This Vtuber uploaded a video of her daughter singing a song sexualizing her for thousands to see.
The V-Tuber Otsuka Ray uploaded a video featuring her three-year-old daughter singing a loli-song and people are outraged. She however, does not see the problem.
The Video
Otsuka Ray is a Virtual YouTuber, who primarily streams on YouTube and uploads videos of herself singing karaoke, and sometimes chatting and gaming. She has a daughter known as Reika or "Reika-chan", who can occasional be heard in the background of her streams and sometimes appears in her videos with her own Vtuber model.
In a video, uploaded about a year ago, Reika's Vtuber model can be seen dancing while singing a song called Shukusei!! Loli God Requiem. It is sung from a perspective of a self proclaimed loli-goddess getting at people that like or want her to go to prison. The protagonist is mocking people for finding her attractive with lyrics like "If you touch me, you'll get arrested", "I don't want you to like me", "Let's meet in court", "Come, Mr.Officer, take him away" or "Do you really let your parents see you like this?"
A few weeks ago, YouTuber AugustTheDuck brought this situation up in one of his videos.
What Is The Problem?
Loli derives from the term Lolicon. In Japan, this term refers both to explicitly sexual depictions of fictional underage girls with an apparent age of 8 to 13 years, and to the sexual fixation on them (even though the age given in the story may be much higher). The word is comes from the reference to the girl "Lolita" from the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov, wherein a middle-aged man becomes obsessively attracted to a 12-year-old girl. So a Loli or Lolita is a young (looking) childlike girl in the manga and anime sphere that grown men find attractive.
So making your three-year-old daughter sing a song about being a loli-god implying adult men want her is just awful. No one should expose their kid to predators like this.
But it gets worse. The comments under this video are full of people celebrating the child being portrayed as a Loli. They read "This is a real loli" or "I'm rubbing against you. So cute", left by allegedly grown men. And the mother, instead of protecting her child against these predators, likes these comments and supports them. These men are preying on her daughter and she not only facilitates it, but seems to like it.
Fortunately, there were people who spoke up about the inappropriate nature of the video. But Otsuka Ray just stated that the song was a meme in Japan and her daughter just liked it and sang along.
AugustTheDuck dug deeper, though, to find the original creator of the song. The creator is a Vtuber as well, making songs and having her avatar dance to them. However, the avatar obviously looks underage and is frequently put into sexual situations by the creator. The person themselves is also in the "adult entertainment business", as AugustTheDuck found out. So the song is not just a meme. It is an obvious and intentional sexualisation of minors.
And even if it was a meme-song, it is still inappropriate to make your three-year-old daughter sing about being preyed on by grown men, uploading it to YouTube and then liking and supporting the predators in the comments with obviously bad intentions. This reads more like family-channel style exploitation of a child. This mother openly and intentionally presents her three-year-old daughter to predators, only to profit off of her.
