VTuber tops its talent agency

On July 21, 66669 -year -old Queen Queen, a 11 -minute video explaining this It leaves talent management agency, VSHOJO. IronMosee is VTuber, or “The virtual YouTube” – a kind of striking Create detailed digital characters to create content.

“I recently discovered that over the past two months, I have been misled by VSHOJO,” she said, in breathing, in her video. “I think I owe a large amount of money that I haven’t received.”

With her pink hair, purple eyes and pods, Ironmouse is one of the largest signs in Twitch. She currently has more than 2.3 million followers twitchAnd 1.3 million subscribers in YouTube. In 2023, She won the Content Creator of the year. A year later, it was more than a short period Kai Senat As the most subscribed to Twitch Straemer with more than 300,000 submarines. Her colleagues at VTuber at VSHOJO have a number of followers in Twitter and YouTube. Now, in the aftermath of the IronMouse video, most of them also left the company, some of them claim unpaid wages.

According to IronMosee, her problem with VSHOJO started with the conclusion of the subscription marathon in 2024 on Twitch. During this event, IronMouse raised more than $ 500,000 for the HIV, a reason that explained that it is important for her because she – the real person behind the IronMouse character – suffers from immunosuppressive or CVID.

freedom I arrived at VSHOJO, IronMose and HIV for suspension.

“Because the money came from my Twitch revenues, VSHOJO may require donation on my behalf,” IronMose said in her video. She claims that this was not done and that is why she decided to leave VSHOJO:

“More importantly, the thing that hurts me more is that the HIV, which is the most important charitable institution for me and also the reason that makes me here today, owes more than half a million dollars from VSHOJO. (…) I really want to tell you everything, but unfortunately now, I have asked the lawyer to wait for more legal procedures so far. To inform you that I will not be part of Vchojo.”

“As of now, I am independent VTuber,” she said.

While the creator who leaves talent agency is not new, especially in the world of VTubers, the scope and size of this departure had a serious impact on both VSHOJO and the broader VTuber community. In the hours after IronMose, her video clip, 12 out of 13 VTubers on the official VSHOJO website announced that they are leaving the company.

On July 22, CouscousVTube under the title Yakuza with 1.3 million followers on YouTube, She did the live broadcast in which she announced that she would leave the company as wellAlso claim unpaid money.

“The reason for this is that VSHOJO did not pay me a large amount of money,” she said.

Most other members of VSHOJO, who said they were leaving on the basis of direct broadcasting and social media, will not give clear reasons why, indicating that they are unable to do so for legal reasons. Almost all of them expressed a sorrow related to their departure and shock when treating IronMouse.

“Yes, I will leave vshojo,” Projekt Melody wrote on X. (I) put everything in these companies (i.e.). But I go beyond what happened what happened and I have never been in a million years. I think I will say these words.

When Vchojo was founded in 2020, she placed itself as a “talent first” as a way to distinguish themselves from other companies that have a reputation To treat bad talents. This attracted this famous VTuber talent and large numbers of fans.

VTubes works similarly with Twitch Streamers but they can have additional expectations and restrictions placed on them if they are sponsored by talent agencies. To understand VTubers, it is better to think of it as Japanese digital idols. Almost every aspect of VTUBER for companies – their care, social media accounts, financial, name and more – owned by control and control by their agency. In most circumstances, if VTuber decides independence, they must leave every aspect of their characters behind them, including all channels related to this character and start from zero point. Vchojo has emerged as a company because its customers were not filled with these conditions.

“I have already shocked,” said Bejalz, an independent artist and VTuber who told him. freedom She has been a fan of VSHOJO talent since the start of the company. “Vshojo was a dream for many.”

However, IronMose’s dream of the HIV. After publishing a video of her announcement as her usual character, A donation campaign started to replace the alleged unpaid money. Through her community, her former VSHOJO colleagues, and their societies collected nearly one million dollars.