the artist and original creator of the orange juice/daidai jiru doujin circle, hono. he had barely any prior streaming experience before holostars, being barely active as an indie vtuber with a modest 70 subscribers, all oj fans. he's to blame for me entering the rabbit hole long before it was called that when he got kizuna ai to promote 100% orange juice way back in 2017. for the record, it's the other member of oj (Junpyon) that develops all the games, though he has some programming experience too. but yeah i'm sure that most people that know me associate me (if not with being that vtuber creep) with being a kind of superfan of that circle so it still shocks me that this is real