>>69772844>with a pol-tainted brainI'll assume you are the one replying frequently with this same accusation to anyone that says anything that touches the subject.
The alternative you are putting forward is
>iLuna tanked the branch because they suckThat's not enough reason, lots of gens and waves come and go with as much "suckage" as iLuna without the same terrible effect on their respective branches.
Actually, on NijiEN itself, Ethyria sucked just as hard, if not more than iLuna.
iLuna biggest problem is that sucked in a very particular way, the FROM PRE DEBUT were exactly what people feared HoloEN would be (and were not), and exactly what people thought NijiEN would be (and were not, until Ethyria, but even then they were somewhat subdued).
The whole "move, I'm gay" tweet at
>>69771797 made IMMEDIATE RIPPLES, from before the debut and many didn't even think of thinking of considering giving that branch a chance because of their pre debut behaviour.