ARuFa

Arufa (born: ), better known online as ARuFa (formerly known as ARUFARU and ARUFAFARU), is a Japanese writer on YouTube. He is also a owner of two blogs ARuFaの日記 (ARuFa’s Diary) and あきすての (Akisuteno).
==History==
Arufa made his appearance online on October 16, 2005 when posted his post on his blog, called “ARuFaの日記” on the Japanese blog site Hatenablog (formerly known as Hatenadiary).https://arufa.hatenablog.jp/entry/20051016
On February 15, 2008 he created a second blog for posting his art, called "あきすての". https://arufa0421.hatenadiary.org/entry/20080215/1206540505 He posted the last article on February 21, 2011 and have been inactive since.
A bit over 3 years after posting his first blog post in October 27, 2008, he hit 100,000 visits on his main blog. https://arufa.hatenablog.jp/entry/20061027 In February 28, 2012, he submitted three of his blog posts to the web content competition オモコロ杯 (Omocoro cup) arranged by the Japanese web media オモコロ (Omocoro) and one of them gained the top award.https://arufa.hatenablog.jp/entry/20120228
In April of 2014 he joined the Japanese web content production company BURG HAMBURG BURG.Inc as a writer.https://arufa.hatenablog.jp/entry/20140412 His first article as a writer was published on April 10, 2014 on web media Omocoro, driven by the same company.https://omocoro.jp/kiji/3840/ Since then, he began gradually shifting from posting to his blog to focusing more on his writing work. In September 2, 2018 he posted his last post and have since completely stopped posting on his blog.https://arufa.hatenablog.jp/entry/2018/09/02/193000
===YouTube===
Arufa created his first channel, ARUFARU on July 13 2008. The first known mention of the YouTube channel is a post posted to his blog from one day later on June 14 of the same year.https://arufa.hatenablog.jp/entry/20080714/1216043586 In the post he linked to a video of himself simply talking about a podcast he planned to do.
About one year later in November 21, 2009 he would create another channel for his music called ARUFAFARU. He later began uploading on his main channel, ARUFARU and therefore abandoning the channel.
On October 23, 2012 he posted on his blog that he got two community guideline strikes for inappropriate content.https://arufa.hatenablog.jp/entry/20121023 
In July 19, 2018 Arufa posted on his twitter that his main channel, ARUFARU got terminated by YouTube because of his “aggressive content”. He also announced that he created a new channel called "ARuFa" for reuploading his "safe" videos.https://twitter.com/ARuFa_FARu/status/1019894049891745793 You can still watch some of his old videos from his shared google drive.https://twitter.com/ARuFa_FARu/status/1019908150193864704
==Quotes==
*“こんにちは、ARuFaです。” (Hello, ARuFa here.)
*”それでは、さようなら。” (Well, goodbye then.)
==Trivia==
*Arufa always wearing black glasses and it has become his trademark.
*There is a Vtuber channel, Aru子 which created in 2018 and currently inactive since 2020.
*Arufa actually used the handle name “アルファ” (alpha in Japanese letters), but changed to “ARuFa” because it was many others who called themselves for his previous name.https://bhb.co.jp/blog/12206/
*The company he works for, BURG HAMBURG BURG.Inc, is famous for running marketing campaigns for clients like KFC and Saga prefecture in Japan.https://bhb.co.jp/member/arufahttps://bhb.co.jp/works/13252/https://bhb.co.jp/works/13310/
*His blog “ARuFaの日記”, had over 300,000 monthly visitors on its prime. Now it has around 50,000 monthly visitors, according to SimilarWeb. https://www.similarweb.com/website/arufa.hatenablog.jp/#overview
*He actually wanted to be a teacher, but gave up because he was recognised by one of his students.https://www.cinra.net/article/job-column-bhb
==References==
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:Comedy YouTubers
Category:Japanese YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2008