@sgamlin69@aaronsmith What do you mean "owns his earlier mistakes"?
Bullshit
He completely denied using drugs when first asked. And ONLY admitted to it after a former partner came out with handwritten notes where he talked about being “on the shit” and “on the gear”.
@flatsmackin Here's the towers right after they where constructed; before all the internal partitions where in place.
They where basically tubes made from steel lattice. Not solid bricks of concrete.
@DOITFORDALE8 Yeah sometimes they just do that.
Look at this stupid shit that happened here in Australia last year. Cyclone Alfred faded away into a tropical low, way out in the ocean. Then decided it wanted to be a cyclone again and haul ass straight towards the state capital lol.
> be Cover Corp
> go public on Tokyo Stock Exchange (ticker 5253)
> pandemic lockdowns end
> overseas streaming hours drop across the web
> Bigger EN talents like Gura step back from regular streaming
> bank analysts on quarterly earnings calls start asking why overseas metrics look soft
> CEO sweats through his collared shirt
> board hatches a plan
> "just delete the letters EN and ID from their Twitter handles" and merge all the branches into one
> announce #hololiveNext
> dump all regional income into a single spreadsheet cell
> tell shareholders that the company is a unified global franchise
> Tokyo Dome ticket sales and domestic convenience store goods hide the overseas number dip
> announce multi-million dollar broadcast television anime with Studio KAI
> animators are in Tokyo
> voice cast is native Japanese speakers recorded in Tokyo booths
> broadcast runs on Japanese television networks
> Moona: "Anime…. It must be nice…."
> ID might take a long time or might never even show up in the anime
> Ollie "ykw fuck it im upset"
> Anya watching management purge branch logos: "DAMN THEY'RE FAST"
> Kiara realizes HoloEN is erased days before its sixth anniversary: "Goodbye hololive English ..so, we never reach 6 years as EN"
> Calli sitting in her Tokyo apartment: "…alright, now gimme my game perms"
> It was much easier for JP Talents to get permissions for games than overseas talents.
> Kronii checks her phone: "Oh it changed"
> FWMC: "Everyone's Hololive, y'know✨"
> For the record, Anycolor tried this exact merge to Nijisanji ID in 2022
> and when they did, overseas roster literally vanished within two years
Sigh It's all business at the end of the day...
It was never about the talents.