@Diya and I did some digging:Google reverse doesnt result in anything. But I have high confident that this is real because once again, it's too fucking complicated to be fake.
Outside of name dropping ali shagufta in the chat, if you look at the bottom left, the screensharing was started by a person name Masashi Sayama
I tried google the name and it lead back to a linked.in profile that got deleted but it had 70+ followers so it's not a fake account.
no idea how you access google cache these day. But it's way too fucking elaborate that the "faker" randomly selected this dude name and name dropped Shagufta.
There's also the fact that all the staff account name seems to be in the format of "Japanese name (English name)"
The leaker is likely the ex-mod trying to get Luca fired, she went through her proof folder that she archived a year ago to post proof for her tweets posted here earlier and found this image. Decided it was irrelevant to her tweets and dumped it on 4chan.
The LinkedIn page is gone, but Google still has one picture cached from his LinkedIn.
JACDigital, a janky site which seems to be for University of Queensland communications students to upload assignments, has an article about whaling by him (link) (archive)
His Facebook (archive) doesn't have much public. I'm pretty sure this is the right Masashi Sayama, as the kanji match what is visible in the screenshot, and there is a video of him shilling a Japanese class/workshop in Indonesia in 2018.
But more pertinently, his friends list has this guy:
Fumoto, in turn, is friends with Shagufta Ali and the Pot of Greed himself.
(Riku's friend list is hidden. Go figure.)
Now, if I were faking leaks, I definitely couldn't have made the Masashi Sayama identity from scratch. I could have, however, looked for real Niji employees' names to sprinkle in my fake leaks. But together with the non-public AR Live shot, and that the content itself isn't spicy enough to do any damage (the leak itself shows that the blue chatter broke NDA), I think this leak is real.
Bonus 21-year-old Riku (he's 28 now):
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