>>47074067I feel the opposite coming from Reina's stream, like there was a lack of consideration which pushed Miryu away. Her speech about why vtubers shouldn't join a company seemed tailor made to address the personal issues Miryu tweeted about recently
>"Corporations aren't for everyone, if you are overloaded with personal work and you don't think you can handle a set streaming schedule or release content regularly"In fairness it could just be a general statement, but it's weird that's the first example she thought of rather than numbers.
Reina's stream emphasized that she didn't think the individual concerns the talents shared were big enough of deal to graduate and also thought as a collective they had no reason to quit either. It comes off that she's demanding they have perspective for the sake of the company, whilst simultaneously not having perspective of their issues for their benefit. It's the classic line manager/employee disparity, she's sincere but not connecting with them. Her stance is clearest here:
>"I'm tired of people acting like companies aren't people or being inconsiderate of a corporate process"Kawaii is a small company so I understand this to an extent, but it looks like the talents are the support structure for the company, not the company being a support structure for talents. Like how talents had to convince management that advertising was a good business plan. Gen 3 looked to be doing a lot off their own backs with recent covers, merch and events too and may have felt that Idol Project was getting more attention from the budget that's meant to be shared with everyone. As a result, from a stream/career support angle it would have just felt like an indie group that had to make arbitrary company concessions with little benefit until they got on the idol project long-term, and even then that's just for singing.
Reina might have been on point that they were only thinking short term, but who knows what else was going on. If it was up to the senpai to emotionally support gen 3 and the advice they were giving was "plz be considerate of small company" I can only imagine what kind of atmosphere that left for an isolated gen, even if it was a sincere attempt to help them by giving perspective. Simple fact is that rational takes aren't necessarily comforting.
Here's a summary of events according to Reina:
>Gen3 cancelled streams, gave burnout and issues with the idol project as an excuse (We're missing the full picture here, most were outputting decently and had breaks when needed and at least half of them love singing)>Gen 1&2 talked with gen3, basically said to be mindful of how fans might feel over cancelled streams and that they're acting childish>Meeting happens, management offers concessions to their issues>Post-meeting, management tells gen1&2 that gen3 claimed the girls were unfair and didn't want to work with them anymore >Naturally gen1&2 would confront 3 about it, some relented a bit about the graduation stance, then went ahead with it the next dayMy speculation: management relaying that gen3 had an issue with gen1/2 is the straw that broke the camels back. That feels like a pretty big breach of confidentiality, Management shouldn't discuss meetings with staff. I personally feel like there's a huge communication drop-off somewhere here too, like someone in management completely failed to understand what points gen3 were trying to convey overall. Gen3 never expressed a problem with the other girls and may have just been referring to that one instance of being ganged up on having their issues called childish, yet management fixated on that as feedback when they felt they had adequately addressed the other concerns (we don't know if they were good concessions or not).
A lot of the long term goals directly appealed to Gen 3, you don't just give up things like the sheer numbers through algorithm blessings (Aletta), the benefits of group projects (Peony), the ability to design merch (Sava) or the resources to be an idol (Miryu). Reina and the others are fully in their rights to defend the company, because the worst thing you can say about Kawaii is it's a bit amateur, but writing off gen 3's decision as a childish impulse is intellectually dishonest when it sounds like everyone involved tried communicating.
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fuck you read the whole thing if you care so much 
