I got inspiration for the title from this as given the structural issues within companies due to mismanagement, DEI and ESG pandering this might become a series in 2024..
There was a post preciously on this but in the past 2 days even more shit has happened that this train wreck deserves to be looked at more. To save the word limit I'll give 3 types of breakdowns to choose from for the current situation:
The more outsider friendly explanation of Critikal
The more indepth and updating videos of FalseeyeD, Rev says desu and Khyo
The spastic and autistic yelling of 4chan narrated by a parrot
That out of the way the latest dealings seem to be that there are third party sycophants attacking Doki to defend Nijisanji. It's hard to know if they're doing it for free like Reddit jannies or if they are paid actors in some respects whether literally or figuratively (by access). They're getting destroyed by community notes alone so not a big deal. But something that made this blow up again is that Doki had TWO suicide attempts with the second stopped after her parents spent hours searching for her along with her termination came 2 hours after her lawyer contacted them regarding the 'infamous' document.
I think minimum, Nijisanji EN branch might go, collectively they've lost over 200,000 subs, their stock price is down by more than 15% while Doki is over 550,000 subs in just a week! The more damming statement was from their CEO himself where he admitted they haven't managed the EN branch at all. I don't know how much this'll affect the Japanese branch which is their main money maker but they'll not be able to rival Hololive again after this (unless it turns out Hololive does human trafficking).
The biggest surprise is how many sponsors, game makers and merchandise companies have left contracts or refused to work with Nijisanji after this, some even hinting at future collaboration with Doki instead.
This entire kerfuffle seems like one massive preference cascade, given how quick it happened.
Going by alot of commentary from people who worked with Nijisanji, it seems like the company as a whole was massively unprofessional.
The big question that no one has an answer for is... why? This has been a long string of very public fuck-ups that no-one ever thought to come down on or reign in, and for what? A single streamer? WTF?
Plus, stuff like this doesn't come out of nowhere. You don't get a situation that results in someone almost being bullied into suicide - twice - out of nowhere. This says alot of things about Nijisanji EN corporate culture, and none of them good.
It'll be interesting to see what happens.