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And what about what Sean Chiplock and Marzgurl said?

Ryuji-Dono wrote:

And what about what Sean Chiplock and Marzgurl said?

Well, Rial doesn't seem to be following Chiplock on Twitter either but I'm not sure if she ever did to begin with so that might not be evident of anything. But given what I've seen I imagine anyone coming to Berry's defense is probably going to come under scrutiny. There appears to be a Six Degrees of Vic Mignogna situation where people have guilt by association and there doesn't seem to be much in the way of forgiveness for that. I'm not saying Berry's statement can't be true but in things like this it doesn't matter if something is true or false. If people perceive a slight against them then that's all that matters.

Ryuji-Dono wrote:

And what about what Sean Chiplock and Marzgurl said?

Well, Rial doesn't seem to be following Chiplock on Twitter either but I'm not sure if she ever did to begin with so that might not be evident of anything. But given what I've seen I imagine anyone coming to Berry's defense is probably going to come under scrutiny. There appears to be a Six Degrees of Vic Mignogna situation where people have guilt by association and there doesn't seem to be much in the way of forgiveness for that. I'm not saying Berry's statement can't be true but in things like this it doesn't matter if something is true or false. If people perceive a slight against them then that's all that matters.

I'd love to be excited about Tiffany Vollmer's return to anime dubbing, but yikes. In her case, she may have little-to-no knowledge about Vic's past controversy since she's so far outside the anime dubbing circle. Hopefully she at least turns up in a different, completely unrelated project.

The unfortunate thing is that, while what Morgan said may be true, it's also true that she's a guest at Anime Matsuri this weekend, and it isn't the first time she's been there. Anime Matsuri's reputation isn't a secret. There's a reason why no industry goes there, not even the industry that even works and resides in the same city. Anime Matsuri chooses to keep re-inviting Vic as a guest, as well as inviting the alt-right YouTubers who directly profited off of making women's lives miserable throughout his lawsuit. I honestly think it's little wonder that at least in this one case someone would be hesitant about trying to get answers about how the recording went when attending the convention on more than one occasion was also a choice they made.

MarzGurl wrote:

The unfortunate thing is that, while what Morgan said may be true, it's also true that she's a guest at Anime Matsuri this weekend, and it isn't the first time she's been there. Anime Matsuri's reputation isn't a secret. There's a reason why no industry goes there, not even the industry that even works and resides in the same city. Anime Matsuri chooses to keep re-inviting Vic as a guest, as well as inviting the alt-right YouTubers who directly profited off of making women's lives miserable throughout his lawsuit. I honestly think it's little wonder that at least in this one case someone would be hesitant about trying to get answers about how the recording went when attending the convention on more than one occasion was also a choice they made.

I don't think she needs your approval to go to a convention. Nor does anyone else for that matter. The fact you claim to be concerned over other making people miserable while trying to gatekeep which people can go to which conventions and actively spending your weekend live-tweeting a convention you're not even going to posting pictures of attendees at the convention to make fun of them and invite harassment towards them is astounding.

I don't think she needs your approval to go to a convention. Nor does anyone else for that matter. The fact you claim to be concerned over other making people miserable while trying to gatekeep which people can go to which conventions and actively spending your weekend live-tweeting a convention you're not even going to posting pictures of attendees at the convention to make fun of them and invite harassment towards them is astounding.

I'd love to be excited about Tiffany Vollmer's return to anime dubbing, but yikes. In her case, she may have little-to-no knowledge about Vic's past controversy since she's so far outside the anime dubbing circle. Hopefully she at least turns up in a different, completely unrelated project.

Just in this thread alone you got people being gross and trying to manipulate and control these women for interacting with him which is super creepy.

PurpleWarrior13 wrote:

I'd love to be excited about Tiffany Vollmer's return to anime dubbing, but yikes. In her case, she may have little-to-no knowledge about Vic's past controversy since she's so far outside the anime dubbing circle. Hopefully she at least turns up in a different, completely unrelated project.

I think it's precisely because people like Vollmer aren't that active in the voice acting industry anymore that they have to freedom to do this. Just in this thread alone you got people being gross and trying to manipulate and control these women for interacting with him which is super creepy. I find it hard to doubt they would be living in a hole and not know what Vic went through considering a lot of them worked with him for decades. I'd say the more likely explination is they've simply decided to not cut ties with him over allegations from 3 years ago. Unlike other VAs still active in the industry, they don't have to worry about being blacklisted for making enemies with a powerful VA or company. That's not their thing anymore so there's no real way to intimidate them into submission.

You obviously haven't seen the zeal of Mignogna's supporters in their unyielding harassment of Monica Rial, Jamie Marchi, and other Funimation staff or their supporters. They've turned a shady convention into an all-out alt-right hangout and YouTube into their mouthpiece to spread their hate.

Fact is, Mignogna is a predator and his supporters are in the same vein. He's been victimizing people for over a decade.

penguintruth wrote:

You obviously haven't seen the zeal of Mignogna's supporters in their unyielding harassment of Monica Rial, Jamie Marchi, and other Funimation staff or their supporters. They've turned a shady convention into an all-out alt-right hangout and YouTube into their mouthpiece to spread their hate. Fact is, Mignogna is a predator and his supporters are in the same vein. He's been victimizing people for over a decade.

Okay. I'll bite. What makes Vic Mignogna and his friends "alt-right", exactly? Seen it mentioned a few times now. Please tell me they invited Richard Spencer as a guest at Anime Matsuri at least and it's not just another "this guy said Ghostbusters 2016 was a bad movie" sort of thing like people did with the Angry Video Game Nerd.