Vic Mignogna fired from Funimation & RoosterTeeth over accusations of sexual harassment

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Nemo powiedział(a):
I just got tired of people trashing Vic on Twitter and saying that he is untalented and replaceable in every single role he's ever voiced. I can understand if someone doesn't like a particular show, but it's just a way of kicking him when he's down.
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He also directed this, the only thing he's involved with that I've actually seen.

 
Captain Manning powiedział(a):
People keep telling me Otter Media/Rooster Teeth/Crunchyroll is completely autistic, but there's two things that have lead me to question that:

1. They are co-producing Shield Hero and have promoted the fuck out of it in spite of the controversy.

2. Their HR and legal departments seem to be on point. They distanced themselves from Vic, in the least autistic way possible, by simply saying they're cutting ties and leaving it at that. Rekeita mentioned that that's the correct way to handle these things.

They might be woke, but are they so woke they're looking to go broke?
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They got burned pretty badly by the High Guardian Spice shit that lead to weeks on end of people laughing in their faces and a slew of people cancelling subscriptions. To the point HGS has not appeared anywhere on the website since when the opening gambit trailer was likely to lead to them talking about the production step-by-step.

Even the HGS panel got cancelled, shifted about a bit, then changed to talking more about the four original shows CR has in the pipeline before quietly disappearing from elsewhere on the website.

This likely lead to Otter Media handling more legal and PR aspects of the companies under its remit after such a disaster. This is usually what happens when daddy corporate has one of its sub divisions go astray. Responsibility is taken away or someone unofficially leans in to say what can be done or said.

Rooster Teeth in comparison is basically unrecognisable as the company first was, with massive expansion and promotion of brands and shows. RT Animation is now larger than the entire company was just six short years ago when RWBY first launched. It very very quickly became a professional outfit which lead to that amazing, 10 letter rant by one of its former employees who refused to adjust to the basic concept of storyboarding which eliminated the awkward hasty rewrites of scenes in the show because Monty couldn't get the camera angles right.
 
Jaimas powiedział(a):
JAIMAS' QUICK-AND-DIRTY GUIDE TO THE VIC CONTROVERSY:

1. A bunch of unfounded allegations started by ANN and Marzgurl in particular began to filter through Twitter that Vic Micnogna was a sexual predator. No actual proof, just pages of allegations, mostly unsorted. For those going "Hey, this sort of reminds me of ChangeTheChannel!" congratulations, you have a functioning sense of pattern recognition. The pair begin the #KickVic hashtag to get Vic fired. The timing of this is right after an ANN staffer got outed as a sex offender.

2. ANN goes to all their buddies to spread it around. Derek Padula does a write-up that "explains everything," by spending over 80% of said write up not discussing any allegations against Vic, several paragraphs comparing him to Bill Cosby, discussing Todd Haberkorn (for some reason), and basically doing anything but make a compelling case. Gizmodo gets in on this and declares Vic guilty in everything but name. Worth noting: Several of the claims made against Vic are patently ridiculous, such as calling him a homophobe for refusing to sign an unofficial yaoi book.

3. Jamie Marchi and Monica Rials declare that the claims are absolutely factual, again with no evidence. When confronted they sperg the fuck out, arguing they're being harassed when people do such unthinkable things as telling them provide proof or GTFO. They double down immediately, declaring everyone who dares disagree with them is harassing them by definition. Marchi in particular declares that Vic deserves to be castrated and/or executed.

4. Funimation allegedly "investigates' and fires Vic, as does Roosterteeth. Surely by coincidence, a personal acquaintance of Rials takes his place in all his VA endeavors.

5. ANN and friends continue to accost Vic in an effort to shut down his potential job offers. As many as 15 cons purportedly cancel his appearances. Vic becomes persona non grata in voice acting circles. Vic responds with remarkable candor, thanking his fans for his support and encouraging them not to engage Rials or Marchi directly.

6. People smell bullshit and ANN's involvement gets exposed, as does the fact that almost everyone involved with declaring Vic guilty at Funimation are people who have provably done worse. Monica Rials is #MeToo'd, though she denies it. Amanda Winn-Lee, apparently still sore from Revolution 60, declares that she hopes a female critic gets raped. More and more Funimation associates declare that if you support Vic, you're a harasser that hates women. No one cares at this point. Multiple culture war coverers (such as Hambly) begin to bring up the ongoing scandal and cover it in ways Rials and Marchi don't like. Anti-CG spergs immediately rally to the Anti-Vic crowd, further cratering its already leaking credibility.

7. Pensacon threatens attendees that anyone who shows up wearing a "Stand with Vic" shirt will be arrested and criminally prosecuted, if not reported to the FBI, and the account operator gleefully spergs about how much they want to see Vic supporters suffer. Their Twitter is publicly mocked until they lock it temporarily.

8. Weeby Gal, one of Vic's accusers, the most credible one up to this point, has her video evidence proven to be faked, as it had massive redactions. The full video is released and mirrored. Weeby Gal deletes fucking everything.

9. Nick Rekieta gets involved. Does an overview of the situation. Advises Vic to lawyer up because proving malicious intent and tortious interference is going to be piss-easy with these assholes. Vic does so and allows Nick to give some announcements on his behalf. Pants are shat when Nick is gathering evidence to give to Vic's case. Blood is now in the water and the internet's sharks salivate.

10. Pensacon claims to have recieved a bomb threat from a Vic supporter. Local spergs investigate and find no such threat occurred. Unfortunately for Pensacon, they were planning to host that event at a government building, which means the joint anti-terrorism task force is now involved because of this idiot blowing smoke. DHS, FBI, and DIA get involved, and start getting some information from the Youtubers who initially covered the drama (Yellow Flash, Hambly, et al). This entire shit-show just came to the attention of the US Government, however briefly, proving that weebery is, as some have suggested, serious business.

11. Samantha Inoue-Harte claims to have been SWATTed by a Vic supporter. The images she posts are traced and it turns out they come from a previous SWAT Hoaxing she did in 2016. Two hoaxes for the price of one! It turns out Inoue-Harte is a former Funimation staffer and IRL friend of Monica Rials. ANN puts up an article declaring she dindu nuffin. Unfortunately all the police reports show is that her door was damaged, not that she was SWATed.

12. Sean Shemmel believes this, only to realize he was in the wrong, retract his statement, then lock his Twitter. To chase this, Schemmel is also said to have hoaxed a SWATing from a vic supporter. Again, local spergs conacted police, discovred this was false. That is three hoaxed crimes by Vic supporters in under 2 days.

13. Vic announces intent to sue. Bricks are shat. Targets include Marchi, Rials, Saucedo, Chapman, and dozens of others. Funimation is HQ'd in Texas, which has Vice President Laws. Funimation, ANN, Gizmodo, and Roosterteeth may be liable for the shit their various staffers have said. Vic's GoFundMe hits $20,000 in less than a day. Anti-Vic elements try to slander Nick Rekieta and get the GFM shut down, but fail.

14. Marchi and Rials go poor innocent me routine and try to act like all is good now and nothing is ruined. No one is buying it.
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Fucking hell. I’m mainly been ignoring all of this mess, so to see all the crap that’s been going down is crazy.
 
Wow accidentally fall asleep and you miss people throwing around black face accusations and the gofundme at least doubling in size. This shit is moving fast.

And yes twitter spergs, PLEASE attack the lawyer who now has a vested interest in fucking up your day instead of letting it rock because he's a chill guy. I'm sure it will go well. I don't think even the biggest spergs in CG were dumb enough to actually target Zaid besides making fun of his name when Meyer's lawsuit first started.
 
I went through the entire 3 hour Rekieta stream on this, and Nick is one excited motherfucker. It's usually a very, very bad sign when a lawyer is that happy. Seems like there's no blood in the water - there's a swimming pool full of blood with some water splashed in from a pipette.

Where dat MarzGurl thread at?
 
Ponderous Pillock powiedział(a):
They got burned pretty badly by the High Guardian Spice shit that lead to weeks on end of people laughing in their faces and a slew of people cancelling subscriptions. To the point HGS has not appeared anywhere on the website since when the opening gambit trailer was likely to lead to them talking about the production step-by-step.
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As dumb as HGS is, I don't really care if they are fucktarded with their own original IP.

I'm specifically wondering whether they've screwed with anime. I haven't seen much evidence of it, other than something about Goblin Slayer being banned from consideration in the Anime Awards.

People were irritated over censorship of the rape scene in SAO 3, as shown on CR, but it turned out that was at the behest of Sony (which owns Aniplex and A-1 Pictures). Non-CR versions used the same source. You have to get fansubs using the Japanese broadcast raw if you want the version on the right with English subs.


Sorry for the the double post, but this is pretty funny.

Ron Toye's autism has gone even farther into the redline...

People are REALLY not happy with Nick.

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INVCTS powiedział(a):
Apparently Racket's support is directing fire his way.

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I'm told this guy is respected in the Manga scene? I don't know him myself. Also, the assumption Nick was dressing as a random basketball player rather than his good friend is something else. That said, I read Vic's message as a friend, separate from Rackets, asked him to set up the gofundme, and Vic gave permission to the friend, who worked with Nick to do so, as I thought Nick and Vic didn't know each other well.
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That's not even blackface...its red...
 
Ponderous Pillock powiedział(a):
It very very quickly became a professional outfit which lead to that amazing, 10 letter rant by one of its former employees who refused to adjust to the basic concept of storyboarding which eliminated the awkward hasty rewrites of scenes in the show because Monty couldn't get the camera angles right.
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... Too bad RWBY still sucks. They still can't get the camera angles right and the writers are freakin' idiots.
 
Pedro Sanchez powiedział(a):
They still think Rackets is a fraud and this is a scam GoFundMe and there is no lawsuit.

They are the toads that are slowly being boiled alive.
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Or they think real life is Twitter, and the person with the last and/or snarky reply wins. Either way - the worst thing they can do is get into a shit flinging match with a lawyer - Nick could go the defamation route and just file a suit or two, legal fees alone will fuck them over.
 
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God this whole thing is so ridiculous. How did we manage to get a backwoods Minnesota Lawyer, CG spergs, youtube opportunists (*cough* Q#), etc. to team up with Vic to get at ANN, MarzGurl, Funimation, and these Anti-Vic nutjobs?
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we have the autist running Pensacon to thank for this one. I remember seeing anime-gate videos on my YouTube feed a couple weeks ago and ignored it. The autistic screeching of weebs didn't really interest me. But then Pensacon started threatening to get people arrested for supporting some dude named vic. That was the moment this leapt out of weebdom and hit the comics, star wars and gaming spergs and went viral.
 
ApatheticViewer powiedział(a):
Man I hope Vic gets that money fast. I don't fucking trust GoFundMe to keep this up
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Nick has talked to people at GoFundMe so it should be fine. As much as these corporations like to bend the knee to twitter mobs, having an actual lawyer on the case should kill that fear. Anyone who is actually dumb enough to go after that account is gonna learn very quickly that Twitter is not real life and there will be consequences.

mindlessobserver powiedział(a):
we have the autist running Pensacon to thank for this one. I remember seeing anime-gate videos on my YouTube feed a couple weeks ago and ignored it. The autistic screeching of weebs didn't really interest me. But then Pensacon started threatening to get people arrested for supporting some dude named vic. That was the moment this leapt out of weebdom and hit the comics, star wars and gaming spergs and went viral.
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Thank you PensaCon. If it wasn't for your freakout, EVS wouldn't have signal boosted this to high heaven and we wouldn't have gotten that hilarious bomb threat and the FBI involved. Goddamn I love Twitter.
 
Archeopthryx powiedział(a):
Why are they still tweeting when they should be busy getting themselves lawyers? Are they some sort of dumbasses?
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Extreme echo-chambering and culture cultivation. Most communities develop a sort of prevailing mindset over time, some much more open than others, and most of the better ones are sure to maintain self-awareness. In communities dominated by those strong ideological mindsets, self-awareness is seen as less valuable than virtue and obedience. They get overconfident and more logical concerns give way to whether or not they're pushing the narrative enough.

They dumb. Really dumb.
 
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