>>66366670Unironically I blame the newer JP livers and the continued lack of liver response to escalating nijifan bantz levels.
New livers had the habit of doing egosa, finding some random comment shitting on them (which will always hit the mark because JP antis are really good at targeting what they feel are your mental weak points) and then proceed to either sperg or apologize --> incentivizing more people to shit on them.
Back in the day, even when she got doxxed and shit, Mito made fun of the guy doing it and made memes about it.
Sasaki got a ton of shit for her graduation and UN-graduation, made a fucking diss song about it, and it became a non-issue.
This is how nijisanji as a group functioned. They would welcome controversy, and turn it into content in some form (kinda like LSF now that I think about it).
But newer livers stopped doing that. Nijisanji as a whole started imitating the more "professional" shit from Hololive. Roa - Meiro tore the entirety of the illusion apart because Niji livers weren't doing bantz there, they were genuinely taking sides in a conflict and shitting on each other.
I think nijifans feel like horrible people because they aren't getting the same feedback loop of (drama --> liver shits on drama --> everyone laughs) that existed in old Nijisanji.
Livers either ignore drama nowadays or apologize. So the fans escalate, maybe if the drama is more sever they will respond? They shit up other VTubers chats going "hey, look at us! we're doing terrible shit! make a diss track or something about it!", and get ignored again. And they continue escalating more and more, until they forget the reason they started the escalation in the first place and this culture becomes normalized.
