[Public Statement of Apology]
After reading everyone's thoughts and comments, it has dawned on us that we had made a huge mistake in the decision to rebrand Iora's twitter account.
Based on genuine advice given to us by those that have given us the benefit of doubt, and an emergency team meeting, we'd like to return the IP rights of Hotaru Iora to its original owner @ValentineCh_VT as a sign of goodwill and apology to the community.
We plan to get in touch with @VReverieLive in order to acquire the remaining assets of the IP in order to return them to her.
We'd like to address everyone's concerns regarding our association with @VReverieLive
We have purchased this account from @VReverieLive with the intention of rebranding to an existing VTuber audience.
[Public Statement of Apology]
After reading everyone's thoughts and comments, it has dawned on us that we had made a huge mistake in the decision to rebrand Iora's twitter account.
Based on genuine advice given to us by those that have given us the benefit of doubt, and an emergency team meeting, we'd like to return the IP rights of Hotaru Iora to its original owner @ValentineCh_VT as a sign of goodwill and apology to the community.
We plan to get in touch with @VReverieLive in order to acquire the remaining assets of the IP in order to return them to her.
[Public Statement of Apology]
After reading everyone's thoughts and comments, it has dawned on us that we had made a huge mistake in the decision to rebrand Iora's twitter account.
Based on genuine advice given to us by those that have given us the benefit of doubt, and an emergency team meeting, we'd like to return the IP rights of Hotaru Iora to its original owner @ValentineCh_VT as a sign of goodwill and apology to the community.
We plan to get in touch with @VReverieLive in order to acquire the remaining assets of the IP in order to return them to her.
@NotShinyPiprup@MurrayShinaide@Cubanoman@VReverieLive I apologize for being unclear. What I was trying to say was that while we bought the IP, we have no intention of reusing the model and assets (for example putting another talent behind Iora). We were only interested in the follower base.
@Mertvyi_@MurrayShinaide@Cubanoman@VReverieLive I believe that the VReverie account had always been following the Iora account, which is why they are currently following our account, as it is the same account, but a rebrand.
@MurrayShinaide@Cubanoman@VReverieLive All we wanted was to start with an existing follower base that were interested in VTuber related content, hence our decision.
@MurrayShinaide@Cubanoman@VReverieLive Just the twitter account, we have no intention of putting someone else behind Iora, as we know that is hugely frowned upon in the community.
@ReiyKishi @nickybull @Alkhemia8@FuriFerntail@VReverieLive Though we understand that the community hates the idea of a different talent behind the same character. I understand your point.
@ReiyKishi@Alkhemia8@FuriFerntail@VReverieLive From what we've researched, there's been many cases of talents buying their IP from their agencies, which includes the twitter account too.
@ReiyKishi@Alkhemia8@FuriFerntail@VReverieLive Yes, we could've bought any account. But we chose to purchase this account as it had the target audience that we wanted to market to. We had not realized that the community is so strongly against this idea.
@Alkhemia8@FuriFerntail@VReverieLive We did do research that there were previous cases of IP transfers of VTuber talents which included their twitter accounts being transferred along with it.
@VReverieLive If we were the original owners that everyone suspects us to be, we could in theory forge a purchase receipt. We are really at a loss here on what to do.
@Acescountry@synicalbeanical We understand that VReverie had a bad reputation, but that is because of the founders. We didn't expect so much backlash considering we are new owners.