>>109737096A lot of Nijifans, both EN and non-EN, do not exercise their minds enough to adequately process why their reputation had fallen down the gutter as badly as it did. It’s easy to blame Selen and leave it at that. It takes less processing power to reach this conclusion and run with it. “She was in the wrong, therefore it’s unfair my oshi should have to suffer” is a popular perspective to adopt. There is validity in there, especially for those who clearly had nothing to do with the incident like Aia, Scarle, Ryouma, Ren, etc.
Anyone who followed the story without a blind bias for Niji can immediately see a spade and call it out for what it is. No one with a brain turns a blind eye to the fact that Selen stepped out of line when she did. It was Anycolor’s unusually harsh reaction, doubling down, tripling down, callous POSTING OF MERCH ANNOUNCEMENTS RIGHT ON SCHEDULE LIKE CLOCKWORK AFTER THE INCIDENT, and apologizing ONLY TO SAVE FACE INSTEAD OF HANDLING THINGS AMICABLY that destroyed all illusions of the happy family they had established for themselves. The company is valued at millions, if not billions, and you’re telling me they lack the resources and training to handle one girl adequately? One woman’s instability makes the CEO bow his head? Get real.
Any professional setting would be able to identify this and adopt the necessary approach to handle her. Use non-confrontational language, make her feel like you’re compromising with her even if the benefits are lopsided, whatever else. The fact they didn’t shows incompetence, and that is not something that can be allowed because it implies an unprofessional setting. And with the various bits of info that have trickled down the grapevine over the years, it’s clear the setting behind the curtain is anything but professional. Erring on the side of caution? We don’t do that here at NijiEN. Overlap her Neopets stream, we don’t care about the optics! Post the merch announcements, we don’t care about optics! Apologize to the audience but not Selen, we don’t give a damn about the optics! Allow our talents to subtweet on PLs whenever it seems like Doki might be having a bad time, we don’t give a damn about optics! Who needs optics when we have acrylic standees? We have Chronoir and Sanbaka! We have the OGs, how can we be in the wrong?
