Overview

The Ironmouse VShojo Controversy and VShojo's Collapse refers to backlash against VTuber talent agency VShojo after prominent VTuber and streamer Ironmouse announced she was leaving the company, believing they did not pay her a significant portion of her funds and that they owed the Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF) charity over half a million dollars. Ironmouse posted a video titled "Why I Left VShojo" on July 21st, 2025. In the video, she describes her struggles with common variable immune deficiency (CVID) and why the donations to the IDF charity mattered so much to her. The video inspired widespread criticism towards VShojo, with many other VTubers under their management leaving in solidarity with Ironmouse, including AmaLee, Kuro, Kson, Melody and more. Over the next few days, Ironmouse raised over a million dollars for the IDF charity through her Tiltify account. On July 24th, VShojo put out a statement claiming that the company was shutting down.

Background

On July 21st, 2025, VTuber Ironmouse posted a video to YouTube^[1] titled "Why I Left VShojo," garnering over a million views in a day. In the video, Ironmouse claims she left her management company, VShojo, because they owed her what she believes to be a significant amount of funds and because they allegedly owe the IDF charity over $500,000.

She explains what the charity means to her and that she suffers from common variable immune deficiency (CVID), an immunodeficiency that causes her to remain isolated for long periods of her life. She talks about starting streaming to have a social life and using a VTuber avatar because she's too shy to show her face.

Ironmouse explains that she felt pressured and guilt-tripped by VShojo into signing. Allegedly, they told her they needed her to succeed, which made her feel responsible for "everybody." At one point, Ironmouse decided to pull her funds and become independent of her own finances. She talks about how she has raised over $4 million for IDF charity over the years of streaming.

She talks about wanting to donate the proceeds of her recent two subathons to the charity. During the first subathon, because the money came from Twitch revenue instead of Tiltify, VShojo had to make the donation on her behalf, which they did. In her follow-up subathon, she raised over $500,000 for the charity. She then claims that VShojo has not donated that money over a year later.

Later that day on July 21st, fellow VTuber and VShojo streamer Kson tweeted an image calling upon VShojo to explain and answer, promoting an upcoming stream. The X^[15] post received over 5.6 million views, 51,000 likes and 340 replies in two days.

During the stream, Kson spoke with the VShojo JP CEO and claimed that the company hadn't paid her since September and that she would be leaving this month.^[16]

Then, early on July 22nd, 2025, Kson quit VShojo and called the company's CEO during the livestream to ask questions about the controversy. The interview was later reposted to YouTube by Nina Clippa, receiving over 404,000 views, 16,000 likes and 2,000 comments in three days.

Developments

VShojo VTubers Leave

On July 22nd, 2025, as many as eight other VTubers working under VShojo announced their departures from the company via X ^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} posts, including Kuro, Projekt Melody, AmaLee, Haruka Karibu, Akatsuki Hotaru, Okamoto Nagi, Hestia Happiness and Yutori Peke.

Some VTubers posted their own videos similar to Ironmouse's, sharing their experiences with VShojo and explaining why they left.

For example, on July 22nd, Henya the Genius posted a video on YouTube^[10] claiming that VShojo owes her a "significant amount" of money. The video gained over 117,000 views in under 24 hours.

Later that night, VTuber Maid Mint posted a video to YouTube^[11] about her negative experiences with VShojo, garnering over 152,000 views in under 24 hours.

Tiltify Donations

By July 23rd, 2025, Ironmouse's Tiltify^[12] reached over $800,000 in donations for the Immune Deficiency Foundation charity in response to her video.

VShojo Shuts Down

On July 24th, 2025, VShojo founder Justin aka Gunrun released a statement on X^[17] apologizing for mismanaging the company and announcing its shutdown. In the statement, he takes full responsibility for the problems with the company.

Online Reactions

The controversy inspired many reactions online in late July 2025 as the controversy spread online, including widespread criticism of VShojo.

For instance, on July 21st, 2025, YouTuber^[13] penguinz0, Critikal, posted a video about the drama, garnering over 1.7 million views in a day.

On July 23rd, Redditor u/KaitoTheRamenBandit posted a version of the Let's Fight Somewhere Empty meme to the /r/VShojo^[14] subreddit, referencing the large number of VTubers who left VShojo, garnering over 320 upvotes in under 10 hours.

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