>>101396219Yes.
....to more seriously answer your question, Niji EN management is in zugzwang WRT Twisty and Aster. Twisty has been unpersoned, but the general majority of Aster's content is still up; including the waiting room for his cooking stream, which was originally set to air on Dec 5 but has been delayed when her allegations against him and the company were originally made public.
They cannot formally acknowledge the fact of Twisty's departure of the company (whether they call it a graduation or a termination) without the appearance of having engaged in whistleblower retaliation against her, but they also cannot NOT acknowledge her departure at all. Their most recent tweet was four days ago on an unrelated matter, and half the comments were people noticing their deafening silence.
Fortunately (?) for Niji EN management, a very-high-ranking manager is retiring in late July, around the time of the shareholders meeting. This manager is high enough on the Anycolor food chain that their retirement was announced directly to the shareholders in the quarterly report last week.
If they somehow manage to keep the Aster yab from spiraling further than it already has between now and then, they may be able to use that manager's retirement to permanently hide the yab from the investors - they could merge or close the branch, or announce an upcoming merger/closure, concurrently with Manager-San's retirement. This would track with the rest of their investor relations strategy: if the investors don't know about a yab, then the yab never happened. And as of right now there's nothing to suggest that the investors know about the Aster yab.
