Nux Taku is still here. But if you’ve scrolled through YouTube recently and felt like the vibe shifted, you aren't crazy.
For a few years, Nux—real name Noble—was the undisputed king of "flexing" on the anime community. He built a massive following by being the loudest, most chaotic voice in the room, constantly poking the bear of "toxic" fanbases. Then things got weird. Between a massive fallout with the VTubing community, a shift toward generic "reaction" content, and several high-profile platform bans, the Nux Taku we see today is a very different beast than the one who started the "Lord Nuxanor" persona.
Honestly, tracking what happened to Nux Taku is like trying to map out a multi-car pileup where everyone is still driving.
The VShojo Drama: The Turning Point
If you want to pin down the exact moment things changed, it was the VShojo incident. This wasn't just some Twitter spat. It was a massive, industry-shaking mess involving doxxing, federal investigations, and a total bridge-burning with the VTubing elite.
Back in late 2021, Nux released a video claiming to "expose" a doxxing scam targeting VTubers. He thought he was being a hero. He thought he was warning the community. Instead, he ended up leaking sensitive information that VShojo (the agency representing stars like Ironmouse and Nyanners) was actively working with law enforcement to handle quietly.
The backlash was instant and brutal.
Members of VShojo publicly denounced him. They claimed his video put them in actual physical danger by alerting the doxxer to the investigation. Nux, for his part, maintained he was just trying to help, but the damage was done. He went from being a respected peer in the VTubing space to an outcast almost overnight. You can still see the scars of this in his content today; he rarely collabs with the "Big Fish" of the VTuber world anymore, instead pivoting toward his own circle of "indie" creators and edgy commentators.
Why the Content Feels Different Now
Ever noticed how Nux barely talks about One Piece or Hunter x Hunter analysis anymore?
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He used to be a "heavy" anime YouTuber. His essays on "The Philosophy of Gilgamesh" or the "toxicity" of the My Hero Academia fandom were genuinely high-effort pieces of media criticism. But the YouTube algorithm is a jealous god. It demands daily uploads. It demands high click-through rates.
Basically, Nux realized that deep-dive analysis takes weeks to produce and gets half the views of a 10-minute reaction video to a TikTok trend.
He shifted. Hard.
If you look at his main channel now, it’s a sea of bright thumbnails and "react" content. He’s leaning into the "Z-Tier" celebrity drama and "TikTok Cringe" meta because that’s what keeps the lights on. For long-time fans who subscribed for the "Lord Nuxanor" intellectual flexes, this felt like a betrayal. To Nux, it was likely just business. You can’t run a multi-channel empire on 40-minute essays about Nietzschean themes in Berserk—at least not if you want to stay in the top 1% of the platform’s earners.
The Twitch Ban and the Kick Migration
Nux has always lived on the edge of "Community Guidelines."
In 2022 and 2023, he faced multiple strikes and bans on Twitch. Sometimes it was for showing "suggestive" content—a constant risk when your brand is built on "off-brand" anime jokes—and other times it was for "harassment" following his aggressive commentary style.
This led him to do what many "edgy" creators have done: he started exploring Kick.
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The move to Kick allowed him to be more "unfiltered," but it also fragmented his audience. When a creator moves platforms, they lose about 30% of their "casual" viewers. This contributed to the feeling that Nux had "disappeared." He didn't disappear; he just moved to a neighborhood where the police don't care if you're setting off fireworks at 3:00 AM.
The "Hate-Watching" Era
There’s a specific phenomenon with Nux Taku that most people get wrong. They think his "downfall" is because people stopped liking him.
Actually, Nux thrives on being the villain.
He lean-ins to the "cringe" label. He knows that a significant portion of his comments section is there just to tell him how much they miss the old Nux. He engages with it. He pins the most hateful comments. He’s mastered the art of "negative engagement."
But this comes with a shelf life.
When your entire brand is "triggering the snowflakes," you eventually run out of people to trigger who actually care. The anime community has largely moved on from the "anti-SJW" and "anti-woke" anime wars of 2018-2020. People just want to talk about Chainsaw Man. By staying stuck in that combative "Lord Nuxanor" mindset, he’s alienated the newer generation of anime fans who find that style of humor a bit... dated.
Is Nux Taku "Cancelled"?
Short answer: No.
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Long answer: He’s "niche-ified."
Nux still pulls hundreds of thousands of views per video. He’s still a millionaire. He’s still a massive influence in the "Anitube" sphere. But he no longer holds the cultural "veto power" he once did. In 2019, if Nux Taku told his fans to vote for a specific character in a poll, they would break the internet. Today, his "fam" is smaller, more insular, and less interested in large-scale community "raids."
He’s also dealt with significant personal health issues and burnout. Running three or four channels simultaneously—Nux Taku, Nux Vesta, Nux Tak-Two—is a recipe for a mental breakdown. He’s talked openly about the stress of the "treadmill" and how it’s affected his willingness to put effort into "prestige" content.
What to Expect Next
Nux isn't going back to the old ways. That ship has sailed.
If you’re looking for the guy who did 20-minute breakdowns of why Gintama is a masterpiece, you’re better off looking at his old playlists. The current Nux is an entertainer, a provocateur, and a businessman. He's focusing on the "V-Tuber" identity because it allows him to stay anonymous and scale his brand without having to be "on" as a human being 24/7.
Here is what you should actually do if you want to keep up with what’s happening in his world without getting lost in the noise:
- Check the "Nux Vesta" channel if you want more of the VTuber-centric content; it's where he does most of his community interaction now.
- Look for his guest appearances on podcasts like SomeOrdinaryPod or with creators like Mutahar and MoistCr1TiKaL. He tends to be much more "real" and less "persona-heavy" when he's a guest on someone else's turf.
- Ignore the Twitter drama. Most of it is manufactured for engagement. If there’s a real controversy, it’ll be mirrored in a 15-minute video on his main channel within 48 hours.
The "disappearance" of Nux Taku wasn't a single event. It was a slow evolution from an anime critic into a general-purpose internet personality. Whether that’s a "glow-up" or a "sell-out" depends entirely on why you hit the subscribe button in the first place.