>>107841416“Expected” is too strong of a word but people even in this very thread were always inquisitive about the viability of “Talent Freedom” / “the company provides everything and takes nothing” business plan they were going with.
The prevailing theory back then was that VShojo would take no cut out of donations or self produced merch but reserved the right to produce merch and keep 100% of the revenue.
That of course makes no sense in hindishght considering they barely released any merch for the whole time, definitely not enough to be solvent