>>81811857this basically, it's hard to decide whether the company or the talents themselves are more dislikable. management seems mutually terrible all around, and several of the most-likable ENs already left behind leaving a less-and-less likable rotten core.
the worst thing is that it feels like a synergy of shit is what allows this to exist - elira is still pushed hard without explanation, most of them have had some kind of parasocial fucks type moment (and the ones that haven't are new and came in after the ship's already been steadily sinking and never took off). the luxiems were allowed to do and say way too much which wound up backfiring when vox and mysta both had several melties against their fucking core irreplaceable audiences, luca's shit was never put into check etc. clearly these guys were made to feel invincible and management put all the eggs in that basket, which then fell over everything got wrecked because they were not remotely sensitive/sensible around how to handle an east-asian-dominated female audience and thought that they had broken the pattern of western male vtubers generally being unsuccessful. no, not really, all they did was inherit the massive windfall of the already-existing Asian nijiJP female fans along with some fairweather Chinese/Taiwanese along for the ride. and they blew all of it.
