I'm too invested in the merger rrat to be stopped. Let me spin a theory, the sources are the voices in my head and that it would be funny to spread the plague.
Yesterday doom posting of several livers could be what the OP posited, but there is also the possibility that the merger was internally announced yesterday, or rather the 30-day notice for the undergraduates hired by Anycolor under Japanese soil that manage the en branch vtubers. They wouldn't need to give a fuck about the streamers, but the Japanese Undergraduates are actually seem as human and need to be treated as such under the law.
As per
https://www.rippling.com/blog/termination-in-japan, the notice period is 30 days, and under the conditions stated, they could hit those employees with either Futsu Kaiko or Seiri Kaiko, the former because the branch keeps getting worse on the books and the latter because they could be preparing to kill the branch before the 1st quarter ends.
