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#the niki tag — for anything related to c!Niki
…to be continued.
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My favorite character is Niki Nihachu from the Dream SMP. I mainly post about her. I’m always up for a chat about Niki, so please never be afraid to send me asks about her or to strike up a conversation about her!
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I’m not a yandere, and I highly doubt most people who self-identify as one are either. If I had to choose a dere to call myself, I’d say I’m more “similar” to a yangire or himedere. It’s not like I or anyone else actually matches any of those archetypes completely though, obviously.
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This may devolve into rambling but bear with me. I’m not a musician or anyone with a background in music, I’m speaking purely from the perspective of both a consumer and a fan.
Part 1: Personal opinions
Part 2: The statistics
Part 3: Going forward
Part 1: Personal opinions
Honestly?
I don’t think she’s a bad musician. At no point while listening to her music did I ever think “oh this part noticeably stands out” or “this is hard to listen to.” The lyrics can evidently use a bit of work, but overall I think they’re fairly solid. Understandable, at the very least.
I have tried to listen to everything she’s put out (especially the more recent stuff because that’s a better assessment of her skill) and they’re all…fine I suppose.
Unfortunately if there’s one thing I dislike the most, it’s that she does suffer from having a bit of a bland sound, to the point that if I didn’t know it was cc!Niki singing specifically then I probably wouldn’t even listen.
Of all her most recent songs, I like ‘Strung Along’ the most. ‘Haunted’ was a bit too blatant in its dependence on cliches for me, even though I think the chorus has a catchier sound to it than ‘Strung Along’ does. I do often get them mixed up when replaying the lyrics in my head though, due to how similar the two songs are.
Part 2: The statistics
cc!Niki’s follower count as of 7/12/2026:
— On YouTube: 1.25M
— On TikTok: 2.7M
‘Strung Along’ views as of 7/12/2026:
— On YouTube: 16,035
— On the music video: 42,661
— On Spotify: 242,391
Number of videos promoting ‘Strung Along’: 4
Average view count for promo: 114,550
‘Haunted’ views as of 7/12/2036:
— On YouTube: 2,984
— On the music video: 13,172
— On Spotify: 54,423
Number of videos promoting ‘Haunted’: 4
Average view count for promo: 105,200
And all together that leads us with:
— An 81.39% decrease in viewership on YouTube.
— A 69.12% decrease in viewership on the music videos.
— A 77.55% decrease in viewership on Spotify.
Part 3: Going forward
With her current amount of followers, and the fact that her promotional content was CLEARLY seen by many of them, I think this does raise some questions about how successful her actual music career is going to be. Obviously, since we only have those songs to go off of things could very much change going forward.
But I think it is also important to not just blatantly ignore the vast amount of people who listened to the first song out of curiosity, didn’t find it that interesting, and chose to not check out the next.
From her insta I know that she’s been leaning more into screaming, which could add some edge to her song and might help her form her own “niche” so to say. This post isn’t meant to be doom and gloom.
For now, I’m somewhat interested in seeing where she goes from here. As much as I am a fan of her, I can’t say I’m full heartedly expectant that she will improve but I do hope she does. If you haven’t listened to the songs she already has out, I’d recommend taking a listen. And if you like it, go pre-save her newest song ‘Slip Away’!
cc!Niki has confirmed on her insta that ‘Slip Away’ is just the beginning and she’ll be doing more rock songs in the future! ‘Slip Away’ does still have some lyric problems, but the snippets she’s shown kind of lead me to think that this song will definitely be better than the previous ones. As I said earlier, this could help her distinguish herself from a lot of the other content creators turned musicians.
Another concern I didn’t really mention before is the fact that a lot of her music is just about the same concept, the “I was in a toxic relationship and was a victim of how they treated me, they’re a bad person but I still miss them and I’m really upset.” In the same QnA that she confirmed that she’ll be doing more rock songs she also stated that she’s been releasing singles to build up a catalogue before releasing an album.
It’s not wrong to want to focus on that specific topic, lots of people enjoy it. I mean, artists like Olivia Rodrigo do it. But artists like Olivia Rodrigo are also more established, have songs that sound distinct, and throw in other types of songs into the mix.
This is mostly concerning to me because like I said most of her songs have been about the exact same thing but with a very small twist that doesn’t really explore the concept in more depth or in a very different way. It’s a very surface level kind of twist. ‘Slip Away’ seems like it might be the exact same thing.
I don’t know much about music, but I do know that when trying to drum up interest for something it’s probably not a good idea to give the same one sided preview over and over again, ESPECIALLY all in a row. How is that going to make people interested in the actual album? I’m sure some people will check it out just because it’s cc!Niki, similar to the first song ‘Strung Along’, but how is she going to keep people interested when/if she releases her next?
And not only that, but she’s also said that she would love to tour and then heavily implied that she’s going to in the future after she releases more music? I don’t know, even with the heavier sound I’m still concerned if this is what her plan is. Hopefully she’ll pull through since she’s just starting out.
This may devolve into rambling but bear with me. I’m not a musician or anyone with a background in music, I’m speaking purely from the perspective of both a consumer and a fan.
Part 1: Personal opinions
Part 2: The statistics
Part 3: Going forward
Part 1: Personal opinions
Honestly?
I don’t think she’s a bad musician. At no point while listening to her music did I ever think “oh this part noticeably stands out” or “this is hard to listen to.” The lyrics can evidently use a bit of work, but overall I think they’re fairly solid. Understandable, at the very least.
I have tried to listen to everything she’s put out (especially the more recent stuff because that’s a better assessment of her skill) and they’re all…fine I suppose.
Unfortunately if there’s one thing I dislike the most, it’s that she does suffer from having a bit of a bland sound, to the point that if I didn’t know it was cc!Niki singing specifically then I probably wouldn’t even listen.
Of all her most recent songs, I like ‘Strung Along’ the most. ‘Haunted’ was a bit too blatant in its dependence on cliches for me, even though I think the chorus has a catchier sound to it than ‘Strung Along’ does. I do often get them mixed up when replaying the lyrics in my head though, due to how similar the two songs are.
Part 2: The statistics
cc!Niki’s follower count as of 7/12/2026:
— On YouTube: 1.25M
— On TikTok: 2.7M
‘Strung Along’ views as of 7/12/2026:
— On YouTube: 16,035
— On the music video: 42,661
— On Spotify: 242,391
Number of videos promoting ‘Strung Along’: 4
Average view count for promo: 114,550
‘Haunted’ views as of 7/12/2036:
— On YouTube: 2,984
— On the music video: 13,172
— On Spotify: 54,423
Number of videos promoting ‘Haunted’: 4
Average view count for promo: 105,200
And all together that leads us with:
— An 81.39% decrease in viewership on YouTube.
— A 69.12% decrease in viewership on the music videos.
— A 77.55% decrease in viewership on Spotify.
Part 3: Going forward
With her current amount of followers, and the fact that her promotional content was CLEARLY seen by many of them, I think this does raise some questions about how successful her actual music career is going to be. Obviously, since we only have those songs to go off of things could very much change going forward.
But I think it is also important to not just blatantly ignore the vast amount of people who listened to the first song out of curiosity, didn’t find it that interesting, and chose to not check out the next.
From her insta I know that she’s been leaning more into screaming, which could add some edge to her song and might help her form her own “niche” so to say. This post isn’t meant to be doom and gloom.
For now, I’m somewhat interested in seeing where she goes from here. As much as I am a fan of her, I can’t say I’m full heartedly expectant that she will improve but I do hope she does. If you haven’t listened to the songs she already has out, I’d recommend taking a listen. And if you like it, go pre-save her newest song ‘Slip Away’!
As much as I like Tommy I cannot stand most fics with him in it. Who is that because it certainly isn’t my favorite White boy. “Dark” “SBI” fics are the gravest offenders.
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Fanon villain!Tommy is basically fanon villain!Deku. No way either of them would turn all suave if they became evil, do you even know them. Sure, I’d say they’re both charismatic to a certain degree, but they have much more of that earnest charisma that kinda just seeps into everyone else than the classic smooth-talking nonchalant cool charisma (neither of them are cool or nonchalant let’s be honest with ourselves).
I am actually surprised Niki isn't a more popular character in fics, because she is a pretty versatile character giving her connections to so many different story lines.
Not to mention her ride or die attitude towards those she's loyal to can be used for angst, hurt/comfort, or humor depending on the fic.
What was up with people using the “women who can kill you” audio for Niki. Of all the women on the dream smp you could’ve chosen (Hannah who’s amazingly skilled at pvp, and absolutely could have killed a person; Puffy who has actually canonically taken a canon life; etc…) you choose Niki, the character whose most popular arc is…when she failed looney toons style at killing a dude no matter how hard she tried.
It’s so obvious they meant it in a cool aura farming way but I can’t help but find it really funny lmao. Not to say Niki isn’t amazing (because she is) but the reason why she’s so interesting was never about her capabilities when it came to murder so it just seems so random to me?
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Spy x Family DSMP au with Niki as Billy Squire. Wilbur is the Biddy equivalent, except best friend instead of child because I cannot see Niki as a mother figure and also that would just be weird.
She starts off really just not wanting to do anything that would rock the boat in fear of the regime she’s currently living under, until she’s face to face with the brutality of it all after Wilbur is murdered at the protest.
Niki then becomes radicalized and joins the Syndicate (the Red Circus of the au. Similarly it also used to be a student led group, one that Wilbur was a part of). Jack is there too, the duo orchestrate the busjacking together. The inmates Niki is trying to release are Connor, Ranboo, Phil, and Techno. Tommy is Anya, lowkey does not know what he’s doing but successfully bullshiting his way through with the power of plot convenient misunderstandings.
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