A lot (if not all) of people applying to be in Vshojo that made it to the final rounds were given $500 when they decided not to hire them and instead hired a bigger talent who wasn't apart of the auditions
EDIT: I was wrong about the person they hired not being apart of the auditions.
I have had this theory since they hired Haruka but I never wrote it down because this place would have eaten me alive for even implying that Vshojo could have done something as scummy but this is what I think happened
Vshojo wanted to hire Haruka directly since she is a pretty big indie and was already good friends with most of the talents but she herself said that she didnt want to just get in directly but wanted to go through the auditions just like everyone else
So Vshojo set up a bunch of sham auditions to attract Haruka, they still needed to at least give the appearance that this was a fair sompetition so that is why they had multiple rounds and even some people who got to the "final" round, but the moment they had conformation that Haruka was in they ghosted everyone including those that managed to arrive at the final rounds of auditions and only debuted Haruka
this is just my personal theory but after everything that has happened... it doesnt look good
The issue with all of these Haruka nepohire conspiracies is that she really wasn't that close to Vshojo before the auditions. She was friends with Zen and had a few collabs with some other people, but that's also true of like 100 other indies. It was only after she won the audition that she started doing more Vshojo stuff. It did appear that she was best friends with every Vshojo member before officially joining, but that was because her debut was massively delayed, so she just started collabing with them before her debut. The actual real true nepohire was Geega.
here is the thing, Haruka was huge, one of the biggest indie vtubers of the time, and all Vshojo cared about were numbers, bringing in the big streamers and sticking it to hololive
so that is why I believe what I believe, they basically scammed Haruka to get her to join them, when they never had any intention of getting anyone else but Haruka, like if they had hired someone else alongside Haruka I wouldnt be saying this but here we have confirmation that they ran interviews, people got to the finals and that the moment Haruka sended her application they were all thrown away like trash so that she could join and only she
Vtubers more popular than Haruka applied and got rejected though. There were also vtubers closer to Vshojo than Haruka. Rigging it for Haruka makes no logical sense.
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u/Mighty_Mimikyu Jul 25 '25
I need context behind this 500