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If you still support C*VER after this, don't ever say you support any of the girls ever again. You clearly don't give a shit about them or their wellbeing.
>B-But they don't ever badmouth C*VER/Y*GOO so that means they're totally happy in the company and that means it's a great company and everyone loves it there
You people have never worked a day in your life. When you work for a company, you don't publicly badmouth management. That is especially true in entertainment. It's completely clear that this decision was made by Cover management and she was either actively or passively pushed into "retiring". I hope she at least gets a nice severance package, but knowing a but about Japanese work culture, I would say it's unlikely.
If you're not completely braindead, you'll see that this is most likely due to the issues she is causing with Chinese shareholders and other business partners. Having her also makes it much harder for Cover to ever establish a CN brand again, which would be highly valuable to them. CN market for VTubers is massive. It's hard to say what their plans are, but I would not be surprised to see a new CN branch announced within the next 6 months.
If you are still defending Cover, please remember what happened with the Coco incident. A lot of you like to downplay this, but let's be very clear about this. The Cover management, including Yagoo who everyone thinks is such a great guy, punished one of their employees because a foreign (and arguably hostile) corrupt government has anti-free-speech policies that their employee unknowingly violated. All this to protect profits. No, throwing your employees under the bus because of a foreign government to protect your bottom line is not "good business practice". It's pure cowardice. And afterwards, they gave up their CN branch anyway. Then what was the point, you ask? What's the grand plan?
There is none.
These people aren't smart. They're not brilliant top-level executives. It's a startup that has gotten way too big and the people at the top are incompetent. They're morons like you and me but they're also blinded by the profits and all the "support" they receive from their fans. They don't understand how to run a company and have no respect for the people working for them. It doesn't help that their fans suck up to them and don't hold them accountable, instead turning their failure into haha funny memes.
Again, what you need to understand is how insanely incompetent the people running Cover are. The perfect example (but certainly not the only one) is Gura's cat costume. The model was completely broken. It's clear to everyone that there was 0 quality control involved. The model was commissioned by Cover and taken just as is without asking for any revisions. Why didn't anyone check it? This is literally THE biggest and hottest VTuber right now, and they didn't think it's necessary to maybe take a quick look at what they're putting out in front of 100k people?
I can tell you that this level of model quality wouldn't even fly with a 100 follower indie VTuber. They would ask for it to be fixed or demand their money back. I'm not blaming the modeler, by the way. The model is acceptable for a first submission from an inexperienced indie modeler. It's quite likely that he never expected the model to be accepted like that and was waiting for their revision feedback. This is 100% unacceptable for any VTuber agency but especially unacceptable for the biggest and most popular one. How could something like that ever happen? There's just no explanation.
In conclusion: Cover is incompetent and there is zero accountability for them. They will continue to fuck up. As always with cases like this, there is much more going on internally than is shown to the outside. Eventually, it will all come apart. It always does. I just hope the girls won't suffer too much when that happens.
