>>94149489You have a lot more confidence than I do in Niji's willingness to do something that might look like it's in the general vicinity of "the right thing" if you squint real hard. I won't dispute your assertion that they're smart enough to fire Aster for his harassment, wait a few days, and then fire Twisty for some minor infraction that's only technically a fireable offense (like if the contract says they can get fired for "engaging in any illegal activity" and she once littered or jaywalked) and is only technically "unrelated" to the whistleblowing.
They are smart enough to do that - the fact that they suspended Aster at all is more than enough proof. But they are far too prideful to do that; they're too prideful to even consider doing that.
My expectation for what they'll do with Aster - they'll either fire him right alongside Twisty, "graduate" him a few days after firing Twisty, or fully reinstate him and allow him to return to streaming as though nothing had ever happened (and force all of the other livers to pretend that he was never suspended in the first place). In the extremely unlikely event that they actually do fire him, their own pride will force them to avoid at all costs mentioning in his termination notice that they knew about his harassment for months but chose to do nothing about it, because making such an admission would be admitting to having made a mistake.
And in addition to being too prideful to admit having made mistakes, another reason I don't think they'll fire Aster is the fact that he's been playing League on his "Aster Arcadia" account during his suspension. For the sake of comparison, last year when Selen was suspended pending termination, she was playing Apex, but on her "Dokibird" account instead of her "Selen Tatsuki" account (Reimu was playing Apex on stream at the same time one day, and had to nuke the live chat replay and heavily police the vod comments section because of it)
My expectation for what they'll do with Twisty, apart from "just" firing her - they absolutely will fire her for leaking receipts to False. But they'll either do it in a way which only technically doesn't violate Japanese laws prohibiting companies from firing employees for the act of reporting sexual harassment; or they'll fire her in a way which is technically illegal under relevant Japanese law, but is not criminally actionable unless Twisty personally files an official complaint with the Tokyo police AND the police decide to take her formal criminal complaint seriously instead of just stuffing it into the "we'll probably get to it eventually" file.
For the former scenario, it might technically not be illegal for them to fire her for reporting non-sexual harassment (i.e. sending her 50 DMs a day asking her to play League with him), and it almost certainly isn't illegal for them to fire her for the act of sending False any sort of internal communications (such as them telling her in no uncertain terms that they won't even consider punishing Aster for sexually harassing her)
And for the latter scenario, she would need to hope that the Japanese police would believe the complaints of a gaijin woman levying accusations of wrongdoing against a fine upstanding Japanese corporation run by fine upstanding Japanese men.
And in either case, they would run a black screen against her, with a possible bit of slandering by Aster if he gets fully reinstated.
