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by realjhol 1182 days ago
Asahi Lina has the same spanish-sounding accent as Hector but pitched up and falsetto. "raider" - the hostname of the developer machine is that same as the hostname of Hector's machine.

He even did a super-cringe "take over" video, where Asahi Lina "broke into" one of streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effHrj0qmwk
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MayeulC 1181 days ago
That looks pre-recorded, and the second person talking with Lina is clearly following a script, I don't think they could do it that well on one sitting, and the animations are probably not automatic.

Probably some pre-recorded, agreed upon advertisement to promote a new channel.

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TimTheTinker 1182 days ago
She said she did that by using his stream key which she somehow obtained from his computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effHrj0qmwk&lc=UgzNfomvdiD0j...
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realjhol 1182 days ago
Well then it must be legit. Who among us hasn't accidentally leaked a cryptographic secret key to a screeching vtuber who has the exact same accent as we do.
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TimTheTinker 1181 days ago
Ok ok you've got a point. I'm probably too naive to take someone like Marcan at his word.
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chrismorgan 1181 days ago
Even if you had the stream key¹, I wouldn’t expect you to be able to take over a stream with that kind of clean cutting from marcan to loading throbber to Asahi Lina. Without any knowledge of what YouTube Live actually does about conflicting input streams, I would expect the takeover to (a) be instant, (b) fail, or (c) produce a garbled mess. What the thirteen second throbber delay would be adequate for is starting up whatever software you need to play the part of Asahi Lina.

I have no specific knowledge, but it seems very clear to me that at the very least marcan is a collaborator in the persona of Asahi Lina; and absent further contrary evidence, them being the same makes sense.

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¹ And if stream key exfiltration actually happened, I find it hard to imagine anything but acrimony arising.

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chrismorgan 1181 days ago
This line at the end of the article also indicates that Asahi Lina either is marcan, or is personally directly and proportionally sponsored by marcan.

> If you want to support my work, you can donate to marcan’s Asahi Linux support fund on GitHub Sponsors or Patreon, which helps me out too!

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Mike_12345 1182 days ago
Yeah so that's called a joke.
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