>>68318411Obviously you should know what the competition is up to, the thing is you have to remember at the time this happened people were generally trying to treat nijiEN as near equivalent to holoEN and so assumed that surely, they must all be stoic mature pros behind the scenes who wouldn't be gossiping about the competition. So, it was a real mask off moment to see no they talk like normal people and aren't afraid to do normal people things behind the scenes as like gossip or speculate.
The secret GC stream later on confirmed that not only are they like this, but most of them are extremely laser focused on what we in specific are saying about them too and they pathetically seethed about it openly for like an hour straight in a little group therapy session. So not only were they not at Holo tier professional environment, but by that point had clearly degraded to exactly what some people here were suspecting - a snotty, out of touch clique who thinks they are above criticism and have a serious us vs them mentality which explains all the massive gaffes their talents engaged in to destroy their own images and fanbases. The question of "why the fuck did their management allow this, this is exactly what PR agents are supposed to stop" is looking like we are close to a confirmed answer of "they either did nothing or they literally did not exist to stop the shit show"
IMO it should all have been so obvious. Don't hire Indians who are not at all Westerners in culture to manage an interface to Western culture. Don't hire people who value politics above profit.
