>>98482863Hi, anon. Since asking this question, I have no doubt you'll be receiving various versions of the story with different sprinklings of the truth and dramatizations for the sake of shitposting or agendaposting. I will be providing the sequence of events as they were experienced by the average viewer.
1. Selen Tatsuki uploads her cover of the song Last Cup of Coffee by Lilypichu. Judging by the artworks and the sheer number of Niji EN talents that were included in the music video, it was very clearly an appreciative gesture to her fans and to the Niji EN community.
2. Within 1-2 hours of the music video being uploaded on her main channel, the MV is made private and unviewable. Selen proceeds to tweet out that "management has privated the song" and that viewers may "feel free to reupload the MV" as it would be a waste of the money and effort that had been poured into making it. It's noteworthy that this sort of thing hasn't really ever happened before, especially in the realm of a renowned corpo Vtuber.
3. Two days after the first tweet as mentioned above, Selen puts out another tweet saying she'd been hospitalized for an accident, that she'll be staying in the hospital under supervision, and that she'd only been given access to her phone at the time of said tweet.
4. Two more days after this, another tweet from Selen comes out. She says she's been released from the hospital and that she's currently being supported by her parents. She proceeds to thank her viewers for their support and patience.
5. Selen goes dark on her socials for the rest of January. She is scheduled to appear at a convention along with other Niji EN talents within the second or third week of January but her meet-and-greets are cancelled at the last minute. No Niji EN talents dare to breathe her name on stream except for Pomu Rainpuff who says she wishes she could have played a game with Selen on last time before her graduation.
6. The #WhereisSelen hashtag begins picking up traction on Twitter in late January after Pomu's graduation, exacerbated by Selen's friend rpr who began talking about his inability to contact Selen and his worries for her well-being onstream. This got clipped and spread around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq7KUslZs-U&pp=ygUScnByIHdoZXJlIGlzIHNlbGVu 7. In the first week of February, Nijisanji EN sneakily deletes all of her VODs before they publish Selen's termination notice on Twitter to the shock of the entire vtuber community at the time. I'm going to skip the fancy language they used to obfuscate their real problem with Selen. They basically stated they fired her because Selen wasn't following proper processes and protocols as a vtuber, and that she had "omitted crucial context" when she had told the world "management privated the music video." The truth, to anyone that isn't blind, is obvious in that they wanted Selen to blame herself for the MV being privated instead of pointing the finger at management. They also include a note of Selen claiming that she could no longer work as a vtuber under the conditions she was being placed in, and that she would come up with a statement to bring to the public if Niji EN "management" continued to pressure her without compromising on her demands.
8. According to Nijisanji EN's termination notice, Selen claimed that she was being bullied by management and "fellow affiliated livers". But upon Dokibird reactivating her twitter, she states she had been bullied in a toxic workplace environment and that she had been hospitalized for an attempt on her own life. She also chimes in with saying that she had requested to leave the company on more amicable terms in late January, so we can already see that Nijisanji hadn't acquiesced to that.
9. A financial statement on Nijisanji's Investment Relations page is released on February 7. It is a very short statement that says: "The decision to terminate Selen Tatsuki's contract will be negligible on our finances."
10. The infamous black stream happens in February as well, approximately a week after Dokibird's return to Twitter. Elira Pendora, Vox Akuma, and Ike Eveland suddenly start a stream on Elira's channel. For 15 minutes, Elira, Vox, and Ike proceed to "explain" that Selen had broken some rules hence her termination. It is called the black stream because for 99% of the stream, there are no visuals being shown onscreen. For a brief moment, screenshots of a group chat in Slack are displayed on the stream to prove Selen had blatantly disregarded management to upload her music video. Naturally, the internet reacts to the black stream like hot oil in a wok cooking yang chao fried rice during the dinnertime rush hour on a Friday night.
If you would like more information, I am willing to share it. I'm hitting the 5000 character limit as it is. Just reply to me if you want more, anon. This is the basic sequence of events with little to no opinions of mine mixed in.
