Vannamelon

Vanessa Marie "Vanna" Pareja (born: ), better known online as Vannamelon, is an American gaming, impressionist and animation YouTuber known for her gaming videos portraying parodies of various cartoon characters such as Yuri from Doki Doki Literature Club or Isabelle from Animal Crossing. She has a watermelon mascot that appears throughout her social media that is also featured in her Halloween series. 
==Content==
Her second channel VannaBee (previously VannaGames) features a more mature content featuring VRchat collaborating videos with friends, storytime-related content and songs/animation of her fruit-lore characters.
Vanna's main channel grew to spotlight upon uploading her "Fluttershy Plays" series, where she parodies the character
Fluttershy from the My Little Pony franchise while playing various of popular video games all on improv. Her first video Fluttershy plays Five Nights at Freddy's was uploaded on November 8 2014 and as of of 2020, has garnered up to 6 million views. 
==History==
Vanna created her first channel Vannamelon on October 31, 2009. In a now deleted video, Vanna stated her original idea in creating the channel was to practice on becoming a voice actor "but was too shy to continue". The name "Vannamelon" was decided due to her love for puns, her name and the fruit itself. In late 2011, she was introduced to the TV show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic which grew inspiration for her to create videos. She began uploading comic dubs from the series showcasing her character impressions. Her first "Fluttershy Plays" was released November 8, 2014 and it followed the Five Nights at Freddy's series that same year. 
Besides her sense of humor, her content is mostly unique for it's editing she calls "facecam". It consisted of vectors of the character she played in different expressions and was animated to appear like the character had a webcam, further distinguishing her content from other "Character Plays" at the time. After time she scrapped this technique, explaining that editing the facecam was becoming repetitive and slowed down her uploading schedule. 
On April 14, 2019 however, Vanna implemented a new program FaceRig onto her channel. It had her characters more fluidly animated, expressive and better quality content, due to the programs ability to create real-time facial animation. 
She has introduced various of fictional characters into her channel, such as Isabelle from Animal Crossing, Yuri and Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club and Bowsette. To combat with YouTube's COPPA guidelines, Vanna created a new mature parody of her original Fluttershy named Flutterchan on December 1, 2019. 
On July 16, 2020, Vanna released a video celebrating her 1 Million subscriber milestone. In the 30 minute video, it featured her new and old characters reflecting back on many of her gameplays and the channel's history.
Vannamelon made a cameo appearance in JaidenAnimation's video I tried to beat Minecraft with CallMeCarson.
Previously, her channel went through a storyline of Monika deleting some of the cast thanks to PS5-Chan's manipulation to get rid of Isabelle. In the story, Yuri and Flutterchan were deleted (albeit Flutterchan was by accident as Monika intended to delete Fluttershy) and Bowsette is implied to be missing (possibly by PS5-Chan), as shown in a previous channel banner. While Flutterchan has supposedly been brought back with a new Vtuber style, it is also heavily implied that it's just a construct by Monika, likely to appease the fans and Fluttershy. However, likely due to Vanna's more strained schedule and personal life, this storyline was cancelled, with Vanna (under the Monika persona) addressing this and implying its discontinuation (while jokingly deleting Vtuber Flutterchan due to low reception). It's also implied Vanna simply didn't want to use Bowsette anymore, likely because she is a dead meme and issues with YouTube's guidelines. Eventually, Monika was deleted in the Monika meets A.I. Monika video and replaced with A.I. Monika, who gained all the previous Monika's memories, thus also putting the Monika storyline to an abrupt and somewhat incomplete close.
On October 9, 2022, Vanna told her viewers that she would also be playing some games on the channel as herself, separated from the other characters, which she started doing the next day.
==Hacking==
On February 5, 2020 Vanna uploaded a video to her second channel announcing that her Vannamelon channel was hacked. She explained in that now unlisted video that multiple emails were compromised early that same morning. The channel's name was changed to "Lizard English Club" and had a green lizard profile picture. No videos were deleted from the hacking. Her various of tweets attempting to contact Team YouTube garnering a number of attention from fans and other YouTubers. The hackers named "Lizard English Club" was later connected to an unknown Vietnamese YouTube channel who shared the same profile picture and name. After getting negative attention thinking they were responsible for the hack, the small channel claimed they weren't part of the hacking. Vanna uploaded a second update video, saying she was still waiting for a response from YouTube, but asked fans to not harass the channel due to the lack of evidence that they were responsible.
On February 12, one week later, Vanna tweeted that she finally got her channel Vannamelon returned to her. She later uploaded numerous of videos describing the aftermath of the hacking incident. Her first video documented her experience getting hacked and the frustrations of contacting Team YouTube for help.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauYmtBErMM The second was her reaching out for support due to YouTube refusing to correctly return her monetization to the channel at the time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZn4a9AoK9E After the incident was cleared she took a short break, but returned to video making one month later.
==Lemon Takeover Series==
Another thing that Vannamelon is mostly known for is her "Lemon Takeover Series" that stars her original fruity characters. Since October 2016, Vanna would introduce the character Mini Lemon (or Vannalemon), a lemon clone counterpart to her melon mascot. Throughout October Vanna would release subtle and mysterious videos to allow her audience to create theories and clues to the lore. Their first song, Spooky Mini Lemon, was released October 31 2016 and has gained up to 600k views. According to her Genius page discussing the song, Vanna explains that the creation of Mini Lemon and the October series was originally a throwaway joke and she never anticipated for it to gain an interest to her audience.https://genius.com/Vannamelon-spooky-mini-lemon-lyrics
Each year the series would intensify and Vanna would release more Halloween songs and animation, collaborating with very known YouTuber artists such as GinjaNinjaOwO. Vanna's most successful song from the series is Next October -- where the character Mini Lemon transforms into Demon Lemon. The song as of 2020 has received up to 1 million views.
At first Vanna would upload each of her Lemon Takeover Series in her main channel Vannamelon but as of the creation of her second channel VannaGames, she now continues the series there. 
In 2021, due to Melon and Lemon making peace, the Lemon Takeover was instead replaced with a Q&A event known as #LEMONSEASALT, in which people who use that tag would ask questions about Lemon and Sea Salt, which would be answered. While viewers had suspicions that there was something going on, as addressed in this video, these suspicions were proven false. It's possible that the Lemon Takeovers are now over. 
==Rebranding "VannaGames"==
On January 10th 2021 Vanna released a YouTube video and a Twitter statement about dissociating with a fellow streamer named Tipplet who was heavily featured on Vanna's second channel (primarily in her VRChat series). In the video Vanna explained that privately Tipplet had racially bullied and discriminated Vanna and her friend circle for months throughout every video they released- providing screenshots. Vanna explained that for months she and her friends had tried to work things out with Tipplet, but in the end mentally and emotionally she could no longer support the behavior. Vanna's friends who were also featured in the VRChat series also responded to the allegations and spoke about their experiences.https://twitter.com/SedriceCM/status/1343624404262117381 After releasing this video, Vanna removed all content that had featured Tipplet and went on a small hiatus.
Later on in March 3rd Vanna would return to the channel and rebrand it to VannaBee. She uploaded another video to celebrate her returning and shortly explained that she needed to decompress sorting through her friends circle and her overall perspective of the second channel. She chose the name "VannaBee" because it better reflects on her character. Since then, she has returned the VRChat series introducing new friends.
==Trivia==
*She has a tremendous interest in pinups. In her video About my Secret Modelling Career she explains an incident where she received some small backlash on Twitter for commissioning multiple artists and her boyfriend to draw her fruit characters in pinups, due to her usual audience consisting of younger viewers. Vanna expresses that her second channel VannaGames and her Twitter will be catered to more of the general audience in separation to her main channel. Furthermore in the video she also affirms for her love for cute girls and pinup artwork, possibly alluding to her being bisexual.
**While it has been implied she is bisexual in tweets like this one, the relationship between Melon and Lemon, and the overall thirsty attitude for the female characters, this is not truly confirmed, and it's possible most of this is the way it is is to add sex appeal.
*She shares the same birthday as Miku Hatsune and Kathy-chan ★, a YouTuber singer who covers VOCALOID, anime and video-games.
*She is in a relationship with Nick Dante, a cartoonist/animator. They have worked together on animation in the past throughout the Vannamelon channel such as the I AM THE LAW animation.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awnS7-5wLQg
*Hey favorite video game is Animal Crossing based off of her multiple videos and livestreams discussing her obsession about the series.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCPL1t1Y4CI
*She used to have an obsessed fan. His name is Wyatt GameZ (previously called Wyatt The Creator), he has been shown to be very obsessive with Vanna and even claimed that his characters (GameZ and EXE) are canon to her Lemon Takeover series. In January 2019 she accused him for stalking on Twitter.https://twitter.com/Vannamelons/status/1087169374216056832
*She is also a huge fan of "The Amazing Digital Circus".
**Wyatt GameZ is also a self proclaimed, edgy, action-based alternative to Vanna's more slice-of-life style. ("She's Nintendo and im Sega" [sic]) in 2021 Wyatt GameZ defends Vanna's former friend Tipplet against Vanna, claiming that she's a hypocrite and that she was being a cyberbully.
**In a recent Instagram post in 2022, Wyatt addressed Vanna's stalker accusation. He said that he never stalked Vanna.https://www.instagram.com/p/CZlVz7Xsz2E/
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2009
Category:One million subscribers
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