Talent staff are just as bad, if not worse, than management. If corpo managers are the enablers of VTuber corruption, talent staff are the ones doing the dirty work behind the scenes, making sure the worst people thrive while anyone with actual talent gets buried. These are the same people who turn a blind eye when some talent is obviously using their position for personal gain but will bend over backward to shut down anything remotely entertaining because it might "offend" Twitter.
These people have one job: to make sure talents succeed. Instead, they spend their time coddling the weakest, laziest, most insufferable hires while making life miserable for anyone who actually wants to work. Ever wonder why so many genuinely good streamers get run into the ground while some incompetent hack gets unlimited resources and second chances? It’s because talent staff prioritize people they like over people who actually deserve support.
They’re the ones who make sure their favorite talents get front-page shilling while leaving others to rot. They’re the ones who push corporate-mandated "community engagement" nonsense while doing absolutely nothing to stop a talent from self-destructing live on stream. And they’re the ones who will defend a walking PR disaster until the bitter end, only to pretend they "never saw it coming" when it all inevitably goes to hell.
And don’t even get started on their bias toward certain "types" of talents. If you’re a workhorse who just wants to stream and make content, talent staff will treat you like garbage. But if you’re a soft-spoken, mentally unstable grifter who cries on stream and turns every minor inconvenience into a dramatic spectacle? Congratulations, you’re their golden child.
At the end of the day, talent staff are just glorified babysitters who spend more time policing chat rules and covering for internal scandals than actually helping VTubers succeed. They are the unseen hand behind every terrible hiring decision, every disastrous PR move, and every wasted opportunity in the industry. If management is the disease, talent staff are the willing carriers, spreading the infection to every new gen that enters the
scene.