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First off, VShojo stealing a half mill from charity. Ironmouse, a VTuber (Person who streams using an avatar instead of their face) who spent the first 7 years of her career streaming while laying in bed due to her chronic illness, did a fundraiser for the Immune Deficiency Foundation. Over the years, she's raised four million for the group that helps people like her. But, her agency isn't releasing the funds for the most recent one, and also owes some, if not all, of their talent large amounts of their salary.
Ironmouse started streaming because she was lonely. She has to be physically isolated due to immune system problems. VTubing is a space where you've got a lot of people with earning potential in the millions, but a lot of the talent is chronically ill, have severe anxiety disorders or are highly closeted trans people. One reason to use a face rig is living in an area where you have to be very gender conforming for physical safety reasons, and it's an outlet, a space for relief and community. This is a billion dollar industry, where a large chunk of the people are highly vulnerable. Agencies provide the separation between working with sponsors and other companies they need to safety. They can't just be giving out their bank info and can't manage to make their own corporate entity or shell company on their own. They need someone to provide privacy and also be vetting all the sponsorship offers.
The good news is that fans came together to raise, so far, over $857,000.00 to cover the missing half mil and then some. Since Conner, who was also involved in the charity streams, recently had to call them and say 'sorry, the promised funds aren't coming' I can't image what it's like to have people having their backs like this.
Hopefully, VShojo didn't lose the money on a failed start up or something and lawyers can whack them open like pinata to recover the money. It's amazing to see the support, but also fucked that people have to. And also, while big streamers have opened up about being owed 'Ferrari levels of money' we don't know if smaller streamers who have also been ripped off for money they can't lose.
Also, while it's not confirmed, very solid sources have said that VShojo employees were leaking appearances and relationship statuses of their employees. From the sounds of it, it was being done as a flex, being all 'I know what they really look like, who has a partner they don't talk about and who is actually single'
I want to post about two other things going on, but I'll do separate posts. While not everyone in the Vtubing space is disabled or has something else major going on, there is just such a intense intersection of highly vulnerable people, shit tons of money, and also people who can't just go get other jobs. And finally, a number of VTubers have said in very strong terms, that there is even more to this VShojo situation, but they can't talk about it for legal reasons. Legal proceedings are already underway. There's another shoe going to drop here.
Ironmouse started streaming because she was lonely. She has to be physically isolated due to immune system problems. VTubing is a space where you've got a lot of people with earning potential in the millions, but a lot of the talent is chronically ill, have severe anxiety disorders or are highly closeted trans people. One reason to use a face rig is living in an area where you have to be very gender conforming for physical safety reasons, and it's an outlet, a space for relief and community. This is a billion dollar industry, where a large chunk of the people are highly vulnerable. Agencies provide the separation between working with sponsors and other companies they need to safety. They can't just be giving out their bank info and can't manage to make their own corporate entity or shell company on their own. They need someone to provide privacy and also be vetting all the sponsorship offers.
The good news is that fans came together to raise, so far, over $857,000.00 to cover the missing half mil and then some. Since Conner, who was also involved in the charity streams, recently had to call them and say 'sorry, the promised funds aren't coming' I can't image what it's like to have people having their backs like this.
Hopefully, VShojo didn't lose the money on a failed start up or something and lawyers can whack them open like pinata to recover the money. It's amazing to see the support, but also fucked that people have to. And also, while big streamers have opened up about being owed 'Ferrari levels of money' we don't know if smaller streamers who have also been ripped off for money they can't lose.
Also, while it's not confirmed, very solid sources have said that VShojo employees were leaking appearances and relationship statuses of their employees. From the sounds of it, it was being done as a flex, being all 'I know what they really look like, who has a partner they don't talk about and who is actually single'
I want to post about two other things going on, but I'll do separate posts. While not everyone in the Vtubing space is disabled or has something else major going on, there is just such a intense intersection of highly vulnerable people, shit tons of money, and also people who can't just go get other jobs. And finally, a number of VTubers have said in very strong terms, that there is even more to this VShojo situation, but they can't talk about it for legal reasons. Legal proceedings are already underway. There's another shoe going to drop here.
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Date: 2025-07-25 03:05 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2025-07-25 06:27 am (UTC)From:From the statement made today, it looks like the money has gone somewhere, which is insane. Finding out where it went is going to be interesting.
The charity fund is at over a million, and that's awesome, but a lot of creators are just not getting roughly a year of sponsorship money. That is a LOT of money that's gone somewhere.
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Date: 2025-07-26 04:34 am (UTC)From:That is a LOT of money to have gone... to a mysterious somewhere.