>>13690919They never announced it, but it seems pretty clear that they did. Nowadays they pretty much try to remove any trace of Hololive from official stuffs even if those didn't come directly from Hololive (i.e: anime)
Whether it was because Hololive cut off HoloCN, or if it was their intention all along (and they helped the TW incident to blow up) is debatable. Depends on whether you'd like believe in rrat, I guess