>>25170038Based on my reading of their threads during that time and with the disclaimer that they never managed much past 1000 dislikes and that probably includes people other than Anstafags, Ensemble Stars yumejos are hardcore unicorns and the ultimate corporate bootlickers. Already before they decided to get angry about Out of Frame, they were complaining about how covering songs ought to be illegal and how they can't shake off the thought that Happy Elements is not getting their cut from utaite and vtuber covers. Also, the main reason to cover Ansta songs is to steal Ansta fans away from Happy Elements. So once you get over the surprise that these people actually exist and function in society enough to have disposable income to spend on gacha, it's not all that surprising they decided homages aren't a thing, because they had never heard the word before. Also accused the composer of plagiarism because the chord progressions were similar (not even the same, if I recall correctly) to a song by a different Ansta composer. They also accused the artist of the gatefold (who had also drawn all their cover arts) of tracing, although from what I saw, passers-by on Twitter and elsewhere noted that the evidence they had compiled served only to prove (s?)he didn't. But in the end they were seething about their husbandos being associated with other women, I remember in particular the one who complained about images of Inui flickering before her eyes now every time she gazes upon the Mao merch covering her apartment. Several of them were saying they were unable to play Ansta or listen to the song that resembled Out of Frame due to intrusive thoughts featuring vtubers. They were also seething about how Out of Frame is actually a good song they'd like to listen to if it was an official Ansta song and that the artist's Ansta fanarts were better than official arts.
Also, it was the lyricist who made the mistake of writing something along the lines of "connecting the virtual world and Ansta world" which, the yumejos claimed, tricked them into believing it was an official collaboration. Of course, as passers-by pointed out, anyone who knows anything about Ansta knows it's males only and anyone who doesn't know even that can't get tricked by virtue of not giving a shit about Ansta. This didn't stop the seethe, because there were several Twitter posts from people claiming they bought Out of Frame by mistake, although all of those had curiously been deleted kinda like there were suddenly several posts from Anstacunt haters on 5ch's Suisei general and vtuber haters on Ansta general right before links to each were posted on the other. Which is also interesting since the first letters of the lyrics Toko's orison spells out her oshi's name which made her public enemy #1 for the yumejos, but as the yumejos themselves noted, for some reason people kept seething way more about Suisei who had been the shitflinging target of the month for antis without a cause ever since Still Still Stellar's sales numbers came out a couple of weeks prior.
The lyricist did apologize on his own and dropped out of some interview stream with other music people, but that came so fast that it didn't really stir the yumejos up further, although it probably brought the issue to wider attention. After a week or so the yumejos were saying they were losing heart because of the lack of official response and said how tiring it is that Happy Elements doesn't do anything but leaves yet again (!) their copyright watchdogging to the fans. They were also angry at how yet again outsiders are blaming Ansta fans for flaming when they've always been the victims. But then Happy Elements and Arte Refact issued a statement saying that no one had done anything wrong, but that they were nevertheless sorry for the mental anguish caused to the fans. The yumejos then decoded this to mean Happy Elements supports them and doubled down on their e-mail writing campaign to Cover and Anykara as well as Toko's sponsor at the time until eventually giving up due to any lack of response from them.
