Archived version of thegodrrat because the original writer decided to be a faggot.

This document is in a constant state of change, some parts will be invalidated if sufficient proof is present to debunk it. Do NOT take it as the absolute truth, if there's any of you faggots spread this around and treat it like a fucking gospel, you'll be branded as a resident of retardville.

Recently a document has been posted by the sisters attempting to discredit the current discussion surrounding the Selen/Doki and nijisanji situation. I will not link it here.

It is important to note that the people spreading this document view the world only within the framework of friend vs enemy. They are attempting to appeal to your rationality and desire to "hear both sides" only because they are losing in current narrative dialectic. If the situation were reversed, and instead, you were attempting to use reason to convince them of an alternative worldview, they would spare you no quarter and attack you relentlessly.

Please recognize that they are taking advantage of your good nature to attack what you hold dear. They will never reciprocate your good intentions.

There are some people in the World, who, now they are unperched, and reduced to an equality with other people, and under strong and very just apprehensions of being further treated as they deserve, begin, with Aesop’s Cock, to preach up Peace and Union and the Christian duty of Moderation; forgetting that, when they had the Power in their hands, those Graces were strangers in their gates! - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, Daniel Defoe

What is the Grand Unified Rrat (the God Rrat)?

The GURRAT is a rrat that strives to rationalize and explain all of the baffling news coming out of NijiEN for the past year. The true beauty of the GURRAT, however, is in its simplicity and elegance: it's able to tie together most of the verifiable information we know from several separate instances, and crucially do so without at any point invoking shadowy unknown management characters pulling the strings, or assuming the unbelievable stupidity, cartoonish Machiavellian malice, or irrational behavior without obvious motivations that other rrats require. The core of the rrat is as follows:

>NijiEN launches in May 2021 with their first wave LazuLight. At this time, it's a small branch without dedicated staff. However, we know that at this time, members of the recently disbanded Nijisanji India branch, specifically ex-Liver Noor, were being used as EN management. (source)

>However, quickly the EN branch outgrew its small staff. Obsydia, Ethyria, Luxiem, and Noctyx debuted within less than a year. JP management couldn't speak English, and there weren't enough English-speaking staff to manage all the new talents as the popularity of the branch exploded.

>To make matters, worse in mid 2022, half the EN managers and staff left to found and subsequently bankrupt a failed NFT company (source)*. Some of the ex-IN talents were promoted further upward. Allegedly, talents were at this point effectively self-governing, avoiding involving the ineffective upper management whenever possible. By the time Xsoleil debuted in December 2022, official management had become almost vestigial, with a single 2-week-old hire as the manager for the entire branch (source: One Girl's Story, Sayu)
> *NOTE: The original source of the leak indicated that this may have happened in 2020 instead, however, the earliest available web archive of the yaelabs website was from July, 2022.

>Also throughout this time, bilingual talents were being used as translators and go-betweens for the English-speaking (EN) talents to communicate with the Japanese-speaking management. (source: Sayu's interview with FalseEyeD, Feb. 5th)

>As the number of English-speaking staff decreased and the number of Livers exploded, these liaisons started to become more and more important to the operations of the branch, with EN talents having to go through them to communicate with JP upper management. Chief among these was daisenpai Elira Pendora, bilingual, who already had other friends nepo-hired to the company.

>As time goes on, to cut out the middle man of needing to constantly send things back and forth between the glacially slow JP managers via translation, more and more managerial duties are effectively delegated to these liaison talents themselves, with Elira then sub-delegating to other trusted talents (her friends). Eventually, there is effectively a shadow bureaucracy of manager-talents, headed by Elira, in charge of organizing projects, getting permissions, translating, commissioning contractors, etc.

>As a result, a natural favoritism system is established, creating a toxic work environment where talents who are on good terms with Elira and the shadow management are able to get their projects fast-tracked and those who aren't are able to be stonewalled and mired in bureaucracy unless they can speak Japanese to communicate directly with upper management.

>By the start of 2023, the year of near-constant NijiEN yabs, the insane are effectively running the asylum

So where does Selen come in?

>Selen was ambitious. She had near-constant projects and always needed to follow up with management on some commission or idea or video. She was by all accounts, at least a little bit difficult to work with, and not suited to a Japanese workplace environment or tolerant of bureaucracy. She was the most successful female talent. She was Elira's lore sister, but seemingly they didn't personally get along. She didn't participate in the secret gc stream. She can't speak Japanese and thus had to rely on the shadow management liaisons as the go-between for her numerous highly involved projects. She openly criticized management and went behind their backs to get things done. She was probably a pain in their collective asses while also being more successful than them in her streaming career.

>Throughout that time, Selen felt stifled by management and correctly recognized the obvious favoritism where others would quickly get approval for things she couldn't, or be offered sponsorships she was cut out of, despite being the biggest female Liver. She tried to work with them but constantly was stonewalled with red tape and felt singled out for special harassment. Her projects were often axed or mired in bureaucracy and delayed for no clear reason. As a result, she started going out herself to get her own permissions, sponsors, and commissions, which bothered the clique even more and caused them to turn down or sabotage her self-organized projects for not getting prior approval through them. Public hints of the same from Selen's tweets.

>Things came to a head with the Last Cup of Coffee MV, which was important to her and had been in the works for a long time, with her having to directly go chase down permissions because management wouldn't do it. When she was given the run-around once again, it was the last straw and she went rogue.

>This culminates in her multiple attempts (on her life) (source), termination, and reincarnation as Dokibird.

Why should I believe the GURRAT?

Simply put, the GURRAT explains and ties together most of the otherwise inexplicable actions of Nijisanji management. While originally intended to explain Elira's black screen stream, anons discovered that it fits together numerous pieces of otherwise confusing information.

  • Starting with the black screen stream, this gives plausible motivations for Elira's actions. Unlike other rrats—which require a cabal of 40 IQ managers holding a gun to her head to release a disastrous statement undercutting their own CEO, or Elira to be such an evil, petty psychopath that she willingly self-destructed for no discernible reason other than sheer spite—this rrat gives her multiple plausible, understandable motivations:

    >she was afraid of the contents of doki's document, which show a history of gross managerial misconduct, and was attempting to preemptively discredit it and damage control
    >caught between the public and JP management and trying to cover her own ass rather than the company's reputation
    >she was frustrated and defensive because it was her and her friends personally, not some random Japanese middle manager, who she believes doki disrespected
    >she volunteered her channel, because as a leader she should take the bullet for her own mistakes
    >JP management told her to clean up her mess
    >etc

    • It also explains how she and Vox got ahold of supposedly confidential documents, as effective management they will have been privy to it and maybe even used to translate it.
    • It explains why her, Enna, and Millie's names were specifically listed in that document; they were the most responsible for the managerial bullying
    • It explains the obviously spiteful timing of that announcement, and the tone of the contents therein, which were extremely unprofessional and would never have been something a random PR manager with no skin in the game would endorse. It explains as well how she got ahold of those screenshots without running her insane plan through actual adult managers.
    • It explains why the other talents are so assblasted about Selen giving the middle managers trouble in the first place.
    • It explains why there is such an obvious night and day difference between Elira's black screen video statement and Riku's statement, which by its tone, went through an actual PR auditing. The clashing of contents between both statements signals that Elira's and Riku's videos are not planned by the same management team with similar goals.
  • It explains how they were able to bully Selen in the first place. To bully someone you need power over them.
  • It also explains some of the oddities around the original termination statement. In particular, the bizarre wording of the following statement:

    >Selen claimed that she was being harassed by other affiliated Livers due to mismanagement.

    Which was the first instance of anyone mentioning bullying by Livers. Previously, it had seemed that Selen's issues were primarily with management. The statement at face value also makes little sense, as how can the Livers bully her due to mismanagement? If the Livers and the management are effectively one and the same, this all makes more sense. It also explains why they would even bring up the other Livers. It explains the clearly vindictive and unprofessional nature of the termination letter in general, as again, it feels almost personal.
  • It explains the rationale behind Millie's infamous tweet. Other rrats require Millie to be the dumbest person alive, or a sociopathic cartoonish bully, publicly taunting Selen for no reason whatsoever. Through the lens of the GURRAT though, it makes a lot more sense: she is responding out of frustration for Selen ignoring management and trying to defend management because management is her and her friends. Millie may even be the liaison replying to Selen in those screenshots released by Elira, which would make even more sense, <- most likely debunked by forensics, see the Curiosities section below.

One of the biggest strengths of the rrat is that it doesn't require projecting to ascribe motivations to anyone, any jaw-dropping stupidity, or any 4D chess. Elira could be a stone-cold bitch queen, but she could also be simply incompetent and casually nepotistic, or even a genuinely hard-working leader who thinks she's doing the right thing for her branch, and it doesn't change the rrat. Selen could be a total menhera or completely innocent, and the rrat works all the same. We don't need to know the reason Elira dislikes Selen. It could be because she's hard to work with or pure jealousy, but the rrat still works.

Further Evidence

How does this fit with other rrats?

  • The Luca skinwalking shitshow and Scarle-Aster drama:
    This explains partially the Scarle-Aster screenshots being in the possession of Luca and then Raziel and Raziel knowing about Aster harassing other Livers. If this effective self-governing system was in place, it explains why Scarle would go to Luca with her problems instead of an actual manager, because by this point, issues are now being handled internally by other talents. Luca then screenshots it to send to Raziel and ask for advice, and she leaks it with the rest of her Luca manifesto.
  • The Zaion execution
    We know that at the time of the Zaion termination, the self-management system was in place, and her termination shares many similarities with the Selen debacle. In Sayu's One Girl's Story document, she notes that one of the things she was in trouble for was going above management's head to talk to a higher manager directly, which initially makes zero sense. But when you consider the GURRAT, it starts to make sense. Sayu is Japanese and is a fluent Japanese speaker. She would be able to jump over the shadow bureaucracy and talk directly with the JP managers. This obviously ruffled feathers. Another interesting detail is that apparently, Xsoleil's branch manager was a 2-week-old hire, who was effectively a puppet of someone higher up. She says:

    >Anytime I had a call with our manager to discuss something, THEIR manager was also there. And it was pretty much just me asking him stuff while she sat there and nodded her head.

    A bizarre situation indeed.
    Zaion's termination letter, when taken at face value, reads as a hypocritical litany of purported "abuses" that other prominent members would also be guilty of if the same standard had been applied to everyone in Nijisanji EN. At the time, it seemed like NijiEN's management was leveling every possible accusation against her to justify removing her from the organization. It was also inferred that management, seemingly out of spite, was aiming to use the claims made in the termination letter to ruin her reputation as a VTuber.
    But in light of the rrat, her termination letter may also be understood as a deliberate attempt to poison the well, smearing and discrediting her before she could come to the public with incriminating information on NijiEN and the misconduct of its shadowy de facto management. As events turned out, Sayu's testimony did not even go so far as to directly implicate any of her fellow Livers in unethical practices or illicit activities. Nevertheless, her credibility was damaged by the spurious allegations made against her. Had she made specific claims about talents or managerial misconduct, the material in her termination letter would have been used to ridicule her assertions.
    (expand more on how Zaion fits in.)
  • Yugo
    (idk write something)
  • ???

Curiosities

Here are some other interesting coincidences and rrats anons have discovered. These are mostly unproven and of a more speculative nature than the main rrat, but nonetheless add some interesting context. Important to note, however, that you do not need to believe all or any of the below rrats for the main rrat to work, it stands on its own. These are merely additional bits of information to consider.

  • The Selen discord leaks
    (https://imgur.com/a/N21IQiY)
    (https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/65573885/#65608889)
    (https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/65590975/#65625101)
    On December 30th, 2023, the above screenshots, purported to be leaks from a private artists discord Selen used to organize projects, were first posted in Selen's /HAHA/ thread on /vt/. At the time, they were dismissed as obvious fakes. However, the idea from the second screenshot that the inclusion of ex-Livers was the reason for the video being made private, was considered more realistic and spread around.
    Now though, most of the information found in that second leak has been proven correct by the termination notice and the screenshots leaked by Vox in the black screen stream, despite these details not being public or widely discussed at the time of original posting. The decorations (question mark and sweat drops) were also found to identically match those on Doki's discord avatar seen in her manager Mr. Man (Sovereign)'s cow tweet.
    Following this validation, some anons remember that there was actually a first screenshot posted shortly before the second (originally on a separate thread, see below), which was considered to be too outlandish and dark to be real at the time. However, once it was recovered, we can see how the information in it closely aligns with what has since come to light. If this screenshot is real, it paints a very dark picture, and additionally puts the statement regarding graduation by Vox in new light.
    The contents of the leaks are as follows:
  1. Sometime during the making of the MV, Selen was confronted by multiple fellow NijiEN members telling her to graduate and some even further requesting her leave the company entirely "as [she] brings nothing good to the branch" or face resentment by "the majority of the people in the branch"
  2. The reason for privating the video was a new rule, which made explicit permission required from every liver present in the video ("no matter the context"), which was a problem for two reasons:
  3. Some livers demanded to not be a part of the MV after she had included them (despite knowing the disdain most had for her if 1st leak is to be trusted) because she wished for the song to be for all of NijiEN
  4. Ex-NijiEN talents were now prohibited from appearing in any form
    These have the following implications

    > Contrary to the leaks by Vox, the problem wasn't just that she would have to remove ex-Livers but also many current livers. She said this after the video went private and thus after the Vox leaks, which likely implies that there is missing context
    > (4) might imply that the rule was only selectively kept since ex-Livers had been referenced in other recent past works
    > Selen wanted to keep the MV in its original state and for it to be released on Christmas as a gift, which with above may have been what drove her to go rogue

    There are two competing theories about these screenshots: one is that they are in fact exactly as described, and the second is that they may not be what they are purported to be but clearly do still contain insider information. In the 2nd case, the screenshots aren't actual discord messages by Selen in an art discord, but fabricated and leaked as a cry for help by Selen herself or someone else with insider information. Either way, the factuality of these messages or existence of this insider information is supported by posts such as this which imply artists on the project were beholden to some unofficial knowledge which they want kept private. Regardless, the sheer accuracy and unique information of the leaks over a month in advance of her termination and the discord avatar provide a strong case for the validity of the leaked messages.

    >Some additional schizo ranting regarding the initial leaks: these leaks were viewed with speculation until now (of course partly due to the unlikelihood of the contents at the time), but another major reason these leaks were discredited for so long (and even still) was that new posts that included sarcastic comments like "Real leak, fake rrrrat, or AI image? You decide!" or "Look guys it 100% real!!!!" were promptly made after the first and included the same image but with a new file hash thereby effectually concealing the original ones (which are hardly if all mentioned elsewhere).
    >All other threads on 4chan, reddit, etc use these new image files and reference these replies with their accompanying sarcastic comments, thereby casting strong doubt on their credibility (not to mention a distinctly abnormal tendency for posts/accounts considering the validity of these messages to be deleted(literally gone)/suspended or downvoted while the opposite is true for messages that point to the sarcastic comments or cast doubt on it).
    >One might imagine these to be decoy leaks and influence on public perception being done by artists who were in the discord to cast away the leaks according to Selen's wishes to keep the info private. These are the 1st instances of "decoys" for the 1st and 2nd messages.

  • Private Discord excluding Selen and others?
    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhZzCBB1Ssc)
  • Millie was the manager in the screenshots leaked by Vox
    An anon believes that the person checking Selen's Last Cup of Coffee video was in fact a talent liaison, rather than a manager, and specifically that it may be Millie. Most likely now debunked.
    https://warosu.org/vt/thread/S69014403#p69016830
    https://i.warosu.org/data/vt/img/0690/29/1707896833073534.jpg
    Several other names have been tried and been shot down with image forensics or logical deduction. This line of inquiry is most likely a nothingburger, and it's random junior staff.
  • The Canadian Manager job posting and other Niji job listings
    https://archive.ph/V6AeV
    https://warosu.org/vt/thread/68312666
    The above job listing was posted by Nijisanji and noticed during the initial Selen termination controversy. Viewed through the lens of the GURRAT, it has some interesting implications. Elira, as we know, just moved to Japan, and connecting these facts gives us a few options.

    >the job posting is being backfilled, as Elira is being officially promoted to a higher position
    >Elira has been sacked/told to stay in her lane by management following the Selen debacle and is being replaced by an official manager
    >JP has taken notice of the mess that's happening in EN and is cleaning house and cracking down
    >the job posting is intended as a golden parachute for a talent-manager to step back from streaming and become and official staff member

    Likewise, several other Nijisanji English job postings have recently been found, which are worth considering. Some interesting bits of information in them are that they intend to pay a trilingual professional who fluently speaks three languages Japanese minimum wage: less than 8 dollars and hour, and how many of the job postings don't require English ability at all.
    https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69169054
  • LK
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  • Anonymous vent posts, presumed to be Millie
    A vent post on a sisters forum caught an anon's attention for its use of the phrase

    >management has stated that the video could still be unprivated

    At the time, this had never been publicly stated, but was revealed to have been stated in the Vox slack message leaks during the black screen stream. Anons speculated that this post may have been written by Millie.
    https://nyfco.org/selen-zense/comment-page-31/#comment-1006214
    https://i.imgur.com/edlooYz.png
    https://warosu.org/vt/thread/S69036707#p69040681
    Another post was suspected by an anon to be Millie due to the unique usage of 'manesan', as well as having been posted in the time between the internal Slack message asking about the song's early release and Selen's tweet about the song cover (source: NijiEn General Post) (source: Time Difference)
  • ???

Timeline

>Dec 26: Selen posts the MV, is suspended on the spot. (source: black screen stream, Vox's screenshots)

>Dec ??? (possibly 26 or 27): Selen makes an attempt on her life. (source: doki tweet)

>Dec 28: Elira makes the "health issues in my family" tweet. Some speculation this is when she found out about the suicide attempt. (source: Elira tweet)

>Dec 28–Feb 4: Selen and her lawyer go back and forth with NijiJP management trying to find a way to part amicably but it goes nowhere.

>Jan 26- dokibird seeks neutral parting (assume graduation) source doki tweet

>Feb 5 13:38 JST: Elira lands in Japan. (source: Elira tweet)

>Feb 5 18:00 JST: Selen's lawyer sends her document to Niji's lawyers detailing everything that was happening to her in the company, including bullying and preferential treatment.

>Feb 5 19:56 JST: Termination notice goes up. From this point on, all communication between Nijisanji and Selen, now Doki, ceases. (source: doki tweet)

>Feb ??? (possibly Feb 5 and just prior to Selen's termination): Elira is notified of the contents of the document. Whatever is inside this document SCARES her. Specifically, she is worried about her, Millie, and Enna, being doxxed, and their 'safety' being threatened. Elira later gets Vox and Ike together to record their statement for the stream. (source: the black stream™️)

>Feb 6–Feb 11: Absolute fucking chaos, but by the end, Doki just wants to move on and be done with the whole situation so she can focus on streaming.

>Feb 13: Elira drops the stream, attempting to throw Doki under the bus. Hours later, Riku prostrates himself before the masses and vows to sort out whatever the fuck is happening in NijiEN.

>Feb 14: Dokibird tweets a response to Elira's stream. (source: doki tweet)

(if you add an event, include the source if possible)

Other write-ups, summaries, and reinterpretations

https://i.imgur.com/iqSqesl.jpeg (Elira as a 'shadow-manager / liaison')
https://i.imgur.com/jR31ib5.jpeg (Multiple summaries posted in bulk, showing the rrat's progression over time)
https://imgur.com/a/PTjXQxK (A reinterpretation of the GURRAT where Elira is just a well-intentioned wagecuck who does it for free)

Supplemental Info

Evidence, screenshot, forensics:

Additional rratting, thread archives, purported insider posts:

Archive of GUR relevant threads:

Paste Warosu links here - regular 4chan threads are purged after archival

https://warosu.org/vt/thread/68996770
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69014403
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69029124
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69036707
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69041415
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69048760
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69068838
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69077250
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/68983156
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69120347
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69120405
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69142853
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69150476
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69152657
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69185316
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69150829
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69151314
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69158754
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69186816
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69210946
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69212675
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69218120
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69249826
https://warosu.org/vt/thread/69804931

(Be aware that Janitor(s) are deleting threads and posts that mention the GURRAT.)

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