Fans Accidentally Express Their Love For Rushia In Pro Russia Tag On Twitter

For the second time in the past two weeks, fans have accidentally posted about Vtuber Uruha Rushia in the Russia tag, as the latter country makes headlines for its siege on Ukraine.

Fans have been mistakenly using the #WeLoveRussia hashtag to express their support for the Vtuber, following the announcement that she would be terminated earlier today.

It started with Japanese fans, due to the error of machine translation. Many translation apps translate the character’s name wrong, leading to it being read like Russia, which has a similar spelling in Japanese.

As it gained popularity Twitter basically starts recommending the hashtag, not realizing that Rushia and Russia are two separate topics.

Of course, neither component of the joke is particularly entertaining on its own- on one hand you have sad Vtuber fans mourning the end of one of the most beloved Vtubers, on the other you have a horrific war that shouldn’t be happening in this day and age.

While it’s obvious some Vtuber fans have started using the hashtag as a means to cope through humor, it’s also not exactly a hashtag you should visit considering it also contains unironic support for what is, in all sense of the word,

But if you’re the type who still thinks Vladmir Putin is the funny meme man, maybe you’ll find some funny memes from fans trying to cope.

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