Rintaichou

RinTaichou (born: ), formerly known as RinSenpai and also known as simply Rin, is a content creator and cosplayer. She initially gained attention by posting cosplays on Facebook and Tumbr, along with comedy skits on Vine, before moving over to YouTube to post Makeup Tutorials and variety content. She's since expanded to including Livestreams on Twitch an Highlights of those streams posted to Youtube. 
==YouTube==
Rin posted her first video to YouTube in August of 2014 for Atlus’ Persona Q Sing-a-Long contest, however that video has since been unlisted. Her first public video was posted on November 30, 2014 titled “Chiaki Nanami Makeup!”
On October 26, 2016, she posted her first scouting video of her pulling gacha in the mobile game Love Live: School Idol Festival. This would be the first in what would later become her signature genre of videos. RinTaichou has since posted dozens of videos of her scouting (i.e. using in-game paid currency to obtain cards in a gachapon system) in Love Live mobile games. In the future, she would expand to other franchises and mobile games, including Fate Grand Order, BanG Dream! Girls Band Party, Utano☆Princesama: Shining Live, Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight -Re LIVE, and most recently Genshin Impact. 
She became a VTuber in 2021.https://twitter.com/rintaichou/status/1329215602032922624 
==Streaming==
Since 2017, Rin has maintained a consistent streaming presence. In October 2018 she reached the requirements for Twitch Partner, and have been streaming multiple days a week ever since. 
Her streams usually consist of her playing various mobile games and interacting with her audience. Her streams also regularly involve playthroughs of longer PC and console games. Most of these games have been long-form JRPGs such as the Danganronpa series, Valkyria Chronicles 4, and Persona 4 Golden. However, Rin occasionally plays other narrative-based games such as Life is Strange 2. 
==Crossdressing/Gender==
Rin has stated she has been crossdressing since she was as young as 6 years old. https://twitter.com/rintaichou/status/1050528837270794240 However, in recent years Rin has stated that she sees cross-dressing as less of a hobby and more as an accurate expression of her gender. 
In a Twitter post in May 2020 Rin wrote “I have been using female pronouns off and on and it has honestly felt great. But it’s not that I am happier presenting as a girl, it just feels also correct.”https://twitter.com/rintaichou/status/1259846087629844480As of October 2020, Rin identified as genderfluid and stated “all pronouns are good.” https://twitter.com/rintaichou/status/1314512677885018113
On October 2022, Rin posted a video titled 🙂 in which she stated she was going on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and transitioning to be a woman. Previously she did not enjoy others invalidating her genderfluid identity, insinuating that she would end up as a trans girl. Although this came to fruition, it seems she still does not like that sentiment. She currently uses she/her pronouns as per her twitter bio.
==Genshin Impact/Amber Main Content==
Rin uploaded her first Genshin Impact video titled "12800 Primogems for.... Amber??! | Genshin Impact" on October 25th, 2020. Rin made a point of mostly playing Amber, who is widely considered one of the weakest characters in the game. Since then, Rin has made several Amber-focused videos, such as Amber build guides, solo-Amber boss runs (where she defeats a boss using only Amber), and solo-Amber boss rushes (where she defeats several bosses in a row using only Amber). Additionally, she has shifted the focus of their channel towards Genshin impact content. Rin has said that she is motivated to play Amber slightly to spite the "meta" of the game, but mostly she plays Amber because she genuinely love her "genki character."
==R3BIRTH==
In July 2021, Love Live! fans were given the opportunity to submit potential names for a new sub-unit consisting of the characters Shioriko Mifune, Mia Taylor, and Lanzhu Zhong. 
On July 13th, RinTaichou's submission, R3BIRTH, was chosen as a finalist along with 13 other fan submitted names.https://twitter.com/LL_Wikia/status/1415180220148113409 Fans could vote for their favorite name from July 14th to July 21st.https://twitter.com/LL_Wikia/status/1415148005968261122 
Rin's reasoning behind the name was "All three girls have rediscovered why they love music and what it means to be an idol, each becoming stronger than who they were previously."On September 1st 2021, the official Love Live! Staff Twitter account announced that "R3BIRTH" had won the fan vote and would be come the official name of the sub-unit.https://twitter.com/LoveLive_staff/status/1433044466592464896
When asked to elaborate on their thought process behind the name after the announcement, Rin replied"It's a bit of a stretch but I looked at how three of them had some sort of view, opposition or reluctance to join/become an idol but with the power of FRIENDSHIP they were more or less Reborn."https://twitter.com/rintaichou/status/1434995216725921794?s=20
==Love Live! Favorites==
*Favorite Characters: RinTaichou has stated on multiple occasions that they like all the characters in the Love Live! franchise, but their favorite characters (in no particular order) are You Watanabe, Ayumu Uehara, and Hanayo Koizumi.
*Favorite Sub-Units: CYaRon!, BiBi, DiverDiva, and R3BIRTH
*Favorite Song(s): START:DASH!! followed closely by in this unstable world
*Favorite School Uniform: Otonokizaka High School (µ's)
*Favorite Live Concert: Aqours 5th LoveLive! ～Next SPARKLING!!～
*Favorite Seiyuu: Anju Inami a.k.a "Anchan"
*Favorite Pet: Prelude (Riko's Dog)
==Trivia==
*Contrary to popular belief, RinTaichou's username is not a reference to Rin Hoshizora (Love Live!). "RinTaichou" is a reference to Rin Tohsaka (Fate/stay night).
*Rin works a full-time, 40-hour week job on top of streaming and making YouTube videos.
*The Persona Q 3DS they used in their popular Tomodachi Life vines was a prize for winning Atlus’ Persona Q Sing-a-Long contest.
*Rin is 5'7".
==Gallery==
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==References==
Category:Beauty YouTubers
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Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2011
Category:LGBT YouTubers