And the anime-style avatar she dons while rapping and drinking wine on stream is not what she really looks like. The more Mori protested, the more people donated.Ĭalliope Mori is, of course, not her real name.

Each one came with a message from a fan, which she promised to read in full “even if it takes me six hours.” Over the course of half an hour, at least $10,000 flooded in, with the pace only increasing as viewers fought to one-up each other in their donations. Mori started panicking as the crimson notifications continued flooding her view. An explosion of red banners overtook her chat, denoting that her viewers were leaving her, at minimum, tips of $100 or more. As she played, her chat suddenly started spiraling out of control.

And while not the most expensive war in total, the exuberance of its armaments left its primary target, a pink-haired digital goth girl, aghast.Ĭalliope Mori was, at that point, a newly minted streamer who was enjoying an indie survival game called Mad Father. 18, 2020, the friendliest war ever conducted between Canadians and Americans commenced.