>>81251837Hindsight is always 20/20. There were always cracks in the foundation, but I had too much faith in the company and ignored them until I couldn't, and when I finally paid attention I saw the rot emerging not just from the outside, but the inside as well. There is no saving a company that doesn't want to save itself. There is no point in supporting a company that actively abuses the people I grew attached to. I sympathize with Pomu dearly. I think her initial enthusiasm and its diminishment over time is the perfect representation for what a lot of us early fans that stuck out to the bitter end went through. We wanted to make NijiEN a name in the west, but instead we got betrayed by greed and increasingly petty office politics. We saw people we used to see as friends turn their backs on each other. We saw that positivity burn inside out into the toxic form we see today. Everything could be so much better, and anyone who suggested it to anyone in power got shot down for it. Why? Jealousy, greed, personal whims? NijiEN ultimately wasn't a conducive environment for creativity. It just wanted to print out corporate slop and run. It just wanted use and consume us, the livers, and the fans. Eventually that corporate toxicity dripped down and either you gulped it up and pissed it out on others or you packed your bags and ran away to greener pastures. It's nothing but crabs in a bucket now. A hedonistic playground for the haves, and a bitter struggle for the have-nots.
