Emirichu

Emily Sim (born: ), better known online as Emirichu, is a South Korean-American YouTuber storytime animator, illustrator, comedian and voice actor. Her art is characterised by her anime-style illustrations, and her animation memes.
==Early life==
Emirichu was born in New York to parents of South Korean descent. She is a second-generation immigrant; their parents were born in South Korea who moved to the U.S in the 80s. She described her parents as ‘super religious’; her dad is a pastor and the family attended church together. 
She is the youngest of three siblings; her two older brothers are named John (nicknamed ‘Sim’), who is 11 years her senior and Josh. John later moved to South Korea and is married and has two children. Her parents also later moved back to the country. 
The family later moved to California when she was 15 and attended high school there. Throughout her childhood, she struggled with her Korean identity. She developed an interest in anime and drew manga during this time period. This was what inspired her anime-like illustrations. 
She later attended college to pursue teaching and worked part-time as a youth development teacher during this time, as well as a camp counselor for summer. Close to her graduation, she realized that her passions did not truly lie in teaching.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sZy92N9bxl
==Career==
Emirichu started her channel in 2011—however, no publicly available videos were uploaded til 2016. Her first publicly available animated video was in 2017. 
Since then, her animation videos largely resemble Japanese anime. In contrast to other YouTube storytime animators like Jaiden Animations, her animated videos are largely composed of stills, with little fluid movement. Her cartoon persona wears a black-and-white horizontally striped top with a black skirt, black thigh-high socks and Brown hair.
Emirichu has collaborated with other storytime animators such as TimTom, Wolfychu, Tabbes, ChillyPanda, TheAMaazing, TJ Toons and is good friends with CDawgVA. 
A tour with illymation, GingerPale and Life Noggin had been announced but was later cancelled due to COVID-19. She is also an animator and voice actor for MOONSHINE ANIMATIONS. In October 2021, it was announced that she was set to replace Domics in the Scribble Showdown tour.
On February 27, 2022, Emirichu debuted as a Virtual YouTuber, or VTuber, using a model drawn by sasuchi95 and rigged by KiraOmori. In her lore, her VTuber persona is a part-time worker at a strawberry café.
On May 6, 2024, Emily and Daidus, a fellow animation YouTuber and Emily's boyfriend, announced they created a channel together named Spilled Ink.https://twitter.com/EmirichuYT/status/1787184137285329028
==Personal life==
Emirichu is not religious, in contrast to her parents' beliefs. She had conflicts with her personal beliefs and those of Christianity; for example, she was appalled that a leader at a seminar retreat believed that gay people can only go to heaven if 'they didn't act on their sinful desires'.https://twitter.com/EmirichuYT/status/1303573781533741056https://twitter.com/EmirichuYT/status/1303574174393233408
Emily and Daidus began dating in October of 2019.https://www.instagram.com/p/CGLym0hHYAq They kept their relationship private until April 1st, 2020, when Emily posted ship art of her and Daidus's personas, confusing many fans due to the timing of the post.https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cFSKXlot1 She later confirmed that her and Daidus were dating when she was interviewed on stream by Shystarfall.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sZy92N9bxI
Emily formerly lived in San Diego, California. In March 2022, Emily and Daidus moved to Tokyo, Japan and have lived together since then.https://twitter.com/EmirichuYT/status/1508588210573635586https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbqo0bevKnX/ She has conversational knowledge in Korean. She is 5'6" (168 centimeters) tall.https://twitter.com/emirichuyt/status/1155608921119178752
==Trivia==
*Emirichu is a fan of Ollie Kureiji of Hololive Indonesia,https://twitter.com/EmirichuYT/status/1446969085808447488/photo/1 as well as Ironmouse from VShojo and Gawr Gura of Hololive English.
*She is lactose intolerant.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCQG5PPA5rg
*Her favourite animator is SamBakZa, the creator of 'There She Is!!'.
*Emily has expressed enjoyment for udon noodles during the YouTube collaboration video between her, Trash Taste, and Daidus, Unforgiveable Food Opinions.
==Gallery==
Emirichu Vtuber.jpg|Emirichu's VTuber model, illustrated by Sasucchi95
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Art YouTubers
Category:Comedy YouTubers
Category:South Korean YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2011
Category:One million subscribers
Category:Two million subscribers
Category:Three million subscribers