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INTEREST: hololive Virtual YouTubers Akai Haato, Kiryu Coco Suspended For 3 Weeks Due to 'Inappropri

Anyway, I still find it absolutely bizarre that the CCP is so determined to hold onto Taiwan. Like... we don't share government infrastructure, currency, or even the same writing system nowadays... Even our electronic standards are different! How they think we'll eventually "come back into the fold" is anyone's guess... It's kind of like if England still kept claiming the United States belonged to them decades after the American Revolution... Who does that.

Honestly getting really tired of Cover's first instinct in literally any bad situation is to immediately throw their talent under the bus. Mio, Aloe, now Coco and Haato (seriously, Coco! World's most superchatted youtuber!). Rather than inventing some new misdemeanor and suspending a vtuber or two, maybe the company could take some responsibility.

(...)The talent of their Chinese branch (and likely their support staff) would lose their livelihoods, the many of the rest would lose a significant chunk of their income, and fans in China would no longer be able to follow their favorite members, at least as readily. All of that for what? Defiantly making a political statement that many in the affected area don’t even want or necessarily even agree with, and which will do nothing to change the status quo, which most countries tacitly agree to? It would be one thing if it were a big corporation just forgoing some profits, but we’re talking about actual people losing their livelihoods. I don’t know that I would say that I like the decision per se, but it seems like the one that best protects their employees, and I’d prefer that over some quixotic defiance.(...)

Honestly getting really tired of Cover's first instinct in literally any bad situation is to immediately throw their talent under the bus. Mio, Aloe, now Coco and Haato (seriously, Coco! World's most superchatted youtuber!). Rather than inventing some new misdemeanor and suspending a vtuber or two, maybe the company could take some responsibility.

(I really feel bad for any of the sane Chinese fans out there. Billibilli has already cut off most (all?) hololive vtubers, youtube is banned in China, and this fiasco coupled with the huge success of hololive EN hopefully has Cover drastically reconsidering their expansion markets.)

OR they could issue an apology for "hurting sensibilities" without getting too deep into the matter and leave it at that.
It's not like their only options was to either become a force of defiance against China or throw their talents under the bus. But they made a choice, and it was an awful one.

They probably think that the suspension will calm down the nationalists. It won't.

I don’t know, that seems like it would be dismissed as a non-apology apology. I don’t know if this decision will be enough to sate Chinese nationalists, but a non-apology apology almost certainly wouldn’t.

If what they did doesn’t work, then I will agree it wasn’t the right move. But if they aren’t shut out of China and their talent in the Chinese market can keep their jobs, briefly suspending two of their employees so 6 others (plus their support staff) can keep their jobs would seem to protect their employees more.

^I guess what I don’t quite get about your scenario is why in the current situation, the Chinese nationalists are implacable and won’t stop until they take their heads, but if the company issued a non-apology apology, suddenly they’re a non factor. Ultimately, time will tell what will happen, and I think I’m done trying to speculate about what will happen in this situation.

Personally, while the incident does color my opinion of the company, I’m not about to spurn their talents that I follow over this.

I just wonder what's gonna happen when they come back. No doubt the chat, especially the English speaker are going to be spamming anti-China messages in "protest" like they did on Twitch with the Blizzard thing, and that could probably get them into trouble again if there's so much anti-CCP stuff in their streams that they just decide to shut it all down.