>>101766807You misunderstand, anon. I'm not saying they're friends because they're on good terms - I'm saying they're on good terms because they're known to be friends.
By "shared background in ASMR", I mean that Shondo literally helped TEACH Lemonleaf how to do ASMR when they were indies and they grew very, very close. So close that when Fauna was revealed, Shondo had a schizo episode and crashed out on Twitter because she thought Fauna "used her" and "didn't actually care about her", since they hadn't spoken in a while. Which led to Fauna contacting her soon after and they patched things up, hence her promoting Nimi far more heavily than she has any other ex-corpo.
As for Shondo and Nimi not collaborating, I know a guy IRL who follows Shondo pretty closely and I was literally just talking about this with him an hour or two ago. His read is that Shondo is extremely possessive of her audience, which leads to her only collabing very rarely, and only with vtubers who appeal to entirely different niches like Filian.