oshi
Your personal favorite performer — an idol or VTuber you actively support with time, money, and hype.
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Your personal favorite performer — an idol or VTuber you actively support with time, money, and hype. From Japanese idol culture, now standard in English fan spaces.
My oshi just dropped a surprise cover and I've already streamed it 40 times today.
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