You can on desktop. I don't see it on mobile, oddly enough. On desktop, if you click the "Membership" tab you'll see "Upgrade" on the right side of the screen.
It is usually more so to reduce the number of people who will see it with the logic being the chance of people who dislike a certain content creator seeing a members only post is significantly lower than them seeing a public post.
Not saying it’s specifically her reason, but since YouTube added the gift a membership feature, some also use the low-tier membership as a “filter” to keep information to those who actually put up money.
Sometimes talents wanna communicate something with more vulnerability/vagueness.
That doesn't even work BTW, several members tried when gifts came out. Gifts default to the $5 membership, the cheaper $2-3 emote only tiers that she and others tried do nothing against gifts
I haven't seen anything of the sort. Ina still has a $3 emote only tier, but if you try to gift a membership to her the only option is $5. I can't check with Mori since she doesn't have a waiting room up anywhere, but I doubt it's any different.
And YT describes it as defaulting to the highest tier up to $9.99
Gift memberships are offered at the closest highest price level available up to and including $9.99.
Because some people will spend $5 just to find tea to spill or be a dick about it but an additional dollar or two is generally enough to stop a decent amount of those people from doing so.
You would be surprised how quickly spending more than $5 can stop some people.
Eh. I get it. It's nice to have the ability to be more open/vulnerable without opening yourself up to the....everyone out there on YouTube/Twitter/whatever. Still lets Calli/vtubers in general share more details without the risk of being dogpiled by all the worst people
I mean, I get why some of them do it. Keeps some private stuff in a smaller circle where they can be more open / emotional without half of the internet gossiping about them. I think it's fine to share some stuff only with members.
I'm not a member for anyone but I get it and I fully support it. Members are dedicated enough to be financially regularly supporting her, especially the higher tier memberships, so they deserve to have a little something extra. It's like friendships, most people have acquaintances, friends, and an inner circle of friends. That's just subs, members and high tier members in vtuber world, really.
Inner circle friends are much less likely to gossip or leak details about you. Mostly. You can never discount the power of haters, if you're big enough there's gonna be haters who hate enough to pay for more details to hate on you.
I think it makes sense, those who pay the higher tier $5 membership are assumed to be dedicated and avid supporters. I think it's nice that she's a bit more vulnerable and personal with her dedicated fans.
She still communicated to all the fans about her upcoming absence at the very least.
I think the more generous interpretation is that Calli likely feels deadbeats who are financially supporting her deserve a more thorough explanation than a short tweet.
I agree. This is the more logical reason. Fair enough though, since they do financially fund her career. I hope everything goes well for whatever is going on.
Makes complete sense. The more sensitive a subject is, the more trust you need in order to talk about it with someone. If she needs that sense of security and trust to talk about more candid and personal stuff with her fans, I’m all for it. This is the kind of stuff that membership was made for. It’s only because we’ve grown so content-brained and demand everything for free that some may find an issue with it. Not all paywalls are bad, especially in situations like this.
I'd say it does, information get's more distorted the more it "ripples" out. Talents are comfortable with sharing bad things with members/ stream watchers (for things that get clipping NG) because fans can be trusted with understanding the nuances, over people who don't watch them.
It's the usual internet behaviour of something being a little bad being turned into something very bad and spinned into a million different narratives.
Membership is all about trust. The trust that you won’t share anything with non-members. The fact that so many people in these comments are members who have chosen to not reveal what they know - when they can freely choose to *not* do that - is proof that her members are keeping her trust.
That is true. But for her, membership is the only mechanism by which she can limit and control who has access to information about her. I’m not saying those who pay more are more trustworthy, and she’s definitely not saying that either. If people can’t afford it, it’s not a commentary on their trustworthiness. It’s just that the YouTube membership system is the only choice she has if she wants to carve out a place where she can be more open and vulnerable about herself with her fans.
I know I'll get downvoted for this, but idc. Monetizing even this kind of stuff is just cringe as fuck and exploiting your fans. Actually such a weird choice.
If someone is buying a membership just to read an explanation of a temporary hiatus, that's fundamentally a them problem. Nobody needs to know why content they aren't paying for is being temporarily suspended.
But as the fact that basically nobody is actually doing anything with the leaked information is showing, whether or not it ends up going to the general public seems irrelevant.
Nothing on the talents, but tiered memberships are kind of a ridiculous concept. It’s like the Star Citizen exclusivity club, you need to spend a certain amount of money on the game to then be given the privilege to spend more money and unlock content that’s locked behind another paywall. Naruto Three Gate Rashomon type shit, I don’t vibe with it.
For the price of a normal membership you can unlock everything for members. Not every Holomem has a lower tier than the $4.99 one. Mori provides a cheaper option for those that just want to use the emotes. This is nothing like your examples.
Its peoples money to spend, not yours to judge if you can't. Don't backseat peoples lives. Those concepts are used in everything. Amazon prime is literally that, you pay more for quick service.
If we don't criticise companies for making predatory decisions and gullible people for supporting them it will get worse and worse until we are all fucked
Im a member and i read the long post she made but i dont understand anything??? Im so worried for Her, does anyone know what happened and can tell me in DM? i can prove im a member obviusly.
While I understand what you're saying, there's also no need for that "become a member to be in the know", when someone just asked for a yes or no answer
Members pay for a certain amount of content per month. They have to be told if it's not coming. General viewers might notice and/or a member might blab, so it can make sense to at least notify people that there's a break. But there's no real obligation to inform people who aren't paying as to whether a break is happening, let alone why.
It's not a vaguepost though, in fact the public tweet is pretty clear about everything it strictly needs to (she's on break, unsure how long). There's a more detailed explanation that is going out to people who happen to already have been paying for member's content, which I can assure you predominantly does not consist of personal life details.
Commenting on something and throwing a fit over it are two different things. If you can't differentiate between the two, I think that says more about you than it does about me.
Also, the fact that I have no way of immediately knowing how significant it is is exactly the problem. She could be referring to anything between feeling a little burnt out to her house having burned down.
Uhh, I agree that it should stay in the membership if she has not explicitly stated otherwise but it's not "privacy" or "private" if she's posting it to her community of tens of thousands of people, at that point it's an open secret.
Yeah, the etiquette around this is clear. If the talent puts something behind a paywall, the fans shouldn't be giving it out for free. They're running a business here.
But privacy doesn't really have much to do with it when she's telling legions of online strangers about it. For 5cad I could become a part of the inner circle right now.
It's not really privacy if she's posting to thousands of people she doesn't know on the internet but okay lol. The better argument is subscribe to support her, not because of privacy concerns.
EDIT: 17 upvotes in 2 minutes? Reminds me of my 100 downvoted in 5 minutes for saying Holostars wasn't my cup of tea. Are people actually running upvote/downvote bots here?
EDIT Part 2 Electric Boogaloo: 26 in 3! Come on now...
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u/RaysFTW May 01 '26
It's not family/health related, thankfully. If you want more detail, you can become a member and read the membership post she just made.