My belief is that Yuko has roleplayed a loli on stream for so long that she thinks she’s an actual child and treats everything like a game when vtubing is a business. This isn’t something where you can create a new save file and choose a different playstyle, you have to do the hard slow work of gently assuring your fans about changes. When Joji ditched filthy frank to do serious music, he had multiple videos over a period of weeks explaining and re-explaininghis reasons for changing his content and then he graduated the persona and got a new one. But Yuko is impatient.
She passed the Phase audition but couldn’t wait the 6 months in the basement and dipped for Idol who was faster. Yuko was supposed to be Phase’s original Panko before she quit and they got the Italian as the 2nd Panko who debued.
There is only so much Aviel can do. Yuko fumbling a bad announcement is much better than another month of hiatus and boobros shitting up the official discord and bothering other talents and Aviel himself. Mahbe if Yuko were a bit more humble, Aviel could have coached her and figured out a better way to approach the situation but Yuko is a womanchild and we all know how children are stubborn. It’s Yuko’s fault for being naive.