Figured this was safe to post since the story was breaking containment and the CEO admitted to misappropriating charity funds on twitter.
Earlier this week, popular VTuber Ironmouse accused talent agency VShojo of failing to pay out money she was owed, including over $500,000 for charity as part of a record-breaking Twitch subathon last fall. Now, VShojo has revealed it’s shutting down after failing to raise more investment funds and the CEO has even admitted to spending some of the charity money on trying to keep the business afloat.
I cant make up my mind
At one side: they failed to pay
At the other side: the ceo tried BUT how did he try? Thats completly missing
And was there really no way to ask for money or something?
What i understand is that it concluded to: they used funds they where not entitled to and failed anyway.
But its still not enough for me to feel informed enough to have an opinion
There were many avenues available, but leadership (is alleged to have) ignored every bit of advice given. But if it’s helpful, reported missed payments to talent and staff are alleged to be in the multiple millions, including 515k in charity fraud/embezzlement.
And that’s before the allegations of gaslighting, abusive behavior from senior leadership, and various other things. These are some videos covering much of it in the evenings starting Monday night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb-FGa_DO64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJTOL69h2MI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je_LVCsHEFk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSFmOlFi2Go
I skimmed a bit over it and the setiment and directions are clear: the agency is one of the bad ones and i hope the leadership does not make a new one later after the dust settles a bit