>>68942908Mel broke a non-disclosure agreement stipulated in her contract and was terminated from that contract as a matter of course. The company acknowledged in a public statement that it valued her and regretted the necessity of the termination and allowed her to make a public statement bidding farewell--in which she willfully admitted to her wrongdoing, leaving on the best possible terms for somebody that broke red line contract terms. Talents were free to comment on the situation and most of them expressed positive opinions of Mel and said their goodbyes on good terms. Overall her sendoff was extremely positive for someone who was being fired for breaking rules and emphasized the value the company places in its talents.
In the past Mel had suffered harassment from Hololive's management and had been forced to lawyer up to protect herself, but the company took the complaint seriously, allowed her paid time off to deal with things privately and terminated the offending employees, launching an extensive internal review process that transformed the company and its management approach to better protect talents in the future. Several years later we can see the positive impact those reforms had on the company and its relationship to its employees.
Selen suffered bullying and abuse both from other talents and from management itself for years while the company repeatedly refused to engage with her official HR complaints about the above. She was the victim of targeted harassment aimed at disrupting a company-approved but self-funded project under dubious pretense and violated Nijisanji's internal protocol (but not contract terms) by releasing her project unilaterally and encouraging fans to reupload it outside of Anycolor's reach.
Afterwards, she attempted suicide and was harassed by the company while convalescing in the hospital, to the point where hospital staff had to bar Niji employees from attempting to contact Selen until she was released. Nijisanji took this as failure to deal in a negotiation regarding the future of Selen's contract and unilaterally terminated it without forewarning. They then released a 3-page statement smearing Selen and unintentionally implicating themselves and their talents in wrongdoing they hadn't even been publicly accused of.
Selen expressed a desire to keep the conflict out of the public eye and resolve things through legitimate, court-sanctioned means.
Nijisanji continued to release frequent public statements smearing Selen and implicating themselves deeper and deeper into wrongdoings which they had not been publicly accused of, going as far as to use talents as mouthpieces to further criticize her and hijack their social media accounts to promote their hitpieces.
We're still at the point where NijiEN management denies wrongdoing for things they have accused themselves of and has shown no interest in reforming its management system, holding offending employees accountable or emphasizing the wellbeing of their talents.
