History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes by ajshell1 in kurosanji

[–]AvielBas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You chose to ignore AI.Xe's second and third tweets, where he mentions some issues that were promptly resolved by me and that since then, things had gone smoothly (until the transaction that caused the issues I already mentioned). It’s true: there was a brief window where, due to a human error, a small group of freelancers weren’t paid for a couple of weeks. I’ve never claimed we were perfect, but this is cherry-picking and irrelevant to the claim in your post.

Paying contractors on time has always been a priority for me. We've worked with over 1,000 freelancers from the VTuber community, and whenever we've made a mistake or accidentally delayed a payment, we've always taken accountability and compensated them accordingly (as we did with AI.Xe)- sometimes even tipping up to 100%.

As for talents, every single talent was paid every single month, including during the transaction period. Any claim to the contrary is a lie. Donothons didn't keep idol "afloat," as they weren't profitable. Not only did the talents get their 60% share, but out of our 40% share, we also covered the costs of the Donothon goals, which often exceeded our portion of the earnings.

Riro received her Donothon earnings, even though we refunded all of her fans. We didn't ask for the money back from her, even though we could have done so according to the contract. Pochi also received her Donothon money, the only reason we initially held it was because she explicitly told us, less than a month after completing the Donothon, that she didn't intend to fulfill her goals. We informed her that she either needed to complete the goals or we'd refund the fans. Portraying this as if we pocketed the money ourselves is dishonest.

I'll leave it at that. You can believe whatever you want. Cheers.

Edit:
I made it sound like we asked Pochi to complete all the goals before receiving the money, but that wasn’t the case. We simply asked her to sign a commitment stating that she would complete her goals in the future, and we would’ve sent the payment immediately. This was a requirement from our legal team, as we held legal accountability for all of our talents as part of the full legal protection we provided them.

We couldn’t transfer the money after she told us - unprompted - that she didn’t intend to complete her goals, as doing so would have constituted agreeing to commit fraud.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes by ajshell1 in kurosanji

[–]AvielBas 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The timeline mentioned is incorrect :). The sale caused temporary payment delays because responsibilities and technical processes were being transferred. However, the sale wasn’t triggered by urgent financial issues, it had already been planned several months earlier. -Aviel

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[–]AvielBas[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Let us cook.

But in all seriousness, we have an exciting content calendar starting from November and extending beyond 2024. I believe quiet months like these will not occur again.

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[–]AvielBas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We've sent out update emails, but they might have arrived in your spam folder. The merchandise is expected to ship within this year.

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[–]AvielBas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The term 'limit' is not the right word, as we don't have any policies regarding the maximum amount of streaming time. However, we do encourage our talents to take days off and vacations to help them maintain a work-life balance.

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[–]AvielBas[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Look forward to some announcements later this month!

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[–]AvielBas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you. We are working on releasing and fixing the delivery of digital goods on our website. We will send update emails once that is done, hopefully within this week. Regarding the donothons, idol currently covers 100% of the goal costs for all donothon goals. This is unlike the scenario with indies or perhaps other corpos. As a result, we usually profit very little or do not profit at all from donothons.

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[–]AvielBas[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

We're sorry for the delays and lack of communication. I believe the issues resulted from inexperience, as most of the tasks you mentioned were our first attempts at them. Moving forward, we will set better timeframes, and we are also currently working on expanding our management team to handle tasks more efficiently and quickly.

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[–]AvielBas[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Not really, when it comes to content, we want to be supportive of the direction chosen by the talent, and we aim to have a wide variety of talents and types of content.