Oh my, is that some more small agency drama that I've come across?
(I was looking for that one of the guy in the yellow suit with his tongue sticking out but I think that one works a lot better given we're all weebs here.)
Virtuolotube (or VirtuoloTube - they're inconsistent about that capital T, but so is Google sometimes so I guess I won't blame them) was a small agency of four members and a handful of "trainees" for a second generation which never happened. In early January, all their talents walked out and the company apparently quietly collapsed after that. Br*t*sh corpo Infinite Live took in some of the talent and released
this Twitlonger on behalf of those talents with their reasoning, which I think is somewhat unprecedented. In it they accuse the CEO of Virtu-lol-tube Alec Woldt of being incompetent, citing nearly illiterate communication, not hiring staff for management and art direction and other things that the talents had to take on themselves (that part seems to be becoming a common theme in these agency failure stories), not splitting money as stated in the contract, and being evasive or childish when presented with questions or suggestions.
A streamer named Sprinkletoes who was initially accepted to the agency back in July but rejected the contract
posted a Google Drive link with screenshots of said contract, which was actually, bizarrely, a page labelled "Terms of Service" on the web site (in dark gray text on a dark background). It's mostly boring stuff but some points that stood out to me is that they ask you to give them every photograph that's ever been published or shared online of yourself (think of the impracticality of that for a moment if you grew up with relatives with Facebook accounts) and require you to purchase your own health insurance.
Infinite Live themselves seems to be something of a revolving door of a company. Former Virtuolotube talent acquisition aside, I can see from their Twitter feed that they had two talents graduate in January, while debuting one new one. They also don't have a web site; just a
Carrd page which seems to be out of date.
Archive.org grab of the garish Virtuolotube web site