>>55037468Ever heard of the term "too good to be true?" This is it.
I'll give you a complete overview of some of their actions that can be seen as huge red flags, but only in the eyes of those with higher IQ than the average mindless zoomer on the internet:
1. Prior to the debut of their HE generation, there was a huge document posted /here/ about their CEO running idol as a scam. You can do your reps and you will probably find it, but the TLDR of it is the classic fake entrepreneur over promising investors and under delivering. There were a lot of video proof at the time but they have all since been privated. The author of the post warned about the CEO being /here/ and that it was likely to see self-promoting threads on the catalog, and it's exactly what happened. Out of no where, numerous anons started shilling the corpo despite there being zero English influence or reach before.
2. Reinforcing the first point, upon the debut of their HE generation, they did a ridiculous amount of marketing hyping up the fact that they were "OFFICIALLY SPONSORED BY NINTENDO." This was a huge deal for a new small corpo, so it gained a lot of attention. But it turned out to be a "half truth" where the actual sponsor was just a licensed private distributor of nintendo products (basically your local fucking game shop) in Isreal. This is VERY DIFFERENT from being officially sponsored by nintendo. This is the first red flag of scummy marketing tactics, and dishonesty (this is a key point here), much like other online scammers that you see on Youtube teaching you how to make money on Amazon.
3. Fast forward to idolEN, nothing was done at all to help their HE branch, despite their website claiming to offer MUCH SUPPORT. Some HE talents ended up quitting. Prior to the EN debuts, idol starts shilling on the AWSOME support it provides to their talents on the website and on the CEO's twitter where he posts pictures of mics and playstations that he purchased for the talents. While this may look good to people with negative IQ, it is also something the online scammers do on their instagram or Youtube videos (which works on people with negative IQ). This is red flag #2.
4. Out of nowhere starts preaching "Transparency" on their twitter. Talks about how it will always be transparent. If you are innocent, you don't need to say this. Only those with shit to hide will preach this because it creates the context that everything they say after are all true and implies they are not leaving anything out. But in reality, everything shady is being left out. And without any surprise, it starts to shill itself constantly on twitter about how well it treats its talents both on the official account and the CEO's account. This is another red flag and common practice by online scammers.
5. CEO starts a blog called idol weekly which is basically the ultimate shilling tool where he hires a SEA news writer (do your reps and you will find him) to restructure the same central shilling idea into different versions and repost them week after week. With just a bit of brain power you will realize that there is barely any new information in the weekly blogs. It's the same information being paraphrased over and over to make something sound good. Yet another red flag and common practice by online scammers whose script all read the same and the videos all convey the same meaning without any deeper or different information.
6. Everything idol does is to appease the public and inflate numbers. Massive ad campaigns, sponsoring half the indie scene, the marketed donothons, the constant transparency shilling, the usage of pointlessly big words by a ESL CEO on things like "revolutionary" debut (which was just a massive sponsored watchalong campaign), "roadmap" to success, and more - to make everything sound better than they actually are. All of this is to make itself look good in the eyes of investors - big numbers, big revenue numbers, big foot print. The upcoming idolES is another attempt to get cheap worthless subs that have no revenue potential but leaves a big inflated impression. Once again, this is something equivalent to the online scammers renting lambos and beach side mansions to appear good in videos.
These are just a few redflags that ALL resemble an online scammer, which coincides PERFECTLY with what the initial thread said about the CEO - who is out to scam investor's money.
Don't believe my essay? Pay attention to what they are doing on twitter, and their talents' activities. Talents are doing donobaits after donobaits. They masturbate on stream, drink piss on stream, all take breaks at the same time, and zero company hosted events after almost 2 years. Management is not doing any real managing of the talents but busy hiring SEA writers to write blog posts about how great they are. Spending money on things that inflate their worth, while seeking investors. Obvious scam/rug-pull.
