Was watching yesterday's main segment from Last Week Tonight (TL;DW: ACAB) and at the end the audience was clapping on 1 and 3...crackers smh
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They're clearly going for the retro angle, but they lose points for not including the http://www/ (HTTPS? What's that?)
Might be a bit late, but I'll be there!
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I was about to comment that that's one of the most fun things in RE4 until I got to your last sentence, but oof. Hope today's been going better 
Someone give Richard Wolff a crash course on VTubers so he can parachute into the VShojo fallout, radicalize the talents, and get them to form a VTuber cooperative.
I'm half-joking—doubt any of the talents would want to join an organization after all that mess—but I would really like to see co-ops in the VTuber sphere. I'm also genuinely curious about how such an org would be structured, since there are two natural axes of inequality: differences in income/clout between streamers, and an imbalance of power/wealth between streamers and staff, both of which can be substantial. Would it be more suited to a dual-org system, where the staff forms a workers co-op and the streamers form a consumer co-op? I profess my ignorance about the nitty-gritty of cooperative operations, so if anyone has any insight I'd love to hear it.
edit: finally noticed a silly autocorrect mistake, oops
She mentions that she got a lot of messages from people telling her it was similar to the Chikorita video she did, so perhaps a fan mocked up the thumbnail + title? Interestingly, the comment in the thumbnail is used in the actual video but with a different translation (apparently the original was in Portuguese).
Love that the actual CEO waited three days to release a statement and then just flat out admits to the charity fraud lmao
Text of statement
VShojo has failed, and I've mismanaged the company into the situation you're all witnessing.
So today I am sharing the difficult news that VShojo is shutting down, and I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us to this point.
I've been doing everything I can to fundraise and right the ship these past few months, but despite my efforts, we are in a worse position, and those I care about are now paying the price.
Over the past few years, we raised around $II million to pursue a bold, talent-first approach in VTubing, prioritizing creators and community over short-term profits, to achieve long-term sustainability. Our funding went directly to our creators through generous splits, debut investments, infrastructure, concerts, events, and staffing, all designed to support them. We also wanted talent to own their IP which we knew was a unique creator-first approach for an agency. However, despite all our efforts, the business failed to generate the revenue we needed to sustain that model, and eventually, we ran out of money.
Additionally, I acknowledge that some of the money spent by the company was raised in connection with talent activity, which I later learned was intended for a charitable initiative. At the time, we were working hard to raise additional investment capital to cover our costs, and I firmly believed, based on the information available to us, that we would be able to do so and cover all expenses. We were unsuccessful in our fundraising efforts. I made the decision to pursue funding, and I own its consequences.
I am deeply sorry to all the talents, staff, friends, and community members who believed in our brand. You did not deserve this.
- Justin (Gunrun)
[Trump] said after the cancelation of one theatre engagement that he "never liked 'Hamilton' very much."
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