Always with #SeFurDen: A Twibbon for the Fans to Hold On To

Cover: Twibbon by fimoons, illustrations (from left to right) by Paris Bilal, Mila Okta Safitri, and Artby Hensi via Unsplash

It was a fine midmorning in early August at Twibbonize HQ, and we were casually browsing the explore page to review the week's campaigns. One caught our eye: Always with #SeFurDen, a palette of purple, red, and orange behind three illustrations of what looked like the members of SeFurDen.

Who is SeFurDen, though? At the time, the campaign had gathered just under 3,000 supporters, and we assumed there was an event to celebrate, a common practice we had seen from other fandoms.

Turns out, that was far from the truth. On July 18, the official X account of Eon of Stars announced that they would cease activities by the end of the month. Eon of Stars was an agency home to four VTubers, among them Mikazuki Arion, Gingitsune Gehenna, and Harris Caine, who had each been building a following for years before the group formed.

For almost three weeks in July 2026, there was no word from any of them. So Fimoons (a.k.a. @fimoons on X), a 24-year-old illustrator from Surabaya, opened her tablet and made something for everyone to hold on to while they waited for, hopefully, the light at the end of the tunnel. On July 31, the day the group formally parted ways, she posted the campaign link on her X profile. It drew hundreds of replies and thousands of likes.

Credit: fimoons

"I made the Twibbon just to keep everyone company while we waited for them to come back," she told Twibbonize last Tuesday (8/18). "To ease the disappointment, and mostly, our hope that they would return together. We also know it might not be that easy. That we might need time." The frame was called Always with #SeFurDen, and by the time we spoke it had passed 4,000 supporters.

From a commission to a full-fledged fan

Fimoons had been taking art commissions for some time, on top of her job as a teacher. Then, one day, a client asked her to draw Mikazuki Arion. This was during his early years as a VTuber, when the purple-haired character had not yet reached half a million subscribers on YouTube. He had set a milestone: once the channel hit 500,000, he would do a handcam stream.

The promise stirred such hope in the fans, Fimoons's client among them, that he told her all about it. Thinking it might make him happier with her work, she subscribed to Arion's channel.

"Honestly, I used to be one of those people who found it strange that anyone could be into a VTuber," she admitted. A character with a real person somewhere behind it did not make sense to her. She subscribed anyway. She took a screenshot as proof, and figured she would quietly unsubscribe later.

She never did. "I was just scrolling TikTok, and Mikazuki Arion's content showed up," she recalled of the days right after. This time she paused on the design. "His character is really eye-catching to me. I like purple, and the design is good." She started watching his streams, then his groupmates', and found all four of them funny. The skeptic had quietly become a supporter. (Arion, for the record, did his handcam stream, and the channel has since passed 600,000 subscribers.)

Creating the Twibbons

Fimoons, an artist, turned her devotion into an outlet for her creativity. Always with #SeFurDen was not the first campaign she made for Arion. Back in May she had made one for his outfit reveal, a frame she called EuphoRion, its colors borrowed from BTS's "Euphoria," a nod to her days as an ARMY. 

She had treated it almost as an experiment, admitting she did not really understand why people used Twibbons. "I just wanted to liven up the hashtag," she said.

A lot of people wanted to join in, and her frame turned Arion's outfit reveal into an activity his fans could also participate in. Even Arion used the Twibbon. "I was surprised," she said. "Just a little embarrassed," that a frame she had made with no expectations ended up on the account of the figure it was meant for.

"When you see someone using the Twibbon, it is like, oh, this person is a fan too," she said. A frame is an identity badge. Fans wear it so they can find their own people. When Arion used the frame, however, it worked the other way around, a way to stand among his fans and give back a little of what they had given him. He also shared her art and even used one of her illustrations to accompany an official announcement. These small exchanges build a connection between fans and the people they follow.

When the connection broke

That is why it hurt when the connection broke. A controversy surfaced involving Souta, a member of Eon of Stars, who has since formally apologized on his X account. This was a large factor that pushed Eon of Stars to cease activities as a group. Fimoons did not dwell on the controversy when we spoke; what she talked about more was the loss.

That is where Always with #SeFurDen came in. The title stitches together the roles of the three other members. Mikazuki, whose lore reveals him to be an incarnation of a demon, is called Setan, simply "Satan" in Indonesian. Gin, part fox with furry ears, gets Furry. And Harris, a detective-turned-prison warden, makes up the last of it. SeFurDen.

Facing the difficult moment together

We have seen this pattern before, most recently with Skyla, a Formula One fan who made a frame for others who could not attend their favorite driver's race. A campaign like this does not spread because the art is flawless. It spreads due to the emotional value it holds. 

Fimoons did not make the #SeFurDen frame to show off her support, or her drawing. She made it because she needed to do something, to cope. Once it was out, it became a statement of belonging, and when fans saw others wearing it, they realized they were not alone.

She is honest, too, about what it gave back. "My drawing is not anything special," she said. So watching more than 4,500 strangers wear a frame she made, and seeing it going around on TikTok, did something for her. "I was proud. Really proud. It boosted my confidence in my art."

Seen that way, it's fitting for Always with #SeFurDen to be called a show of faith, a way to hold on to the hope that the members will return in their own way, and in their own time. Fimoons may not have made just a simple frame. She may have become a campaign starter, rallying fellow fans to hold on and, above all, to stay positive through the fallout.

The stars have since come home, back on livestreams on their own channels. The fans may have lost Eon of Stars, but they did not lose the members. Fimoons is already planning the next frame, for Mikazuki Arion's birthday on September 1. That, in the end, is what Always with #SeFurDen was for. Not to fix the sadness, and not to pretend it away, but to give a scattered crowd of people a way to stand in it together, and to keep showing up for one another until there is something to celebrate again.