Game Awards Nominated Another Hololive Vtuber And Her Boss Just...

This is the second year in a row vtubers have been nominated.

If you count the peanut with the human eyes and mouth, The Game Awards 2025 has two vtuber nominees for its Content Creator of the Year award. Arc Raiders players may know of TheBurntPeanut, but they may not recognize the pink-haired anime girl pictured next to Kai Cenat and MoistCr1tikal.

Miko is part of hololive, the same vtuber agency as Usada Pekora, who was nominated for the award last year and who you might recognize from her cameo in Death Stranding 2. Over the past few years, hololive has taken the throne as the biggest vtuber agency in the world. Chances are, if you've seen a vtuber clip on social media, it was almost certainly a hololive vtuber.

The CEO of hololive's parent company COVER, Matoaki Tanigo, isn't surprised to see another one of the talents he employs in the running.

Tanigo tells PC Gamer he thinks the nomination is a sign of how popular vtubers have become in the last few years, and how they've started to be seen as normal streamers who happen to use 2D or 3D avatars. That said, he's also aware of how tough her competition is, especially with the language barrier for the majority of the voters.

"I would hope that they watch her stream at least once," he says. "If they don't understand Japanese, there are many fan-made highlight clips available."

Indeed, clips are the gateway into vtuber fandom. Watch one and your YouTube recommendations will fill up with them. There's a whole legion of clippers who cut up streams into bite-sized videos with translations to help you follow along. There are even fans who will provide translations during their live streams in chat. But in my experience, the best clips don't even need words. Everyone knows what it feels like to be annihilated in a FromSoftware game.

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Whether or not Miko wins during The Game Awards on December 11, I bet there will be a lot more vtubers showing up in the nominees list in the future. COVER just struck a deal with Twitch to have several of its vtubers start streaming on the platform more regularly, and vtubers who already stream on it, like Ironmouse, already compete with some of the biggest names on there.

Despite the sheer number of popular vtubers out there—even when they're not anime girls—Tanigo doesn't think a vtuber-exclusive award or an entire award show dedicated to vtubers is necessary. "In order

Source: PC Gamer