VShojo doesn't own any of their former content creators IP. Once you go, it's all yours to keep. It's a part of what made them attractive as a corporate entity, especially to indies looking for a boost.
Not even just natural disasters, either. I've seen people(across the 'net and, sadly, in person) lump Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama together like we all voted the exact same way, like it's our faults that laws and restrictions get made.
So many of us have fought, tried changing minds, voted in our own favor, fucking tried, and guess what we got? Told it's our faults. Told by our "leaders" that we're practically better off dead in their eyes. Watched them fight to make us as miserable as possible, every way they can, and have had to etch our own niches wherever we can.
It's absolutely demoralizing. People on both sides want to keep screaming you're doing it wrong when all we're trying to do at this point is fucking survive long enough to maybe get to smile once as ourselves before we die.
You mean I didn't have to duel my girlfriend on a high mountaintop and then spend a month surviving together after our allies abandoned us? Like, we thought that's how you start dating.
Because I have seen people in real life with this anxiety:
99% of us in retail give no fucks. You're one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of faces we might see in a day. Your purchasing habits, your kinks, your personality quirks, need to be super weird/memorable for you to even begin being recognizable.
You making a thing out of it makes it stand out more than just letting it pass. You might get a smile or a giggle in the moment, but within 5 minutes you're just some stranger who came through the line.
Who, and fucking why? Unless you keep it in the fridge, that abomination is going to be nothing more than two pieces of uniced cake in a pile of buttercreme.
And if that's fucking fondant, meat pies are getting put on the menu.
I remember damn near 10 years ago sitting in a conference room hearing about how in 2 years, we'd be making the electric ID van in the States. Then it was 4 years, we're building a mirror plant in 4 years, making electric Passats, with Atlas' to follow.
VShojo doesn't own any of their former content creators IP. Once you go, it's all yours to keep. It's a part of what made them attractive as a corporate entity, especially to indies looking for a boost.