We've been through like four or five 'collapses' since this entire space got started and every time it comes back just fine. People thought the end of the pandemic would kill vtubing and it's still going strong. People thought the Kizuna Ai drama or the copyright apocalypse or the mass exodus from corpos would kill vtubing...
What's even more hilarious is this happens the moment Froot comes back. You can't make this shit up.
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in Vtubing, just as in the real world.
Froot's never one to miss a chance to step on her 'friends' even if she does it completely unconsciously. She has to have been cursed by some kind of minor trickster deity to so consistently bring this level of misfortune and humiliation wherever she treads.
To clarify, I don't want you to lose your fun. I just want to watch a shitshow.
She is just an agent of chaos.
Wow, this is like forgetting to buy ink for your money printer or letting your golden goose starve to death.
I wouldn't say it's a matter of losing fun. Pretty much every oldfag in this thread pines for the time when vtubing was smaller and more tightly-knit and you could actually get supas read by your oshi and even the most popular talents would do wacky oddball shit.
True, it's like wishing for the old internet to come back. It just ain't happening. This place is about as close as you can get, which is why they do everything in their power to shut it down.
Honestly, this is such a clusterfuck of a situation that there's not way there's not extreme amounts of corruption internally when it comes to payments, and possibly that they're deep in the red already.
Eventually Phase will probably implode for one reason or another. Independent seems the way to go. Or cashing in on a corpo followed by fucking off and going indie once you're stable Gawr Gura style
As others said they're a US company, but I think what makes this the bigger story is that VShojo has always been the "we're not like other girls" of VTuber corpos. The bulk of their talent recruitment marketing has been advertising that they offer "talent freedom" unlike those dirty Idol Culture companies who have rules and guidelines, and they very specifically pander to the Twitter socialist crowd who think standard business practices like the company retaining the vtuber's IP ownership are inherently exploitative.
Henya will need logistics support in order to continue doing this, she is not a project management monster like Doki, or a tech maven like Dooby, Nor is she clad in a hat made of Holobucks.
