>>75104640Because you drungo, that campaign was in Japan for Japanese people. You know, one of the places and audiences where VTubers are known to be Corpo first and, because most are under a company while playing a character (excluding Indies of course). As if you haven't picked up, using buzzwords is the usual for something to be basically "AMERICA CAW CAW" for the likely westaboo's audience they probably aimed to attract, it's marketing 101 baby.
>Hololive VTubers being "corpo-controlled" began all the way with Kizuna and Mirai. Holo at some point was more free than now, true, but not anymore and the general audience that's build off these days (or rather 2022 when that campaign took place to promote their JP division) thinks that's their first impression is close to Hololive (schedules, management involved with permissions for games, keeping the keyfable at all coasts, separating flesh from characters), a thing that VShojo can advertise since they are a talent first company, and "talent freedom" is a buzzword to say "our talents can do whatever they want", but it is not to say "oh yeah just do whatever you want, I'm sure nothing bad will happen", no nigger that's not how you run a company.
As managers, they can also say "hey, don't say this if you don't want to get involved in shit" and talents can choose if they want to, Ironmouse can go "fuck it" and one day go in a full rant of Nijisanji, she can, but she chooses not to, likely because she doesn't want to get involved with Niji's (and their audience) pettiness, and prefers the actions of the company and testimonies of those talents over confrontational words that everyone has heard.
