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My opinions of Nijisanji have changed. I used to see it as a fun vtuber company. But now I'm seeing it as a whorehouse. Everyone's offcollabing all the time for sexual reasons. It's pretty disgusting and uncalled for. There's no reason for it. Riku's entire vision of the company is built around this gender-doesn't-matter philosophy which is just completely false. As if gender difference or gender dynamics aren't a real evolved trait. So the company itself is built on a lie from the outset.
I don't see the branch going anywhere other than down, stagnating and floundering. And I don't want it to succeed anyway in its current state. It's gone from fun times with Lazulight to an absolute shitshow of drama and psychopathy. Everyone's mentally ill and fucked up. The fans seem like the most pathetic people on earth willingly accepting the worst kinds of abuse and bullshit that's rained down on them. They have formed in-group cliques that expel outsiders, not that any outsiders want to join such a hostile community in the first place.
I've begun watching alternatives and finding them to be better. They don't have the magic of the original NijiEN but they are at least not raining abuse on their fandoms, it's a safe place to be. I wish the girls here would take their leave of this place but I know they don't have the spine to make such a decision, especially surrounded by affirmation from fellow cultmembers.
I think the future of NijiEN involves stagnation, boredom, misery. I'm sure it will be fine but it's surely a far cry from what it could have been. Sad and disappointing. I'll probably return to these threads someday and see people fretting about future dramas that are all too predictable at this point. I just don't want to experience the inevitable painful descent, the fun has left the roller coaster and Mr. Bones laughs.