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About

Gawr Gura is an English speaking member of the VTuber group Hololive, a creation of Cover Corp. She is one of five Hololive characters that were introduced specifically for English-speaking audiences. Gawr Gura is depicted in an anime style, with light blue eyes, white hair, and a blue sweater that resembles a shark.

According to her character profile on the Cover Corp website[1] Gawr Gura is a descendant of Atlantis. She grew bored of Atlantis and swam to earth, buying her signature shark hoodie once on land. She can talk with sea creatures, has a tail, and is partial to rhythm games. Gawr Gura announced her graduation on April 16th, 2025, saying that she will be retiring from her role with Hololive on May 1st, 2025.

History

In an attempt to spread the Japanese craze of Vtubers, or Virtual YouTubers, to English speaking audiences, Hololive introduced a series of five new Vtubers made specifically for a western demographic. This announcement came on September 9th, 2020. Gawr Gura is one of the most popular of these five.

On September 13th, Gawr Gura made her debut on YouTube[2], where she live-streamed a Q&A and introduction-style video. The stream garnered over 801,000 views and 75,000 likes in three days. The next day, she streamed shark simulator Man Eater, followed by rhythm game Muse Dash on September 15th. These videos garnered 451,000 views, and 487,000 views respectively.



2025 Graduation

VTuber Gawr Gura announced her retirement from her role with Hololive on May 1st, 2025, citing "disagreements with management and company direction" as her reason for retirement. Gura's retirement coincided with the April 2025 4chan hack, with many internet users lamenting the loss of their favorite VTuber as well as /vt/, a forum used to discuss VTubers, at the same time.[6]


The official Hololive EN Reddit[7] account made a post addressing Gura's retirement on April 15th, 2025, gathering over 11,000 upvotes in a day.


"Hololive":https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/hololive "VTuber":knowyourmeme.com/memes/vtubers-virtual-influencers "Gawr Gura":https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/gawr-gura announced her retirement, also known as "graduation," in April 2025.

Online Presence

Besides her YouTube page, Gawr Gura also has a Twitter account with over 133,000 followers.

Leading up to her YouTube debut, several companies reported on the Vtuber group, including Crunchyroll[3] and Siliconera[4]. Hololive fans started making and sharing fan art of Gawr Guru across social media, particularly on Twitter. On September 12th, Twitter user kaiipuppy tweeted out a handdrawn video meme of Gawr Gura, captioned, "i am losing my mind over this shark." The post gained over 2.1 thousand likes and 858 retweets in four days.

Twitter fan account EngVTubersOOC[5] was opened in September 2020, and shared a fan-made video of Gawr Gura. The post gained 1.7 thousand likes and over 15.9 thousand views in two days. The account gained over 10.6 thousand followers before its first month online.

Fans continued to share art based on Gawr Gura on social media, with dedicated fan pages still popping up.

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English VTubers Out Of Context @EngVTubers0OC · Sep 14 Source: @gawrgura *ZAP* LAPING... 0:07 15.9K views 20 27 462 1.7K D IEMica @mica_1130 · Sep 15 sharrrrrrk #gawrt #gawrgura 2 2I 143 873 Ai3Aã @UrotaRe · Sep 15 #gawrt #gawrgura Let's eat!! 15 27 858 3.6K Satchel @_Satchely · Sep 13 Shaaaark! #holoMyth #hololiveEnglish @gawrgura 53 2] 2.4K 11.3K > A @ononon · Sep 14 Shaaaark #gawrgura #gawrt 10 2] 1.1K 6.1K ポテト I dunno if u agree or not, but THIS was the cutest thing I have ever seen on @potato7192 · Sep 15 earth #gawrt #gawrgura #HololiveEnglish 33 27 1.3K 6.5K


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