@NoContextHumans They're called a bunch of different names, but we call them sand fleas, they're all over the world in tropic and sub-tropic areas, and both coasts of the United states.
We used them as bait for fishing when I was little.
I’ve left Vshojo.
As a day 1 talent it’s truly heartbreaking that it has come to this. I had the opportunity to achieve so much in the last 4-5 years.
I’m really anxious about becoming Indie but I’m going to continue doing what I set out to do and make fun things.
"which I later learned was intended for a charitable cause..."
Give me a fucking break.
How DARE you feign ignorance. You expect anyone to believe that caca after ADMITTING you were plugging holes uses talents trust and money?!
You actively made the choice to take advantage of the trust of your talents. You took advantage of their loving communities. Took advantage of the people they worked with. Every dollar communities spent supporting the talents was a declaration of love and support and you didn't understand the responsibility to be transparent??!! To communicate trouble on the horizon?? and then continue to take advantage of people's hard work and good natures???
How could you sleep at night?!???
@VShojo bro accidentally put the 500k he was supposed to donate to charity and the millions for the talents into the lamborghini fund!! silly mistake!!!!! (who hasn’t done that omg???) 😜😫🥺
"We would be able to do so & cover all expenses"
Brother, you've somehow been bleeding 11 Mil while maintaining the most successful & biggest vtuber roster in Western EN History & figured that'd all just go away on its own?!
Oh- to spew bullshit so confidently 😫
What a weird way to say: "So basically, I've been sitting ducks while watching the ship sink & instead of sitting down with the talents & explaining the situation & finding ways to fix the business model, we went about hiring more & bigger talents to rake in more profits to cover our incompetence.
Oh, also I had no idea what the 500k was supposed to be for & never questioned it or checked the books, oopsie, LOL."
I feel so freaking terrible for your former talents... 💔
VShojo didn't just fail, many staff and leadership failed VShojo.
Instead of using talent money on operating costs, the company should have shut down or at least informed us, but you used us as cash cows to keep things afloat while keeping us in the dark.
You chose to keep the (expensive) sinking ship going and felt that it was fine to keep paying out to staff you were friends with instead of putting talent first. You've made it abundantly clear that you are okay with not prioritizing the debts owed to the talent who MADE this company what it is.
While saying you will take full responsibility is the correct thing to do, I also think there are many others in the company without the same positive intent as conveyed in this message. In every leadership or staff call I had, you sat back and didn't say much while you had other staff members that were clearly the ones doing the actual work be the ones to speak.
We know which leadership worked on our contracts. We know which leadership constantly sat in vc playing games with staff instead of working on time-sensitive tasks for our events and debuts. We know which staff consistently leaked information about talent. As the CEO, you are the final check, yes, but this means that all checks before you failed too.
I’ve been trying to figure out what to say.
Why did you keep dodging my messages and concerns. When I wanted to do 1 o 1’s, you kept dodging or you gave me a short corporate answer. Even when I was under immense pressure from the community for answers about the auditions and I pleaded for a statement by your PR team, you told me it wasn’t needed, you made a tiny video instead, looking like you were hurt and upset, saying sorry, instead of meeting me 1 on 1 for my concerns and I was left crying and frustrated, but like a fucking dog, I went back and happy to even get something from you cause oh man, boss actually answered me. You wanted one finally when you knew everything was crashing around you. Then debuting new talents and such even after the community kept asking about it and kept waving it off and letting me take the punches. I smiled. I fucking brushed it off and kept pushing the company cause I was hopeful for new talent and bringing new people to help. Instead I find you were hiring people without input and poaching without even the idea of truly helping them other then financial gain. We didn’t even know who you were bringing in. You and the team told us to just take it. You and some people were really ready for me to be thrown under over and over. Even when Amalee joined, I begged you to put out a statement regarding auditions before she announced her debut stream. You gave us the middle finger. Me and Amalee had to put out a statement cause your PR team was unfit for their job. I took it all. Why did we have to say anything at all, why did I have to keep taking the fucking damage over and over. You were hurting me well before this. You know you have. I’ve been pushing a company so blindly who didn’t even care for me. But I’m an idiot and I kept believing. I was so excited for this. I spent sleepless nights dealing with constant harassment. And you spent money which you didn’t even have without even warning us on god knows what, and you knew, don’t even lie, you knew that money was for charity and was supposed to be placed to the side to be untouched. Where did 11 million dollars go in less then 3 years even. What happened to all that money.
I’m just really tired from all these years of trying to push for something that kept pushing me to the wolves.
I was so stupid. But I was so excited.
I really trusted you.
We all did.
Despite everything, I don’t wish you any ill will.
I just hope you find some way to make this right.
and so our NDAs are now void
why i left VSHOJO -
back in 2023, vshojo tried to bully me into one of the most predatory contracts that i have ever seen. when i tried to ask more about it, their COO got extremely hostile with me and refused to answer any of my questions and so i had to hire a lawyer in order to get some clarification.
during the talks, it became clear that vshojo would rather let me go than to take less away from me. they were ultimately wanting me to give up more than half of all my sponsor revenue and over 60% of all merch sales. all i asked from them in return, is to not take a cut of the sponsors that i was getting through Mythic, as that cut was already being taken. they said no, they want it all. and so i asked to leave after being treated like i was disposable in our talks. they basically made it seem like they were my employer, and that they're the reason for my success. that i owe them and that i should be happy to give them my money.
in order for me to leave, they demanded i sign an nda that prevented me from speaking to any of the other talent about it. i could not say why i was leaving, i could not say what the terms that i was saying no to were. i even got in trouble for advising them to hire their own attorneys. they would watch my streams, read my discord, and then threaten to sue me. if i said anything that hinted towards how i really felt about the company, i was threatened with a lawsuit.
another one of their leave terms was that they will announce both me and silver on the same day in order to minimize the damage to their company. their COO has begun to push a narrative on 4chan (yes im serious lmfao) and other social media that i am leaving because i plan to join OTK and that both me and silvervale are troublemakers, so they were "letting" us go. later i found out that nyanners wanted to leave around the same time due to also being unhappy with the contract, but was told that she couldn't because it did not fit their narrative that they were pushing internally AND externally. the amount of hate we've gotten over leaving, from fans calling us greedy bitches to people saying we're abandoning our friends and tossing aside the company because we're successful enough, shit was fucking painful. not being able to say anything sucked.
i only found out i didn't get paid for any of my sponsors after i had already signed the NDA. after 2 years, i have still not been paid back fully. to add insult to injury, they also demanded i had to pay them back 10k for some of the anniversary assets which when they sent me back months later, were half finished.
despite all of that, i've had immense faith that the company has gotten better over the past 2 years. i assumed they rewrote their contracts after losing 3 people due to them and seeing all the new talent join.
clearly this was not the case.
now for some fun facts !!
- their company lawyer has an expired law license. he literally does not practice law anymore, yet he was our point of contact for any legal help we needed.
- they actively pitted us against one another during my time there, and compared our success to others. they tried enforcing streaming schedules so that our viewcount would look better due to less overlap.
- they would ALWAYS shit talk other vtuber agencies. they literally would spend company money to get a tiny dig at them. especially hololive, it literally lived rentfree in gunruns head. they were convinced hololive was over when they signed kson and nazuna.
- our previous talent manager got ghosted for 6 months by gunrun, told not to do any work for us and then got fired for "not doing anything". during this fiasco, we weren't able to get any assistance.
- MTD got reprimanded for being creepy to us. lol. got told not to message us privately. go figure.
- i have proof from other streamers attending their IRL parties that MTD would actively shit talk me after i left the company, to paint me in the worst light imaginabe. dunno why ur acting innocent on twitter pretending u werent aware of anything, can't wait to see all the shit that comes out about you because there's LOADS but those aren't my stories to tell.
thanks for reading and thanks to those who stuck around between then and now. thank you for giving me, silver and nyan the benefit of the doubt when we needed it most. 💙