VTuber Fan Projects in Indonesia: Running One Card for the Whole Fandom
Indonesian VTuber viewing has grown faster than almost anywhere, and fan projects run across three languages and a wide spread of payment habits. Here is how to organise one card that works for all of it.
Indonesia is not the biggest VTuber market by creator count, but it has been the fastest moving: Streams Charts recorded watch time up 192.4% quarter on quarter in its Q2 2024 report, on 19.6% more channels. Fan projects there have grown with it, and they have a particular shape.
Three things that make an Indonesian project different
The fandom is multilingual by default. A single chat runs in Indonesian, English and Japanese, often in the same minute. Any project that picks one language loses the messages people most wanted to write. Everything on a card is stored exactly as typed, in any script, so nobody has to translate themselves to take part.
Time zones are the practical problem. A creator on Japanese hours streams in the Indonesian small hours, and fans watch anyway. A card scheduled to the minute in the recipient's time zone lands when they wake up, not when the organiser happens to press send.
Not everyone can pay the same way. If your project collects money, assume contributors have very different options, and do not build it around one card network. If paying is going to be awkward for most of the fandom, run the project as messages only. A card with three hundred messages and no money is a better fan project than a collection four people managed to use.
What usually goes wrong
Projects here tend to start on Twitter and move to Discord, with a form in the middle. Three failures repeat:
- The form closes and nobody told the latecomers. Put the closing date in the post, not just in the server.
- The compilation becomes one person's whole week. If the messages land on a card as fans write them, there is nothing to compile.
- The messages disappear afterwards. A timeline buries them in a day. A card is one link that still opens a year later, which for a debut anniversary is exactly the point.
Comparing the options
From each company's own pricing page, checked October 2026. "Not listed" means we could not find it there, not that it is missing. Prices change, so check their site.
| What matters for a big fandom project | Thankeeu | Kudoboard | GroupTogether (US pricing) |
|---|---|---|---|
| How many fans may sign | Unlimited, price unchanged by the number | Lite up to 20 posts, Premium up to 100, unlimited on Milestone | Unlimited messages |
| Video messages | Premium and Pack cards | Premium and above | Not listed |
| Voice notes from fans | Yes, on every card | Not listed | Not listed |
| Price | Classic $4.99, Premium $7.99, Pack cheaper per card | Lite $6.99, Premium $9.99, Milestone $19.99 | $5.50 USD |
| Free to start | Create, share and collect free; pay once to send | Free trial offered; every board plan is paid | Card free with a money collection of at least $20 |
| Scheduled delivery | To the minute, in the recipient's time zone | Yes | Not listed on pricing page |
For a fandom this size, the ceiling on messages is the row to read first: a hundred-post cap is generous for an office and tight for a fandom. Language does not appear in the table because none of these pricing pages discuss it, so there was nothing to compare fairly. What we can say about our own side is above: messages are stored and shown exactly as typed, in any script.
A short checklist
- Make the card and set the delivery time in their time zone.
- Post one link with the hashtag, in the server, and anywhere else the fandom gathers.
- Say clearly when it closes.
- Decide early whether money is part of it, and drop it if paying will be awkward for most people.
- Read everything, then send it before the stream.
Start here
The VTuber group card page sets out each occasion, including graduations. See online group card for how signing works and pricing for the cost. The companion guides cover Japan and the United States.