> Who is Asahi Lina? Is that an actual person?

Man... if I was a conspiracy theorist who believed Apple was genuinely evil, what if Asahi Lina is an Apple employee? ;)

Apple has pushed OS updates to help the Asahi team, though they did not publicize this, of course.

Source for this claim?

You got downvoted unfairly, asking for sources is totally normal.

This has been long established. marcan_42 has repeatedly posted about this here, on twitter and reddit to name a few locations.

It might be "long established" but plenty of people didn't know this, including me.

So search for it. It's the internet after all, not a debate club.

Sometimes it's good to ask. One may get additional context that way. And if that happens, it's a good thing.

Hi, this is HN. It's perfectly reasonable to ask for sources. There isn't any need to be so hostile.

Depends on the context. The OP, IMO, was being passive-aggressive, almost incredulous.

As I said, every time anything comes up about Asahi, it is guaranteed that at least two threads will occur. This and comment about the vTuber. At this point - 2 years after the project began - it adds little value to the conversation, to the extent that the project lead, who was previously very active here, doesn’t contribute anymore.

Commenting on the fairness of votes is against the HN commenting guidelines.

While anonymous, they did put in some personal information at 10 minutes into: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LonzMviFCNs

They are Canadian born, currently studying in Japan, so that explains some of the cultural mix.

I always thought that she was an umbrella persona for marcan and alyssa or is the backstory just for the Lina persona?