>>55476532Things didn’t use to be this way anon. 2021 had its shitposters in the generals like the one fag that spammed gore but NijiEN in its first year was loved. Even dudes tried to give the male talents a chance. The problem came in 2022 when there was a notable audience shift and in terms of dynamics. Shipping between livers was introduced which frankly made things uncomfortable as the third wheeler in the audience, more normalfags started to join, and of course friction came between male talents spontaneously jumping on a female talent’s stream which prior fans did not enjoy. Nevermind the drama caused by Reimu jumping in Vox’s ASMR stream. Also NijiEN’s management milked Luxiem’s teats until there was nothing left that could be milked, which also caused friction not only between the pre-existing fanbase, but also new fanbases like those in Noctyx.
The killing blow came in 2023 where not only was NijiEN shown to be comprised of shitty people internally due to Millie’s Secret GC stream and HOW they specifically terminated Zaion (also Kotoka and Finana’s handling of it), but they were also shitty in terms of management and business practices. They killed AR FES a week after announcement and did nothing to substitute it, the Gamer wave was a shell of what it was with leaks like 2% merch cuts coming out and 3/6 members leaving prior to launch, and now talents are slowly graduating because they know that this branch is the equivalent of the Titanic. Being a NijiEN fan now means that you have to be masochistic to some extent, and that applies even to sisters because they threw tons of money towards the branch, and barely any of their oshis are even showing up in NijiFES 2023. There’s not even any sign of 3D in the works for any of the other waves like Obsydia onwards and the year is more than halfway over.
