💖🐰Welcome to my First Blog!🐰💖
June 30th 2026
I wanted to start this blog for the fun of it mostly, and get my writing muscles working! This post will be about a little bit of everything, a stream of consciousness if you will. I'm not a professional writer whatsoever, but I love talking! I also love using exclamation points!! I used so many I apologize haha. I posted this blog on Medium a few days ago, but a friend told me about neocities. Finally after years of knowing about it, I finally created this site! I have a reason/motivation for it now :3 Medium is super...idk serious? it made more sense to post here...Anyways!
My online name is Guusagi (pronounced "goo-saw-ghee" or "goose-ah-ghee", though the former is how most people naturally call me, the latter is how it's meant to be pronounced if you speak Japanese), but my real name is Olivia. I just turned 30 years old in March of this year. To start this new blogging adventure, I'll briefly introduce myself, explain the etymology of my online name, then talk about my experience with one of my favorite hobbies: Gaming.
My online presence has changed a few times over the years, but I'm mostly known for my artwork. I've been an artist since I could hold a pencil, but I did not pursue it properly until I turned 10 years old, when I discovered anime/manga. I'll talk about my art journey on the next blog, which I will link here when it's ready.
"But, what does Guusagi even mean?", you may ask. Well, when I first created a DeviantArt account with a few middle school friends, we all wanted to match our usernames with each other. At the time, my middle school friends and I were bullied by our classmates for liking Anime/Manga. If you are also a person who grew up in the late 2000s and early 2010s, you may remember it being a social nightmare to be a nerd of any kind! I digress. We decided to match our names by picking one of our favorite Vocaloid characters. I chose Gumi Megpoid, who's design was inspired by Ranka Lee from the anime Macross Frontier, which was an anime I adored at the time. To make it cuter, I wanted to make my username gu-chan ("chan" being the honorific people use in Japan for children, girls or as a term of endearment for your friends of any gender), but it was taken, so I added the "very catchy" 101 numbers to the end.
I stuck to being gu-chan101 for quite a while. I didn't change my username to Guusagi until around 2012. I was sick of having numbers, and was embarrassed about using "chan", so I wanted to create a more unique name that wasn't taken. I had a few other words in mind, but I ultimately went with usagi. (The word "usagi" could be translated to bunny or rabbit in Japanese. No, I still didn't stop being a weeb haha!) The true reason why I picked that word was because it started with a "u", and looked cute next to "gu", simple as that. I realize now that Gumi the character is usually associated with carrots due to her green and orange design. What are carrots associated with? Rabbits! We've come full circle.
tl;dr: "Gu" comes from Gumi Megpoid, a voice synthesizer program which was voiced by Megumi Nakajima, a Japanese voice actress known for her role as Ranka Lee from the anime Macross Frontier. "Usagi" means rabbit in Japanese. Gumi is associated with carrots, which rabbits are known for. Matching the two "u"s of gu and usagi, you get… Guusagi!
I'm glad I was the only one to think of that username to my knowledge, other than a random instagram account with my username from a different country. Making new accounts on stuff is super easy since it's never taken, yippee!
To start the gaming topic, I'll talk about my history with video games. My parents were in the camp of "video games cause addiction!" so I never actually owned any consoles growing up. The only gaming experiences I had as a child were what my friends had in their homes, whatever free flash games I could find on the family computer, and the very occasional "Edutainment" CD-Rom games my parents would get me. No shade to those at all, I'm still very fond of The Cluefinders series and even replayed them as an adult a few years ago! However, the yearning to play a "real" video game never left me. The true start to my gaming hobby was when my little brother was born. The youngest sibling, as some of you may know, tend to get more spoiled than we older kids ever were. At around 5 years old, my brother was gifted a DS Lite. To say I was bitter about that was an understatement. I wanted a Nintendo since the Gameboy Color goddammit! It didn't help that I was 13 years old and started to act like a moody teenager. I was still able to convince my brother to let me play on it, and bought (with own allowance) my first video game ever: Animal Crossing Wild World. By then, the game was already a few years old and wasn't as popular anymore. I envied my classmates who played it prior, so I had to get it! I also purchased my first Pokemon game Pokemon Pearl as well as Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time. Those three games meant everything to me. I still consider the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon sequel to be one of the best games and stories I have ever experienced.
Once I turned 18, and opened my first credit card for college, my gaming library only kept growing. This was around the time that Steam as a platform became the go-to for buying games. Lying to my mom that the purchases I made were for e-books and not for video games, I slowly built a library. I ended up sticking to what I enjoyed most in gaming: storytelling. Specifically Horror RPG maker games, which were rpg/story-driven mystery games from Japan. They were often translated into English and were easily accessible and free (at the time I still had to deal with a Mac family computer, which didn't offer many game options at all.)
Fast-forward to 2021, gaming would end up being a hobby I would share with more people than I will expect. Around this time, I started being interested in Twitch livestreaming, in particular Vtubers, which is another huge rabbit hole I'll delve into in another blog post. Long story short, I ended up trying to be a Twitch streamer. I have not stopped streaming since, which is a sign that it worked out haha. It's still a struggle to get many live viewers even after 5 years of streaming consistently, but I want to believe that one day I'll have my big break. I don't make a lot of money if much at all as a Twitch streamer, but I do have the Affiliate status where you can sign a contract and receive donations, ad revenue etc. I'd say I can earn an average of about 100$ per year, which just covers some games I'd play on stream, and small upgrades. Most of the time this money remains untouched, but I'm grateful to receive any money at all!
By now, you'll see that this blog is sort of all over the place with lots of topics that need deep-dives of their own, but I wanted throw almost everything about me out there. If anything this will end up being my outline for all the blog posts I'd like to write on here.One of my other goals of starting this blog series, is to do my own little amateur research on a specific topic that interests me and posting it here. (Like Vocaloid as a medium, Vtubing as a sub-culture of live-streaming, the impact of Anime/Manga on culture from the perspective of a 2000s kid, and much more.)
I guess to sign this blog off, I'd like to say that I will not be using any AI in the process of writing on here. As an artist, I can not stand by the use of AI when it comes to creativity. I will not be telling anyone what they should and shouldn't do, but I believe that as humans we should strive to protect one of the most important aspects of Humanity: our Art and imagination. Writing and Language is also an art, and we are the only species on this Earth that is able to express itself in this way. (As far as we know, if you believe in aliens haha.) I know that continuing to avoid AI is futile to a certain extent, even Google searching is plagued by it nowadays, but I'd still like to practice what I preach as much as possible.
I'll try to avoid correcting myself too much, and just start posting without sitting on it for months on end. (It's June 21st 2026 as I'm writing this paragraph and my first draft was in early May.)
Guusagi signing off!