Vivavivagumi

Art by Concernedblonde, featuring Gumi and her worm on a string, Ninjin.

vivavivagumi\_ (previously vivavivagumi/vivavivagoomi) is a Gumi parody/rp account run by Concernedblonde based upon their headcanons of Gumi.

Initially started on August 30, 2018, the account began as an attempt to step back into the roleplay community after having not been active in it for over four years, as well as an attempt to interact with and meet new Vocaloid fans. Gumi is most known for starting fires, gardening, and stealing carrots/carrot juice from the grocery store.

## History

### What's In a Name?

Initially taking interest in the community of parody accounts as a senior in highschool, Concernedblonde distracted herself from class by scrolling through the accounts on twitter, specifically mikumiku\_ebooks and gumipresso. As parody accounts began to take off, Concernedblonde took this as a chance to attempt to make new friends who shared their interest in vocal synths and songs featuring them.

Originally Concernedblonde planned on making an account for Lily, their favorite vocaloid, but upon seeing the existence of silylily\_ebooks, decided against it to not seem as if they were copying an already existing account. Gumi was ultimately decided upon despite the existence of other Gumi parody accounts because of Concernedblonde's existing connection to Gumi formed through cosplay and fanfiction.

Many names that did not include the classic "ebooks" monikerwere tossed around until "vivavivagumi" was decided upon, parodying the song *Viva Happy* by MitchieM. This was the song Concernedblonde was listening to during a calculus lecture while creating the account.

### Beginning

Initial reception of Gumi was minimal, the majority of her tweets featuring referencing popular songs featuring Megpoid and carrots. Within the first week of being active, Gumi dubbed herself the "Carrot Queen" a title the has stuck to this day. It took over three months for her first tweet referencing her pyromaniacal tendencies to be made.

Her personality began as chaotic, jumping back and forth between positive and polite messages to the first thing that came to mind, usually involving fire or other Vocaloids. Such antics involved overindulging in carrots, comparing Kagamine Rin to Cindy Lou Who, infiltrating Walt Disney World, and dreaming of the Bee Movie where everything was the same except Lily was in the place of Barry B. Benson.

### Country Roads Take Me Home

> Gumi the Carrot Queen [@vivavivagumi\_] (12 June 2019). "Sure, Miku may have hundreds of thousands of songs and fans, but has she ever performed the hit song "Country Roads" live? Didn't think so." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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On March 8, 2019, vivavivagumi posted a tweet featuring a video of Gumi singing alongside a live band in front of a live audience "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver. The clip came from the Tokyo ASEAN Dinner Party in 2013, and was unfamiliar to many. It quickly became her most popular tweet at the time, attracting more interactions with her. This was enough for her to become overwhemed, and after a week long break, Gumi opened a curiouscat. The Country Roads tweet was recreated on her current account on June 12, 2019, at the request of ebooks\_kaito.

### Disney

On multiple occasions, Gumi has gone to Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida by "stealing her manager's annual pass". She has visited multiple parks and taken photos of herself in front of popular attractions; one such photo, taken in front of Spaceship Earth in EPCOT, acts as vivavivagumi\_’s header.

Her first trip to Disney was on February 23, 2019 and her most recent was January 8, 2020. She plans on continuing these trips in the future most likely in autumn of 2020.

### Suspension

May 24, 2019, Concernedblonde opens twitter to discover that vivavivagumi has been suspended without reason given. Using their Concernedblonde account, which was previously only used for mainly giveaway retweets, they tweet out to an audience of less than five people, none of which are fellow admins or parody accounts, the news of the loss of the vivavivagumi account. An appeal is immediately made.

May 31, 2019, Twitter finally responded to the appeal saying that their investigation determined that the account “posted content that was threatening and/or promoting violence in violation of the Twitter Terms of Service.” No further explanation or evidence of such content was provided. Concernedblonde denies that any such content was ever posted to the account and suspects that the influx of parody account suspensions at the time as well as the arsonist nature of Gumi was what led to this result.

June 12, 2019, Concernedblonde revived Gumi as vivavivagoomi after getting over the deep depression that came with the loss of the first account. Within the first hour of vivavivagoomi’s existence, the account was locked for following too many accounts in a short period of time. On August 12, the account's handle was changed to vivavivagumi\_.

### A Less Fire-y Return

WIP

Upon returning to Twitter after suspension, Gumi was terrified of being suspended once more. Despite the apparent repressed anger she had, the warm welcome she received had her ready to roll right back into the swing of things. Still unsure of the exact reason for her suspension, she swore off setting fires even though arson/pyro tweets made up almost half of the previous accounts content and references to fire were rarely included in her content. Her content focused mainly on references and carrots at the time.

With her 10th anniversary approaching, Gumi announced that she and her manager were working on a special project for the occasion, but because of the loss of the original vivavivagumi account it was put on indefinite hold. It was later revealed that the project was to be a homemade "concert" within Concernedblonde's home featuring the Internet Co. Vocaloids made with MMD.

## I'd Like to Speak to the Manager

WIP

Rather than being referred to as the “admin” of the account, Concernedblonde, also known as Blondie or blondie\_trashlord, is known as Gumi’s “manager”. This decision was meant to parallel the owner of mikumiku\_ebooks being known as the PR Agent, as well as to give Concernedblonde a role alongside Gumi rather than a part of the behind the scenes of the account.

In universe, Concernedblonde's role as Gumi's manager is one of managing Gumi's work, reviewing her social media, keeping her out of trouble, and organizing Gumi's public appearances.

Vivavivagumi was Blondie’s first step back into text based roleplay after over 4 years. These days vivavivagumi\_ is far less rp based and it is unknown if the account will return to a style closer to that of a parody or rp account again in the future.

Although Concernedblonde is a big fan of Vocaloid, Gumi, and cosplay, most of their personal tweets consist of raving over ryohei “huke” fuke’s character Black Rock Shooter and the media she’s featured in.

Gumi was previously Blondie’s least favorite Vocaloid but after hearing Wildfire! by CirCrush, their mind was changed and their love for Gumi skyrocketed.

All photos of Gumi and other characters (including memes and cosplays) posted directly by vivavivagumi\_ are drawn/created/worn by Blondie as well.

## Trivia

* Gumi's manager also runs miraikomachi\_en.
* Being an android, Gumi will only ever tweet from an Android device so that all tweets on her account say "Twitter for Android"
* Gumi has remained on the opposing side of many trends involving infections or profile picture changes that have happened within the ebooks community ex. Moto Moto, Frogs, and a cult that lasted for a short while.