/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>72417224
They can't win this.

The contract, despite it's claims, would be treated as a labor agreement, making it subject to US labor law.

It's also an EXPIRED contract, though they seem to have lied enough about that to make even Serafi believe it.

Even if it wasn't, the maximum penalty described in the contract for early termination is $20K.

Under US law, invoicing someone making less than minimum wage for $450,000 is a crime called "extortion". The US regularly extradites foreign nationals for that very crime. If they really want to push it, someone from V&U could easily find themselves in a US prison.

Leaving aside the cascading failure of legal issues, threatening someone for $450K for simply wanting to exercise their right to terminate a contract is just monstrously wrong, any way you cut it.

...Not that attacking a popular suicide victim, twice, and having your own talents carry out the second attack, after seeing the catastrophically bad reaction to the first, is real bright either.

(Posting this thread to keep some of the generals from being assaulted.)

So, taking a page from Nijisanji's playbook, V&U put out an initial termination notice, then seeing the bad reaction to it, doubled down with a second announcement with more of the same.

This all after sending Serafi a itemized invoice, totalling $450K USD, describing what she would need to pay to amicably terminate her contract.

Serafi's signed contract as well as the $450K invoice were recently leaked, revealing:
- The briefly worded contract's duration was actually 1 year, not 3. It had already expired when she asked to quit.
- The contract was actually signed on September of 2022, not on January of 2023 as V&U claims.
- She was initially paid $500/month for four months with a bonus total of $2500 on the fourth month. (So less than minimum wage.)
- The only penalty described in the contract is five times that. (Still unenforceable, but nowhere near $450K.)
- The itemized invoice claims that several heads of departments had spent 50% of their time on her, despite there being 19 other talents, while demanding she pay that portion of their salaries, and included a $20,000 item labeled only "etc", among other "oddities".
- They confirmed the existence of this invoice in their second termination announcement.
- Despite cries of "imitating Doki", Serafi was trying to leave the company on February 2nd, before Doki's termination notice was posted.

In the company's defense:
- The confidentiality agreement, though unenforceable, is three years.
- Serafi has swapped managers multiple times. (Though this was apparently not by her request.)
- Serafi, like Pochi, leaves several donothon goals unfulfilled. (Though she's not recieving the money for her donothon.)
- V&U is offering refunds for various Serafi related purchases from December 2023 onwards, until April 23rd.
- The rrats have it that Serafi caused some drama among her sisters. (Please post a QRD of this, even if nothing she could have possibly done would justify a half-million dollar invoice.)

Serafi claims to have signed no other contract nor has received any other official documents besides the contract and the invoice.

Links:
>Hiatus notice from V&U
https://twitter.com/VNUofficial/status/1755516758046515376
>First Termination notice from V&U
https://twitter.com/VNUofficial/status/1770661611772187044
>Second Termination notice from V&U
https://twitter.com/VNUofficial/status/1772156465547202587
>Refund notice from V&U
https://twitter.com/VNUofficial/status/1772156516956557731
>Statement from alien_mixture re: above
https://twitter.com/alien_mixture/status/1772632096219214180

Amano Sefari is now @alien_mixture on Twitch.

Full text of the Amano Serafi's signed contract and Alien Mixture's response to the second termination notice will be linked below for anti-clicks/convenience.