I have my reasons to make this post to help people understand the Surge situation better, and I found NOA's fake support of his victims to be most disgusting.
So, here is a full detailed timeline regrading that situation, and evidence that Surge was certainly rebranding.
A) July 20 2024 - Surge's cancellation, apology, and NOA's post regrading his 'termination'.
B) July 21 2024 - Quinn supporting Aishi, and dismissing her talents. (Surge and two others)
C) July 23 2024 - People finding out that Surge was rebranding.
D) July 23 2024 - NOA denying, and Quinn's posts on the matter. (This may be very messy as Quinn has deleted her posts, and made her
Twitter private.)
Quinn posted this 3 times.
Her comments under Aishi's post.
Her comments saying that it was a old email, and NOA just haven't withdrew it yet or Surge just haven't taken it down yet.
(
Note: Bilibili isn't difficult to log into. It can be as easy as scanning a code.)
Telling people that Surge made the new email all on his own, and making people believe that he just wanted to seem like that he was still in NOA for some reason.
A post that she quickly deleted.
Things became more odd as Quinn started to state that the email is actually FAKE to people.
(The email address was indeed not found, but there is no proof that it wasn't deactivated.)
Quinn posted a lot of strange things, and used several very different reasons to defend herself/ NOA. (I did not screenshot everything sadly)
E) Finally, the evidences of Surge's plan to rebrand. There are no screenshots of all of Surge's accounts before his cancellation, but here's his twitter.
One can clearly see that his NOA talent email was
SuRge@NOAtalent.com, and not
ShimizuShiroi@NOAtalent.com. Which makes a few of Quinn's along with NOA's statement automatically lies.
Surge was indeed debuting before his cancellation, but it was not going to be under a new name or was Shimizu Shiroi a old name. One can simply ask anyone from his old community, and no one has heard that name before until now; making more of Quinn's statements lies. (She talked about how it was a old old old name, and then suddenly how it was the new name that Surge was going to debut with.)
Sadly no screenshots were taken of Surge's YouTube, and Bilibili before his cancellation/ rebrand but it was all under the name of Surge. He really had no reason to change especially his Bilibili contact email to the new one. My guess is that he had forgotten that the account was still linked to his YouTube at the time, and was beginning to focus on his Bilibili since his cancellation isn't known within the Chinese community.
He had made it clear that he would be taking a hiatus, and that Surge was gone.
But why did he change his usernames in all other platforms just days after? It could be that he wanted to move on, but that does not at all explain his change of username, and company email on Bilibili. NOA was definitely working to rebrand him after fake terminating him, and did a horrible job at hiding it.
(Surge was not a part of the Raeven project before.)
This situation should not be pushed under the rug. Surge and NOA has not made any new statements but Quinn deleting her messages along with making her manager account and
vtuber account private should speak volumes. I really hope that no one else becomes victims to this black company.
UPDATES (I will input more information as they come out.)
Surge has changed back his tiktok username to Surge, and all of his content remains on the
page.
Archivist edit: Quick archive of embedded tweets
