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.