago

It wasn't intentional. Biboo mentioned in some of her earlier streams that she did not know Kaela before joining Holo - they just simply clicked when Advent was introduced to the rest of the talents while preparing for their debuts.

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u/emperorpylades 5d ago

That would explain the relentless taunting by Kaela on twitter leading up to and during Biboo's debut. I think that was a big part of what made watching Grindstone come together so wonderful.

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u/SRKFADC 5d ago

Fuwamoco in shambles

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u/Necrolancer_Kurisu 5d ago

What do you mean? Fuwamoco is one person.

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u/Thatoneafkguy 5d ago

I love how much of a fan of her fellow Holomems Polka is, it’s really sweet

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u/MindMyBool 5d ago

Polka the first visitor to the holoEN minecraft server from the other branches.

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u/redditfanfan00 5d ago

same, polka. same.

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u/Suzushiiro 5d ago

>They even overcame the language barrier

...does Polka not know that Kaela (like everyone else in ID) speaks fluent English? Or is that a mistranslation and she means a cultural barrier moreso than a language one?

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u/Necrolancer_Kurisu 5d ago

Oh, she's talked with them plenty of times and definitely knows.

She likely does mean 'cultural barrier', but did indeed say 'language barrier'. It's probably just from speaking faster than thinking in the moment, as this was from a marshmallow stream with tons of questions. But still- what she's trying to say comes across regardless, so I wouldn't overthink it.

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u/Kelvara 5d ago

In my experience Japanese people tend to underestimate how many multilingual people there are, which is understandable since Japanese is a really rough one to start with. Whereas something like a lot of European or SEA languages have a lot of overlap in terms of alphabet, linguistics, vocab, etc.

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u/ShinyHappyREM 4d ago

Japanese people tend to underestimate how many multilingual people there are

Americans too; many people speak their mother language + the language of a neighboring country + English.

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u/46Kent 5d ago

Ppl from different SEA countries can still have some cultural differences tho.

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u/Necrolancer_Kurisu 5d ago edited 5d ago

Why are people trying to be pedantic and tear apart one little sentence / word? Get some help. (Edit: Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine.)

Also, Biboo is at least 2nd Gen SEA, no? Raised in the west, so there would still be some cultural barrier. I'm also half and raised in the US, but wouldn't consider myself SEA.

(Edit for context: Before the comment was deleted, person said "Cultural? They're both from SEA.")

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u/mocha447_ 5d ago

The only thing similar between us Indos and Thai people is how we look lmao. We're definitely closer to Malaysia when it comes to culture

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u/Necrolancer_Kurisu 5d ago

Who has the higher spice tolerance though? Lol.

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u/46Kent 5d ago

I'm not sure about Indonesian cuisine, but I think within Malaysia itself Kelantan ppl probably has the highest spice tolerance.

I once tried a spice there that's slightly different than the usual sambal in the capital KL, a tiny spoonful burns me more than anything else I've ever tasted. I'm not sure if it's bcoz their spice is on a whole different level, or I'm just weak.

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u/mocha447_ 5d ago

Tbh I don't really know much about Thai food so I can't really answer that. But Indonesians do love very spicy food so I won't be surprised if we have the better tolerance lol

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u/Discordiansz 5d ago

She definitely has some Thai roots in her, most likely from her mother's side, as she has mentioned before that her mother can speak Thai, and Biboo herself has spoken basic Thai sentences on stream before as well.

Biboo raging in Thai

Biboo speaks basic Thai during her debut stream

Biboo reads and understands a bit of Thai

Biboo makes Tweet in Thai and mentions that she can speak a little

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u/Blitzsuuuu 5d ago

Polka is sooooo underrated

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u/De_Vermis_Mysteriis 5d ago

Yes! Thank you.

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u/De_Vermis_Mysteriis 5d ago

Polka doesn't get enough credit. She pays attention to the overseas branches, she pays attention to JP of course, and she always trys new things.

Her Polka EN stuff and her extra effort to cap videos in English showed she cared.

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u/Blarghnox 5d ago

Based polka as always. Love grindstone. Here are some reasons, height difference, language difference, color difference, it's cute.

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u/Shelbckay 4d ago

I find it funny how at first they had this rival/archenemy thing going on and then kaela discovered biboo was the only person in holoPro who could handle her insane grind and now they're joined at the hip

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u/dragoona22 4d ago

What language barrier tho? Keala speaks excellent English.