Shabel Tonya
About
Shabel Tonya, an active VTuber under ChromaSHIFT. Gender: Female. Operates out of United States. Content is delivered in english. Also speaks korean. Posts content to Twitch, YouTube, X (Twitter), TikTok. Twitch Partner-tier broadcaster. Counts 105.0K subscribers on YouTube and 15.1K followers on Twitter and 10.6K followers on Twitch across their channels. Streams cover art / asmr / chatting / gaming. Common descriptors: singer, #shabeltonya, #tonyatime, #illustonya. Schedule shows 6 upcoming Twitch streams. 10 recent VODs are tracked from their channel. Has been performing since YouTube: 2021/12/17. Production credits include illustrator by Kanda Done & Ayamy, live2d rigger by Akari & Shirom, 3d modeler by Didier3.00. Known to be tonya is a joyful, polite and cute girl who enjoys spooking out or tease her fans. Character design: She has light blonde hair in low twintails, with yellow hair ribbons, orange accessories and light blue eyes. Backstory excerpt: Tonya's YouTube channel was created on 24 November 2021, she joined Twitter in November 2021. Trivia: She can speak English, Korean (as native), and Japanese (she is learning). Shabel stands at 147 cm 145 cm (4'9"/as of debut), character age about 10,000 years old (she doesn't remember). Born under Leo. Oshi mark: 🐯👑. Signature emoji: 🐯👑 🐯🧡 (formerly). Available media: an introduction video, a 13-image gallery. Fanbase known as Tonyatachi. Also known as Toto, 샤벨 토냐, Tonyatachi.
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Personality
Tonya is a joyful, polite and cute girl who enjoys spooking out or tease her fans. She is proven to have strong motivation to progress as entertainer. Even if she is generally sweet and comfy, Tonya can also be very outspoken, and employ rude crude words when she gets angry, notably on difficult games. Scared, she panics easy on horror games. She is always grateful to get encouragements.
Tonya manifests a lot of interest in cute girls and having fun with friends.
Behind her great skills, Tonya is air-headed and clumsy. She makes a lot of dumb mistakes which generally end up to make her feel embarrassed.
Appearance
She has light blonde hair in low twintails, with yellow hair ribbons, orange accessories and light blue eyes. When she goes "angry mode", Tonya can turn her eyes red. A black collar is around her neck. She wears an orange animal hood with some stripes between the 'ears'. Her skirt and boots are black. The belt around her waist has a buckle with an orange logo of feline paw. She has tiger ears.
Background
Tonya's YouTube channel was created on 24 November 2021, she joined Twitter in November 2021. She made her first tweet on 11 December 2021. On the same day, Tonya released her first official cover song "Silhouette" (English Ver) by Kana-Boon.
On 13 December, Tonya released her first original song "TonyaDeSu!."
On 17 December 2021 ET time (or 18 JST time), Tonya debuted.
Mascot and fans
- Tonya's fanbase is called "Tonyatachi." Her fanbase name was decided by a poll on Twitter. Rejected names were "Nyankotachi," "Kittonyas," and "Purroalty." They look like small chubby tigers who can fly by rotating their tail.
- Her membership has 2 tiers, "Smolodon" and "Beeg Smolodon".
Lore
- Tonya became a VTuber to show the world how cute cats are.
- Tonya is a or cat, not a tiger. She is the king of cats, the idol of cats and a virtual streamer.
- Her birthday is 8 August, actually it's not her real birthday. Living so long, Tonya doesn't remember her birthday as well, she chose this day because it's a very special day. 8 August is also . It was created in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare. It is a day to raise awareness for cats and learn about ways to help and protect them.
Likes and dislikes
- She likes: cats, human, playing games, cooking, sweets, human food (hamburger, pizza, pasta, etc).
- She dislikes: carrots (overall), bugs, screeching noises, being motion sick. She also dislikes coffee.
- The word "carrot" is banned in her chat.
- Her favorite color is popcorn color (yellow).
- After joining idol Corp, she changed her mind and stated she prefers pink.
Miscellaneous
- She can speak English, Korean (as native), and Japanese (she is learning).
- Her goals are 3D debut, make a full album with her original songs, make anime ost, learn music composition, offline concert, make friends from all over the world.
- After joining idol Corp, her goals are: more 3D lives, group concert with ENCORE, offline concert, more songs in games, sing anime opening, have lots of fun with Tonyatachis.
- Singing is her specialty. She can sing many different genres, including Yodel.
- Tonya is a very bad cook. This is why one can often get to see her sharing pictures of her wonderful meals, all prepared by her roommate Nini Yuuna.
- Tonya and Yuuna were roommates until 13 September 2025.
- She shares character designer Ayamy with Yozora Mel of Hololive, Hanamori Healthy, Kogure Piyoko, Taya Rex, Yaso Toiki, Louise Priere of Varium, Mint Fantôme (2.0 form), and Eepy Sleepy of Phase Connect. Ayamy is also a VTuber.
- She started learning piano after choosing to join idol.
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Smilodon who wants be a REAL cat, & the mighty KING of cats. She started her VTuber activity to show the whole world how cute and adorable cats are.
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Smilodon who wants be a REAL cat, & the mighty KING of cats. She started her VTuber activity to show the whole world how cute and adorable cats are.
2021
On 30 December, Tonya made her first collaboration with Tenma Maemi in game "Super Bunny Man."
2022
On 25 January, Tonya celebrated her 5,000 subscribers and also gained her channel superchat feature.
On 26 January, Tonya reached 10,000 subscribers on YouTube.
On 29 January, Tonya reached 20,000 subscribers on YouTube.
On 5 February, Tonya made a stream to celebrate her membership opening, but YouTube announced that her channel membership was not yet available. About 10 minutes after the stream, her channel membership was opened. At night the same day, Tonya officially opened her channel membership feature.
On 9 February, Tonya reached 30,000 subscribers on YouTube.
On 2 March, LITMEDIA Twitter account announced the "Tonya Fanart contest!." On the same day, Tonya reached 40,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.
On 17 March, Tonya reached 50,000 subscribers on YouTube.
On 10 April, the winners of "Tonya Fanart contest!" was announced.
On 3 May, she reached 60,000 subscribers on YouTube channel during a "Cat mario" stream.
On 18 June, she celebrated her 6 month anniversary and also released her first merch.
On 4 September, she debuted her 3D model, made by her fan.
On 20 September, she reached 70,000 subscribers on YouTube.
On 12 November, she hosted a stream for the debut of the new members of LITMEDIA, Luvdia.
On 29 December, Tonya had her first collaboration cover song with Liora Walkyria on the song "Identity" by Kanaria.
2023
On 16 June, Tonya debuted her chibi model.
On 15 August, she debuted the second outfit for her 3D model.
Leaving LITMEDIA
On 12 September, LITMEDIA announced that Tonya would be leaving the company to become an independent VTuber. LITMEDIA stated that due to Luvdia's transfer to 3Y and their business operation issues, they couldn't continue business support. All 2D, and 3D models copyrights and rights would be transferred to Tonya without any conditions.
2024
On 28 April, Tonya reached 80,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.
On 7 August, she started a 72 hour donothon on her birthday. During it, on 9 August, she reached 90,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Joining idol Corp
On 11 May, Tonya was announced to be affiliated with idol-EN as part of its generation "ENCORE". Though she had not made any indication of her affiliation before this point, she was revealed to have joined during the debut of her genmate Enya Ignis. During her debut, she revealed a new idol-styled outfit with see-through sleeves, a skirt and a short bob haircut. Then, she unveiled the third member of ENCORE: Chikafuji Lisa ENCORE also released their first group original song "REBOOT" on the same day.
On 29 May, Tonya revealed two great news. First, she sang "Eternal Promise", OST for the 3rd anniversary of AFK RPG (EN and KR versions). Secondly, she sang the main theme song "Lucky Night" for the newest event of the game GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE.
On 7 August, she did a 72-hour donothon in celebration of her birthday.
On 17 October, it was announced Tonya sang again for the game GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE. She did the vocals for "Modernia 「White Shirt」."
On 7 December, as idol decided to abolish the different branches, Tonya would be no more labelled under "idol-EN", but simply "idol".
On 20 December, she held a solo 3D concert, "Grande Masquerade", to celebrate her 3rd anniversary. To prepare it, she rented a whole ball room. She also released a new original song: "Night City".
2025
On 1 January, Yomeguri Hana released a group cover of "Made to Order" (オーダーメイド) by Kasamura Tota. It was made with a group of 10 VTubers, singing in their native language: Hana herself (Japanese), Shabel Tonya (Korean), Serina Maiko (English), Kumanui Miel (French), Taiga Toragami (Spanish), Eileennoir (Thai), Taring Hu (Malay), Laphi (German), Misora Kanon (Vietnamese), and Jesse Llum (Portuguese).
On 10 January, Tonya announced she would begin to stream on the Korean streaming platform CHZZK, with her debut there scheduled for 17 January.
Between 30 January and 1st February, ENCORE held a 3-day music festival, "ENCORE'S REBOOT REBOUNCE THAT BEAT THE REPRISE", each day concluding with one ENCORE member releasing their new original song. On 31 January, Tonya invited in her karaoke relay: Taiga Toragami, Serina Maiko, and Raki Kazuki. At the end of the relay, because of unexpected circumstances, she couldn't release the full original MV, but instead concluded her karaoke by singing "Killing Time", her new original song.
On 14 February, she released the MV of her new original song "Killing Time".
On 1 April, ENCORE released a parody of their first original song "REEBOOT", entitled "RIZZBOOT."
On 21 May, she reached 100,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.
On 18 June, since idol rebranded into ChromaSHIFT, Tonya updated her affiliation. However, Tonya and her genmates where the only ones in idol to cut the company name off their YouTube channel name.
On 21 June, Tonya participated to Supernova, ChromaSHIFT's 3D concert at the OffKai convention.
On 8 August, Tonya celebrated her birthday with a two-part 12 hour birthday stream.
On 29 August, she released her fifth original song "Summer Memories".
On 21 November, she debuted her 2.0 model. In this new model, a lot of attributes from her two previous outfits were combined. She also got a chibi form. Afterward, she released her 6th original song "Starry Voyager".
2026
On 24 January, she held a 3D concert titled "Everlasting Wish" to celebrate her 4th anniversary.
Discography
- Main page: Shabel Tonya/Discography
Quotes
- "It's so difficult to talk about these things to people who have their brain and gutter constantly... I didn't exclude myself, so, you know. _reads a superchat_ Also, Eating Mike Tyson's Ass... Nice, okay, great, thank you. I love... no! That's a trap thing!" - Tonya explaining why she entitled a NIKKE gaming stream "LICKING SWEATY ASS"
Media
- Shabel Tonya - YouTube channel
- 샤벨 토냐 KR VOD - YouTube channel (VODs)
- 샤벨 토냐 - CHZZK channel
- shabeltonya - Twitch channel
- @ShabelTonya - Twitter account
- @shabeltonyach - TikTok account
- @shabeltonya - Marshmallow account
- u/ShabelTonya - reddit account
- chroma-shift.com - Official website
Hashtags
- #SHABELTONYA - General
- #TonyaTime - Live
- #illustonya - Fanart
- #H-illustonya - NSFW
- #TonyaMeme - Memes
- #Tonyaclip - Clips
- #Tonyaoke - Karaoke
- #Tonyaeat - Food
- #Tonyatravels - Travel
Statistics
- shabeltonya - TwitchTracker stats
- shabeltonya - SullyGnome Twitch stats
- shabeltonya - Social Blade Twitch stats
- Shabel Tonya - Social Blade YouTube stats
- Shabel Tonya - Playboard YouTube stats