This was covered slightly with this post on Ironmouse but since then it's escalated quickly:
Kson did a stream saying she hasn't been paid for a year and called up the guy in charge of the Japan side to admit they only paid employers not talents, she was going to leave end of the month but she's gone now and I think she's getting her fellow Japanese talents out too.
Michi just released a video saying she's going too.
Don't have X so can't link it but Melody is gone too, Henya is apparently streaming later today where a lot of people expect her to go too (Edit:Henya's leaving Vshojo video). Think by the end of today, Monarch (Amalee), Haruka, K9Kuro will be gone. Hime might leave when Sydney remembers her password..
And in the backdrop to this we not only have the defrauding a charity with the missing half a milion, Shibuya Kaho has alluded to a vtuber agency that has an employee openly sharing real photos and status of their companies talents, many think this is Vshojo since she is close to Ironmouse. Why is this relevant, because Vshojo is based in San Fransico California and their laws FUCK employers over this kind of thing.
So yep, Vshojo crashes out before Nijisanji, who'd thunk?
Update: here's a good breakdown by False, EVERYONE has left even Hime and Froot. Artists and musicians who were commissioned in the past have come forward to say they were owed money, Kaho pretty much admits she was talking about Vshojo, they might not exist as a company by the end of the week.
When ironmouse said she was owed money, I figured they'd either shorted her, or they had mismanaged funds or there were payouts due. But now multiple talents have come forward saying they haven't received money in over half a year or more.
They've been effectively bankrupt for a while. No way are the talent or the charity recouping much of what they're owed either, its all gone.
Yep but at minimum they NEED to get that money to charity or they are CRIMINALLY fucked.
I don’t understand how these creators don’t walk away much sooner. They have a proven talent talent and an audience and even if they had to leave the assets behind you’d think they’d have a pretty good shot at coming up with a new vtuber personality and going independent or finding a new agency or something. I know that I’d be applying to new positions if my employer missed one payday, and these people have been sitting on not getting paid for months?
I know they had to sign some sort of contract, but surely it’s not so crazy that there’s no exit clause for them if their employer doesn’t meet payment obligations? Would that even be enforceable?
They all had exit clauses, that’s why every single VShojo vtuber just left today, but a lot of Vshojo’s vtubers were ex-Nijisanji and wanted to give VShojo time to get said funds to them, as Niji was bad, to say the very least.