Can someone explain the Mumei spooky face?

[Recette Lemongrass]

Honestly I could probably google it but at the same time I imagine it'll send me off in over left and right direction for the answer. So just want an answer as to why her special makes a creepy pasta esque picture appears.

[teebles]

It's a weird image she drew in a stream where she played "passpartout". I think it was the first real time people saw her psychopath kayfabe, so the community latched onto it

[RudiAn]

i am not mumei's fan, so my statement might not be accurate.

but as far as i know, the image is something that she drew in the early day. elementary or kindergarten. that's all i know about it

[Hurkyl]

Mumei was drawing a portrait of Suisei. She got frustrated. So, she decided to draw her frustrations, and thus this infamous picture was born.

[GriffinPilgrim]

One of the bosses is based on one of her drawings too.

[Cuthla]

it's more of a minor screen nuke. but comes in handy with some of the tougher bosses. till the enemies file back in, you got a few seconds to focus fire on the boss with your full suite of weapons. so other then use against bosses and the jump scare, it's pretty middle of the road for a Special Attack

[cikame]

She kind of ended up being the go to person in Hololive for cursed drawings, "Spiderchama" is one of hers too.

[Premium Bait]

It's her precious baby. Then again that'd sound weird if you're new to Hololive. As mentioned on the comments before, it's her attempt of drawing another member, but she couldn't get it right and in her silent frustration, ended up drawing that. The reason why the image looked very low quality is probably because the only existing, authentic image of it is from a stream, and they're using the very same image for it instead of redrawing it.

[Magic Toast]

See, these are the kinds of questions I live for because the fans get to use their otherwise-completely-useless knowledge about cute anime girls to gush about something they love. Like it's already been mentioned before, the face is something she drew for her Passpartout stream early in on that people have latched onto due to it creating this...reverse gap moe, I guess? After she finished it she went "tadaaa! :D" all happy like, as if she didn't create some sort of nightmarish jumpscare straight out of a 6-year-old's nightmare. Mumei looks all innocent and sweet but she's surprisingly sinister and toxic to the point people dubbed her a "towl" (toxic owl).

It should be noted that one of her original songs (I think it was an original?) involves her effectively causing all the major disasters from human history including the black plague, Pomeii's volcano exploding, and, until it was removed from the video, the Challenger explosion, all while looking happy at the same time.

[hedrah]

Originally posted by Shogun Gari:

See, these are the kinds of questions I live for because the fans get to use their otherwise-completely-useless knowledge about cute anime girls to gush about something they love. Like it's already been mentioned before, the face is something she drew for her Passpartout stream early in on that people have latched onto due to it creating this...reverse gap moe, I guess? After she finished it she went "tadaaa! :D" all happy like, as if she didn't create some sort of nightmarish jumpscare straight out of a 6-year-old's nightmare. Mumei looks all innocent and sweet but she's surprisingly sinister and toxic to the point people dubbed her a "towl" (toxic owl).

It should be noted that one of her original songs (I think it was an original?) involves her effectively causing all the major disasters from human history including the black plague, Pomeii's volcano exploding, and, until it was removed from the video, the Challenger explosion, all while looking happy at the same time.

The original video is still floating about on the internet, felt it had a better pacing to it compared to the new one but people went "waaah waaah! something happened 36 years ago! before i even was born! and i feel offended by it!" so she went and had that second remade.

[Magic Toast]

Originally posted by hedrah:

Originally posted by Shogun Gari:

See, these are the kinds of questions I live for because the fans get to use their otherwise-completely-useless knowledge about cute anime girls to gush about something they love. Like it's already been mentioned before, the face is something she drew for her Passpartout stream early in on that people have latched onto due to it creating this...reverse gap moe, I guess? After she finished it she went "tadaaa! :D" all happy like, as if she didn't create some sort of nightmarish jumpscare straight out of a 6-year-old's nightmare. Mumei looks all innocent and sweet but she's surprisingly sinister and toxic to the point people dubbed her a "towl" (toxic owl).

It should be noted that one of her original songs (I think it was an original?) involves her effectively causing all the major disasters from human history including the black plague, Pomeii's volcano exploding, and, until it was removed from the video, the Challenger explosion, all while looking happy at the same time.

The original video is still floating about on the internet, felt it had a better pacing to it compared to the new one but people went "waaah waaah! something happened 36 years ago! before i even was born! and i feel offended by it!" so she went and had that second remade.

I don't recall if that was the original reason for the swap or if it's something the artist for the video decided on themselves. Either way it's not important the how or why, just the fact there is indeed an alternate video.

[*gkled]

The reason as for why the original video was removed was because Mumei and her managers literally saw the final version 30 minutes before premiere, so they had no time to make changes and actually decide if it was fitted for release. The second version is the one that actually passed approval, as opposed to the first one which was more like 'ok the video is ready yeah we've checked it lightning fast release it'. I like them both, though. The Titanic sinking scene is hilarious.

[LGear]

Originally posted by teebles:

It's a weird image she drew in a stream where she played "passpartout". I think it was the first real time people saw her psychopath kayfabe, so the community latched onto it

I highly doubt her fascination with the macabre is "kayfabe".

[Premium Bait]

Oh, to make it more interesting, she's supposed to represent "Society", which makes the madness a bit more fitting.

[Kryll]

This is all you need to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJBEf1DPvwM

[dimetrodonluke]

Originally posted by hedrah:

Originally posted by Shogun Gari:

See, these are the kinds of questions I live for because the fans get to use their otherwise-completely-useless knowledge about cute anime girls to gush about something they love. Like it's already been mentioned before, the face is something she drew for her Passpartout stream early in on that people have latched onto due to it creating this...reverse gap moe, I guess? After she finished it she went "tadaaa! :D" all happy like, as if she didn't create some sort of nightmarish jumpscare straight out of a 6-year-old's nightmare. Mumei looks all innocent and sweet but she's surprisingly sinister and toxic to the point people dubbed her a "towl" (toxic owl).

It should be noted that one of her original songs (I think it was an original?) involves her effectively causing all the major disasters from human history including the black plague, Pomeii's volcano exploding, and, until it was removed from the video, the Challenger explosion, all while looking happy at the same time.

The original video is still floating about on the internet, felt it had a better pacing to it compared to the new one but people went "waaah waaah! something happened 36 years ago! before i even was born! and i feel offended by it!" so she went and had that second remade.

To be fair, the other part cut from the video was the reference to the Hindenburg disaster. Probably because the zeppelin in the video had the KFP (Kiara's) logo on it, which becomes a bit.... uncomfortable when you realize that Kiara is Austrian and the actual Hindenburg also had a symbol on it associated with a certain historical figure who is also of Austrian nationality.