>>89233374I think it would also not have the same big waves if it was not Selen/Doki.
In the previous year, Selen was making a name for herself - being a part of multiple apex events, making friends with a lot of apex pros, and finally cementing it with the vtuber award.
With the excitement of the 3D models, the upcoming concert, and the rarity of any music related content from her channel, her cover was something her fans looked forward to.
During her "break" after the last cup of coffee incident, dragoons tried to get together and made it a goal to get various milestones for her - reaching a certain number of subs, reaching a certain number of total watch time, etc.
Looking back at the contract leak, iirc, the company takes all of the earnings of the channel while the liver is getting "punished" for non compliance. Which maybe enraged the dragoons later on even more because the whole time management was quiet about the situation, probably trying to squeeze everything they could from her channel before they delete it.
iirc, the dragoons waited for a month (while making sure the channel still earns from views by vieing VODs) before they actually demanded from management to at least give an update about her situation. They even drafted their own white page announcement to show management how it's done. All they demanded was a simple "hey, she's okay guys" from management. Considering how they managed to actually reach various milestones for her channel, they probably felt that they had earned the right to demand this from management.
Then a week after the whole demanding thing, the management released the termination notice out of nowhere. Funny thing is, the termination also included a paragraph stating that they had properly paid her the supposed earnings of her channel, something that had no precedence for any announcement notice from niji I believe.
As an outsider at the time, it felt like the management was already worried about the capabilities of her fans. They did had the capabilities and courage to demand something from management and had it gain actual traction in twitter.
I also think it was the reason why the infamous black screen stream happened. The three were the most subbed livers at the time (Elira is the most subbed female after Selen iirc). They tried to gather up the Niji EN fans through the three and have them fight the Dragoons, which basically backfired.
While the self harm thing did provide the dragoons a nuke, I'd say they already had a lot of bullets and capabilities to actually deal significant damage to Niji back then even without it. Pomu and Doki were the only ones to make projects that involved the entire branch after all. Even the one Vox did was done by Selen and was only funded by him.
The decline of niji was inevitable after the two left. Most of the creative projects and collaborations were done by those two. Even the zuttomo thing couldn't hold a candle to when Pomu and Doki revealed their matching outifts.
The whole situation just made everything faster and a lot messier. But yes, a proper apology could have cleaned up a lot of issues right now. The fact that it would also be even messier if she succeeded in her attempt is also probably true. the entirety of Niji en might not even survive up to this point if it came to light.
