Here's I think the most neutral and detailed QDR of it from the other day that attempts to explain things in a (more) neutral way than the others.
>Saurei has art contest
>Tiny vtuber submits art
>Saurei announces during judging that tracers were disqualified
>Tiny vtuber finds out after the contest she was disqualified for tracing
>She is angry because she was never given a chance to defend herself (as a vtuber, she literally had a vod of her drawing it in real-time to prove her innocence).
>Saurei's mod basically belittles her and says, "lol, too bad"
>(Side note for non-artists: Accusations of tracing can be a career-ending hit to an artist's rep, which is part of the reason the small vtuber was so angry.)
>Tiny vtuber posts the exchange to twitter
>Saruei backs up rude mod's behavor
>Twitter mass dogpiles her
>Saurei begins mass blocking to avoid criticism. Ends up blocking a lot of random people who are just asking innocent questions or offering gentle advice.
>Blocking people who were being very polite or genuinely asking questions makes Saurei look thin-skinned and bad. Especially since some of those blocked were the biggest EN vtuber artists in the world.
>Newegg-style controversy develops: A lot of people who had previously been treated badly by Saruei, but remained silent due to intimidation or thinking theirs was an isolated case, finally come out of the woodwork.
>Even DyaRikku, one of the largest EN vtuber artists, claims "a dozen artists" contacted her about Saruei's poor behavior.
>At this point the vast majority of people on Twitter have turned against her
>Eventually gives a "half-apology" where she only apologizes for a very narrow thing (how she ran the contenst) and sidesteps the bigger issue of a toxic mod and rude behavior
>Deletes apology and reposts it with comments disabled due to the near-universal criticism she was getting in response.
