There's not much lore to it, back when she did the first rage pig stream she ended up in talks with Rackets to do a collab. He was into it but it never happened and looks like it was just because management said no at the end of the day.
There were supas thrown around, some backroom talk happened, but it was decided by management to be a no-go. I don't blame them tbh. I subscribed to Racket's channel back when Rittenhouse stuff was going on, but unsubbed because I didn't like his night streams.
Rejecting the Rackets collab was pretty fucking stupid on the fishmans part imo. Nick was getting record views from the Depp trial around that time and that many eyes, a lot being people who have never heard of v tubers, would have boosted his visibility and brand recognition. Not to mention I think he still has one of the largest late night streams on YouTube.
I know that they're in a company and have to abide by various streaming plaform rules that restrict how they can act, but I much prefer not knowing about these restrictions and pretending the streamers can do exactly what they want.
In fairness there's a long period between opening auditions and them actually starting streaming - just remember how long the "gentoo when?" meme went on for. Even with premade assets this time around it's not a bad idea to have an idea of the talent pool they have to work with; for example if someone auditions who's too good to say no to they'll have more negotiation power which'll need to be figured out, and if there's a lot of strong auditions they might end up taking on more talent than planned and need to get more models made etc.. I doubt they'll be rushing out a new gen's debut any time soon.
If it's a matter of just always looking for talent then you can have auditions perma opened, especially with things like Phase Invaders being a thing. That way you're not really pushing for a gen and you don't limit yourself to one window of auditions. That's the thing with talent and random opportunity models, you never know when the next big thing will walk through the door and the period of time you have to grab that opportunity is very narrow.
He's right, the idea of a company that directly works with its talents directly being equal across the board isn't realistic. Equality in rules only matters once you're a large enough company that you can't cut custom deals for each member.
So if I'm understanding him right (which can be hard sometimes), he's just saying tough shit and you can quit if you don't like it.
It's kinda like sports, the best players on the team make more money, get preferential treatment, and have the gameplan designed around them. As a business, you have to do what's best for success, even if it means giving the better performers different rules to keep their performance high.
It's not even just sports, it's pretty much any job outside of cookie cutter low end employment.
It was Laplus that accidentally leaked Botan's sheep outfit.
"Don't like it? Leave then." Stay classy Fishman.
Being in any sort of company places expectations on your behaviour, regardless of the industry you're in, and that's doubly so when you're officially representing that company in a public setting.
