>>10702153Simple timeline:
Coco quits
Management gets lenient for a while
EN girls, who are all really fucking tired of management's shit, realize they can get away with way more than they were before and start pushing boundaries
Council debuts
Minecraft becomes the defacto way to circumvent the 'collab ban'
Impromptu collabs and drop-ins become the norm
Prior to now, talents needed to submit requests with management for collabs. We know this because jp talents have said the same thing in the past--they've even had collabs within hololive refused by management. Now EN is just basically ignoring management and doing their own thing and management is too busy masturbating with their vtweeter roleplay to accost them for it.