>>12396501Yes, nepotism would translate into being a more profitable employee in the big picture. In the first place, I fundamentally don't see the problem with nepotism in this particular role.
People hate nepotism in government because it puts unqualified people in a position where they can heavily, negatively influence normal people without them having any way to avoid that influence.
But these are fucking streamers whose income is determined by popularity and not mandatory taxes, you can simply not watch them if they are really bad.
Employees hate nepotism in a company because it can take away promotions and pay raises that would otherwise have gone to them.
But in this case, the nepotism is from the employees itself.
So I'm really confused what the problem is here aside from kneejerk reactions to the word 'nepotism'.
And in the end, your role as an entertainer is to make emotional connections with strangers. If you were really such a good talent, why would you have zero connections (even to a friend of a friend)? It's not like the scene was huge - and arguably it still isn't, at least among the ones who matter. Even if you started late, the people in the company were hired over several years, and when they were indies, you should have wanted to befriend them out of empathy, shared interests or simply wanting to collab. And the barriers would have been low, too, nobodies getting together with other nobodies.
So maybe you don't mesh well with the sort of people the company is looking for and has already hired, you only look out for yourself and don't care about your peers, or you simply weren't good enough in the first place. All of those are good reasons to be rejected.
