>>4371809>>4371735>didn't like her and tried to replace her byBad rrat. What actually happened is they wanted to expand the Ai-chan brand but didn't have a model for it as other vtubers weren't relevant yet and Ai-chan wasn't as much a live streamer personality, she was a scripted content producer and singer so there was no model to expand on her brand with anyway. The multiple AI project failed initially, in the later stage love-chan and AI-pi were great but it was too late to grow their new identities. Any rumors that the original Ai-chan was being replaced or made to play a smaller role are fake and were even spread by media disinformation because Activ8 were not transparent with their plans. Also a huge part of Ai's fanbase is Chinese. When the Chinese Ai started appearing in Chinese events they felt betrayed because they thought they would get the original Ai experience instead, which they were not going to get anyway. You can imagine how vapid the Chinese antis were afterwards.
