>>57053254They slow-walked it out over like a month and a half however, there were probably hundreds of threads about them in the intervening time. Thing is it was spread out over weeks instead of all at once so it doesn't seem like a huge wave of sentiment. Kind of a devious way to do it but hey it worked in giving these guys' fans time to live with the concept and get used to starsEN just not having them. Expertly handled IMO, which would be a hallmark of Jap's good intuition of "hmm how best can we get rid of the two problem stars without actually making too big a shitstorm about it."
The thing that gets me however is "oh nooo you misunderstand, they weren't fired, it's all cool and fine, they're quitting on their own. no graduation stream though, and nobody can talk about exactly-why they're leaving." Is it contracts? Yeah? Sana didn't renew her contract and had a graduation stream. So what would drive them to quit but be in such disgust they won't ever stream again? Graduation is probably the biggest windfall possible for a chuuba money-wise - why would they not have wanted to do one final stream as magni/vesper and collect thousands, maybe tens of thousands of dollars. If they were denied a graduation stream that feels more than a bit like Cover going "no fuck you just get out the door, no fat severance paycheck from graduation stream for you."
I feel like Cover locked them out of their accounts and said "you're not fired, but you can't stream or do anything on these chars either for an unknown amount of time" and during this time that is like money lost for them not streaming on other accounts, and eventually most members wouldn't just pay monthly for nothing at all after too long and leave too so it. So it was an opportunity cost for them to just wait it out to see if Cover changes its mind and either gives them what they want or vice versa and decided it's not worth it vs continuing elsewhere. Magni already made that clear lately, Vesper however couldn't be monetized as a different vtuber under Cover contract I'd think so had to officially leave to resume.
