In the purpose of actually using the forum to discuss something, I was wondering. What can Froot do at this point to gain forgiveness and possibly repair her reputation? If your answer is "nothing" then what is the point of apologizing or addressing things? She would gain nothing from doing so only admitting that she is a bad person. Often whenever something does something stupid, our advice is to ignore it and never address it because apologizing wont really change people's minds. In current year, people don't accept apologies they just take it as an admission of guilt. So what is her course of action? If she donates her 54k to charity does that fix things?
Clearly quitting is not a valid option as it is her main source of revenue.
Hypothetically, if she did want to change, or repair her reputation, she'd have to do the following.
- Donate the 54k, but not to Mermaids. Find some children's charity no one could object to, like St. Jude's or something.
I really would not worry about donating a 54k lump sum anywhere, but definitely not to mermaids because it's a scummy charity. Find an event that would like your presence, a suggestion is something like donation match to a certain point. Better than dumb social media engagement posts, gets people more invested in you and whatever charity you chose.
This is a suggestion as she is a public figure. I don't have the means to do something like this myself, and if I did, it would be anonymous.
- Be quiet. Stay off the radar. Play it cool, stay in your own lane, do your own thing, don't start any shit. That way if anyone brings up their issues with you, they'll be so far in the past the person bringing them up will look like the irrational one.
This. People who post, "where's the money, Froot," might be a sore point to her and her fanbase, but it can be ignored, auto-filtered, whatever. Memeing it up here is going to happen, but I hope nobody's being a femboy about it and doing gayops/trolling.
- Don't bring up the past beyond vague statements that let people make the interpretation you're remorseful. i.e. "we all make mistakes. Trust me, I know all about making mistakes!"
Vague, no. Short and succinct, yes. No word salad. If it's not punks in chat that automod/deletion/timing out can handle, and it's genuine sentiment, then you can handle it. From the AI summary someone posted of her giant doc, it was a very bad relationship afaik, but she went around getting out of it the wrong way.
That's all that needs to be said about it. I'm not going to read the massive doc to find out if I'm right, too long, didn't read, point still stands. Don't let it eat up time spent with the chat that cares.
- Tell your mother thanks, but no thanks. Get her off social media.
Big one, get your mother off the internet. White knighting really doesn't help instill good will anywhere. Stop doing it yourself, do something that will make you happier.
Don't spend time on twitter, spend family time instead, a meal, watch a movie together, something like that. Love and encouragement, you love your daughter, you're proud and happy she's your daughter, she's an adult making good and bad choices, it'll be fine. Protecting her from online bullies is outside the skillset.
- Do some commendable community outreach. Show love to a VTuber that's going through it (who isn't in your company);
demonstrate you can be amicable with people who are clearly not in your ideological sphere (i.e. a friendly exchange with someone like Kirsche); promote smaller VTubers you come across; participate in VTuber community events and demonstrate you can get along with the people there.
I would not worry too much about reaching out to random people unless they're people you really want to get along with and get closer to. I don't see much benefit to be had unless it's for your social well-being. The main reason I like interaction with others is if the people in question genuinely enjoy it. I like teetee, for the most part, if the streamer enjoys it, the audience enjoys it.
If you want to reach out to someone unfamiliar, consider talking off-stream first btw, avoid a crash and burn situation, figure out boundaries. Don't say anything crazy off-stream in case it's being recorded.
This post doesn't mean I'm going to start watching Froot btw, no thanks. A sore point for me is unfaithfulness in relationships, no matter how bad it is. Break it up some way, any way, first. That was what mainly off-put her for me. It doesn't mean, though, I want her to dig herself into the pits of Hell per se. I've learned to not go out of my way to bring people's past up for the most part.