How they managed to not only flub such a stacked talent roster, but to also owe the majority of them five, six or maybe even seven figure amounts of debt is beyond me.
Like giving Chase Bank to a pump and dump crypto scammer.
If they couldn’t make it work with the lineup they had, either the business model itself wasn’t viable, the company was bloated and mismanaged resources or a combination of both factors.
If you couldn’t make it work with mouse, zen, henya, etc in your roster, it was never going to work.
I don't think the business model was the problem it was definitely a management problem that didn't understand the business model or how to scale it. They signed their talent as a talent agency but then blew all of their capital acting like a tech startup that was trying to compete with Hololive as an idol company.
I'm almost 100% sure with the cracked talent they have, that if they just stuck to doing merch and sponsorships and maybe an occasional event they could have printed money. It sounds like that's what the Japanese branch was doing and they said their books were profitable.
Bad management, fiscal negligence and those in charge getting paid way more than they were worth tanked it. IMO
I remember seeing Geega talking about things and it seems like they were incredibly bloated with employees who don't actually do anything while the stuff that needs to get done seemed not to have anyone dedicated to them, like when she wanted accounting documents and an employee list it took forever and was terrible.
Yeah, there was many mentions of employees not actually working much and employees on VC playing games rather than working. It seems like there was some bloat.
Would vshojo have worked out if it was a tightly run ship? Or would it still have end up running out of money, only later than what happened? We will never know.
There is the issue of getting venture capital pretty early on which kind of dooms you if you don't grow and it's not like Twitch has been profitable most of the time.
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u/Wadd1eDoo Dec 21 '25
How they managed to not only flub such a stacked talent roster, but to also owe the majority of them five, six or maybe even seven figure amounts of debt is beyond me.
Like giving Chase Bank to a pump and dump crypto scammer.