As many others, I've been confused since the termination why Nijisanji didn't part ways with Selen amicably, especially after learning about the suicide attempt.
My main takeaways from Doki's statement on Twitter are:
1) Her and Niji's lawyers all fucked up;
2) There was no confidentiality agreement;
3) Sending a document was either too late or it was the main catalyst for the termination.
If it was too late, then Nijisanji made the decision before seeing it and possibly before even being made aware of the suicide attempt. If it was the main catalyst, then her lawyer sending a stash of dirt that Selen collected on her coworkers sent Japanese lawyers into some sort of emergency protocol. She says that termination announcement came less than two hours after sending the document and her VODs had started being privated
at least 28 minutes before the announcement, so the internal discussion at Niji had to be extremely brief at that point - in fact, uncharacteristically brief for them.
The ironic part is that, after a day of memes about how Nijisanji should just shut up and listen to the lawyers, we have now learned that:
1) Nijisanji's lawyers were unresponsive at first and likely told the company to terminate Selen immediately after receiving the document;
2) When Dokibird before consulting with her lawyer claimed on stream that Nijisanji broke a signed confidentiality agreement, she was wrong. I'm not that familiar with Japanese or Canadian law, but this has to be classified as defamation or something like that, right? Not that I expect Nijisanji to sue, but that would probably curb Dokibird lawyer's enthusiasm to take legal action as well.
In general, this reveals more cross-culture and cross-language miscommunication that was happening at every step.
