Timeline
Aqua said Taiwan (specifically regarding bubble tea - "not from China, it's Taiwan")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQCYpRrrk-k NGA started to seethe and dislike bombed her
Choco had Tibet as one of the answers in her Trivia show (can't find any surviving links for this one, but there's a lot of anons in the archives talking about it when it happened)- nga and bilibili made a big fuss again and asked cover to apologise
Cover puts out an apology notice saying "We will educate our talents on topics to avoid" - this one too seems to only be on bilibili, so I can't find it anymore.
Cover is parallelly putting out more and more apologies -
Permissions ark
Mel harassment
It's all a mess.
Bilibili gets suisei to do a live show for them and really fucks up her 3D model - (looks up suisei Macro Link)
https://twitter.com/TheBrando2/status/ Fans hate it but no complaint made to bilibili because "need to protect our Chinese investors"
Pekora mentions doing a live for bilibili, but that doesn't happen. Bilibili makes a huge fuss causing pekora to apologise TWICE and even yagoo to apologise
https://t.bilibili.com/378407878869361204?tab=2 https://t.bilibili.com/378523314708423610?tab=2 https://t.bilibili.com/378788309893937073?tab=2 https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/g2cjpe/the_official_announcement_about_recent_happenings/ Bilibili now know they have cover by the balls and can get yagoo to do anything for them.
Haato says taiwan while showing her analytics.
Mass uprising on nga - they are going to completely bend cover to their will now.
Meanwhile oblivious to this Coco gets a superchat asking her about has analytics, so the next day she does the same -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOEgA_qAxcs She says "4.7% taiwan"
nga starts shitting and spraying blood out of their assholes. "This American woman, obviously did this to mock us!"
They spin up a story about how brave Coco is being a shield for haato. Reddit laps it up and starts praising Coco for standing up to the Chinese.
Meanwhile Coco has no fucking clue about what just happened -
https://streamable.com/10ixnx Asacoco gets privated while she was doing an unarchived karaoke and no one even told her why.
By the next day they are dislike bombing coco's videos and her comment section has some very angry Chinese gentlemen talking about how "this is the 4th time this year that cover has insulted our country"
Narratives say that she wanted to put out an apology - she wants to say she didn't know about taiwan.
But if she does that would be throwing cover under the bus! Cover specifically promised to train their talents! (in that apology I can't find)
So she continues streaming as normal while he's streams are dislike bombed, chat goes to shit and comment section becomes a mess.
After 3 days Cover suspends Coco and haato. They put up apology letters in English, Japanese and Chinese, with the Chinese version reading "we support the one China policy"
https://t.bilibili.com/439666396115075371?tab=2 Later they again apologise for the discrepancy between the statements, and penalize yagoo
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/j2ecrt/explanation_of_the_events_leading_to_our_public After 3 weeks Coco returns with all Xie wheelbarrows going at it full swing (they didn't expect her to come back).
She did asacoco without touching on the incident (ending with her now famous "fuck U and don't come back" end card)
But that evening she finally spoke on the situation - "I wasn't allowed to say anything about this, but I want to clarify: I was NOT intentional, I was just ignorant"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cvJDOdqAm0&t=242s Haato might want to blame herself for what happened, but the situation was going down that track anyway. Her wanting to pin this on herself is either stupidly naive or extremely narcissistic.
Tldr - Coco said taiwan. She didn't do it to "protect haato".
nga was seething for many months before the haato-Coco thing, and were looking to extort cover anyway.
Cover was already swimming in controversy and putting out apologies frequently.
Coco returned and clarified that it was NOT intentional.
Haato still wants to take responsibility.
