Especially since Nijisanji was given a pretty fair shake and a respectably unbiased presentation by the people running the 2023 awards. Sure most of the winners were split between Hololive and indies, that's just the audience bias speaking, but Niji did get plenty of nominations and won a few categories. Not the awards fault that Niji went on to unperson Selen afterwards.Even in their wildest dreams they cannot imagine someone from their company will win an award, they just assume it would be people who quit. Says quite a lot about their honest opinion
And their "Vtubing History" presentation was pretty favourable to Nijisanji and gave their fair dues on their various innovations and important landmarks within the industry, enough that you had Holotourists wondering why it hadn't just been all about how Cover invented vtubing. The whole thing was pretty fair - you even had people here defending it in the face of others who wanted them to be more anti-Niji.
Expecting a beating before there's even been any indication of one is nuts. I don't expect Niji will be taking any awards to be fair, but that's because Hololive has had an absolute banger of a year and Niji...hasn't, even if you exclude all the drama.
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