>>82551024Japanese work ethic.
The problem, #1, in my eyes is the reason they had a meteoric rise in the first place is because they were a small indie tech company who did not give a shit about stuffy suited Japanese work politics.
Japanese work politics is soul-crushing and destroys any creatives in the cradle. It's made to be a rigid dictatorship, but every single manager is a dictator over another. There is no room for talking back to your manager or your superiors, even if what they are doing is a remarkably stupid idea.
Which is why Anycolor, a much bigger company ran by much stuffier executives, made so many braindead, stupid hairbrained decisions in a row that anyone looking at it from the outset could have seen was a bad idea.
And then you get to Cover and try to figure out why their plucky band of heroines and confused CEO who wanted to make VR pingpong got successful and you see why: He didn't give a shit about Japanese work culture, honoring their superiors, or bowing thrice before addressing anyone one level higher than them, until Cover became big. Cover becoming big means that work culture is seeping in, and it's now taking a toll on the company and the talents since they clearly didn't join just to have some suited retard tell them they can't stream 10 seconds of a meme because "Muh nohorhoorubooru shareholders would not apprechirateru it". It gets worse when they try to apply this logic to overseas talents when they're competing with streamers who routinely gain millions of views by just watching someone else's video and commenting over it.
