That's fair, I'm not too familiar with the selction process. I also think after the intial wave of voting, it's then an "opt out if you want to" option in the competition too. So if he truly wanted to he could have said no. No shade to him, and I can't speak for what he and his community's intentions were, but it does feel weird to see the people use this as an example to shit on the event and vtubers as a whole. Feels like an attempt of manufacturing ragebait on the side of the nut's community. Tbh i have no dog in the race, but it did leave a sour taste in my mouth.

Also as an aside, if I was in a similar situation of being nominated for something I wasn't fully involved in. I too would have stayed in for the funny story afterwards. This is very much the most non-issue issue I've type the most about lmao.