Ironmouse-VShojo fallout explodes: MoistCr1TiKaL slams VTuber agencies in brutally honest rant; Details here

Pulak Kumar | Jul 22, 2025, 17:34 IST

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The falling out between Ironmouse and VShojo has prompted other streamers and VTuber collaborators to speak out. MoistCr1TiKaL, who has worked with Ironmouse, called out VTubing agencies as exploitative corporations in his video.

VShojo, a VTubing agency based in the United States that prided itself on being “talent first”, has suffered a massive blow to its reputation after the agency’s biggest star, Ironmouse, parted ways on acrimonious terms. This falling out has prompted MoistCr1TiKaL or Charlie, a popular streamer and YouTuber who has worked with Ironmouse, to speak out against VTuber agencies.

While he admitted he didn’t have too much familiarity with VShojo specifically, he nonetheless derided VTuber agencies as largely exploitative enterprises that often enriched themselves at the expense of their talents. Charlie admitted that signing with an agency could provide the advantage of starting out with a built-in audience, but he nonetheless considered the overall system highly predatory.

MoistCr1TiKaL calls VTuber agencies predatory, internet agrees

MoistCr1TiKaL called out VTuber agencies, with Nijisanji, Hololive, and VShojo being among the top contenders in the market, as corporations that have exploited the burgeoning VTuber space for their own benefit while giving their actual talent a raw deal.

MoistCr1TiKaL's sentiments are shared by many of the people reacting to the Ironmouse-VShojo falling out, with user ReikoAyumi_ lamenting that VShojo was once considered a “perfect place”, only for it to become apparent that no company is perfect.

Seeing how they were looked at as the perfect place, only to suddenly shit the bucket so hard, most talents have removed VSHOJO From their name even prominent figures leaving and parting ways

Hope all Talents are ok tbh, its sad to see and is telling no company is perfect pic.twitter.com/yY3RL1IvW0
— Reiko (@ReikoAyumi_) July 22, 2025

User Arthur A. Abbott also considered VShojo to be “completely cooked” and expected a wave of mass resignations to follow.

Vshojo is completely cooked, prepare for most if not all of the current talent to tenure their resignations in the next few days would be my guess

Context: Allegedly they stole a large amount of money from Ironmouse, and have withheld over half a million dollars from charity
— Arthur A. Abbott 😈🎮 Half-Imp Vtuber (@ArthurAbbott_) July 21, 2025

User drag0nsaintVT speculated that VShojo had refused to accept any of the recent applicants because they knew they wouldn’t be able to support them.

putting my tinfoil conspiracy hat on for a minute.

they never accepted any of the recent applications for VShojo cause they wouldn't be able to support them (or they had other "things" going on) pic.twitter.com/7OckJNS4v9
— 🐉drag0nsaintvt🐉 Alter Arc 2026 (@drag0nsaintVT) July 22, 2025

MoistCr1TiKaL says VTuber agencies are becoming redundant

A major point of MoistCr1TiKaL's video was his belief that VTuber agencies have been losing relevancy over time, thanks to recent success stories in indie VTubing. This includes talents that have parted ways with their former agencies only to become massively successful influencers in their own right.

MoistCr1TiKaL ultimately believed that signing with VTubing agencies was no longer worth the trade-offs in autonomy and earning potential, and that the “golden years” of these agencies was coming to an end. With the recent high-profile debacle surrounding VShojo, his words may very well prove prophetic.

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