>>37976771The thing is we have public statistics on how that panned out. Over the Luxiem/Noctyx period the girls' SC income was cut by 50% or more while stress, drama 'scandals' and amount of breaks skyrocketed. On its own that would be catastrophic damage to the branch, essentially wiping out half of the girls' work in the course of a few months. HOWEVER, Luxiem went viral on Bilibili and became an overnight Chinese phenomenon. The huge influx of money and viewers from Asia allowed Anycolor to paper over the massive damage dealt to the English-speaking NA fanbase the girls had spent the past year cultivating.
Saying 'we're going to emulate the Luxiem model' is like saying your plan hinges on winning the Powerball like that other guy did. It's delusional - you can't 'plan' for winning the lottery, and the evidence was out even back then that without that huge stroke of luck in a completely unrelated market, the male waves would have been actual toxic poison for NijiEN as a business.
HoloEN management pre-Tempus debut was basically completely delusional. If (big if) they looked at the evidence at all, it looks to me like they apparently concluded they could tank the damage to the original audience because Tempus would go even more viral than Luxiem did. We're talking levels of suicidal overconfidence and separation from reality that shouldn't be possible, from people who presumably are being paid good money to avoid those kinds of mistakes.
