Hm. I didn't watch Yuri or Phase much, so I can't say I'm torn up. Still sucks.
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My rrat about the donation rrat: Pippa, Calli, etc. have roommate personas which conduct activities that aren't affiliated with their corpo and are essentially a second job. You can send money to those and bypass their corpo, but they can't actively promote their roommates under their corpo identities. Since Yuri was a Phase Invader, does she have a known roommate? (Edit: What I'm getting at is, maybe accounts which would have been Yuri's roommate property are Phase's property because the Yuri persona joined Phase, instead of Yuri's roommate taking on a new corpo model.)
It is odd that the announcement flip-flops between calling it a termination and an infeasible renewal. Usually a company will consistently use the latter reason for separation if they can. Maybe the timing was weird and her contract had actually just been renewed.Agreed. Though I think Phase worded it badly. The use of Termination makes it sound like she was fired, and not that it was a lapse in contract due to breakdown in negotiations. People are reading that one word and spinning rrats immediately. You're already seeing people on /vt/ comparing Idol to Phase saying "3 graduations is not as bad as one termination".
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So one would think Sakana would have stuck with infeasible renewal if he could.Sakana has said before how Canadian labor laws really favor the employee and it's a big hassle for a company to fire someone since they have to prove more things in order to justify it. It's a shame, I like Yuri! Kind of ridiculous the Twitter replies dragging Phase Connect. If she kept violating her contract, she knows the consequences.
What stands out to me is that Sakana tells people not to ask the talents about it (standard procedure) out of respect for Yuri (unusual). The farewell video is also unusual. I don't know if Yuri signed away or sold her IP to Phase when she joined as an Invader, and it would suck for her if she did and that's why her channels were nuked. We also haven't heard her side yet. Other than that, this is much more professional and seemingly amicable than, say, Zaion's termination.For the sake of documentation, Sakana made an additional comment when sharing the link in the Phase-Connect Discord server, asking people not to ask the talents about it, out of respect for Yuri.
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EDIT: This has nothing to back it up and I haven't heard this rumour personally, but a recent reddit post claims she was taking personal donations to bypass Phase's cut. This feels like an unsubstantiated rrat so take with a grain of salt.
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My rrat about the donation rrat: Pippa, Calli, etc. have roommate personas which conduct activities that aren't affiliated with their corpo and are essentially a second job. You can send money to those and bypass their corpo, but they can't actively promote their roommates under their corpo identities. Since Yuri was a Phase Invader, does she have a known roommate? (Edit: What I'm getting at is, maybe accounts which would have been Yuri's roommate property are Phase's property because the Yuri persona joined Phase, instead of Yuri's roommate taking on a new corpo model.)
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