Above all this, I now have to question how "great [of] lengths to remedy the situation" they each actually went. Seems to me like the only way this could have gone is "Close your independent streamlabs account" followed by "No" followed by "Then you're fired."
Even if the skimming was a factor, I cannot be made to believe that it was the only one, that she would have been that retarded, and that PC would have been nearly as soft about it as giving her that much credit in the termination letter, letting her do a graduation video, and even letting her stream and openly talk about her imminent firing while being on the chopping block.
Then again, maybe she just did the math and figured losing the backdoor hurt her bank account more than losing phase connect and all her potential there. Maybe she doesn't intend to be a vtuber for much longer and is only interested in extracting the most in a given time frame. Maybe she's been black this whole time and just cannot think in the long term. Whichever it is, that still doesn't seem like much for them to discuss, or any reason for Kirsche to suddenly be such a huge fan of hers.
I don't doubt that she could and probably does make more money without the fish cut, and considering the other reactions we've seen she's probably still friends with Lia and Pippa, who were basically all she ever collabed with after being Lumi's wife fell through. The only thing she's really losing is the free ride on the coattails of Phase, and if like I said she's not interested in vtubing as a long term career, then it's actually a perfectly viable move to leave, just maybe not on such bad terms.
Which, come to think of it, leads credence to what
@cucurut said about it not being absolutely undeniable. Maybe she just reused her old pre-Phase streamlabs account so as not to have to bother setting up a new one, and that's all there is to this. Why go through the trouble when everyone already knows she's Yuri anyway?
It looks like a smoking gun rrat confirmed, but it still begs the question that basically all of the reactions, attitudes, and official narratives just don't mesh with what should be a very simple "she fucked around, she found out." I guess Phase and their orbiters could just be more full of bleeding hearts than I thought.
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