>>85079773I don't know how japanese corpos work, but this isn't the first time they've done something like this. Their employees are their shields. They are all disposable.
https://x.com/NIJISANJI_World/status/1757257329945497672I assume this twitter is not operated by any of the livers, so the theory that the NijiEN members went rogue doesn't hold up, since this management-run twitter immediately tried to defend that trainwreck of a video. The message that day was two-fold. Riku gets to bow and "apologize" in the kindest sense, while the NijiEN livers must deliver the most controversial statements, to protect their brand.
If there's anything to take from this, it is a serious failure to understand western culture and its perception surrounding corporations vs the individual. Oddly similar to the current Nippon Steel controversy where the nips underestimated the value of appealing to the US labour union, and now the merger is dead in water.
