Can someone point me to a summary of that whole debacle? I barely know it even happened and if it comes up I'd like to understand the background.
Which debacle? The Vshojo/Nux one? Executive summary: Someone has, for several months, been contacting indie vtubers (that is, vtubers not associated with an agency) and pretending to be staff at Vshojo (a significant English-exclusive agency) looking to recruit new talent, thus getting the streamers (who are usually anonymous) to dox themselves to the fake recruiter, who then released the dox. The phisher used email addresses with domain names which hosted clones of the real Vshojo site so there was some degree of sophistication to this. Nux Taku, an indie vtuber himself, found out about this when the culprit tried to do the same to him, but he caught on to the scam, and after looking into it further and talking to other victims, created and released a video about the situation. Nux had collaborated with some Vshojo streamers and had an in there, and Vshojo staff initially helped out in creating the video to an extent, but after the video is released and many vtuber fans criticized Vshojo for knowing for months this was happening and never doing anything to make indie vtubers aware of it (such as releasing a tweet saying "beware of people pretending to be us and asking for your personal info"), Vshojo flipped the script and claimed Nux released the video without their consent and that its release was "interfering with investigations by their cybersecurity team" and other such nonsense. Nux, wanting to remain on good terms with Vshojo, initially pulled his video, but after they and their streamers continued to misrepresent the circumstances behind the video's creation, started releasing receipts and basically made Vshojo
management (who I will separate from their talent for this case) look even more like complete amateur-hour assholes for their handling of the situation from the beginning.
Of all people, former Ralph associate Flamenco did a pretty good stream about the controversy a couple weeks ago, including an impromptu interview with one of the doxing victims. It's worth a listen at least up until Flam joins someone else's stream and starts talking about fucking race realism or whatever.
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