"You'd be such a good voice actress for little boys": Lilypichu's compliment to Valkyrae backfires

sportskeeda.com:

During a recent stream involving Lily “Lilypichu” and Rachell “Valkyrae”, the former's attempt at a compliment about the latter went terribly wrong. Rachell was hyping up the group, getting them ready to play Valorant, when Lilypichu complimented her voice, saying:

What the streamer meant was that Rachell's voice was perfect for voicing a young boy in animation, as women typically voice young anime protagonists. But that’s not how it came across to Valkyrae.

Lilypichu is more than just a livestreamer. After all, she played a part in the Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro anime, and is a musician too. However, her attempt to compliment her friend didn’t quite land.

The streamer tried to recover and make her compliment clearer to Rachell, but it still didn’t work. She said:

Lily tried to say that for a moment, Rachell sounded like a 12-year-old boy, and that she’d be perfect to voice act one in some form of animation, but Rachell didn’t see it that way, and said:

The hole just got dug deeper and deeper, but Valkyrae took it well enough. Lily kept right on talking about her friend’s voice, and how Rachell would be great at voice-acting.

Lily tried to apologize and make her point clear, but Valkyrae hilariously popped off about the whole thing, saying:

While many on social media agreed with Lily about her compliment being accurate, it was still a comical moment.

While Lilypichu may not have found the correct words to use in the moment, it was pretty clear that YouTubers not only knew what she meant but agreed with her as well. Several YouTube commenters concurred with Lilypichu about the Valkyrae's voice fitting the role of a young anime protagonist.

One commenter agreed, talking about the need for a wide range of voices when it comes