Mythic Talent Agency alleged to have skimmed money off the top of a sponsor, shorting their talent
This happened to the vtuber Grimmi, I didn't want to blast her name in the title because she's already nervous about this but feels she needs to spread the word. At the moment there aren't any clips of this because it's only a few hours old although I'm sure some will appear eventually, and she's set the VOD to not show up on Twitch at the moment of writing. I included screenshots of the evidence she could show, because there's evidence it's technically an accusation but she specifically is using the word allegation because she's trying to be careful about this. Also if you don't know about her character, she's honest to a fault and truly tries to see the best in everybody all the time so for her to speak about this is difficult but she wants others with Mythic to know.
So Grimmi personally befriended a game publisher that had previously sponsored her before, and through speaking to them discovered that there was a small discrepancy multiple times between what the negotiated amount was that she would be paid vs what she was actually paid for sponsorships. The negotiations are done between Mythic and the publisher, talents don't see those documents/conversations.
1st Instance
The outcome of negotiations was that she would be paid $2100, however the contract she received from Mythic and signed was for $2000 (5% difference). The publisher gave her proof that they paid $2100 to Mythic (bottom bit), and then Mythic sent her the $2000 she was expecting from the contract. When she alerted Mythic after finding out from the publisher, they told her that it was a typo on the publisher's end and then she was given the additional $100. (top bit)
2nd Instance
The outcome was $4400, but she was told it was $4000 (10% difference). The excuse Mythic gave was that it was an additional fee because of an outside marketing agency, however it was the exact same people negotiating it both times through the same emails which makes that very unlikely. There was also some odd mixup with the length, the publisher said two hours but Grimmi was told four.
The key things here are that 1)
Mythic refuses to show her the negotiation documents between Mythic and the publishers after she requested them, only the contract that she signed and 2) she has many more examples of this behaviour and I believe from multiple publishers, but this was the only publisher that gave her permission to show evidence of on stream and publicize.
These are not the only incidents. She's keeping those others private in case this is taken to court, and if this has been done to more streamers and larger streamers it likely will be. She's also made clear that this isn't an expected fee that Mythic was supposed to take, and the fact that she was given different excuses for each instance confirms that it's not a normal fee. Note that this is similar to what the agency VShojo did to their talents, skimming sponsor money by sending less to the talent than was actually negotiated.
Grimmi is telling all talent with Mythic to request documentation of negotiations for companies they were sponsored by. The contracts they signed won't show the real amount Mythic was paid by the sponsor to go to the talent, only the amount that the talent was to be paid by Mythic, and so they need to be shown the correspondence between companies to check if the amount is correct. She obviously left Mythic, and quite a few other talents have been leaving recently without giving any public reason as to why.
