Corpos trying to outdo each other for black company status lately.
- hololive rapidly losing talents as the corp seems to be shifting interest
- VOL overreacting to hagmaxxing memes
- Phase Connect mod faggotry
- Idol/brave butthurt over reasons.
2025 is gonna be a wild ride.
Calling any of these approaching black company status due to any of this is a massive stretch.
Hololive, while it is concerning that they've lost a few talents this year, have shown no signs of this being a company-wide problem and has just been individuals with some isolated problems or individual desires to do things on their own. There seems to be some shifts within the company that some are not a fan of, but it doesn't seem to be an issue for most of the talents.
I don't know anything about VOL, nor what reactions to the meme they got to prompt this dumb incident, but it was just a singular overreaction, and hopefully they read the reactions to their overreaction and learn from it. As I said, I know nothing else about them, so there could be more to them that's negative, but as far as the meme thing goes, it was dumb, but that's about it.
The Phase mod thing had nothing to do with Phase itself and was just isolated to some people involved in Lumi's Discord server. This also happened back in August. I only brought it up yesterday because I was reminded of it, and figured some may find it interesting. At the end of the day, it was old news and very little came of it. Just some Discord drama.
As for Brave/Idol, while they have certainly had issues this year, the majority of Idol talents decided to stay with Idol during the acquisition. This recent post by them is pretty stupid, but nothing about it is there to make things worse for the talents. Just your standard anti-doxing/anti-harassment spiel. Idol has definitely been involved in sketchy shit this year, mostly before the acquisition, but I don't think they're straying toward "black company".