Lily's Twitter Problem

**Lily's Twitter Problem** is the forty-ninth installment in *Silylily - The Story*.

## Summary

While using Twitter, Lily realizes her posts are not gaining the attention they used to. Iroha offers to help by posting a conventionally funny meme, but it still fails to attract attention. Merli arrives and claims it is the result of Lapis' magic. At Lapis' kingdom, Ritsu watches as Lapis magically alters the social media algorithms, claiming she will harm Lily's morale by giving her less attention from people. Seeing this as an attack, Merli gathers Lily and Iroha to launch an invasion on Lapis' castle.

To break down the magical barrier, Merli has her hostage Violet remove it. The group then breaks inside, interrupting a poker game between Ritsu, SpongeBob, and Scourge. Remembering that her friends are being held inside the castle, Lily runs off to rescue them, causing Iroha and Merli to be overwhelmed by Lapis' minions. Lapis arrives and unsheathes VY2, which Merli recognizes as the sword of the goddess LUMi. However, before Lapis can attack, Cocorobo zooms into her and knocks the sword away. Lily shows up after having rescued Cocorobo, kokone, Sonika, and Luna. The former prisoners defeat Lapis' minions, leaving her helpless.

Announcing that she is going after LUMi's other magical artifact, Lapis teleports away with her henchmen. Prima, the mysterious girl who formerly haunted Lily on Halloween, then arrives to reveal herself and explain what this means. She mentions that the goddess LUMi created VY1, a hairpin capable of concealing anyone magical inside a sanctum. Stating that gods such as LUMi cannot fight back against "good" fairies like Lapis, Prima sends Lily on a quest to find this artifact. She promises to choose a carefully-selected crew to join Lily on the mission.

## Characters

* Lily from anim.o.v.e
* Nekomura Iroha
* Hatsune Miku *(Mentioned)*
* Merli
* Aoki Lapis
* Namine Ritsu
* Violet
* SpongeBob SquarePants
* Scourge
* Kokone
* Suzune Ring
* Cocorobo
* Sonika
* LUMi *(Mentioned)*
* Luna
* Prima

## Conceptualization

After Merli Teaches Lily to be Evil, silylilyanimove's admin struggled to write the next installment. They initially planned to continue with a Halloween special in which the ghost of Hiyama Kiyoteru would haunt Lily, Merli, Iroha, and Kaai Yuki. After writing the script, the admin found it to be too dark and humorless. Noting the poor performance of their last comic, which also had a serious plot with minimal humor, they decided against the idea. The admin had planned to create a lengthy story arc that would follow Lily, Merli, Iroha, Sukone Tei, MAYU, and Yuki as they went on a quest to find LUMi, but they worried the arc would be poorly received. This led to a long period in time where the admin did not know what direction to take the story in.

For the Halloween special, silylilyanimove's admin wrote A Vocaloid Halloween, which took place back in the series' first season. The series then went silent until June of the following year. The admin had put the series off to pursue other interests until hearing from a friend that they were interested in seeing the rest of the series. At first, the admin thought of a successor to Camp Lily and Lily's Mansion. They planned a new adventure called Deep Sea Lily, but knew it would be difficult to bring it into the story with how it currently stood. During a sick day, they scripted a comic called "Lily Gets Sick," where Iroha would care for a sick Lily while Merli launched an attack on Lapis' kingdom. This was intended to connect the ongoing story to what would become Deep Sea Lily. However, like with the original Halloween special, silylilyanimove's admin had a hard time writing jokes into the plot. The idea was scrapped and the comic was left incomplete.

Later, an idea occurred to the admin involving a plot based around Twitter's algorithm. Noticing how recent changes to it had effected social media, they deemed it the perfect idea for a storyline. Many elements from Lily Gets Sick were kept in the story, but the overall plot changed significantly. This would become Lily's Twitter Problem.

## Trivia

* There are five different flashbacks in this comic. They are from Lily and the Haunted Forest, Gumi's Birthday, and A Vocaloid Halloween.