It looks like Hololive ID, the Indonesian branch of Hololive, is facing false flag reports, which has led to talents Kobo and Iofi getting banned and their channels suspended.

Kobo Kanaeru, the newly-debuted Hololive member has reportedly been banned from YouTube no less than twice, whereas first-generation member Airani Iofifteen has also had her channel banned.

It looks like the terminations seem to be the work of spam bots, who take advantage of streaming guidelines that a streamer has to be responsible for what’s said in their chat.

Screenshots show that these bots would have sexually explicit usernames, posting en masse in the Vtubers chats and getting their channels flagged for hosting sexual content.

Even though the moderation team removes their explicit messages, the names remain, leading to a channel takedown.

Iofi has sourced screenshots from the community of her chat, showing exactly this situation happening before her stream was taken down and her channel suspended.

“Regarding my channel getting banned, please stay calm because we are working on getting it back while we take a break today. Praying it goes smoothly so tomorrow we can have a collab on Zeta’s channel”, Iofi says.

“Please reply this tweet with screenshot if you have the evidence just before my channel got banned“.

Thankfully, this seems to just be the work of YouTube’s automated process, and Cover Corporation’s use of a multi-channel network should ensure that the girls’ channels aren’t in any serious peril.