An AI-powered VTuber known as Neuro-Sama has broken the all-time Twitch Hype Train record with the help of Riot’s competitive shooter, Valorant. She completed Hype Train level 111 with 84,904 subscriptions and 1,201,225 bits gifted to her creator, Vedal987’s Twitch channel within a limited time.
Neuro-Sama is an AI VTuber and chatbot who streams on her creator, Vedal987‘s Twitch channel. Vedal powers Neuro-Sama’s language and personality with an artificial intelligence system that utilizes an impressively huge language model. Neuro has become well-known in the tech and VTubing communities for her swift and humorous responses. She debuted on Twitch on 19 December 2022, and each subsequent year on the same date she begins a birthday party ‘subathon’ – a continuous stream that can have its length determined by the number of subscriptions the channel has at that time. On this occasion, even Valorant got involved.
Neuro-Sama has therefore been constantly live since December 19, 2024 when her second birthday subathon began. As the timer began to deplete, Neuro-Sama’s ‘mother’ and model designer Anny joined the stream in one of the most impressive cheerleading efforts ever seen. Soon enough, a Hype Train began on the Vedal987 channel, with the community’s intent to extend the length of the subathon evident.
Twitch Hype Trains are a limited-time event triggered when a channel’s community begins gifting an abnormal (for that channel) number of subscriptions and bits. Each level requires a specific monetary spend by the community. When that amount is achieved, the next level triggers, with each subsequent level being increasingly more difficult to achieve. Formerly, the Twitch Hype Train record was held by Pirate Software’s level 106 train on April 1, 2024. While it has not yet been confirmed by Twitch, this puts Neuro-Sama in line for a global Twitch emote, usable by anyone on the streaming platform without the need for a subscription.
The all-time record was aided in part by a limited-time collaborative promotion between Twitch and Riot. The official Valorant account gifted at least one bonus subscription in a channel where a viewer gifts at least five subscriptions, with the possibility for additional bonus subscribers. During the Hype Train record, the Valorant account gifted in excess of 18,000 additional subscriptions.
Not only has Neuro-Sama achieved a world record for the largest Hype Train ever seen on Twitch, but she has smashed some of her own prior records, too. At the time of writing she has in excess of 142,000 subscribers, up from her previous record of circa 55,000. Her peak viewer record is now 45,603 up from December 19 2024’s previous record of 35,503.
After the impressive record was set, Vedal encouraged Neuro-Sama to make a speech to celebrate her victory and thank her community. “Let me first give a massive thanks to you all for getting us to this point,” she begins, before derailing into a plan to take over America. After a small course correction, she continues, “We will go down in history as the people who made the longest train. I’m so happy that we could all just be together to share this moment.”
Of course, no near-sentient AI is possible without her creator, who had a few words of his own to share. “Thank you doesn’t really cut it at all,” Vedal enthuses, “I don’t deserve this, but thank you, legitimately. This has changed my life.” “All thanks to me,” Neuro quips back immediately, “You’re welcome.”
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