>>107358986Come the culmination of that fight, somewhere around the 21st of June, lots of elements had been mixed into the issue, such as the harassment of Mata, the stealing of charity money, the economic doom of the company, the money the talents would never get back, the ass-kissing towards management from Mouse despite Gunrun's betrayal, the fact that management had done fuck all to help Zen at any point with things like the audition-drama. This fight happened after Geega quit VShojo and Zen probably tried to convince Mouse to quit with Zen (which is something we know from how Zen talked about it later), but Mouse refused. (It is unknown whether VShojo had found a fire-sale buyer, but judging by language used by Ama and Mata it seems like Zen quitting might have been the straw that broke the camel's back for any of those chances. There's also a matter regarding Zen badmouthing a sponsor during an economically sensitive time, potentially losing valuable money.)
This all lead to Zen actively blocking both Gunrun and Mouse, and imploring Ari to abandon Mouse (given the charity theft and all), but Ari refused, making her yet another collateral in the fight. (It is worth noting that Ari had a really bad temper this month, probably due to sickness and stress, heavily limiting her ability to be diplomatic)
Ari then tried to repair her relations with Zen after betraying her, which Zen refused to have happen, causing Ari to try to use Meicha and Papamutt to get to Zen. She seemingly went about this in such a way that pissed Papa off so much that he joined team Zen.
On the other side of things, Mouse retaliated by imploring the entirety of VChiban to stay away from Zen.
The issue seemed to have simmered down a bit by the 1st of July, as Ari apologized for her tempestuous behavior, to which Zen accepted it, only to then instantly get slapped in the face by two back to back 1 on 1 Peak collabs from Ari and Mouse. This effectively was the last straw for Zen, causing her to cut off all communication. (As a side-note, we know this final part also didn't stay within wraps as Ari confided with at least two of her mods (which were long time geckos (Kuhndos and Jarel)) which then proceeded to stop going to Zen's streams. We also know Papa talked about it in the middle of July)
Zen, during the month of July, only had the issue subtly brewing in the background. We know for a fact that Zen was shut out of VShojo systems even before she had officially quit, probably tied to the fact that she got angry about Mouse's scheduling ploy. Come the collapse of VShojo, and Mouse's announcement of her quitting (I'm 90% sure, judging by economic statements from VShojo, that Gunrun let Mouse make the video to save Mouse's skin) Zen tried to not stir up more drama by reacting to Mouse's tweet with a heart, and saying things like "Mouse had to be the one to say it". It is worth noting that Ari was covering her own ass when talking about the revelations, half expecting Mouse to not make it out of the mess unscrutinized.
At the start of August, Mei confronts Ari regarding the fact that she had ghosted her, probably because a rumor had started regarding Ari being a TERF (whether or not Ari initiated the conversation with Mei or the other way around, I don't know), but it ended up with Mei quite upset over the language Ari used. Mei confided with Zen which made Zen go into a fit and have a giant fight with Ari (this was a few hours before Mouse's anniversary stream, so for anyone with that rrat in their head needs to rewire a bit (we know this because Ari removed her Zen emotes from 7tv before the stream had even started)) (This also contradicts Ari's statement about not having talked to Zen and it coming out of nowhere). Zen proceeds to drink a bunch and ultimately puts out a statement meant to serve both as a way for people to stop pestering Zen about Ari collabs, and as a way to fuck over Ari's career.
This did not go over well, even when done in the most mild-mannered way possible, as mild or not, it was still an attempt at attacking Ari. Stemming from this, it gave Ari the platform with which to start mending a lot of her relations, even if slowly, with both Papa and Mei. Ari still completely ignores Mei, but for some reason Mei doesn't mind and keeps at it (even if Ari had told Mouse to ignore Mei in the past too), but Papa on the other hand slowly warms up to Ari again.
