History YMMV / Nijisanji

** For years English-speaking fans have suspected that Nijisanji livers don't receive their [=Silver/Gold=] "[=YouTube=] Play Button" plaques for reaching [=100,000/1,000,000=] subscribers and that the plaques they earn are instead being kept at the company's main office, citing the fact that the plaque pictures posted by livers on social media are all taken from the same desk and reflect linear white light lamps which are common in corporate offices but not households [[note]](Japanese fans had already known this, because Mito Tsukino, Kazaki Morinaka, and Chaika Hanabatake have all mentioned this on their streams)[[/note]]. This was eventually confirmed to English-speaking audiences by Claude Clawmark when he reached 100,000 subcribers. Claude proceeded to add that he doesn't mind and he considers it a great honour that his plaque is going to be placed along the others in the main corporate office. According to Claude, the livers always have the option to request the plaques sent to them, but very few livers have so far exercised it, instead choosing to let Nijisanji keep them [[note]](It should be noted however that on the one occasion where a liver (Kazaki) requested it, Nijisanji replied that they had "lost the plaque" meaning that no liver has ever received their "Play Button", even after asking for it)[[/note]].

** On a more serious note, the then-indefinite postponement of the [=NijiEN=] AR Live show[[note]]The show was initially announced in late February 2023 with the show set for early April the same year, only for the postponement to occur a few weeks prior to showtime. This was re-announced in late March 2024, with a new date set for mid April[[/note]] with vague reasoning[[labelnote:*]]Nijisanji cited COVID as the reason for postponement in their official statement. However some EN livers expressed vocal displeasure with the reasoning, with the Luxiem boys even going as far as to not-so-subtly call out Nijisanji for using COVID as a scapegoat, which in turn led to implications that something was going wrong behind the scenes.[[/labelnote]] was a sore spot to [=NijiEN=] fans, and even some of the livers talked about how upsetting the cancellation was to them, with all the effort they put into it going to waste. Along with how Nijisanji handled many of the controversies around the time of December 2022 to early 2023, fans would look at the reasonings behind Nijisanji and Anycolor's decisions with skepticism. When the [=NijiEN=] AR Live was finally aired in April 2024 it was subject to more controversy, mostly revolving around the fact that the show had a lot of content edited out (primarily the segments starring departed livers like Pomu, Nina and Selen). [[note]] Petra and Rosemi, Selen's genmates, even went so far as to warn their fans that much of their content would win up on the cutting room floor, presumably because much of said content would've included Selen as well.[[/note]] There was some dissatisfaction that Nijisanji hadn't at least tried to replace those departed livers with those who'd debuted between the AR show's original scheduled date and the new 2024 one.
** In a case of CultureClash, in early February 2024 Nijisanji released a statement meant for investors stating that the recent termination of a liver would not be reflected in the at-the-time-upcoming quarterly earnings report (which was scheduled for release early March 2024). Unfortunately, the English statement included the word "negligible", which was taken by detractors of Nijisanji's response to various controversies as brushing their complaints off as unimportant [[note]] This was not helped by financial investment firm Morgan Stanley releasing a similar statement that listed ANYCOLOR as a "buy", which similarly seemed to consider fan outcry to be short-lived[[/note]]. As a result, it isn't unusual for responses to bad news like delays to include "negligible"... despite the fact the statement was factually correct: as the termination had taken place after the conclusion of the third quarter, it would naturally not be included in the earnings report i.e. it would have no impact at all on said report. This was not helped by how the statement was only released in Japanese and then translated into English, and [[BrutalHonesty was so short and curt]] that it infuriated much of the English-speaking fandom [[note]] as an example of how the word "negligible" in particular was the issue, the head designer for HYTE, a well-known PC case and accessory store, sarcastically noted "TIL (Today I learned) HYTE is negligible", and shortly thereafter a planned collaboration between Nijisanji and HYTE was cancelled with preorders being refunded. [[/note]].

** In a case of CultureClash, in early February 2024 Nijisanji released a statement meant for investors stating that the recent termination of a liver would not be reflected in the at-the-time-upcoming quarterly earnings report (which was scheduled for release early March 2024). Unfortunately, the English statement included the word "negligible", which was taken by detractors of Nijisanji's response to various controversies as brushing their complaints off as unimportant [[note]] This was not helped by financial investment firm Morgan Stanley releasing a similar statement that listed ANYCOLOR as a "buy", which similarly seemed to consider fan outcry to be short-lived[[/note]]. As a result, it isn't unusual for responses to bad news like delays to include "negligible"... despite the fact the statement was factually correct: as the termination had taken place after the conclusion of the third quarter, it would naturally not be included in the earnings report i.e. it would have no impact at all on said report.

** On a more serious note, the then-indefinite postponement of the [=NijiEN=] AR Live show[[note]]The show was initially announced in late February 2023 with the show set for early April the same year, only for the postponement to occur a few weeks prior to showtime. This was re-announced in late March 2024, with a new date set for mid April[[/note]] with vague reasoning[[labelnote:*]]Nijisanji cited COVID as the reason for postponement in their official statement. However some EN livers expressed vocal displeasure with the reasoning, with the Luxiem boys even going as far as to not-so-subtly call out Nijisanji for using COVID as a scapegoat, which in turn led to implications that something was going wrong behind the scenes.[[/labelnote]] was a sore spot to [=NijiEN=] fans, and even some of the livers talked about how upsetting the cancellation was to them, with all the effort they put into it going to waste. Along with how Nijisanji handled many of the controversies around the time of December 2022 to early 2023, fans would look at the reasonings behind Nijisanji and Anycolor's decisions with skepticism.

** For years English-speaking fans have suspected that Nijisanji livers don't receive their [=Silver/Gold=] "[=YouTube=] Play Button" plaques for reaching [=100'000/1'000'000=] subscribers and that the plaques they earn are instead being kept at the company's main office, citing the fact that the plaque pictures posted by livers on social media are all taken from the same desk and reflect linear white light lamps which are common in corporate offices but not households [[note]](Japanese fans had already known this, because Mito Tsukino, Kazaki Morinaka, and Chaika Hanabatake have all mentioned this on their streams)[[/note]]. This was eventually confirmed to English-speaking audiences by Claude Clawmark when he reached 100'000 subcribers. Claude proceeded to add that he doesn't mind and he considers it a great honour that his plaque is going to be placed along the others in the main corporate office. According to Claude, the livers always have the option to request the plaques sent to them, but very few livers have so far exercised it, instead choosing to let Nijisanji keep them [[note]](It should be noted however that on the one occasion where a liver (Kazaki) requested it, Nijisanji replied that they had "lost the plaque" meaning that no liver has ever received their "Play Button", even after asking for it)[[/note]].

** Yuhi Riri's lore is rife for speculation - she's a [[TimeTravel time traveller]] whose interference may [[ForWantOfANail have]] [[ButterflyOfDoom caused]] [[DelayedRippleEffect chaos]] throughout multiple timelines. Does she actually have an older sister? Are her [[AlternateSelf alternate selves]] from different timelines or are some or all of them from "our" timeline but at different points? Who is this "sensei" character that multiple of her alternate selves have referred to? The apparent CanonWelding with other livers' lore (most prominently the now-graduated Mayuzumi Kai) also raises more questions.

** On a more serious note, the cancellation of the [=NijiEN=] AR Live show with vague reasoning[[labelnote:*]]Nijisanji cited COVID as the reason for postponement in their official statement. However some EN livers expressed vocal displeasure with the reasoning, with the Luxiem boys even going as far as to not-so-subtly call out Nijisanji for using COVID as a scapegoat, which in turn led to implications that something was going wrong behind the scenes.[[/labelnote]] was a sore spot to [=NijiEN=] fans, and even some of the livers talked about how upsetting the cancellation was to them, with all the effort they put into it going to waste. Along with how Nijisanji handled many of the controversies around the time of December 2022 to early 2023, fans would look at the reasonings behind Nijisanji and Anycolor's decisions with skepticism.

** For years English-speaking fans have suspected that Nijisanji livers don't receive their [=Silver/Gold=] "[=YouTube=] Play Button" plaques for reaching [=100'000/1'000'000=] subscribers and that the plaques they earn are instead being kept at the company's main office, citing the fact that the plaque pictures posted by livers on social media are all taken from the same desk and reflect linear white light lamps which are common in corporate offices but not households [[note]](Japanese fans had already known this, because Mito, Kazaki, and Chaika had already mentioned it on their streams)[[/note]]. This was eventually confirmed to English-speaking audiences by Claude Clawmark when he reached 100'000 subcribers. Claude proceeded to add that he doesn't mind and he considers it a great honour that his plaque is going to be placed along the others in the main corporate office. According to Claude, the livers always have the option to request the plaques sent to them, but very few livers have so far exercised it, instead choosing to let Nijisanji keep them [[note]](It should be noted however that on the one occasion where a liver requested it, Nijisanji replied that they had "lost the plaque" meaning that no liver has ever received their "Play Button", even after asking for it)[[/note]].

** For years fans have suspected that Nijisanji livers don't receive their "[=YouTube=] Play Button" plaques [[note]](you get a silver one when you reach 100'000 subscribers and a gold one when you reach one million)[[/note]] and that the plaques they earn are instead being kept at the company's main office, citing the fact that the plaque pictures posted by livers on social media are all taken from the same desk and reflect linear white light lamps which are common in corporate offices but not households. This was eventually confirmed by Claude Clawmark when he reached 100'000 subcribers. Claude proceeded to add that he doesn't mind and he considers it a great honour that his plaque is going to be placed along the others in the main corporate office. Apparently, the livers always have the option to request the plaques sent to them, but very few have so far exercised it, instead choosing to let Nijisanji keep them.

** Finana is known for her [[AllWomenAreLustful NSFW outtakes]] but also for being bisexual and part of the LGBT community. In June 2022, she put a ban on the word 'Trap' on her future streams on Twitter, due to the implications of it being harmful to the transgender community. However, this caught immense backlash and Finana was forced to retrack her ban after a week of harassment and abuse; prompting her to make an apology video whilst she was on the verge of crying in July 2022.

* IKnewIt: "Stealth suspensions" (ie Suspensions disguised as breaks with plausible cover stories) have been rumored to exist since the early days of NIJISANJI, but it wasn't until Zaion [=LanZa=]'s termination that concrete proof of such was revealed, as the termination notice explicitly stated that prior to her being publicly suspended in February 2023, she had also been suspended once before in early January during a period of time where Zaion claimed to have been visiting family and friends. Zaion's actress would later corroborate the details provided in the termination notice in regards to that suspension as well provide background information as to what led to her being suspended in the first place. She would also confirm that Yugo Asuma's final "break" before his "graduation" had also been a stealth suspension.

* IKnewIt: "Stealth suspensions" (ie Suspensions disguised as breaks with plausible cover stories) have been rumored to exist since the early days of NIJISANJI, but it wasn't until Zaion [=LanZa=]'s that termination concrete proof of such was revealed, as the termination notice explicitly stated that prior to her being publicly suspended in February 2023, she had also been suspended once before in early January during a period of time where Zaion claimed to have been visiting family and friends. Zaion's actress would later corroborate the details provided in the termination notice in regards to that suspension as well provide background information as to what led to her being suspended in the first place. She would also confirm that Yugo Asuma's final "break" before his "graduation" had also been a stealth suspension.

* IKnewIt: "Stealth suspensions" (ie Suspensions disguised as breaks with plausible cover stories) have been rumored to exist since the early days of NIJISANJI, but it wasn't until Zaion [=LanZa=]'s termination concrete proof of such was revealed, as the termination notice explicitly stated that prior to her being publicly suspended in February 2023, she had also been suspended once before in early January during a period of time where Zaion claimed to have been visiting family and friends. Zaion's actress would later also confirm that her 10-day "break" in January was in fact a stealth suspension, as well as confirm that Yugo Asuma's final "break" before his "graduation" had also been a stealth suspension.

** Both Aia Amare and Kunai Nakasato have noted on-stream that they are particularly popular with lesbians/sapphics in general.

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** On a more serious note, the cancellation [=NijiEN=] AR Live show with vague reasoning[[labelnote:*]] Nijisanji's cited COVID as the reason for postponement in their official statement. However some EN livers expressed vocal displeasure to the reasoning, with the Luxiem boys even going as far as to not-so-subtly call out Nijisanji for using COVID as scapegoat, which in turn led to implications that something was going wrong behind the scenes.[[/labelnote]] was a sore spot to [=NijiEN=] fans and even some of the livers talk about how upsetting the cancellation was to them with all the effort they put into it going to waste. Along with how Nijisanji handled many of the controversies around the time of December 2022 to early 2023, fans would look at the reasonings behind Nijisanji and Anycolor's decisions with skepticism.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Zaion's termination due to her lack of professionalism has led to people to react this way because of the high quality of her model and its rigging, which meshed very well with her energetic personality. With her quick termination, people are mourning for the loss of the character and the amount of work behind her creation (e.g. feeling sorry for Zaion's illustrator).

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* TheScrappy: Within the EN fandom, the aftermath of Zaion's termination has made her the most hated member of the English branch, to the point that fans will {{Unperson}} her in fanart, fanworks or fan edits. A lot of fan artists or fan editors who include graduated EN members into their works will blatantly leave Zaion out of them. Similarly, fanart that exclusively features graduated members will often leave out only Zaion. In social media, Zaion's name will often spark heated discussions, with lots of hate being targeted towards her within those discussions.

** EliPeto for Elira and Petra.