NIJISANJI VTuber Fuwa Minato’s Comment “Buying Followers” in NHK-FM Program Causes a Stir

It has Now been Confirmed that VTuber Group NIJISANJI Talent Fuwa Minato‘s Comment about “Buying Followers” made during an NHK-FM Program has Caused a Stir.

Fuwa Minato’s statement was made on NHK-FM’s “Kimikoe Radio Part 1” program on May 4, 2024, in which he said, “I am tired of social networking because I think that if I have few followers on SNS, people may think I have few friends, or if I am slow in getting reads, they may not like me. I don’t have the courage to quit social networking because I think it might destroy my friendships. In response to a listener’s question, I’m tired of social networking, but I don’t know what to do…“, the following response was made, which caused a stir because it could be an endorsement of buying followers.

If you’re being told you’re friends by the number of followers you have, then buy followers once and increase the number of followers, even if it’s just an upholstered number, and you’ll have a mental…
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It appears that this statement has been recognized and discussed among VTuber listeners and fans outside of Japan.

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Although not directly related to Fuwa Minato’s statement, many volunteers have reported various irregularities in NIJISANJI’s figures in recent years (such as unnatural CCV trends in streams, listeners hardly migrating to other streams after the stream ends and hundreds of thousands of listeners disappearing, and discrepancies from X (X ( Twitter) trend), and there are concerns that this will increase distrust.

Therefore, we are concerned that Fuwa Minato’s statement may also increase suspicion of such unnatural points.

On the other hand, in recent years, the group and its operator, ANYCOLOR Inc., have not apologized for their celebrities’ allegedly inappropriate comments and scandals, which, depending on one’s point of view, could be perceived as a “Waiting for weathering” attitude. Therefore, there is a possibility that the comment will remain unmentioned in the future.