>>109142203This is a good summary of the real motive yeah. Adding to that the merch store issues and all the other problems she has as a content creator in Korea (tax bullshit, mega toxic society, etc.) made 2025 a grueling year for her. It’s just really really bad luck that the concert shit happened at a time when she was already super vulnerable and it made a spectacle for antis to latch onto and make her doubt/hate herself.
FWIW I don’t think /tingles/ are horrible people or anything, they just have a different worldview and set of values than honeymeads do and that’s what leads to the mutual accusations of being a bootlicker or being heartless or whatever. They sure as shit don’t like the Brazilian schizo lol.
One thing I would add though, a lot of this drama gets framed as if Mio is completely BPD or irrational for losing her shit at the concert. Most people would flip out -maybe not so extremely- after decades of emotional abuse that intensified *badly* over the last 6 months, missing out on an opportunity they’ve wanted for years, and then having to deal with Vtuber fans. I’m not just saying the ones who said unhelpful shit or that one guy who kept going on about how he did tell Mio about it and then went to seethe in a Mio hate thread (with fans like those who needs antis, haha) because she lashed out at him during a nervous breakdown. Vtubing will draw the menhera out of anyone, because many fans of female Vtubers or their dramas are genuinely awful people, and anti stalker culture is specially bad for some of the girls. There’s a reason why female fans don’t seem to want to share spaces with male fans.
Anti-med paragraph guy kinda has a logical point (and to be quite honest some tinglers had solid advice even if they said it in the shittiest way possible) but you have to view it in the context of a young girl who has been gaslighted her whole life and ended up in a particularly seedy internet subculture. She’s going to stumble many many times until she’s able to come to the logical conclusions, just the fact she is on the right track with recognizing her problems is a huge step forward. Also, Korea is infamous for throwing meds at any mental problem and sweeping things under the rug. It won’t be easy or quick for her to find a doctor that wants to do actual long lasting therapy instead of just prescribing medication.
The one thing I believe is really sad about all this is that she came out of that announcement stream thinking that she was a bad or broken person, when really it was the logical result of her being in a really bad situation (online and offline) and Internet culture making the bad parts of the fandom more visible. It’s just a stumble that I genuinely hope her and other people can learn from.
And I really really hope she comes back from that hiatus better equipped to deal with being a public figure and happy to see us someday 