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posted ago by redman012 ago by redman012 +15 / -5

Two weeks ago, Dokibird, formerly Selen Tatsuki of Nijisanji EN debuted a new model, which is essentially a blonde version of Selen, designed by the same person who designed Selen Tatsuki. Dokibird explains in this stream that part of why she went to the same artist who designed Selen was because she felt like she wasn't able to fully express herself and sometimes felt like a disappointment (which is a common thread with ex-Nijisanji Vtubers, because the company has the attitude of 'you are nothing without us').

Filian got in hot water over the fact that her model isn't a model for her, it's a model for VRchat you can buy for $50, because she had a Nendoroid announced, along with several other vtubers such as Dokibird with her original design (which she calls RetroDoki), and Fuwawa and Mococo Abyssgard (or Fuwamoco) of Hololive English's 3rd Wave, Advent. The reason that this is an issue is that the licensing agreement that you agree to upon buying the model does not approve of physical merch. You're allowed to stream and make money off of it, but you are not allowed to make physical merch.

Original tweet from the creator, Jingo.

Tweet from Komado, the creator of the child-esque model Mint that has appeared in several games that Filian has collaborated with, over the same issue

This ended up being solved with Jingo requesting that merch sales stop, so for now, Filian's Nendoroid will not be made.

Today, Dokibird will be streaming Neopets for their 25th anniversary. The reason this is even news is that the original 'black stream' that Vox Akuma, Ike Eveland and Elira Pandora did that revealed personal information about Dokibird which was supposed to stay private between Nijisanji management and her legal team was intentionally synched with the start of a Neopets stream she had to end early in order to deal with Nijisanji's bullshit.