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But bro we must discuss the contraaaaaaaaaaactttts cmon i watched every single Legal Mindset video i know what im doing cmon
This Marshmallow really has some big "There is no war in Nijisanji" energy. Also imagine opening Marshmallows when you're not a streamer & can't even mine that shit for content, this person has gotta be some sort of masochist.
The Niji fanbase devouring the tiniest micro-celebrity in their midst like a pack of hungry pirhannas? Damn, must be another day that ends in "day".
Even these restrictions seem to be getting lifted. Kiara's bootylicious spandex dance model looks & is rigged way differently than her official 3D live performance once, so either management got so damn tired of her squawking that there's an exception to the rules just for her (unlikely) or at least on the EN side they've relaxed some of the restrictions.
Here's a clip of Sunny's return stream where she talks about her health problems she's been struggling with (from Mikahide because my GOD does that Rainbow Retirees channel leave out a lot of important context sometimes).
TL;DR, she got a blood clot in her hand on a long plane trip and it's triggered rheumatoid arthritis at the ripe old age of 27. My money's on a Niji-mandated trip to Japan, personally.
Because of the arthritis she's on immunosuppressants and can't leave the house much. According to her she's had a rough few months figuring out medication and the implication is that's why she completely disappeared in Niji, though from her general attitude towards her "heist" I think she leveraged it a bit to make her escape. Might be why she didn't have to wait for a 2 year contract expiration?
Seems she's doing ok for now, my hope is that she can leverage her dramafag boost and ex-Niji status to carve out a spot for herself. Fingers crossed Vivi can get out too, those two seem as thick as thieves and I wish the best for both of them.
...not Clawmark though. If he wants out he should just fucking ask for it
I'd strongly suggest she get a second opinion on her on-going diagnosis. The doctor(s) gave her a very expensive subscription to a service she probably doesn't need and there's likely multiple other treatment avenues. (If it's the hands, and at her age, there's some surgical options that'd probably solve the issue.)
Cover's limitations are going to be on Brand Identity. All of the members that have been in for 2 years have the funds to buy Ironmouse amounts of models. The issue ends up being maintaining character designs (note the ban on added animal ears because a couple of the girls where they're just "an animal" felt their character identities were getting trampled; which is why everyone gets onesies, haha). However, you do have a bunch of Women in an Attention Economy Company. Which is to say, the main reason for the rules is to prevent Marine from showing up in a string bikini and Haachama as an actual spider.
Riku is Anycolor's jailer; Yagoo is the guy keeping the inmates in the asylum.
I know its quinn but lets not broken telephone this
Post in thread 'General Vtuber Discussion (V1)' https://thevirtualasylum.com/threads/general-vtuber-discussion-v1.1/post-41672
Quinn at most offhandedly responded to someone seething about Sayu (at the time still Zaion, still suspended iirc) and allegedly also rambled about cancel culture on stream (as Kyo) because of that, but there was also a fuckton of other autistic canceling drama going on, so there was chances his stream comment was not related, but still just chances
What happened is that people did go crazy with spamming Sayu's dox and iirc, her divorce papers, but i cant confirm if Kyo was ever caught liking those posts, i personally believe he never did or it was just never caught by anyone. But it would be PR suicide to like an ex-coworker's dox, even if she was terminated
I just wanted to use this stupid meme I made. I also made another version with a lower quality model which I almost like more:
When even NijiJP are getting excited over getting to do pranks with Yagoo instead of their own CEO lmao
Basically Maimoto said he seriously have acrophobia and can't do bungee jumping or skydiving, Joe Rikiichi asked what if instead of a surprise with a high platform, what if Yagoo appeared instead, and of course Maimoto said even director of their show would want Yagoo. Though Maimoto feels a bit nervous talking to Yagoo now with the same way he used to talk with Yagoo before
These are so cursed, I both love & hate them
This. There's moments when I have seen a new ironlung outfit and I didn't even recognize who the fuck it was. Cover's brand recognition is it's biggest strength so diluting that with billions of outfits which make the characters unrecognizable or dilute other character's signature features (the cat ears) is highly counter-productive.
That's why stuff like the smols and puffballs and all kinds of other irregular models have had usage limitations put on them, why did the agency spend thousands building up a character if the vtuber is just gonna use some shitty chibi because it's "le funny".
You dont even have to go as far as Mouse, some NijiENs' alt outfits (Vox, Fulgur, Aia to an extent) are drastically different designs that some look like retarded AU autism or full redesigns like Vesper
I am okay with the custom shit being more restricted and under lock-and-key for normal streaming, but stuff like preventing Advent from getting their own 3D for an EN group collab in VR is idotic:
The EN branch thrived from those collabs and suddenly stopping them from doing them because of that just makes me raise an eyebrow. Luckily, it seems like Kiara or someone pushed for that shit to be reversed since then.
I think the pseudo-models were ever only allowed because of travel restrictions.
Probably, but people don't like when you take shit away from them and being "no fun allowed" all the time is lame. Also, when you start selling "shitty chibis" as actual regular non-limited merchandise and make official mascots out of them, it makes them look even sillier to restrict them.
Cover tries to find a balance because character outlines actually matter. Whenever one of the girls does a 3D live announcement with silhouettes, we can normally guess them in outline alone. That's the difference between Character Design and "just a model".
I think the joke is Smol Ame threatened to kill anyone that encroached on her chibi throne.
#2 makes me think its a Postal 2 NPC
Did... did you actually watch the video? Sunny explains exactly what happened to her FFS- rant redacted
Suffice to say, it's rheumatoid arthritis. It's not just in her hands, and RA medication works on it, which is why she's able to stream now instead of being in constant pain. This is explained in the video. If you're going to make sweeping judgements on something, check the provided source for info first. It took me five seconds to google "false positives for rheumatoid arthritis" and fact-check.
Spoiler alert, it's probably not Lyme disease
If every second talent had their own Smol Ame, Smol Ame would not be a novelty and would lose its appeal.
I'm not ripping into you in particular here - in general, these kinds of conversations here and elsewhere always seem to miss the practical considerations behind these limitations, with the idea usually being that by preventing the talents from blowing their loads on all the typical vtuber niceties right away, you have potential for more significant hype cycles and then paydays over time. It's an immediate gratification vs. delayed gratification deal.
Outfit reveals are more exciting if they happen once a year, rather than every month. Holding off on 3D streams for a specific 3D debut event rather than letting the talents dick around with chibis in VRChat whenever they feel like it gives the 3D debut itself more impact, then generates a new wave of interest in their regular streams as they start incorporating 3D elements. Same logic with collab bans, limited-time merch lines, crossover events etc..
In the short term whoever it is in management that's telling them no is going to look like the bad guy for enforcing restrictions, but that's a price worth paying if it extends the longevity of the streamers' time in the spotlight so they have more opportunities to leave an impression - rather than letting them burn through all their potential celebrations and novelties in year one, then stagnating as their fans get distracted by newer debutants.
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Cover, use your powers for good, and prohibit Matsuri from using her Kizuna Ai clone outfit ever again.
Please.
That's all well and good, except 10 of the 15 talents at the time had "smol" versions of themselves.
The smol models are a means to an end, where their existence is just to be used in VRChat. Stopping talents from "dicking around in VRChat" is especially silly when you consider VRChat was partnered with Cover during 2023.
They clearly ended up disagreeing with this notion in the end, anyway, to where it is apparently not a big deal at all (because it isn't) because Advent did get models to use in VRChat and used them for Kiara's Easter event months later. Thus this is all neither here nor there, since management realized they were being too strict and relented, anyway.
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