>>82395277The thing about the Taiwan arc is that a lot of EOP newfags still think that it was some minority group that had some brainrot and was maybe doing spam.
There were official artists that had collabed with Cover and the girls inserting subtle anti-Coco messages into the fucking FANARTS of the girls.
There's a reason anons at the time were completely anti-China back then, it was never a "minority" it was a significant population of actual fans turned antis on Bilibili that were doing this.
All the newfags coping with "oh it was just a few antis who gives a shit there's probably good fans still there" have no idea about just how many such former "fans" were actually behind these attacks and spam.
Aqua REALLY loved Coco. Coco helped her through the Smash pro player yab which had almost destroyed her mental (
https://youtu.be/jEP-paRxWKA). And post-Coco during her solomas run was her lowest point, from which she apparently never recovered. So the company pushing back into B2 and two talents (one old, one new) being all gung ho about it probably made her feel like she didn't belong there anymore.
Most of the other girls are older and can understand corporate mentality and the business aspect of things, but for Aqua this was an emotional issue, and I don't think the new money-minded higher ups at Cover fully thought through all the implications of just jumping back into that market.
