>>69185316>Is uploading a music video without permission and encouraging your fans to re-upload it a termination-worthy offense?Technically? Yes. Companies can be shit like that, but if it was stated “hey don’t do this” and she did it, then that’s on Selen. It becomes a more valid termination action if you take into account that apparently she has been “troublesome” for managers or other events like they so claimed, but that history doesn’t even need to be there for such a thing to technically take place. Firing or terminating employees isn’t something companies do on a whim or easily though; they can, but it costs them a lot in both training and time and resources to replace the loss, and for an environment entirely based on building relationships between the viewer and the vtuber to maximise profit, it isn’t a good business practice to just fire for the smallest of mistakes. I think, and I say this as someone who hasn’t been keeping track of the whole drama so I can focus on my own vtubing stuff, for as absolutely horrid and wretched as Nijisanji is proving to be, Selen was likely very troublesome to work with. If I was a manager and one of my talents decided to take to their own social media platform to throw me under the bus more than once and likely after a firm talking to, I’d be pissed, not because “hurrr she said a mean thing about me” but because she’s destroying good will in a company, which is something you can NOT get back once it’s gone (ironic considering what has transpired). It’s one thing to be annoyed, but it’s something you just can’t really do with your employer in ANY workplace, because as ironic as it sounds with everything happening now, it does destroy brand reputation. Before this shit show, there still very much was this idea of “management is useless, the talent seems to be running the show” which is not really something you want to wear on your sleeve as a company. Even if the managers are incompetent or utterly useless, broadcasting as such is something that’s never on the table.
With that being said, whether it was right or wrong is now entirely out of the question the second Nijisanji released that termination notice. Phrased in such a slanderous, accusatory and disingenuous way, it destroys any kind of legitimacy on any actual problems or misgivings Selen might have caused that would give valid reason to let her go, and this is once again taking into consideration that we’re accounting for knowing nothing about stuff going on behind the scene.
