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I expected that Anycolor hurling their talents into the pitchforks would have been noticed as a JP company using their employees as human shields for the higher-ups (i.e., a certified zaibatsu classic), but somehow every stooge was accepted as a scapegoat without a single eyelash batted. NijiEN fans had a reputation for being incredibly obnoxious though, so I guess it was inevitable that their oshis got chokeslammed the hardest when the tribal drums began to roar.
Another thing that makes me sad is that none of the ex-NijiENs directly vilified their actual colleagues (as far as I've seen), and the entire talent-specific fatwa was driven independently by the vtuber viewership itself. Beyond an ocean of crackpot justifications (including "Elira has JP-2 fluency" and "Vox is a massive prick", which are both correct but unrelated to the graduation dramas) and half-assed sentiments like "they deserve to be torched because they're continuing to work for a horrible company", the only definite "proof" of hard feelings is that none of the ex-NijiENs have outright defended their former colleagues. But even there, I could easily explain that as wanting to avoid a nasty email from their former employer by saying anything at all, or even fearing that the rabid mob might turn around on them for "siding with the bad guys." Mint said that she missed having a peer discord to chat with in a member stream, and Kuro mentioned that he still keeps in touch with his Niji colleagues after his reincarnation, which I guess implies no bitter feelings? But none of this really matters anymore, Anycolor's deflection worked perfectly and the hate mob did it's job.
Also inb4 more dokifags wander into the thread to make their patented NUH UH YOU WRONG YOU ARE SISTER replies. I really wish they made more of those, reading them really makes you want to watch a Dokibird stream, it's incredible advertising