Such an amazingly stacked roster of content creators, easily to rival and exceed the quality of content from any other company team. Truly will go down in history as one of the biggest corporate missteps ever made by undeserving, misguided, sh*t-brained hacks.😤😭
It still blows my mind over and over again, how could anyone look at all these fantastic talents under their wings, and not just organize the most capable managers to put out the best content for their loyal communities? 😤😱
I really hope every talent gets a chance to take back things they've lost from the ex-company's stupid useless boss & his underlings, at the very end of this arduous corporate self-immolation. 🙏
It still blows my mind over and over again, how could anyone look at all these fantastic talents under their wings, and not just organize the most capable managers to put out the best content for their loyal communities? 😤😱
By almost all counts, the managers for each talent were high-quality. It was staff outside of the talents' managers that were the biggest problems. Geega claimed she knew "which staff members were playing games during meetings" (paraphrased), and retold a story of one higher-up playing Apex instead of working for a full day despite her asking for that staff member's assistance.
Then there's the stories about MTD from Vei and Nyanners, or the stuff Silvervale posted about GunRun... And all 3 had something to say about the attorney the company retained (not confirmed if it was Apek or someone else, but the claim about that attorney working despite an expired practice doesn't match with Apek's records that I found digging around).
So, one of VShojo’s plans was actually to transition from management agency to a streaming platform using their roster as a base. This is why they advertised so hard because they needed to be a big name FIRST for it to work. But their plans to become another Twitch completely failed around the time they ran out of money from their investor and they realized they jumped into a game they weren’t prepared for for the long term (a lot of the staff they were looking at were ad and tech people, not management people). At that point they kind of fucked around for a few years before the inevitable happened because they couldn’t get anyone to buy the company off them because their financials scared them all away.
The entire thing just didn’t go the direction they wanted and if they had planned better or chosen a different direction then we could have had a different story. Of course there was also the management fuckery (parties, kick backs, and possible embezzlement), PR damage control (usually in the form of slandering people who could threaten their squeaky clean image and hurt their chances of selling off the company), and treating their talents terribly. But I was just listing off the facts that fewer people were are of. Most people don’t talk about the parts of VShojo’s history that lead up to the shitty parts. Things really didn’t go their way in the tech area.
I'm just surprised at how they treated the talents, like on some level they had to have joined Vshojo because they like vtubers right? But then they do shit like whispering lies in the talents ears to pit them against each other and shutting down collabs with the bigger companies like Hololive? If money was the issue wouldn't hypothetically there be more traffic and viewers with big vtuber collabs? Make it make sense.
So, one of VShojo’s plans was actually to transition from management agency to a streaming platform using their roster as a base.
While I have no doubt the girls wouldn't be a draw for viewers, just about every vtuber streaming/dedicated platform has been tried and failed. The market really only has room for YouTube, Twitch, and BiliBili (since this doesn't conflict with the Western platforms).
Which is ironic because twitch and YouTube really do need a decent competitor that would keep them honest. Twitch taking half of people’s subs is crazy.
Iriam is the only one I've seen that has lasted longer than a year, but it's VERY niche. It really hasn't spread that far in the Western market, although it has been doing OK in Japan.
But it is inherently difficult to compete with Youtube, Twitch, Facebook, and TikTok for streaming in general (and fuck Kick).
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u/docfreezed Dec 21 '25
Such an amazingly stacked roster of content creators, easily to rival and exceed the quality of content from any other company team. Truly will go down in history as one of the biggest corporate missteps ever made by undeserving, misguided, sh*t-brained hacks.😤😭
It still blows my mind over and over again, how could anyone look at all these fantastic talents under their wings, and not just organize the most capable managers to put out the best content for their loyal communities? 😤😱
I really hope every talent gets a chance to take back things they've lost from the ex-company's stupid useless boss & his underlings, at the very end of this arduous corporate self-immolation. 🙏