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Welcome. This Wiki's documents and explains various persons and contents related to the Japanese meme クッキー☆.

Why You Might Have Come Here

You might have come to this Wiki, or been asked to check this Wiki, because you saw "Touhou" contents that:

Features multiple instances of the same Touhou character,
Features Touhou characters with appearances and behaviours that differ from their canon Touhou portrayal,
Features a very specific rat.
See Touhou characters interacting with several nude male figures, and/or
Has voiced Japanese lines by actresses whose voice acting seem unprofessional.

This Wiki explains what you were really watching.

What is Cookie☆

Cookie☆ is a series of memes and internet subculture that was born out of a failed Touhou voice drama. The name is the shorthand for Marisa and Alice’s Cookie Kiss, the original voice drama (referred as Cookie☆OG in the wiki, as Cookie☆ is used as the name for the entire subculture). It is a collaborated fan work of the Touhou Project game franchise, organised and uploaded by Niconico user Hazuna Rio. Due to its terrible quality, frequently switching art styles, and the poor skills of the voice actors, the drama became a meme on the Japanese internet, and thereby developed into a web subculture. Numerous other voice dramas of Touhou, some made to deliberately imitate the original Cookie☆, were included into the canon as well. It was also linked to the notorious Manatsu no Yo no Inmu subculture, born from the poorly-made gay porns. In the Japanese community today, Cookie☆ is often associated with Inmu but seen as independent from the Touhou community from which it originated. Cookie☆ characters, while borrowing their appearances from Touhou characters, are considered separate entities with traits and personalities minimally, if at all, associated with their Touhou origins.

The Cookie☆ subculture involves mainly the reference to the voice dramas and their characters. Cookie☆ characters are developed based on solely their voice actors. They only retain the appearance of the original Touhou characters and little more. Their development is based on the characters of the voice actors, their performance in the voice drama, and contents added by later creations. The works are mainly in the forms of illustrations, otoMAD/YTPMVs, and what is known as BB theatres—scenes constructed using animated blue-background materials. While there is not a centralised authority for the community, its members agrees on certain basic facts about these characters.

Cookie☆’s notoriety also came from its complex association with cyber violence. A certain group of Cookie☆ community members are known to be extremely active in doxxing and other forms of online harassment. Due to this and the fact that Cookie☆ voice dramas are associated with poor quality, many voice actors who participated in the dramas had chosen to either distance themselves from the community or quit their online activity for good. Even some content creators of Cookie☆ have been affected by doxxing as well.

The essence and morality of Cookie☆ is an extremely complicated subject due to its decentralised nature. Members of the community create high-quality contents, participate in cyberviolence activities, or do both or neither. The name of Cookie☆ provides little more than a common environment and language, by which various different individuals conduct their works free of regulation.

For more details about the history and mechanics of Cookie☆, consider reading this article.

Getting Started

Starter pages on this Wiki:

Finding Cookie☆ related contents:

The "Cookie☆" tag on NicoNico
The "Cookie☆" tag on NicoNico seiga (restricted to Japan IP)
The "Cookie☆" tag on Bilibili
Or just search it whereever you want.

Community and Contribution

The Discord server that birthed this wiki and host most of the discussions about it, feel free to join: https://discord.gg/sVrJuu3ewe

If you wish to contribute to this wiki in anyway, please join the Discord server and contact the moderators about your interest. Before you post any page, please read and comply with this wiki's Writing Guidelines.

External resources

Main Chinese wiki

Wiki operation

This wiki uses https://github.com/eientei/cookiewiki docker-compose to deploy
Wiki daily backups (SQL+media) are available on https://cookiewiki.org/backups (1/each day of last month, 1/each month of last year, 1/each year)

IMPORTANT open backups nature means SHA512 hash of password for your user account is essentially public, use long and complex enough passwords to prevent brute-forcing.

Also do not use password same or similar to any of your other accounts.

The idea is to make it possible for wiki to be fully redeployed anywhere anytime, but that obviously comes at security cost.