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So in the news in the world of vtubing, ALL of Production Kawaii Gen 3 up and fucking quit. Vtubers "graduate" all the time for one reason or another, but an entire generation quitting en masse is, as far as I'm aware, something completely unprecedented.
Either management for that generation was absolute shit, the genmates are all in some kind of cult situation where they're all following some kind of leader figure, or both.
We all know that Idol Corp wants to be THE VTuber company, but what if it wants to keep the joy of Vtubers alive SO MUCH that they officially team up with Cruchyroll to drop a full-fledged VTuber-oriented streaming service. It would be packed full of stream highlights, music videos, and never-before-seen original content from creative VTuber minds from the agencies above.
I love vdere sm. Like i cannot fully express how much i love them all. Letti was my first kamioshi, and also the first graduation i experienced. I cried a bit, not only when she left, but also when i heard that familiar voice on my fyp a month later telling me its all gonna be ok. I couldnt be there for eli's mini debut, but i stayed up until 2am for her real one, and then 1am the next day for their first collab with new models (british timezones :,)
Explanation as to why Certain Agencies are blacklisted
Wactor : Doxxed talents twice (real names and addresses, not just past lives), and allegedly their most popular vtuber has bullied other talents and might have been sleeping with the CEO
Anycolor (credit to Vtuber Cringe on Twt) :
Lucid Multimedia : Suspended a talent for trying to give a rather neutrally worded take on the Veibae retard "drama" as respectfully as possible
Production/Project Kawaii : Suspicious Activity. 8 graduations, 2 of which were sudden and the reasons given were rather vague, and 4 of which was the entire remaining 3rd gen who's sudden graduations were their own decisions, with again, more vague reasoning as to why, (Though rumors suggest due to bad management), as well of allegations of current talents bullying former members
Vshojo : Mostly due to personal reasons, such as I don't like lewdtubers who rely on coomerbait, but also because of the Nux Drama, how they allowed one of their talents to be passive aggressive towards Silvervale during the Hogwarts legacy drama, and how said talent promoted a charity that has had actual nonces working in it
KoMeta Virtual Live: This thread does a good job highlighting how they've mistreated their talents ;
AkioAir:
Vreverie: Suspicious Activity. Nearly half of their talents suddenly graduated within 3 months, with rumors of it being due to bad management