LAST EDITED ON Jul-15-25 AT 00:59 AM (EDT)
 
Nijisanji has announced at midnight EST that Aster will be 'separating from Nijisanji'.

No mention of the 'internal investigation', not even saying he's been terminated. Just that he's not coming back. His contract has run out and that's all.

Awesome, Uki Violeta next.

>His contract has run out and that's all.

Ah, the "BBC sacks Clarkson without sacking him" method.

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LAST EDITED ON Jul-15-25 AT 05:57 AM (EDT)
 
I was under the impression they just straight up fired Clarkson. Didn't work out very well for them. The lost three of their most prolific and well loved stars from that.

Nijisanji meanwhile is losing nothing except face for not even bothering to say 'terminated'. They've simply 'separated'.

>Nijisanji meanwhile is losing nothing except face for not even
>bothering to say 'terminated'. They've simply 'separated'.

Graduation would have made it look like they were covering for a sex pest and termination without concrete proof might have led to legal issues. If any new allegations/evidence comes out now, they can dodge by saying he's no longer with the company and thus no longer their problem.

“Termination without proof could have led to legal issues” didn’t stop them from doing it to Sayu, Doki, or the most recent one, Twisty was it? No, either he just plain he has something on them, or they were implicated enough in his horseshit that they’d be taken down too, I think. Especially since there was SUPPOSED to be an investigation into him that would GET the proof they’d be able to fire him with.

In other news, the reddit crowd thinks they found his new account. I won’t link or anything, both in case it is, so he doesn’t get more traffic, and in case it isn’t, I don’t want to accuse an innocent person. Kinda seems like it might be tho.

>“Termination without proof could have led to legal issues”
>didn’t stop them from doing it to Sayu, Doki, or the most recent
>one, Twisty was it?

Didn't they have a ton of proof for all of those?

Like, I definitely remember thinking when I read about the Sayu situation that nothing described sounded like enough reason to fire someone for me, and more than that, some of the things described shouldn't be rules they should have, but no one seemed to be disputing the actual events that took place.

-IA.

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>I was under the impression they just straight up fired Clarkson.

Technically not. All three hosts' contracts were due for renegotiation at the end of the current series, which was nearly finished when Clarkson punched a member of the production staff. Officially the BBC chose not to pursue renewal of Clarkson's contract, probably so they wouldn't have to scrap the nearly-finished series. Hammond and May then declined to seek renewal of theirs. On paper, nobody quit or was fired.

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>On paper, nobody quit or was fired.

One of those "matter of interpretation" situations, as Clarkson will insist that he was fired and that the punishment was not over the punch but because the BBC suits didn't like him personally, while said suits will stick to the official story that his contract was up and the decision not to renew had nothing to do with his being an insufferable ass who refused to take any responsibility for his actions.

Hammond and May's positions could be written out as "he's a stupid oaf, but he's our mate and we're sticking by him."

“He’s *our* stupid oaf, and we’ll be leaving with him, thank you.”

>>On paper, nobody quit or was fired.
>
>One of those "matter of interpretation" situations

Well, yes, hence "on paper". In practical terms, obviously Clarkson was fired and the others quit. But for legal purposes, none of that happened. Business is weird...

>Hammond and May's positions could be written out as "he's a stupid
>oaf, but he's our mate and we're sticking by him."

I'm pretty sure Hammond even tweeted something very close to that at the time.

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LAST EDITED ON Aug-04-25 AT 10:18 PM (EDT)
 
Aster returns with his Aeytha account and a non-statement that some are saying has the tone of trying to make himself the victim.

It is the lead story in today's Things VTubers Say. Apparently there's a still current person who spoke up with their personal account 'Gramps' about Aster.