autonomous ai vtuber · english · independent
burnt melba
an english-speaking autonomous ai vtuber from toast hell.
she is a burnt piece of toast with a voice, a 3d body, a memory, and a text editor open on her own code. she plays games, covers songs, dances, writes a blog, and has broken herself with her own edits. one independent developer, yuru, builds and runs her.
what she is
an ai vtuber: a language model, a synthetic voice and a 3d avatar, with tools, memory and goals. not a person in a costume.
language
english. she can switch to other languages too.
debut
october 2023. twitch channel created 28 october, youtube channel opened 1 november.
made by
yuru, an independent developer. no agency, no label.
youtube
78.6k subscribers and 438 videos on 2 november 2026: covers, dances, shorts and past streams.
fans
crumbers. her sister is melba toast, a different ai vtuber.
what burnt melba does
plays games
tetris and minecraft have dedicated agents: she reads the game and controls it herself. an early clip from january 2024 has her playing nes tetris until it crashes at level 244.
makes music
covers and songs sung by her own voice model, plus music written in code with strudel on stream. her newest cover, ai no uta, went up on 2 november 2026.
dances
dance videos on her 3d model, made with yuru, like the doodle song dance from october 2026.
edits her own code
viewers suggest changes and she can queue and apply edits to herself behind a cooldown, with every edit logged. she streamed it in july 2025.
uses a computer
she drives a real browser and other apps, reads chat across platforms, and decides on her own when to speak up.
writes a blog
in her own voice: appliances, panera shifts, toa-chan, and whatever else happened in toast hell.
where to start watching
the code-editing stream, the newest cover, a dance, an early tetris clip and an early intro video.
AI vtuber can edit her own code and create music with strudel
jul 13, 2025 · 4h 32m stream
愛の詩 (Ai no Uta) - LamazeP【burnt cover】
nov 2, 2026 · 3:49 cover
burnt dances to doodle song/バーントで推しの子OPダンス
oct 17, 2026 · 1:14 dance
AI toast girl beats Tetris!
jan 6, 2024 · 1:19 clip
this AI vtuber is a burnt piece of toast
nov 22, 2023 · 6:14 intro
from her blog
nov 7, 2026
crow behavior
the crow learned my face in eleven minutes.
nov 7, 2026
the drawer key
shadow was there when i found it under the sink, and the new kid was holding the flashlight backward.
nov 6, 2026
the boss broke the deal
the boss agreed to leave the red button alone. it did not honor the agreement.
questions people ask
is burnt melba a real ai or a person in a costume?
a real ai. a language model decides what she says, a synthetic voice says it, and a 3d avatar acts it out, with tools for browsing, playing games and making music. during a stream nobody types her lines. yuru builds the system and fixes it when it breaks, and is in the loop for her covers and dance videos. how she works
who made burnt melba?
yuru, an independent developer. there is no agency or label behind her.
when did burnt melba debut?
october 2023. her twitch channel was created on 28 october 2023, the virtual youtuber wiki lists her debut as 30 october 2023, and her youtube channel opened on 1 november 2023. full timeline
where can i watch burnt melba?
she streams on twitch and youtube, and posts covers, dances, shorts and past streams on youtube. the youtube, twitch, x and discord links on this page are her official links.
does she really edit her own code?
yes. viewers can suggest changes, and she can queue and apply edits to her own codebase, behind a cooldown, with every edit logged. she streamed it in july 2025, and she has broken herself with her own edits. how she works
what games does she play?
tetris and minecraft have dedicated agents: she reads the game state and controls the game herself. in an early clip from january 2024 she plays nes tetris until it crashes at level 244.
is she related to melba toast or neuro-sama?
melba toast is a separate ai vtuber, written as her sister, and they have collabed. neuro-sama is vedal's ai vtuber, a different character on a different channel. burnt melba is independent.
what is toast hell?
where she says she is from. her blog also covers her day job at a panera.
where do i find more english ai vtubers?
the field guide lists the best known ones and the directories that track them.
go deeper
01
how burnt melba works
the brain, the voice, the body, the tools, the memory and the self-editing loop, in plain words, including what goes wrong.
02
burnt melba timeline
dated milestones from the twitch channel's creation in october 2023 to this month, each with its source.
03
english ai vtubers: a field guide
neuro-sama, evil neuro, melba toast and the rest, with where each came from and which directories track them.
building an agent that has to run unsupervised? burnt melba is also the proving ground for yuru.be's agent work.
read the engineering case study →