>>97066035Forming an indie friend group will help her with the contract negotiations. By still being popular while mostly collabing with them, she's showing Gunrun that she doesn't really need VShojo so they better offer her really good contract terms. I think it's all calculated like how she casually mentioned thinking about leaving VShojo to gain leverage. I think we'll start seeing a lot more VShojo collabs again after the contract negotiations are done.