Cheryl Alcmene

Current= From her channel description.

✧.* Hi! I'm Cheryl Alcmene, the Moon Alchemist. I stream games that I find cute, interesting, or sometimes unexplainable. Let's make our life magical! ⋆˙⟡ |-| Original= From her NEXAS profile.

Like streamer, like fan. Like alchemist, like apprentice. Remember that in good faith.

On 15 September, Cheryl made her debut on AniLive, a streaming app for VTubers available for Apple and Android, with whom NEXAS had an strategic partnership. She was the 6th member from Class Yume to debut, as part of a 3-day debut relay. Lasting half an hour, she showcased her model in detail, introduced her likes and dislikes, and her future stream plans. 4 minutes in, she played an instrumental of George Michael's Careless Whisper, and though she did not sing along, it started a running gag of the song being associated with her.

AniLive not possessing an archive feature, Cheryl had mentioned a YouTube channel to host her VODs since the day of her debut. However, this was only silently created on 21 October, without any accompanying uploads. It was not until 1 December that Cheryl would announce her YouTube debut for the 15th, alongside her intention to make it her primary platform.

The long gap came as a result of her wishing to avoid hosting her debut in the immediate aftermath of NEXAS announcing its closure, decision already internally communicated. On 9 December, NEXAS publicly announced it would cease operations on 31 January 2025, with most members retaining their IP. Cheryl confirmed via a statement she would continue her activities as an independent VTuber, and that her YouTube debut would go on as planned.

Yet though 15 December had been her given debut date, voice discomfort made her postpone for the following day, finally debuting on 16 December with the title "Really in pain, Still gotta slay!". Lasting half an hour, it saw the introduction of a toggleable, floating version of her wand asset, and the performance of "Ultraluminary", from the animated musical "Over the Moon". The following two days saw her host one Class Yume collab and one solo stream, being these three her only YouTube streams of the year, despite having plans for a full week of them.

Following the closure of the NEXAS agency and the AniLive app, Cheryl took a step back from streaming to spend time with her family, and to search for a job, which she found as a receptionist. Once she felt a degree of familiarity with her new position, she returned to streaming, her first stream of the year taking place on 18 March. During this period, she described herself as "a retired streamer turned full-time alchemist".

After a time of streaming irregularly on her off days, Cheryl quit her job, which she didn't feel welcome at, to dedicate herself to streaming full-time once more. This new phase began on 26 May, after discharging her responsibilities and registering as a content creator. Taking this break as a before and after with her AniLive days, she began focusing on streaming any game she is interested in, ranging from smaller creators to famous titles.

On 14 July, she opened her Throne wishlist, to receive snack tips and other fan donations.

On 16 August, Cheryl held her first handcam stream, with a dedicated setup funded by her fans, showcasing an art haul from a convention she had just attended, taking time to appreciate each item, and introducing the respective artists along with their socials.

On 18 October, she hosted an unarchived YouTube karaoke stream to celebrate her birthday, performing 12 songs for her fans, half being in English and the other half in Japanese. Her setlist began with "The Feels", featured Persona songs, and ended with "Careless Whisper".

On 5 December, Cheryl reached 500 subscribers on her YouTube channel. She had previously pledged to open a Twitch account upon reaching this milestone, which she did on 10 December, her first Twitch stream being a multi-stream of "60 Seconds" the next day.

On 22 December, KingYamiVT announced the nominees for "The Rising Stars Gala" award show he organized, Cheryl being featured as a nominee for the "Hidden Gem Award". On December 24th, Cheryl acknowledged her nomination, and made a post requesting a "strong effort" from her fans during the voting process, offering to release a cover should she win, even announcing the song as Toki wo Kizamu Uta. On 28 December, during the Rising Stars Gala award stream, Cheryl was announced as the Hidden Gem Award winner.

On 10 January, the Super Chats podcast premiered the results of its Vtuber Awards on a 1 hour pre-recorded special. Having been previously confirmed as the finalist for two categories, "Best Nickname" (for "Cheryzzler") and "Best Taste in Games" , Cheryl lost the former to Autofister (Gigi Murin and Cecilia Immergreen) and the latter to Mint Fantôme. However, the efforts one of Cheryl's fan made to campaign for her during the voting process moved the hosts to introduce a previously unannounced, double award: her fan being recognized with the Best Fan award, and her with the VTuber With the Best Fan award. These surprise awards were the last to be announced, having the honor of closing the show.

Cheryl, having taken a year-end-break to spend the holidays with her family, scheduled her return for the first Monday of the year. However, a bout of illness forced her to postpone her planned return by a week, holding her first 2026 stream on 12 January. The next day, her symptoms reappeared, making her go on a new two-week break, hosting her second return stream of the year on 29 January, streaming but twice on its first month.

On the last day of January, the VCharm Indie Vtuber Group announced Cheryl as a finalist for the "#1 Mom Friend" category of its Girlypop Awards. The stream of the event took place on 7 February, Cheryl not being able to take the win, which went to Kaijuwus. The next day, Filunie announced that The Underground Awards, the vote-based award show she organized (open for streamers in general, not only Vtubers), would not have a dedicated video for its winners, revealing them via tweets - Cheryl winning the "cozy-maxxer" category.

On 23 February, Cheryl hosted her 100th YouTube stream.

On early April, Cheryl made known her desire to do recorded content uploads alongside her live stream activities, the first of such videos being posted on 26 April, a two hours Make Room build condensed into less than 10 minutes of highlights, alongside her narration.

On 20 May, after a 3-hour stream the previous day, Cheryl informed her fans she had lost her voice again, and gauged interest for a mute stream. This stream took place the next day, being broadcasted exclusively on Twitch - as a result, Cheryl promised to upload an edited VOD with commentary to YouTube. Her voice-acting of in-game dialogue - a hallmark of her streams - having played a role in straining her voice, she announced two decisions when sharing her next stream schedule: she would no longer voice act character dialogue, and would stop streaming visual-novel-esque games that heavily featured unvoiced dialogue.

On 31 May, the same day Cheryl reached 750 subscribers on YouTube, she confessed that the two times she had lost her voice in the year, earlier in the month and back in January, she had been practicing/recording Toki wo Kizamu Uta. While she remained open to publishing a cover of the song as she had promised, she also asked her fans if she could replace it for another, to which they voiced their agreement. On this occasion she also informed them she had figured out the required tax process to enable affiliate monetization on Twitch, but that she wouldn't do so until achieving the self-imposed goal of 350 followers on the platform.

On 26 June, the Hololist VTuber database implemented a new spotlight feature for financial backers of the project; Cheryl became one of the first VTubers to be featured under it.

On 29 June, Cheryl uploaded her first YouTube shorts, a mini-cover of "Steal the Show" from the animated movie "Elemental".

To start the year's second half, she hit 800 YouTube subs and 100 Twitch followers on 2 July.

• "I remember when I told my mom that I’ve always wanted to be a singer, I’ve always wanted to be an artist. My mom told me, no. ‘No, that doesn’t really get you anywhere.’ (…) But, I didn’t really give up. The dream that I always wanted to be a singer has always been there. It just never stopped. I just continued singing, I just continued performing, until I stopped for a while, because I had to get serious in college. (…) And then, when I graduated, I was feeling a little empty, inside. Because, this is not what I wanted to do (...). So when I graduated everyone around me was so excited for their future, they were finally gonna be looking for a job, a dream job – I don’t really have a dream job because my dream job is to be an artist. To release music. To perform. To connect with fans, a community. And then, YouTube happened. Streaming happened. So here I am.”
• "I don't wanna see my fans as just like, 'oh, this is my bank', 'oh, these are just numbers for me', 'oh, these are just, this', 'my fans are just this and that' - I don't wanna see that, because behind every single username in my chat is a person, who goes through the motions of life as I do, and it feels very dehumanizing, to just see my fans as ATMs..."
• "Same here with VTubers. (...) We want people to look at us like people. We want to be seen as entertainers, we want to be, like, complimented because we're funny, we want to be complimented, 'oh, you made me laugh today', 'you made my day', 'you gave me have the courage to keep on doing the job that I do even though I hate it', or, 'you made me feel motivated to, like, continue my art, continue my passions' and stuff."
• "I'm gonna be honest with you guys? I prefer most of my community have me as their main oshi. That's what I want my community to be. Usually I just say, 'I'm ok!', you know, I'm ok with being a second oshi, stuff like that, but personally, what I feel inside? I rather be someone's main oshi, rather than, 'oh, my actual oshi is not live today, I just happened to watch your stream'. I want someone that appreciates me as their content creator."
• "Remember when I took a break, because I was demotivated for a while (...)? I was thinking, 'there are people that do look forward to me coming back again, and there will be more people that will watch me in the future, and I can't let them down', so I came back here to stream again. I could have gone on forever, just completely abandoning this channel, but I thought that there are people waiting for me now, and there are people that will wait for me in the future, so I came back. I didn't wanna disappoint people."
• "If you guys are not here, then the stream is half empty. And if I'm not here, and you guys are here, then the stream is half empty too. So, either way, we complete each other. One cannot work without the other. It's not about half full or half empty, alright? It's a symbiotic relationship. A streamer cannot be without their fans, and the fans cannot be without their streamer. (...) Remember, the only reason we see the moon in the sky, is because of the sun: the sun helps it shine. Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all night."
• "That's how it should be. Kiss my feet! I feel people deserve to bow to me, that's right!"
• "I compare you guys to mochi, because that's how you guys are to me. (...) We start as strangers: you guys were once rice paste. Rice has no taste, unless you add something to it. (...) That's how strangers are. (...) From a general perspective, rice paste has no impression, mochi has no impression, but the moment you bite into it, that's when you realize, 'oh, it's sweet inside!'. I like to think that the people who become my fans are like that. (...) when you bite into it, they're actually full of substance, they're very sweet."
• "If you respect my boundaries, damn, I'll kiss you mouth to mouth - with consent."

• "Alcmene" is a pun on "Alchemy", and also the name of Hercules/Heracles' mother.
• Her unique name prides her, yet the inability of others to pronounce it mortifies her.

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