>>28004111>>28004104With artists, they own partial IP control over the character and receive residuals, it's why it's so hard for IRyS to just change artists, redjuice owns part of IRyS and it has to go through legal proceedings in order to get the complete rights of the IP
With riggers, they have a contract with the company to continually keep them employed, it's not freelance, japan has a lot of workplace security for their art fields unlike places like america who just freelance.
Onto managers, office workers in general cost money anon.
You're looking at possibly $25,000-40,000 a year, depending on their roles in the company.
Add in that, Sana's only income was from superchats, which means that youtube takes 30% of that revenue, then it's taxed by japan because the income goes to covercorp first, then it's distributed to all of the talent.
Kson said she was receiving only about half of the money people donated in superchats, Mori, because she has to pay taxes to America as well, was only receiving around 20% of that income.
Lastly, everyone in the company receives sick pay and vacation pay, which is why the JP girls treated is as a big deal to go on it, they are using everyone elses money to relax and rest up and it makes them feel guilty.
When you have regular business expenses like this, it's imperative that the girls are actively generating revenue so that the company is able to keep all these systems afloat.
Now that you see this, this is the reality of the business sides of things, and the requirement to working at least 3 days a week to cover staff expenses.
Sana would rather not deal with any of this and just make money being an artist, which she's been successful at.