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>News for March 16th, 2024>Hololive:-Shion, Pekora, and Chloe have a perfume sponsorship.
-The Gura sushi quilt is already the highest-selling pre-order of all Sushilang collabs.
-Koseki Bijou is confirmed to appear at Anime Boston this year.
-Gawr Gura is in Taiwan. A mishap over a scheduled tweet mistakenly claimed she was going to Taiwan "soon".
>Nijisanji:-Petra had a respectable 3D debut, despite everything.
-JP Investor sentiment dwindles regarding AnyColor stock.
-Claude Clawmark of TTT claims that Niji Livers are able to "just fucking ask" for a play button if they want one.
-Kaisei, a new JP debut, has already begun fitting in at the company, causing drama by revealing he's donated 1m Yen of superchats at Hololive.
-NijiEN streams are in sharp decline, with most livers streaming significantly less or not at all since Selen Tatsuki's termination.
-Kunai has returned from her medical hiatus.
>Phase Connect:-Pippa got a sponsorship with NovelAI.
>Small Corpos:-Amber Glow announces closure as of 3/17. All talents released from contracts and allowed to continue as indies.
-774 talent Shishio Chris announces that they will be graduating at the end of May.
-774 talent-turned-staff Oura Rukako will also be leaving the company at the end of March for unrelated health reasons.
-EIEN talent Kiki Lockheart announces graduation at the end of March.
-Project Kavvaii (which is spelled "Kavvaii" and not "Kawaii"???) announces that it will cease talent development activities as of March 31st, and Mikazuki Mai and Airi Gwynevere will be graduating as a result. They intend to finish the current season of Lunetide Bewitched, but have no further plans at this time.
-V&U debuts a new gen, the Triple A Club, consisting of 5 members. The debuts went well.
>Large Indies large segment:-Mikeneko claims Mafumafu lied in the KoreKore interview, so she's filed for defamation, which is now being investigated.
-A swath of /lig/gers have recently graduated or were scheduled to graduate, leading to speculation of involvement in an upcoming wave of debuts.
-Clio Aite, notable /lig/-/aus/ chuuba, is currently going minorly viral due to a history stream she did last week.
-Kiki Pyon, local /here/chuuba, announces her 3D debut on March 25th
-Dokibird received a care package from Razer, and has been recently mounting sponsorships.
-Neurosama returns to streaming, despite Vedal's best efforts to trap her soul in a dog.
>Small indies segment: TO CATCH A PREDATOR-Tora Karu, EN vtuber of no previous note, is accused of Sexual Assault allegations, and graduates because of these allegations. In his apology (now deleted, along with his Twitter account), he does not deny the allegations, apologizes for his behavior, and complains that his assets will be wasted due to the drama.
- Local indie chuuba gives tips to detect them: "if they have plenty of skebs of them having sex with other vtubers, they are probably sex pests"
Other:
-Upcoming vtuber TCG, Rift Runners, teases upcoming release.
-Legal Mindset, a weeb lawyer recently introduced to vtubers, privated a video on the Aiko Air breakdown. Further investigation shows that an unnamed vtuber related to the incident requested of LM's guest that the video be removed.
Sports:
-/holoX/ win /vt/ League 6, becoming the first team to make it to the finals twice in League history.
-/vrt/ win the /vt/ League 6 GarbageFES in a sudden death match against /pink/.
-Squared Circuit is forced to go on hiatus due to technical issues. SCOP quoted as saying "shitcock fucking anteater flew over my house".
-Lord of the Board 3 hasn't been announced. An anonymous source states "give us a break, VTL just ended".
-CorpoCar West & East Rounds 1 & 2 scheduled to take place this weekend, on the 23rd.
Market:
-NASFAQ Gambling on VTL6 reported to have record turnouts, at least in part to an increased maximum bet amount.
-Hololive expectedly surges from HoloFES weekend.
-Sora and Baelz are at massive highs, while Mel and Vesper are also uncharactaristically high.
-Ollie, Ayamy, and Kiara are well below average.
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