>>88433561She still would have been successful in her own right, perfectly able to eek out a decent living and then some as an indie. She had tons of fans from people working at companies after all, and she's a socialite that can make people laugh, she would have been fine no matter what. But yeah, the way Anycolor fired her absolutely helped her out, even if she didn't want things to go down that route.
They inadvertedly created and packaged the perfect narrative for people to take and run with: their company nearly drove one of their highly respected talents to the point of suicide, with many of her ex-coworkers all ganging up on social media to try and kill her reputation before her rebranding even got back off the ground. And NijiEN wasn't small either, they were the second largest corpo at the time so it was viewed by everyone. People were pissed, and instead of Riku's adequate PR video defusing the situation, it made people angrier and then confused over why one company would air out two contradictory statements one after the other. It was death by self inflicted wounds the likes of which the EN vtubing space will probably never see again.
